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Why were the colonists angry that the tax collectors could search warehouses and ships without proper authority????

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Because at any point the officials could come in and search . Especially if you were smuggling goods, this could be very bad because you would likely be caught but, more so, they felt this was disrespectful of their rights as citizens
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