According to the colonists, what did the American Board of Customs Commissioners do?
A) It pursued a program that was little more than a system of legalized piracy.
B) It functioned only if the British government furnished the funds needed to pay the commissioners.
C) It offered a more efficient and equitable method of collecting customs because it was an American, rather than a British, commission.
D) It was made up of treasonous Tories who should have been hanged in the town square.
E) It was hampered in defending merchant John Hancock because of British regulations.

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The American Board of Customs Commissioners was viewed by the colonists as pursuing a program that they considered to be essentially a form of legalized piracy, due to its aggressive enforcement of the British government's customs and taxation policies in the colonies.

According to the Colonists, What Did the American Board of Customs