This assembly approved an act to require county courts to conduct a census of white and black residents. Other acts concerned the following: • public taxes • taxes on imports • sale of confiscated property • regulation of superior courts, • real estate • sales of slaves • appointment of county commissioners • building public roads, ferries, and bridges • providing for the safe keeping of the estates of idiots and lunatics • repealing the act from the previous assembling concerning sale of western lands to the U.S. Congress, • accurate accounting of war service for pensioners • fraudulent claims for western lands • prohibiting loyalists from holding public office and establishing an oath for those taking public office • prohibiting paid public servants from holding office in the assembly • establishing a court for dealing with foreign mercantile transactions and transient persons and maritime affairs • prevention of horse stealing • regulating county court of pleas and quarter sessions • amending the act of the April 1784 assembly dealing with when the assembly would meet • changing the start date of the assembly from the first Monday in October to the first Monday in November • creation of the District of Morgan, which would include Burke, Lincoln, Rutherford and Wilkes Counties • creation of the District of Washington, which would include Washington, Sullivan, Greene, and Davidson Counties • encouraging learning in Salisbury District, which dealt with the former Liberty Hall academy, which was renamed Salisbury Academy in Rowan County • levying a tax in Salisbury and Hillsborough Districts to repair district buildings • building a
gaol in Wilmington • establishing principal streets in Fayetteville • inspecting tobacco in Hillsborough • disposition of the estate of Simon Cleary • establishing a town in Jones County • establishing the town of Morgan • creating a local tax in Warren and Franklin counties for building public buildings • changing taxes in New Bern District • empowering Wayne County to establish a tax to pay for public buildings • empowering Bladen County commissioners to purchase land for public buildings • changing the location of public buildings in Mecklenburg County from Charlotte to a more central location • clearing and opening the Tar River and Fishing Creek • empowering commissioners in Northampton County to repair public buildings • extending the dividing line between Tyrrell and Hyde counties • several acts dealing with the estates of individuals For additional details of the legislation of this assembly, see Legislative Documents ==See also==