Public sale of fees for carriages, 10 February 1898 (Gregorian date) - 29 Kanûn Thânî 1313 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Public sale of fees for carriages, 10 February 1898 (Gregorian date) - 29 Kanûn Thânî 1313 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference	JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol7/p12a/item77
Title	Public sale of fees for carriages, 10 February 1898 (Gregorian date) - 29 Kanûn Thânî 1313 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates	1898-02-10
Dates Start	1898-02-10
Dates End	1898-02-10
Level of description	Item
Extend and medium	1 item

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Repository	Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s)	Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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By this we open the public sale for the fees of carriages used for transporting people, money and merchants’ goods for a period of one year from the beginning of Mart (1)314 until Shubât of the same year. All carriages working inside and outside of the (old) city along with those going to Qalfuria (?) and ‘Ayn Kârim and the area of our Lady Mariam and the train stations and Bethlehem are charged two piasters if they are pulled by two or more horses, one piaster and a half if they are pulled by one horse. And the carriages transporting merchants’s goods and money from the mentioned places and places inside and outside of the (old) city and its environs are charged five piasters and thirty para. And Bethlehem carriages going beyond old city stations to work in Jerusalem or not once or more per day are charged two piasters and a half daily.
Private carriages which are not for hire along with those going to Jaffa and Hebron and Jericho, and those transporting the post and not working during the day and the carriages working between the mentioned stations in Bethlehem, are exempted. Hotel carriages going to train stations to pick up foreigners or transport tourists or other people to parts of the city have to pay a fee of four piasters. These fees are mîrî, and the amounts decided have to be paid in twelve installments beginning in Mart (1)314. Everyone who is interested should present a guarantor wishing to assume the guarantee (?), which will be ______ by the council, and the brokerage taxes (rusûm al dalâla) earned by the tax farmer, on the 29th of Kânûn thâni (1)313 (10th of February 1898).
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Arabic

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http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/public-sale-of-fees-for-carriages-10-february-1898-gregorian-date-29-kanun-thani-1313-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en

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Fonds - 1 : Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

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Reference	JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters
Title	Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Covering dates	1892-01-01-1917-12-31
Dates Start	1892-01-01
Dates End	1917-12-31
Level of description	Fonds
Extend and medium	Global extent: 18 volumes, 4192 items (more than 1200 pages, more than 3420 municipal decisions, for a minimum amount of 16568 lines of handwritten text)

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Repository	Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s)	Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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Description	This inventory includes the transcription (into Arabic and Turkish) and translation into English of the 18 volumes of reports (55% in Ottoman Turkish, 45% in Arabic) from the Ottoman municipality of Jerusalem between 1892 and 1917.
Accruals	The collection is closed.
System of arrangement	Chronological.

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Subject to the authorization of Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)

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Publication notes

Yasemin Avci, Vincent Lemire and Falestin Naili "Publishing Jerusalem’s Ottoman Municipal Archives (1892-1917): A Turning Point for the City’s Historiography," Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 60 (2015), 110-119.
http://www.palestine-studies.org/jq/fulltext/187215
Falestin Naili, "La dé-municipalisation de la gouvernance urbaine et de l’espace politique post-ottoman : le cas de Jérusalem", URL: https://ifpo.hypotheses.org/7428

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Rules or conventions	International standard for archival description, General, etc.
Date of the catalogue	Catalogue prepared during 2014-2018.
Archivist's notes	Detailed inventory of the Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period (1892-1917), held by Jerusalem City Archive, made by Yasemin Avci, Hanna Borne, Abdul-Hameed Al-Kayyali, Vincent Lemire, Falestin Naili et Erkal Ünal, 2014-2018.
Sources	http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/registers-of-jerusalem-municipality-council-during-the-ottoman-period

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