Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p20a/item145 |
Title | Nomination of two officers in charge of municipal taxes and finance dept, 13 March 1899 (Gregorian calendar) - 1 Mârt 1315 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1899-03-13 |
Dates Start | 1899-03-13 |
Dates End | 1899-03-13 |
Level of description | Item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | By the beginning of the year (1)315, it has been decided on the council level to appoint the following officers in charge of municipal taxes and finance department: Hasan Shakir Wahbî Effendi in charge of leisure carriages' taxes with a daily salary of half Majîdî and under the supervision of the former tax farmer Muhammad Tawfîq Effendi al-Khalîlî, Husayn Effendi Nusaybah in charge of slaughter taxes with a daily salary of half Majîdî and under the supervision of Bahâ' Eddin Khalîl al 'Aklîk, Abdul al-Latîf Effendi al-Danif in charge of the center of road taxes in Jerusalem with a daily salary of half Majîdî and under the supervision of ‘Ali Effendi al-Nashâshîbî, and that of Bâb al-Wâd in charge of al-Mughrabî al-Hâj Alî already appointed by the former tax farmer, starting from the beginning of Mârt (1)315 [under the condition] to have bonds from their part. In order for this to be known, this decision was taken on the 1st of Mârt (1)315 (13th of March 1899). [6 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/mmqh-fgpg-gq8d |
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) |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
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. |
Conditions governing access | Subject to the authorization of Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
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 |
Related descriptions | Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate |
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 |