Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p2a/item9 |
Title | Court case against tax farmer, 26 November 1894 (Gregorian calendar) - 14 Tishrîn Thânî 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1894-11-26 |
Dates Start | 1894-11-26 |
Dates End | 1894-11-26 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Nâjî ‘Abdul-Qâdir al-Khalîlî, the tax farmer of brokerage taxes (rusûm al-dilâlah) which were due on the first of Rajab (1)310, has paid, until now, from the [above-] mentioned taxes only three hundred and four piasters out of three thousand one hundred and six piasters. Accordingly, it has been decided by the council to bring a lawsuit at the court of first instance against [the above] mentioned [person] with the knowledge of his father the aforementioned ‘Abdul-Qâdir al-Khalîlî, (and) with the authorized representative by the council Georgi Effendi al-Jawhariyyah in order to confiscate the assets of the [above-] mentioned [person]. In order for this arrangement to take effect and to pay all necessary fees from the treasury of the municipal council, this decision was taken on the 14th of Tishrîn Thânî (1)310. [5 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/court-case-against-tax-farmer-26-november-1894-gregorian-calendar-14-tishrin-thani-1310-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en |
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 |