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Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Need for water from Battir, 20 June 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 7 Huzayrân 1323 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol12/p30a/item192
Title Need for water from Battir, 20 June 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 7 Huzayrân 1323 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates 1907-06-20
Dates Start 1907-06-20
Dates End 1907-06-20
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Repository Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s) Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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Description Since there has been little rain this year, it is urgent to find the necessary means to provide for the citizens’ needs. During the deliberations of this matter it was decided to inform the rail company and in this process an agreement was reached with the mentioned company on the following terms: (the company) will transport from 30 to 90 cubic meters of water from the source of the village of Battir daily and will empty it into a designated storage space which will be built on its expenses at the railway station in Jerusalem. This water will then be channeled from the mentioned storage space to the cistern located in the western corner of Birkat Al Sultân through pipes produced and installed at the expense of the municipality’s treasury. These pipes have to channel 30 square meter in 45 minutes, and for each suare meter received in the storage space, the treasury has to give the mentioned company 10 piasters of riyâl majîdi, (or) 20 piasters of Ottoman liras (or) 120 piasters. An agreement has been reached to provide 5000 square meters. If that amount of water is not provided until the rainfall and the end in this upsurge of need for water among the citizens, the municipality will be obliged to deduce 20 and 35 para for each square meter missing from the stated amount (in its payment) to the company. The insurance which the municipality pays 6000 piasters to the Credit Lyon bank in order to fulfill what is missing from the mentioned amount. If more than 5000 square meters can be taken, then the company is obliged to transport that quantity. (The company) has been promised that they will be paid 7 piasters and five paras for each square meter exceeding the 5000, which means that it will receive 2 piasters and 35 paras less than the price decided for the mentioned 5000 square meters. And in order for this contract to be given to the railway company according to the above details by the president of the council, Ghartlu Effendi, this decision was reached on the 7th of Huzayrân (1)323 (20th of June 1907).
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Language of material Arabic

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Sources http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/need-for-water-from-battir-20-june-1907-gregorian-calendar-7-huzayran-1323-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en

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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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Conditions governing access 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
Related descriptions Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate

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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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