Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol11/p23a/item131 |
Title | Nablus district to charge carriages coming into the city in order to finance construction of municipal hospital, 12 March 1906 (Gregorian calendar) - 27 Shubât 1321 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1906-03-12 |
Dates Start | 1906-03-12 |
Dates End | 1906-03-12 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | We announce that the telegram dated on the 25th of Shubât (1)321, issued by the district of Nablus and referred to this department, states that it has been decided to take a sum of 60 para for each carriage that enters the city, whether used for loading or passengers. A sum of 30 paras will be taken for each load, a sum of 20 paras for a horse or a mule and a sum of 10 paras for each beast, in order to finance the expenses of the municipal hospital there. Stone, coal and wood loads, as well as loads of mîrî departments and foreigners are exempted from these fees. The issue has been offered for public bid for the first of Rajab, (1)322 and (1)323, for the bidder who will pay a sum of 100,000 piasters. Final referral will be done on the 28th of Shubât (1)321. All those wishing to enter the bid should contact the municipal department in Jersusalem before the expiry of the referral period. Therefore, these procedures were announced on the 27th of Shubât (1)321 (12th of March 1906). [No signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
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 |