Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol6/p38a/item253 |
Title | About construction of new cistern , 30 July 1896 (Gregorian calendar) - 18 Tammûz 1312 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1896-07-30 |
Dates Start | 1896-07-30 |
Dates End | 1896-07-30 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The municipality has decided during its meeting which was held to organize the budget of (1)312, to build a well in the middle of the road that leads to Sharlût school to collect water and sprinkle the road. Delegations have been carried out and the council decided to propose the well for Dutch auction. The well’s top should be from 40 to 50 centimeters. Its length should be 20 arms length while its empty, its width six arms length and its depth seven arms length. The price has been set at 17,000 piasters. This well should be strong and take the weight of carriages, so it has been decided to refer its management to the municipality. It has also been decided to make it 25 arms long, and the rest of the conditions should remain as stated previously. The expenses of its construction should not exceed the stated amount, which is 17,000 piasters according to the official currency. The well should be dug with the knowledge of one of us, the respectable ‘Abdullah Nimir, Sirufim Effendi and the engineer. Expenses should be paid gradually from the municipality’s treasury. Therefore, this decision was taken on the 18th of Tammûz (1)312 (30th of July 1896). [4 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/about-construction-of-new-cistern-30-july-1896-gregorian-calendar-18-tammuz-1312-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 |