Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol1/p9b/item58 |
Title | Budget matter relegated to the Sanjak Administrative Council, 17 May 1892 (Gregorian calendar) - 5 Mayîs 1308 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1892-05-17 |
Dates Start | 1892-05-17 |
Dates End | 1892-05-17 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | In the beginning of March, the cost of the cleaning services of the Municipality was opened to auction by underbidding and it was decided that it shall be given to the one who would offer 4,410 piasters monthly, i.e., 52,900 piasters annually as respected current akçe. For a long while, the cleaning services have been carried out in this way and the conditions agreed upon with the contractor suffice in times when there is no occurrence of contagious diseases. In accordance with the provisions of this decree, efforts will be made to give closer attention to cleaning services than other times; just as it was done last year during the epidemic cholera that broke out in Damascus, cleaning will begin as of the beginning of June; as stated in the note presented herewith, the city will be separated into five regions, with towers built for each region and observers appointed to each. In the event that cleaning services be provided on government account, it came out that there would be a need for 74,730 piasters as respected current akçe. However, there are only 60,000 piasters reserved for this item in the budget; thus, it has been considered necessary to have another 14,730 piasters. Therefore, the said cleaning services must now be fulfilled through bidding. Nevertheless, as also stated above, should the need arise, it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council in order to declare with an official letter that it could also be done on government account. The 5th of Mayîs (1)308 (17th of May 1892. [No signatures] |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
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 |