Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol6/p7b/item47 |
Title | Collection of the payments assigned to shops in exchange for cleaning, watching and lighting, 29 June 1898 (Gregorian calendar) - 17 Huzayrân 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1898-06-29 |
Dates Start | 1898-06-29 |
Dates End | 1898-06-29 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | There are three collectors in total, two people for collecting the payments assigned to shops in exchange for a part of the cleaning, watchman and lightening expenses, and one person for collecting the payments of houses. The payments of Muslim and Christian shops were temporarily collected by one of the municipal sergeants; but since this sergeant cannot perform the duty in its full scope, delays occur in the collection process. Upon the approval of appointing a special collector for collecting these payments, the said collector post has become vacant. The other two collectors in charge of collecting the payments of Jewish shops and houses have not retired from their offices, but their collecting duties have been suspended for examining their accounting and renewing their surety. However, following the examination of their accounting, the council committee has given each of them a bill indicating their acquittal and has renewed their surety. Since it has been understood that the person named Abram el-Basravî, the collector appointed last year for collecting the payments of the said houses, is indeed a subject of the Spanish State, a decision has been taken to remove him from this post. However, as necessary actions are being taken after his submittal of a petition to renounce Spanish nationality to become a subject of the Ottoman state, no other person has been appointed instead. The petitioner was proposed to be appointed as the collector of the payments to be made by Muslim and Christian shops, a vacant post temporarily administered by the said sergeant, but he declined. The 17th of Huzayrân (1)314 (29th of June 1898). |
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 |