Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol14/p17a/item77 |
Title | Upon a note regarding the Dutch auction of the postal fees in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron, 6 March 1909 (Gregorian calendar) - 21 Shubât 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1909-03-06 |
Dates Start | 1909-03-06 |
Dates End | 1909-03-06 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the Directorate of Telegraph and Post Organization’s nore dated 14 December 1908 and numbered 57, regarding the Dutch auction of the postal fees in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron. In accordance with the attached Dutch auction bills, the transferred costs of the said posts have been put on Dutch auction. It has been decided that the monthly fee of the nightly post driving between Jaffa and Jerusalem be undertaken by Reşid Dakkak at a rate of 1,800 piasters and the monthly fee of the post to be transferred from the center of Jerusalem to the railroad station be again undertaken by Reşid Dakkak at a rate of 450 piasters. It has been decided that the fee of driving in Hebron be undertaken at a rate of 150 piasters by İbrahim Al Şerabati under the guarantee of Muhammed Raşid Effendi from the townsfolk of Hebron; and that the fee of driving in Bethlehem be undertaken at a rate of 150 piasters by Mihail Talani (?). No one has shown interest to bid a lesser price than these. The 21st of Shubât (1)324 (6th of March 1909). |
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 |