Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol4/p35b/item242 |
Title | Nomination of officers in charge of taxes and fees , 10 March 1896 (Gregorian calendar) - 27 Shubât 1311 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1896-03-10 |
Dates Start | 1896-03-10 |
Dates End | 1896-03-10 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Zâtin al-Mûsawî, the officer of the carriage road taxes in Jerusalem: 1150 184 Al-Hâj Muhammad al-Mughrabî, the officer of the carriage road taxes leading to Bâb al-Wâd: 1334 Shlomo Effendi the officer of Jaffa carriage road taxes: 4 Salîm Jum'ah the officer of animal and brokerage taxes: 41 Hasan Wahbah the officer of slaughtering taxes By the beginning of (1)312 and awaiting for the taxes of the mentioned year to be authorized, it has been decided [by the council] to nominate Shlomo Effendi in Jaffa, Al-Hâj Muhammad al-Mughrabî in Bâb al-Wâd and khwâjah Zâtin al-Mûsawî as officers of the carriage road taxes, Salîm Jum'ah of animal and brokerage taxes, al-Hâj Husayn Abû-'Arab of leisure carriages' taxes and Hasan Wahbah Effendi of slaughtering taxes, in accordance with the salaries decided in the former years and with guarantors. In order for this to be clarified, this decision was taken on the 27th of Shubât (1)311 (10th of March 1896). [7 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/nomination-of-officers-in-charge-of-taxes-and-fees-10-march-1896-gregorian-calendar-27-shubat-1311-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 |