Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol5/p12a/item76 |
Title | Dutch auction for large supply of wheat and rye incl. transportation etc., 11 July 1901 (Gregorian calendar) - 28 Huzayrân 1317 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1901-07-11 |
Dates Start | 1901-07-11 |
Dates End | 1901-07-11 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | It was announced in the telegram from the province of Beirut, dated on the 27th of Huzayrân (1)317, that according to the written conditions in the auction file sent on Huzayrân, 26, (1)317, 1 million ounces of wheat and 500,000 ounces of barely are tendered for auction for the province of Hijâz according to the following conditions: all expenses needed to move these materials and deliver them to Jeddah and Yanbu‘, with the prices of the animals, fare of the carts, and all other fees should be paid by the contractor. The contractor should also load these materials for the seller after 15 days of the referral date, the seller should pay half the price to the contractor at the time of loading and the other half after a coded telegram has been sent to confirm delivery to the Hijâz. The decision has been given on the 7th of Tammûz (1)317, at 10 o’clock. All those who wish to enter the auction should refer to the Municipal Department. In order for this to be known the procedure was announced on the 28th of Huzayrân (1)317 (11h of July 1901). [No signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
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 |