Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol7/p18b/item130 |
Title | Budget regarding the construction of a municipal office relegated to the Sanjak Administrative Council, 26 March 1898 (Gregorian date) - 14 Mârt 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1898-03-26 |
Dates Start | 1898-03-26 |
Dates End | 1898-03-26 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | As is self-evidently clear, the current municipal office and the pharmacy have been annually rented for 5,000 piasters. Except for the rental price of the pharmacy, 3,000 piasters remain and the owner has stated that he would not rent it again upon the termination of the rental period. This matter was thereupon negotiated; it has been understood that, in accordance with the hereby presented map, it is possible to construct a municipal office over the roof of the Register Office and the Office of Main Register of Revenues both located in the government office; and that it would require a cost of 32,331 piasters as respected current akçe. However, it has also been understood that it may be expected to lower this cost to 250 French liras through a Dutch auction and that it would be possible to complete the construction of the said municipal office if the work is started now. As these costs correspond to the rental price of seven and a half years, the said rental price would be to the advantage of the fund if a permission is given to construct the municipal office there. For continually keeping the places to be constructed under the residence of the municipal council, it is thus demanded that the matter be negotiated in the Sanjak Administrative Council for issuing an order regarding the necessary action to be taken thereof. The 14th of Mârt (1)314 (26th of March 1898). [6 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 |