Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p37b/item280 |
Title | Fees regarding reparation of water fountains in the villages of Kalunya, Ayn- ı Kârim and Beyre, 18 October 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 5 Tishrîn Awwal 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-10-18 |
Dates Start | 1910-10-18 |
Dates End | 1910-10-18 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The Ayn-ı Kârim Fountain, 11,900 piasters / Kalunya, 6,000 piasters / Beyre, 7,600 piasters = 25500 piasters The water fountains located in the villages of Kalunya, Ayn-ı Kârim and Beyre have been inspected and the estimated expenses have been put on Dutch auction. After the completion of bidding, it has been decided that the work be undertaken by Muallim Hasan Al Sarih (?) under the guarantee of Abdülgani Al Biblis (?) at the above-written rate of 25,500 piasters, on the basis of 23 piasters per a silver Mejjidie. It has been stipulated that the said work be finalized within forty day as of the auction date, that one-third of the the designated cost be paid in advance, that the remaining sum be paid in degrees, and that twenty-percent of the said sum be retained until the later inspection. As regards examining the issue and taking due action in respect thereof, it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council. The 5th of Tishrîn Awwal (1)326 (18th of October 1910). |
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 |