Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol2/p13a/item79 |
Title | Regarding elections of the municipal council, 18 October 1894 (Gregorian calendar) - 6 Tishrîn Awwal 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1894-10-18 |
Dates Start | 1894-10-18 |
Dates End | 1894-10-18 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | According to the 4th and 21st articles of the Provincial Municipalities Law, “the members of the municipal council are elected amongst those property-owning Ottoman subjects by the local population to serve for a period of four years. The size of the locality and the density of its population are two parameters that are taken into consideration in deciding the number of members to be elected. This council is comprised of 6 to 12 members and one of the elected members is assigned and appointed as the mayor by the state. A committee is constituted for the supervision of the elections. The mayor presides over this election committee.” Thus, when the size of the Beytül’l-lahm district is taken into consideration, election of 6 members would be sufficient for the municipal council. According to our evaluations, to supervise the elections for the municipal council, it is necessary that a committee should be constituted, and a member of our municipal council should be appointed to preside over this committee. Thereby, if it is approved, the issue of the appointment of this one person will be brought before the sanjak governor. The 6th of Tishrîn Awal (1)310 (18th of October 1894). [4 signatures] |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/regarding-elections-of-the-municipal-council-18-october-1894-gregorian-calendar-6-tishrin-awwal-1310-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 |