Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol7/p25a/item181 |
Title | Installation of lanterns and costs distribution among inhabitants, 20 April 1898 (Gregorian date) - 8 Nîsân 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1898-04-20 |
Dates Start | 1898-04-20 |
Dates End | 1898-04-20 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | In the letter, dated 15 March 1898 and numbered 3, sent from the Mutasarrifate, it has been ordered that lanterns be installed to convenient and necessary spots outside the city walls so as to start lightings as soon as possible and that necessary amount of watchmen be employed. Two council members were thus selected to inspect the roads and streets in question and determine the relevant spots, and it has turned out that there is a need for 200 lanterns, 60 watchmen and 5 sergeants. As written in the hereby presented bill, there is an estimated need for a permanent annual expenditure of 110,500 piasters and 16,190 piasters as the cost of 60 buckets, lanterns and lamps necessary for watchmen; it has also been found that there is a need for 26,690 (126,690) piasters for a total load. The majority of the people residing outside the city walls are subjects of foreign states; hence, for a meeting with respect to distributing the said sum among all those people residing there, it is appropriate to send a letter to the said consulates so as to notify that the consulate translators in Jerusalem come to our council on Tuesday coinciding with the 14. day of this month (26 April 1898) around 7 o’clock. The 8th of Nîsân (1)314 (20th of April 1898). [No 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 |