Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol14/p14a/item60 |
Title | About a telegram from the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding negocation for roads, passages, facilitation of commerce and agriculture, 18 February 1909 (Gregorian calendar) - 5 Shubât 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1909-02-18 |
Dates Start | 1909-02-18 |
Dates End | 1909-02-18 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The telegram by the Ministry of Internal Affairs necessitates that the General Provincial Council convenes in order to hold a negotiation concerning roads, passages, facilitation of commerce and agriculture, etc. With the specification of some issues regarding public works deemed very necessary for our town’s interests, it has become indispensable to write down the considerations on this subject: 1) There is a macadam, erstwhile arranged by the Public Works, extending from the Greek Monastery in Jerusalem to the land known as Nikifurya; and in case of opening a road, with a width of 20 meters and an approximate length of 1,000 meters, on the condition that its expenses be paid from the allocations of the Public Works, the current distance to the railroad stop would thus be shortened. This would also facilitate commerce. 2) Even though it was previously requested that the incomes obtained from the bridge on the Jordan river be channelled for the alleviation of the necessities of the Jerusalem Hospital for the Poor, the letter later sent on this subject stated that the incomes of this bridge belong to the Treasury, as the said bridge had been constructed via the Public Works’ allocation. However, as the legislation on this subject stipulate that no tax be taken from roads and bridges to be made and expanded by the Public Works, abolition of the said toll. 3) Investigation of the means for improving agriculture has been recently dealt with in a report drawn up by the committee established under the presidency of the Director of Imperial Lands; and this situation is hereby presented in order to state that there will be great benefits for the people of Jerusalem if the provisions of this report are implemented. The 5th of Shubât (1)324 (18th of February 1909). |
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 |