Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p26a/item195 |
Title | Announcement of four major municipal projects: water supply, tramway, sewage system, telephone lines, 21 July 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 8 Tammûz 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-07-21 |
Dates Start | 1910-07-21 |
Dates End | 1910-07-21 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Dragging water from 'Ayn 'Ara (Fara?) and al-Fawwar springs to Jerusalem Install electric tram lines in Jerusalem and provide them with electric lighting Build sewers and waste water pipes in town Install telephone lines in Jerusalem The municipal department in Jerusalem decided to start with the four mentioned projects in the allocated places under proper conditions. Business owners who wish to be contracted to these projects should present their applications and conditions in a sealed envelop and deliver it to the municipal council in Jerusalem on the 3rd of Tishrîn Awwal (1)326; the 13th of October, 1908. After this date a special commission will be formed and all applications should be opened and tenders received from contractors and businessmen wishing to participate. Offers will be inspected and the decision will be made during a period of one month and the consent will be awarded to the company that meets the interests of the city. The chosen company will be given the right to start constructions, on condition that it presents documents that vouch for its technical and practical ability in addition to presenting a guarantee with 8 percent from the total sum to start constructions. Therefore, these directions were published on the 8th of Tammûz (1)326 (21st of July 1910). [No signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
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 |