Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol5/p23a/item143 |
Title | Budget needed to repair macadams about to deteriorate, 21 September 1901 (Gregorian calendar) - 8 Aylûl 1317 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1901-09-21 |
Dates Start | 1901-09-21 |
Dates End | 1901-09-21 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The macadams, extending from the Halil-ur-rahman gate to the Municipal Hospital, from the French Hospital to the Husnu Bey Al Salih’s house, and from again the Halil-ur-rahman gate to the railroad station, all of whose reparation pertains to the municipality, are about to deteriorate. Since winter is imminent, these road must be repaired and it has been understood as a result of inspection that there is an approximate need of 600 French liras for this reparation. Even though approximately 80,000 piasters have been reserved in this year’s municipal budget for the reparation and improvement of roads, there is an approximate deficit of 110,000 piasters in the municipal budget’s offset due to the scarcity of incomes and imbalance between the low incomes and high expenditures. If this amount is covered from this year’s incomes, it will not be possible to cover other compulsory expenditures. Thus, no solution could be found other than to cover the written amount through borrowing. The method of provision of the said amount shall be negotiated and the 210 French liras, left over from the 500 liras indebted by the municipal fund, could be paid this year. Therefore, an annual amount of 300 liras is expected to be saved from the amount to be reserved for road reparation in next year’s incomes. Accordingly, it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council as regards taking a decision to cover the said 600 liras through incurring a debt at a 9% interest for two years. The 8th of Aylûl (1)317 (21st of September 1901). [3 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 |