Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol4/p5b/item34 |
Title | Problem with sewage water near army camp – decision for emergency intervention, 18 May 1895 (Gregorian calendar) - 6 Mayîs 1311 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1895-05-18 |
Dates Start | 1895-05-18 |
Dates End | 1895-05-18 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Report of the commissioner of the imperial soldiers in regard of the toilet watercourse of al-Sultânî Castle leading to the trench outside of Jaffa Gate It has been found from the report of the [municipal] engineer that it is urgent to do a sewage drain of twenty meter and a hole in order to collect the waste of the soldiers’ upland camp. Given the beginning of summer, it is impossible to put off this construction due to the plenty of wastewater and the [threat] of infectious diseases. Accordingly, it has been decided by the council to do it by proxy with the knowledge of one of the council members, Shlomo Effendi, and the [municipal] engineer ‘Ibrâhîm Effendi under the condition not to exceed the amount of al-mîrî. Afterwards a permit will be taken from the council as there is no (illegible) in the budget. So, in order to undertake [the construction] and to spend what is needed from the municipality treasury, this decision was taken on the 6th of Mâyis (1)313 (18th of May 1895). [5 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 |