Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p21a/item110 |
Title | Work to divert sewage water in Silwan to start, 27 October 1904 (Gregorian calendar) - 14 Tishrîn Awwal 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1904-10-27 |
Dates Start | 1904-10-27 |
Dates End | 1904-10-27 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | We have read the decision of the district administrative council dated on the 5th of Tishrîn Awwal (1)320 and bearing the number 915 which was given as a response to the decision of our elders (majlis ajzana) dated on the 29th of Aylûl (1)320 and which concerns the diversion of sewage water from the mosque in the village of Silwân. It has been found urgent to pursue (the digging of) holes in order to find the remains of the old sewage system which was recently discovered in the village of Silwân. Having this in mind, an agreement was found with Jum‘a Mustafa Ahmad Abû Adyâb from the village (illegible), that he will dig the holes for the mentioned sewage, from the point where the previous digging had stopped until (the house of) Bakr Ayûb and that he will isolate what he will find from the mentioned (old) sewage system from dirt. (The cost will be calculated) on the basis of seven piasters darîj al band for each meter of length, whatever the depth might be. Since this has been approved by the treasury, it has been decided to begin the work and pay the registered (contractor) what is needed (rest illegible). He will be paid after the second inspection. Accordingly, this (decision) was taken on the 14th of Tishrîn Awwal (1)320 (27th of October 1904). [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 |