Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p31a/item164 |
Title | Two contractors found for production of 200 street lights for new city, 9 February 1905 (Gregorian calendar) - 27 Kânûn Thânî 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1905-02-09 |
Dates Start | 1905-02-09 |
Dates End | 1905-02-09 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Based on the motion to include the area outside the Old City in sweeping and lighting services, there has been an approval by the district administrative council, with a decision dated on the 25th of Kânûn Awwal (1)320 bearing the number 220. Accordingly, the council has decided to have 200 to 300 lanterns made. After meeting the contractors and holding a Dutch auction, it has been decided that each lantern should be made for a price of 22 piasters dârij al band by master ‘Ezra Al Halabi and his partner ‘Ezra Al Qazrî, both of whom are Jewish. (This will be done) according to the model (?) kept in the council. Since all of this has been approved by the council’s treasury, it has been decided to have the mentioned amount of lanters made by the two mentioned contractors. They have promised to give 100 lanterns by the end of the month of Shubât (1)320 and to give the rest gradually until the end of the month of Nîsân (1)321. In order to establish the needed contract with the registered contractors, begin the work and pay what is needed from the council’s treasury, this decision was taken on the 27th of Kânûn Thânî (1)320 (9th of February 1905). [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 |