Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol5/p17b/item110 |
Title | Appointment of an official to collect livestock sale taxes, 22 August 1901 (Gregorian calendar) - 9 Agustos 1317 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1901-08-22 |
Dates Start | 1901-08-22 |
Dates End | 1901-08-22 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | No one had any interest in the iltizam of the livestock sale tax commonly pertaining to the state treasury and the municipal fund. Therefore, on 11 May 1901, the Sanjak Administrative Council took a decision regarding the public service of Ahmed Karaculu Effendi at a salary of 250 piasters for the collection of taxes until they are given for iltizam. Upon this decision, Ahmed Karaculu Effendi was appointed as an official, and collection of the said taxes started. However, from the beginning of March of this year until the end of July, they added up to 1,636 piasters as the share of two funds apart from the salary; and now, Al Sheikh Abdurrezzak Al Asali requested to undertake the iltizam of the said taxes at a rate of 3,500 piasters as of the beginning of the previous month until the end of February. Not a bill of guarantee, but an earnest money of 13 French liras was taken from him. Even though it was understood as a result of negotiations that it would be more favorable to open a bidding for these taxes at the said amount than administering them on government account, it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council for negotiation and taking necessary action, should the need arise, in respect thereof. The 9th of Agustos (1)317 (22nd of August 1901). [4 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 |