Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol8/p14a/item100 |
Title | Recruitment of new lighting officer, 13 December 1898 (Gregorian calendar) - 1 Kanûn Awal 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1898-12-13 |
Dates Start | 1898-12-13 |
Dates End | 1898-12-13 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | According to the notification given by the district administrative council (majlis idârat al liwâ), dated on the 28th of Tishrîn Thânî under number 1514, all lanterns big and small should be kept with Ottoman and German banners (sanjaqs), their numbers should be organized in a register and a copy should be given to the court of audit. After discussion it has become clear that Mahmûd Abdullâh has the competency and eligibility to become lighting officer (anârjî) to be entrusted these and other tools that belong to the council. According to this, the council decided to appoint him as lighting officer starting from of Kânûn Awwal (1)314 until Shubât (1)314, with a monthly salary of one hundred and fifty piasters according to the official currency. In order to pay the allocated sum from the council’s treasury month by month, this decision was issued on the 1st of Kânûn Awwal (1)314 (13th of December 1898). [9 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/recruitment-of-new-lighting-officer-13-december-1898-gregorian-calendar-1-kanun-awal-1314-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en |
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 |