Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p42b/item292 |
Title | About taxes for stones transport for a hospital construction, 29 May 1899 (Gregorian calendar) - 18 Mayîs 1315 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1899-05-29 |
Dates Start | 1899-05-29 |
Dates End | 1899-05-29 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | After the evaluation of the petition by the council, the auction bill was referred to, and it was understood that there is a stipulation to take a tax of 5.3 piasters from the carriers transporting various goods and carpenter equipments from inside and outside of Jerusalem, surrounding places and the train station. In the petition it is stated that German Jews employ draught animals and carriers, conveying stones from Han Vahid (?) for the hospital they are constructing outside the city walls, between Sehbender and the municipal hospital, thus requesting to take from the fixed tax in accordance with the auction bill. On the other hand, it is understood that the carriers claim that they do not need to pay any tax since the stones are being conveyed from the land of Ayn Karim village. When the matter was discussed in the council, it was understood that, although the said stones are taken from the land of Ayn Karim village, a considerable distance had been covered through the macadam in order to convey them to the hospital, that the said draught animals do not belong to the hospital and are rented. A hesitation thus arose in the council on whether any tax can be taken from them or not. It is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council for discussion. The 18th of Mâyis (1)315 (29th of May 1899). [5 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 |