Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p36b/item203 |
Title | Upon a letter from the Mail and Telegraph Directorate regarding the transfer fee of mails between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, 13 March 1905 (Gregorian calendar) - 28 Shubât 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1905-03-13 |
Dates Start | 1905-03-13 |
Dates End | 1905-03-13 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the letter given on 21 January 1905 by the Mail and Telegraph Directorate regarding the transfer fee of mails between Jerusalem and Bethlehem The transfer fees written in this letter and the hereby presented two Dutch auction bills were put on Dutch auction and necessary incentives were given to those needing them. After the completion of incentives, it was decided that, for transfers from the Jerusalem mail center to Jerusalem railroad station and vice versa, the work be undertaken by Yakûb Şakir Ağa at a monthly rate of 350 piasters as respected current akçe; and for transfers from Jerusalem to Bethlehem and vice versa, by Mihâ’il Yusuf Talmas under the guarantee of Yusuf İbn-i Yusuf Talmas at a monthly rate of 150 piasters as respected current akçe. The 28th of Shubât (1)320 (13th of March 1905). |
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 |