Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p2a/item8 |
Title | Measures taken due to spread of cattle plague, 7 June 1904 (Gregorian calendar) - 25 Mayîs 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1904-06-07 |
Dates Start | 1904-06-07 |
Dates End | 1904-06-07 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | In the letter given on 14 May 1904 by the Saruhan veterinarian inspector located in Jerusalem, it was stated that the bovines must be excluded from the bazaar as cattle plague was reigning over in Jerusalem and places subordinate to Jerusalem. The Jerusalem bazaar was thereupon closed to bovines. The decision thus taken upon the so-called unjust treatment stated in the petition given on 30 May 1904 by Mustafa Mekebe (?), the multazim of the livestock sale tax for 1320 (1904-1905) In the letter, given on 14 May 1904 by the Saruhan veterinarian inspector located in Jerusalem, and then relegated to our council, it was stated that there was cattle plague in Jerusalem and places subordinate to Jerusalem, and that those bazaars, in which animals are gathered, must never be allowed to be opened when such contagious diseases take the form of an epidemic. It has thus been declared that bovines must be excluded from the bazaars in Jerusalem and subordinate kazas until a further written notice is made. Thereupon, the bazaar opened in Jerusalem on Fridays have been closed to bovines as of Friday, coinciding with 27 May 1904. In this petition presented by the multazim of livestock sale tax, he refers to the unjust treatment undergone due to this situation and demands due action be taken in respect thereof. According to the above-written marginal note sent, in response to the previous investigation by the Office of Animal Examination and the inquiry carried out by our council, it has been understood that the approximate number of bovines sold every Friday in this season at the said bazaar is 90. By force of similar practices, it has been considered that this figure adding up during the period when the bazaar is closed to bovines must be deducted from the cost of iltizam. However, since the said taxes are commonly owned by the Goods’ Fund and the Municipal Fund, following the Sanjak’s Accounting’s opinion on this matter, it is appropriate to relegate it to the Sanjak Administrative Council for negotiation and deciding upon actions to be taken in respect thereof. The 25th of Mayîs (1)320 (7th of June 1904). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/measures-taken-due-to-spread-of-cattle-plague-7-june-1904-gregorian-calendar-25-mayis-1320-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 |