Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol14/p9a/item37 |
Title | Upon a Bethlehem Directorate’s letter regarding taxes, 26 January 1909 (Gregorian calendar) - 13 Kânûn Thânî 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1909-01-26 |
Dates Start | 1909-01-26 |
Dates End | 1909-01-26 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the Bethlehem Directorate’s letter dated 20 January 1909 and numbered 124 This letter and the attached document have been examined by our council. It has been decided that the municipal share of the bushel tax be undertaken at a rate of 8,500 piasters and the market storage tax at a rate of 6,025 piasters by İbrâhim Al Kaaka (?) under the guarantee of Salih Musa Lazar. It has been understood that the contractor Cirbid İbrâhim Al Kaaka requests that, due to the implementation of the Constitution, the sum taken from the said storage tax be set off from the bushel tax. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ telegram dated 29 August 1908, it is ordered that the taxes not based on an imperial decree henceforth not be taken as it is not lawful to take any tax without an imperial decree. Hence, as the storage tax is taken by Cirbis İbrâhim Al Kaaka from the people as from the beginning of March (14 March 1908) to the fifteenth day of July (28 July 1908), it is obvious that the sums to acquired by him until the said date must be completely given by the contractor to the municipal fund. As explained in this letter, 500 piasters, the debit balance of the contractor Cirbis İbrâhim Al Kaaka for the taxes in question until the specified date, and the receivables from the bushel tax must be collected; though, it is appropriate to take due action in respect thereof. The 13th of Kânûn Thânî (1)324 (26th of January 1909). |
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 |