Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol15/p9b/item50 |
Title | Decision to provide a building permit free of charge to nuns, 23 February 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 10 Shubât 1325 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-02-23 |
Dates Start | 1910-02-23 |
Dates End | 1910-02-23 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon reviewing the application dated on the 8th of Shubât (1)325, presented under the signature of the head nun, and which was referred to this department, the recommended nun applied for a license to build two cisterns to collect sewage water in their nunnery; one on the road near the mentioned nunnery’s shops on Pool of Ma’man Allah road and the second near the Armenian land. The length of one of them is to be 10 meters and two meters wide, it is difficult to build the two cisterns inside the nunnery’s land because of lack of space. Since an earlier report from the health commissioner stated that sewage water should be removed from the road to maintain public health, and in order to remove the nunnery’s sewage water from the road, it has been decided to grant the license to the head nun to build the two water holes in the reported manner, on condition that that if a public sewer was built, they will be removed. These two holes should be strongly built to allow carts to pass as usual and return the carriage road to its former state. Since the nuns offer free service, the council has decided to issue the license free of charge. In order to obtain approval, this decision was taken on the 10th of Shubât (1)325 (23rd of February 1910). [5 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
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 |