Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol13/p26b/item137 |
Title | Upon a Sanjak Accounting’s letter regarding the assignation of gas tax to the goods’ fund, 14 November 1908 (Gregorian date) - 1 Tishrîn Thânî 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1908-11-14 |
Dates Start | 1908-11-14 |
Dates End | 1908-11-14 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the Sanjak Accounting’s letter numbered 92 and dated 3 November 1908 regarding the assignation of gas tax to the goods’ fund The following explanations are made in the Ministry of Finance’s letter dated 15 July 1906 and numbered 11; and the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ letters dated 9 September 1906, 3 December 1907, and 19 April 1908 and numbered 138 and 13: In the imperial decree, it was stated that, with the return of gas storehouses to municipalities as was the case before, storehouses be rapidly constructed by the municipality in places lacking storehouses; the amount taken in İstanbul from each gas boxes for related expenditures and burdens be decreased from 90 money to 2 piasters, that this amount decreased to 5 money for each month as of the period beginning from the second month, and that this include also the provincial gas storehouses. The gas storehouses in the sanjak have been handed over to the municipality and the said collection in Jerusalem has been assigned to the goods’ fund until the end of April. However, upon the notes presented by our council on 25 July and 8 August 1907, 20 December 1907 and 25 February 1908, it has been taken over to the municipal fund as of 14 May 1907 and has been expended among the interim expenses of the municipality. It is confirmed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ letter 3 December 1907 and numbered 138 that, considering the approximate drop of 400,000 piasters in municipal incomes, if the said gashouse collection is taken over to the goods’ fund, municipal activities would be utterly undermined and that the said collection does not pertain to the treasury in provinces. Hence, as this procedure would be against the relevant notification and the gashouse collection is handed over to the municipality via the imperial decree, it cannot be assigned once more through permission to the goods’ fund; it is thus appropriate to take due action in respect thereof. The 1st of Tishrîn Thânî (1)324 (14th of November 1908). |
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 |