Money needed from the municipality for the reparation of a mosque, 29 June 1908 (Gregorian date) - 16 Huzayrân 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Money needed from the municipality for the reparation of a mosque, 29 June 1908 (Gregorian date) - 16 Huzayrân 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference	JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol13/p2a/item7
Title	Money needed from the municipality for the reparation of a mosque, 29 June 1908 (Gregorian date) - 16 Huzayrân 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates	1908-06-29
Dates Start	1908-06-29
Dates End	1908-06-29
Level of description	Item
Extend and medium	1 item

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Repository	Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s)	Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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It is requested that, in accordance with the mutasarrifate’s order and on the provision that they shall be substituted with the money later to be brought from the kazas; 100 French liras paid by the municipality on debt for the reparation and furnishing work of the mosque within the fortress carried out by the commandership, 275 French liras which must be already given as the cost of the clock decided to be brought from England for the clock tower, due to the transfer of the clock from Jerusalem to Beersheba, and 250 French liras needed to be spent for the import of a machine for the print of the Jerusalem newspaper; i.e., 625 French liras in total be submitted to the municipality. On the condition that this money be repaid through relief to be later collected and part of which has been already undertaken and cheques to be given in case of necessity by the Ottoman Bank be undersigned by the mutasarrifate, it is demanded that a decision be taken by the Sanjak Administrative Council for gradually taking money, deposited at the Ottoman Bank and reserved for the construction of the government office, and submitting it to the municipality, all with a view to having a speedy and well-ordered process. The 16th of Huzayrân (1)324 (29th of June 1908).
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Ottoman Turkish

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http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/money-needed-from-the-municipality-for-the-reparation-of-a-mosque-29-june-1908-gregorian-date-16-huzayran-1324-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en

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Fonds - 1 : Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

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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)

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Repository	Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s)	Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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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.

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Subject to the authorization of Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)

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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

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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

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