Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol13/p29c/item155 |
Title | Upon a petition regarding expenditures for a land, 26 November 1908 (Gregorian date) - 13 Tishrîn Thânî 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1908-11-26 |
Dates Start | 1908-11-26 |
Dates End | 1908-11-26 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the petition given by Abdüsselam Al Hüseynî Effendi, Muhammed Said Cavunî Effendi and Abdullah Abu Akir (?) Effendi regarding the expenditure of 700 French liras, which is the cost their land situated outside Bâb-al-halil and later annexed to the road To the account of the budget of 1325 (1909 – 1910): 240 French liras To the account of the budget of 1326 (1910 – 1911): 240 French liras To the account of the budget of 1327 (1911 – 1912) : 220 French liras = only 700 French liras It has been considered appropriate that 700 liras, the cost of the said land, be included, as shown above, into the budgets of 1325 (1909-1910), 1326 (1910-1911) and 1327 (1911-1912) and be expended and paid by the municipality on three installments. Nonetheless, for negotiating the issue and explaining whether this is suitable or not, it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council. The 13th of Tishrîn Thânî (1)324 (26th 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 |