Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p44a/item325 |
Title | Need to define standards of weight for merchants and tradesmen, 1 December 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 18 Tishrîn thânî 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-12-01 |
Dates Start | 1910-12-01 |
Dates End | 1910-12-01 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | For the purpose of preventing abuses led by the use of deficient standards of weight, it is found obligatory to unite the standards to be used by tradesmen and merchants. Hence, in order to manufacture a necessary sample, one of the masters specialized in this respect has been summoned to our council and a negotiation has been held. Subsequently, an iron batman, along with its ten pieces, have been manufactured. With this sample found suitable, it has been decided that at least 500 sets be purchased, at a rate of 24 piasters as respected current akçe for each set. The said scales are hardly obtained by the municipal officials and police officers; and it has been considered that, if a substantial assistance is provided, these scales could be sold to tradesmen at this price, and that, after their fabrication, it would be appropriate to accordingly sell them to tradesmen. Still, as regards negotiating the issue and explaining the necessary action to be taken in respect thereof, it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council. The 18th of Tishrîn Thânî (1)326 (1st of December 1910). |
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 |