Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol9/p15b/item104 |
Title | Public bid for water works and installation of telegraph lines (detailing working conditions), 4 July 1900 (Gregorian calendar) - 21 Huzayrân 1316 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1900-07-04 |
Dates Start | 1900-07-04 |
Dates End | 1900-07-04 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | We announce that according to the sultan’s decret (al irâda al sunnîyya) concerning the renovation of water reservoirs and their dependent systems in 14 places along the Hijâz road from Balqa’ to the place known as Al Bî’r Al Jadîd (the New Cistern) under the supervision of the special committee for the establishment of telegraph lines in the Hijâz, there will be a need to pay 1700 master builders and 1000 workers daily. Every day eight to 16 master builders should work to build walls and a stone quarry, along with four stone cutters, and 10 workers. For the announcement of the Dutch auction, it was decided to present the mentioned workers as follows : each master builder should be paid 22 piasters and each worker 9 piasters, considering that each riyâl majîdî equals 24 piasters and five para, under the condition that the master builders and workers be neither too young nor too old, and that they be capable and experienced in their work. The contractor should count full salaries for the master builders and workers when they are present on the road and at work. During the days where are obstacles to work, such as lack of the needed materials or water, (he should count) half of the salaries. On days where they get sick or are late in getting work done for inadmissible reasons, they will not get their salary. The contractor should give all master builders and workers two monthly salaries in advance (bi wûdj al salf) from the time they go to work. For the trip and the transportation of the things and supplies of these masters builders and workers, (the contractor) should give each of them the money for the rental of a camel from the time they begin to move until they return with the water and the construction tools given by the government. So everyone who is interested in this Dutch auction should contact the municipality in Jerusalem within five days starting from today. In order for this to be known, these directions were published in the 21st of Huzayrân (1)316 (4th of July 1900). [1 signature] |
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 |