Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p7b/item38 |
Title | Decision to buy gas canisters in accordance with Ottoman gas company, 14 July 1904 (Gregorian calendar) - 1 Tammûz 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1904-07-14 |
Dates Start | 1904-07-14 |
Dates End | 1904-07-14 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | A decision was taken on the 22nd of Nîsân (1)320 that the gas administration in Jerusalem should come under the umbrella of Al Sîrfûrt (gas company) for an amount of 100 000 piasters according to the majîdî rate of 20 piasters. A request was brought by the two Jewish gentlemen (khawâjât) Yîshû‘â Bîrman and Hârûn Khâbûsh who have the intention of purchasing 4000 gas canisters, which would be stocked under (the supervision of) the gas administration during one year. For each gas canister this would cost 20 and a half piasters. After consultation with the district administrative council about this subject, the decision for approval was taken. Therefore it is urgent to take from Al Sîrfûrt 6000 canisters with each canister costing thirty piasters. The cost of the building is 30 000 piasters. Altogether this amounts to 210 000 piasters according to the majîdî rate of 20 piasters. In a conversation with Salim Effendi Kassâr, the representative of the Ottoman Al Sîrfûrt company in Istanbul who is currently here, it has been understood that seven piasters and a half have to be paid for each 1000 qirsh. This means that the mentioned 210 000 piasters amount to 575 piasters yearly. Since this has been found to be appropriate, this decision was taken on the 1st of Tammûz (1)320 (14th of July 1904) in order for the deputy mayor to be able to conclude the contract with the mentioned representative and do what is needed. [6 signatures] |
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 |