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Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Developpement of the cleaning and lighting of the city, 19 December 1904 (Gregorian calendar) - 6 Kânûn Awwal 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p25b/item136
Title Developpement of the cleaning and lighting of the city, 19 December 1904 (Gregorian calendar) - 6 Kânûn Awwal 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates 1904-12-19
Dates Start 1904-12-19
Dates End 1904-12-19
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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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Description Thanks to the Sultan, the exterior of Jerusalem is increasingly expanding and developing, so the cleaning and lighting services must also encompass the exterior of the city. The fixed and temporary costs necessary for this purpose have been estimated and as written in the hereby delivered bill, this sum approximately adds up to 100,000 piasters. In the 3. article of the regulation in effect as regards this matter, it is clearly stated that, based on the written value of real properties, a monthly cleaning tax of 1 piasters shall be taken from each household with a value of 5,001 to 20,000 piasters; 2.5 piasters from those with a value of 20.001 to 50.00 piasters; 5 piasters from those with a value of 50.001 to 100,000 piasters; 10 piasters from those with a value of 100.001 to 150.000 piasters and 15 piasters from those with a value over 150.000 piasters; 1 piasters from each shop, store, hotel, beerhouse, hamam and slaughterhouse with a value up to 5,000 piasters; 2 piasters from those with a value of 5001 to 10,000 piasters; 3 piasters from those with a value of 10,001 to 15,000 piasters; 4 piasters from those with a value of 15.001 to 20,000 piasters; and 5 piasters from those with a value of 20,001 to 50,000 piasters. With a distribution of real property tax in accordance with the specified values through a register to be prepared by the Tax Office showing the amount of real properties outside the city, an approximate amount of 50.000 piasters will be reached. Even though this amount has been considered sufficient for fixed cleaning costs, there is a need for an approximate amount of 50,000 piasters more for the fixed costs necessary for 350 lanterns, animals necessary for both cleaning and lighting, provision and purchase of other equipments, salaries of two sergeants that have to be employed in addition to current ones. It has been considered necessary that the said tax distribution be doubled increased to 100.000 piasters in total; and for the fair execution and continuation of cleaning and lighting services, the most required specification in this work is the easy collection of their costs. Viewed from this perspective, the frequent change of tenants and the fact that the majority of them are poor, widows and orphans will make it difficult to monitor the collection of lighting and cleaning taxes; with the change of residents, it will be necessary to review the draft evasion records on behalf of different persons for the collection of a household’s accumulated debts; correspondences will have to be made in order to collect money from those having gone to different places; time will have to wasted and they will all increase the difficulties. Even though it has been considered by our council that tax collection would be easier if the said taxes were allotted to the real property owners, it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council so as to negotiate and decide whether it would be deemed suitable to implement this as such from the beginning of next year and to present the budget as such. The 6th of Kânûn Awwal (1)320 (19th of December 1904).

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Language of material Ottoman Turkish

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Sources http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/developpement-of-the-cleaning-and-lighting-of-the-city-19-december-1904-gregorian-calendar-6-kanun-awwal-1320-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en

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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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Conditions governing access 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
Related descriptions Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate

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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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