Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol12/p2a/item12 |
Title | Workers needed for railroad construction works beyond Al Madina (technical committee, workers from Jerusalem, details on salaries), 29 December 1906 (Gregorian calendar) - 16 Kânûn Awwal 1322 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1906-12-29 |
Dates Start | 1906-12-29 |
Dates End | 1906-12-29 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The telegram dated on the 13th of Kânûn awal (1)322 (illegible) from the second secretary of the imperial (illegible) states that it is necessary to start building the upper Hijâz railway from Medina onwards. In order to begin the construction based on technical inspections, a technical committee was founded and compensated (?). The speed of operations depends on the number of workers and in Medina there are very few workers. Therefore the imperial government has asked for the recruitment of 100 persons from the district of Jerusalem with each person being paid 8 piasters and 60 para daily for each square meter. The transportation costs of those persons would be paid by the financial administration of the railway. Whoever is registered and wants to work until the season of pilgrimage, visit the pure land of Medina and accomplish his pilgrimage, can also have his transportation paid for by the mentioned administration. If anyone gets sick during the work, he will be treated for free, and for those who pass away their families will receive a salary. So whoever wants to go there should contact the municipal department within five days from the date below. And in order for this to be known, these directions were published on the 16th of Kânûn Awwal (1)322 (29th of December 1906). |
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 |