Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol13/p31b/item172 |
Title | Note regarding taxes, 7 December 1908 (Gregorian date) - 24 Tishrîn Thânî 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1908-12-07 |
Dates Start | 1908-12-07 |
Dates End | 1908-12-07 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | A note indicating the amount of taxes considered appropriate to pertain to the municipal fund of Jerusalem as specified in the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ letter dated 22 October 1908 and numbered 147 Articles I. Entry tax to be taken from commodities to be transferred to the kaza of Jerusalem via railroad train or draught animals Category 1. Taxes to be taken from people trading wheat, barley, flour, lentils, chickpea, sesame, broadbean, beans, lupin, millet, rice and coffee 25 kilos to 100 kilos = 0.3 piasters 101 kilos to 150 kilos= 1.2 piasters 151 kilos to 200 kilos= 3 piasters 2. Taxes to be taken from people trading other commodities and hard coal, European lime, cement, tile, iron and miscellaneous stones and clays 25 kilos to 100 kilos= 1 piasters 101 kilos to 105 kilos= 1.2 piasters 151 kilos to 200 kilos= 2 piasters 3. Taxes from miscellaneous vegetables, wood, coal and local lime 25 kilos to 100 kilos= 0.1 piasters 101 kilos to 150 kilos= 0.2 piasters 151 kilos to 200 kilos= 1 piasters 4. Taxes from people trading soil known as gravel, ballast, basic soil, miscellaneous soil and sand 50 kilos to 150 kilos= 0.2 piasters 151 kilos to 250 kilos= 1 piasters II. Daily carriage tax of 2.5 piasters to be taken from each carriage to be run inside and outside the town III. Gas and spiritshouse tax IV. Butchers’ tax of 12 piasters to be taken from each large bovines and 6 piasters from small bovines; 2 piasters from each large sheep and goat and 1 piasters from small ones; and the gas and spiritshouse tax has been assigned to the municipality, so the said butchers’ tax has been handed over to the treasury. However, the butchery tax has been handed over to the municipality along with the gas tax; and the tax taken for the Educational Fund have been abolished. If the prior tariff of the said tax, i.e., 6 piasters from each large bovine and 3 piasters from small ones, 0.2 piasters from each large sheep and goat and 0.1 piasters from small ones, is approved, intestines of all the animals to be slaughtered shall be handed over to the municipality. V. Even though half of the livestock sale tax pertains to the treasury, the whole of it shall be handed over to the municipality Steelyard tax pertains to the waqfs in Jerusalem; however, it has been rendered optional in accordance with the decrees sent later; hence, its transfer to the municipality in Jerusalem has been avoided. VI. Pecuniary punishment VII. Contract tax VIII. Betterment tax to be taken benefitting from the Tanzimat IX. Costs of the lands to be left over after road regulations X. Announcement taxes XI. Allocations to be imposed by the local administration on stores and households in exchange for lighting and cleaning expenditures XII. Allocations to be imposed by the local administration on storehouses for stuff to be exhibited for sale in public spaces XIII. Permit for selling vinegar XIV. Permit from carriage drivers, an annual sum of 20 piasters from each driver XV. Building tax XVI. Permit for other games and amusements XVII. Revenues of labourer tax taken from the townspeople for road reparations XVIII. Toll taken for passing through the bridge on the Jordan river XIX. Abolition of the share, belonging to the Education Directorate, taken for the municipality at the rate of ten percent from the inn, store and land taxes. As a result of negotiation with the prominent members of merchants, it has been understood that if the above-written taxes are assigned to the Sanjak of the Jerusalem Municipality, they would be sufficient and appropriate for carrying out the business, that they would not create a burden or unjust treatment for the people and this note is hereby presented for taking due action in respect thereof. The 24th of Tishrîn Thânî (1)324 (7th of December 1908). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/note-regarding-taxes-7-december-1908-gregorian-date-24-tishrin-thani-1324-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en |
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 |