Request for tax payment regarding snuff and tobacco, 16 January 1895 (Gregorian calendar) - 4 Kanûn thânî 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Request for tax payment regarding snuff and tobacco, 16 January 1895 (Gregorian calendar) - 4 Kanûn thânî 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference	JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p9b/item60
Title	Request for tax payment regarding snuff and tobacco, 16 January 1895 (Gregorian calendar) - 4 Kanûn thânî 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates	1895-01-16
Dates Start	1895-01-16
Dates End	1895-01-16
Level of description	Item
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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As it is resolved that the said tax in fact applies to commercial goods and that it must be taken from animal owners carrying goods, this tax was collected from the carriers conveying with draught animals the boxes of snuff and tobacco brought to Jerusalem by the railroad company. The multazim of this tax requested that this tax be also collected during the transportation of these snuff and tobacco boxes taken to Jerusalem since the opening of the railroad line and the former Director of Jerusalem Reji Administration verbally promised that this tax would be given. In order not to interrupt the works and not to make a mistake in the calculation of the amount of tax to be paid, the amount of the snuff and tobacco boxes to come to Jerusalem was reported by the Reji administration to the multazim. The income obtained from this tax is used as a temporary appropriation for the reparation and improvement of the roads of the town of Jerusalem. As stated also in the last clause of the 11. article of the Reji Specification, this tax is not one of the sources of income pertaining to the state. Therefore, it is approriate to write in reply that it is mandatory to pay the Requested 1,090 piasters and that this tax shall henceforth be taken from the carriers conveying with draught animals the boxes of snuff and tobacco to be conveyed from the train station to the city. The 4th of Kânûn Thânî (1)310 (16th of January 1895).
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Ottoman Turkish

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http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/request-for-tax-payment-regarding-snuff-and-tobacco-16-january-1895-gregorian-calendar-4-kanun-thani-1310-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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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

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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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