Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol5/p5a/item30 |
Title | Installation of water cistern near Birkat Sultan, 13 June 1901 (Gregorian calendar) - 31 Mayîs 1317 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1901-06-13 |
Dates Start | 1901-06-13 |
Dates End | 1901-06-13 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Based on the review of Khâldi Zâdah Muhyî al Dîn Effendi to establish a water cistern to gather water in Birkat al Sultân that extends to the south, the place has been inspected. It has become clear that the length of the well from the west to the south should be fifteen meters and its height should be equal to the surface of the road, on the condition that the needed stones should be cut from the above mentioned pond. Evaluations have shown that the establishment of this cistern will cost one hundred and fifty French liras, and the contractor has pledged to build the cistern in this manner at his own expense, on the condition that he should use it and benefit from it for fifteen years starting from the day of authorization. At the end of the stated period, he should hand it to the municipality. After deliberation, the council has decided that there is no harm in leasing it, since it will benefit the council. Accordingly, the council has decided to proceed with the contract based on the inspection provided by one of us, the respectable Hâj Bakr Effendi and the first engineer to start the process. This decision was taken on the 31st of Mayîs (1)317 (13th of June 1901). [5 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/installation-of-water-cistern-near-birkat-sultan-13-june-1901-gregorian-calendar-31-mayis-1317-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 |