Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol12/p35b/item229 |
Title | Bringing water from Battir to Jerusalem - nomination of officers, 27 August 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 14 Ağustos 1323 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1907-08-27 |
Dates Start | 1907-08-27 |
Dates End | 1907-08-27 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Conditions taken on Rashid Effendi Al Dakak, in regards to supplying water from a well in Jerusalem and selling it to the people, stipulate that the mentioned person should install 750 meters of pipes in order to supply water to the town from the pool of the mentioned village which is located in front of Al-Shamanduqir. But another decision from the district’s council cancelled the taking of water from the mentioned pool, to get water from safer sources and lay 1,800 meters of pipes, so Rashid Effendi asked to cancel the contract and the council assumed management of selling the water. Upon deliberations an agreement has been reached with Rashid Effendi to transfer water anywhere for a price of seven para darîj al band for each can. Then it was decided that each can of water from Birkat Al Sultân should be agreed upon, to pay the expenses of the pipes and compensate the loss of orchard owners as a result of taking this water. Since the municipal inspector Hassan Effendi Al Afghani has the ability to run this matter, it was decided he should be appointed to this post and be given a monthly salary of 100 piasters on top of his current salary and as long as the matter is ongoing. Two assistants should be appointed with a monthly salary of 114 piasters sâfi al mîrî for each of them. When the delivery of water stops and if there is profit in the municipal treasury, Hassan Effendi should be paid a bonus which will be decided by the council, for agreeing to accept the sale of water in the above mentioned manner and deliver the proceeds on daily basis starting from 14th of Ağustos (1)323 (27th of August 1907). [No signatures] |
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 |