Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol9/p14a/item94 |
Title | Upon the letter given on 20 June 1900 by the Office of the Chief Tax Collector of Jerusalem, 21 June 1900 (Gregorian calendar) - 8 Huzayrân 1316 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1900-06-21 |
Dates Start | 1900-06-21 |
Dates End | 1900-06-21 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the letter given on 20 June 1900 by the Office of the Chief Tax Collector of Jerusalem Upon the petitions given by those applying to the Ottoman State for tasks of construction and reparation, necessary licenses are given after necessary actions are taken by the tax office and its related department. In addition, if the municipality is informed that an unlicensed building is constructed in order to procure state properties and municipal taxes, no hesitation is shown for taking legal action against its owner. Nevertheless, following the real estate examination made last year, a request was made via a letter and relegated to the Tax Directory for drawing up a register showing the scope of construction and the names of owners if any building is constructed without obtaining a license from and giving notification to the municipality, in order to come to a conclusion through a comparison of given licenses and to take legal action against their owners. However, it has not been given yet; besides, a register will also be drawn up after this year’s construction examination; hence, the matter of relegating the matter to the Tax Directory for the immediate delivery of the copy of the said register has been left to your sublime decree. Necessary warnings have been issued to municipal officials to double their attention for not allowing any unlicensed construction. The 8th of Huzayrân (1)316 (21st of June 1900). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
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 |