Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
| Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol6/p8a/item48 |
| Title | About taxes upon weighing merchandises coming to towns from outside, 29 June 1898 (Gregorian calendar) - 17 Huzayrân 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
| Dates | 1898-06-29 |
| Dates Start | 1898-06-29 |
| Dates End | 1898-06-29 |
| Level of description | Item |
| Extend and medium | 1 item |
| Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
| Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
| Description | The weighing belonging to the treasury, waqfs and the municipality is a tax taken upon weighing merchandise coming to towns from outside. In the sanjak of Jerusalem, and in the towns of Jaffa, Gaza and Bethlehem, the said tax belongs to the municipality and goods funds in half; and in the towns of Jerusalem and Hebron, it belongs to the waqfs, undertaken by the government by way of auction. If a weighing is made at a charge by someone other than the multazim, the treasury and waqfs’ steelyard will become non-functional. Thus, it is hereby stated that such an act is prohibited. The 17th of Huzayrân (1)314 (29th of June 1898). |
| 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 |