Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p49b/item336 |
Title | Several streets in Jerusalem need cleaning; nomination of street sweeper, 29 June 1899 (Gregorian calendar) - 17 Huzayrân 1315 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1899-06-29 |
Dates Start | 1899-06-29 |
Dates End | 1899-06-29 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | It has been found urgent to clean the dust piled up on the road leading from Jaffa Gate to al-astâsîna?, from Fast Hotel to the the Abrahamic Zâwiya and from the mentioned hotel to the road leading to Tulûl al-Masâbîn in the direction of Hasan Bik palace. By consultation, it has been found necessary to assign four workers for (al-shamandûqiyya) road under the supervision of al-Mughrabî who already guards Birkat al-Sultân, three workers for the road of Damascus Gate and two workers, a boy and three animals for the road behind al-Maskûbiyya. The work on these roads will be supervised by ‘Abid Tûta with the exception of al-shamandûqiyya road. Tûta will be paid eight piasters to be paid in installments. In order to furnish the nominated workers with needed sweepers with the knowledge of one of us, the respectables Abdullah Effendi, Nâjî Effendi and Husayn Effendi, this decision was taken on the 17th of Huzayrân (1)315 (29th of June 1899). [6 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 |