Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol11/p15b/item82 |
Title | Upon a letter by the Mail and Telegraph Directorate regarding Dutch auction of the transfer fees of the mails sent from Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem , 22 February 1906 (Gregorian calendar) - 9 Shubât 1321 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1906-02-22 |
Dates Start | 1906-02-22 |
Dates End | 1906-02-22 |
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 3 February 1906 by the Mail and Telegraph Directorate regarding the Dutch auction of the transfer fees of the mails sent from Jerusalem, Hebron and Bethlehem The transfer fees written in this letter and in the hereby presented three Dutch auction bills were put on Dutch auction and necessary incentives were given to those concerned. However, it has been understood that if the transfer costs of mails to be sent from Bethlehem and Hebron were to be put on Dutch auction on site, a more reasonable fee could be reached. Hence, incentives shall be continued to be given herefrom; and for delivery to the Kaymakamlık of Halil and the Bethlehem Directorate of the hereby presented Dutch auction bills drawn up to make incentives to the said places, together with their attachments, and completion of the Dutch auction of the transfer fee of mails sent from Jerusalem, it is appropriate to return this letter once again to our council. The 9th of Shubât (1)321 (22nd of February 1906). |
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 |