Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p31a/item230 |
Title | Details of above contract, 18 August 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 5 Agustos 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-08-18 |
Dates Start | 1910-08-18 |
Dates End | 1910-08-18 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | It has become necessary to make a plan for delivering water, defining the commitment of lighting the town, defining the needed sewers and telephone lines. So, the director of the railway stations, Monsieur Powell was called in to the council for discussions. During the meeting it was agreed to contract him for drafting the plan, on condition that he finishes the task within two months from the date of the contract. He presented a guarantee note to finish the task within the defined period, and the document has been kept in the council’s register. It was also agreed to pay him a sum of 100 French Liras, half of which to be paid in advance and the other half to be paid after he finishes the job and the council conducted its inspections. The mentioned sum should be collected from the 2000 French Liras which will be taken from people who will benefit from supplying the water, in accordance with the instructions issued from the Ministry of Interior, dated on the 1st of Tammûz (1)326, number 1007. Since this has been approved, the council has decided to pay the mentioned sum from the municipality’s treasury after obtaining a decision from the district administrative council. Therefore, this decision was taken on the 5th of Agustos (1)326 (18th of August 1910). [7 signatures] |
Language of material | Arabic |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/details-of-above-contract-18-august-1910-gregorian-calendar-5-agustos-1326-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en |
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 |