Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol17/p13b/item80 |
Title | Upon a report regarding sesamhouse owners, 15 July 1917 (Gregorian calendar) - 15 Tammûz 1333 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1917-07-15 |
Dates Start | 1917-07-15 |
Dates End | 1917-07-15 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the report signed and relegated by the Sergeant Abdurrahman Salahi, stating that, although an application was made to the persons named Mahmud Al-Muvakkat, Hacı Riyah Effendi Daveri, Emin eş-Şürefâ, Hacı Osman Ganim and Hacı Gumra ?) Effendi Daveri, all of whom are sesamehouse owners, for purchasing sesame oil, they avoided giving any on the pretext that there is no sesame oil in their sesamehouses It has now been confirmed that, in order to evade selling their products at the rate specified by the municipality, the said sesamehouse owners act in contrary to law by pretending that they have no available product and selling dirty sesame oil for extremely exorbitant prices. Hence, in accordance with the 3. article of the Foodstuff Law, it has been decided that the said persons be punished by the Court of Peace. The 15th of Tammûz (15th of July 1917). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/upon-a-report-regarding-sesamhouse-owners-15-july-1917-gregorian-calendar-15-tammuz-1333-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 |