Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p26b/item199 |
Title | Decision regarding four major municipal projects, 24 July 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 11 Tammûz 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-07-24 |
Dates Start | 1910-07-24 |
Dates End | 1910-07-24 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Conveyance of water to Jerusalem from neighboring water sources named Ayn-Farah and Ayn Favar Establishment of an electric tramway in Jerusalem and electric lighting of the city Formation of sewages and channels in the necessitous neighborhoods of Jerusalem The Jerusalem municipality has agreed upon the application and implementation of the above-written four items of construction. Hence, the companies requesting a partial or complete undertaking of the said construction on suitable terms must submit their special terms to the municipal council in closed envelopes until 13 October 1910 at the latest. These envelopes will be opened at a specified time in the presence of a committee to be established then. It is hereby announced that these bids will be examined within a month at the most, and that necessary action will be taken to let out the construction to the company which has offered the most beneficial terms for the country, on the condition that it submits certificates proving its scientific and financial competency and pay the caution money in proportion of eight percent of the estimated construction cost. The 11th of Tammûz (1)326 (24th of July 1910). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/decision-regarding-four-major-municipal-projects-24-july-1910-gregorian-calendar-11-tammuz-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 |