Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p38b/item285 |
Title | Public bid for building of gas administration, 22 October 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 9 Tishrîn Awwal 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1910-10-22 |
Dates Start | 1910-10-22 |
Dates End | 1910-10-22 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | According to the decision dated on the 3rd of Aylûl (1)326, number 867, which was presented by the district administrative council about the establishment of a gas administration in Karm al-Lawz in Dîr al-Rûm suburb, next to the train station, the place has been proposed for Dutch auction for a price of 74,368 piasters. Since the contractor who has been awarded the auction will not be able to carry out his commitment, and since Yûsuf Effendi came and pledged to complete the required construction, it turned out that after the plan and the inspections the value exceeded the set amount by 1,000 piasters. After deliberations, the council has decided to award the constructions to Yûsuf Effendi, especially since he pledged to pay any extra costs, which will save the municipality some money. It was necessary to speed up the constructions because of the approaching winter season and because the old administration had too much gas. It was decided to start the construction with the knowledge of the recommended person and the knowledge of Yûsuf Effendi Alîtsâr and borrow some money for a 6 percent interest rate with the knowledge of the presidency. In order to obtain approval, this decision was taken on the 9th of Tishrîn Awwal (1)326 (22nd of October 1910). [7 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 |