Decision to purchase six fire engines for Jerusalem, 10 December 1894 (Gregorian calendar) - 28 Tishrîn Thânî 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Decision to purchase six fire engines for Jerusalem, 10 December 1894 (Gregorian calendar) - 28 Tishrîn Thânî 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference	JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p4b/item26
Title	Decision to purchase six fire engines for Jerusalem, 10 December 1894 (Gregorian calendar) - 28 Tishrîn Thânî 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates	1894-12-10
Dates Start	1894-12-10
Dates End	1894-12-10
Level of description	Item
Extend and medium	1 item

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Repository	Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s)	Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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In accordance with the telegram that arrived with honor from the part of the central government dated on the 15th of Aylûl (1)310, and with the decision of the administration council of the district (al-liwâ’) dated on the 22nd of of Aylûl (1)310; that obligate to have fire engines in all the regions of the empire (sâ'ir al-mamâlik al-mahrûsah), it has been found that the sub-district (sanjaq) of Jerusalem needs six fire engines. Accordingly, it has been agreed with one of the merchants called Artûr Ildar the German to bring the mentioned six fire engines along with ninety meters of cloth for the hydrant for the amount of one hundred thirty one French Liras and eight franks, with the exception of the fees of customs and other expenses expected [for shipping] from Jaffa to Jerusalem. Half of this [above] mentioned amount, which is sixty five and a half Liras, is to be paid in advance, while the other half is to be paid upon receiving the mentioned fire engines in Jaffa. In order to take the needed proof on the [above-] mentioned contractor and to pay him the mentioned amount of sixty five Liras and four franks out of two thousand seven hundred and fifty piasters sâgh coming from Gaza, and the rest [of the amount] from the treasury of the municipality council in Jerusalem, until ====?? this decision has been taken on the 28th of Tishrîn Thânî (1)310.
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http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/decision-to-purchase-six-fire-engines-for-jerusalem-10-december-1894-gregorian-calendar-28-tishrin-thani-1310-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en

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Fonds - 1 : Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

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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)

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Repository	Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s)	Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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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.

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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

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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

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