Dutch auction for construction of 8 rooms for needy persons in Silwan, 7 August 1894 (Gregorian calendar) - 26 Tammûz 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Dutch auction for construction of 8 rooms for needy persons in Silwan, 7 August 1894 (Gregorian calendar) - 26 Tammûz 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference	JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol2/p6b/item41
Title	Dutch auction for construction of 8 rooms for needy persons in Silwan, 7 August 1894 (Gregorian calendar) - 26 Tammûz 1310 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates	1894-08-07
Dates Start	1894-08-07
Dates End	1894-08-07
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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Announcement
We announce a Dutch auction for the construction of eight rooms for the poor in the village of Silwan. After agreement (kaf yad) of the bidders, its amount was fixed at the level of sixteen thousand piasters in installment. Accordingly it was announced for three days from the date below. So whoever is interested in this bid should inform the municipality of Jerusalem within the specified period and should bid according to the rules. In order for this to be known, these procedures were published on the 26th of Tamuz (1)310 (7th of August 1894) at 10 o’clock Arab time.
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Arabic

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http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/dutch-auction-for-construction-of-8-rooms-for-needy-persons-in-silwan-7-august-1894-gregorian-calendar-26-tammuz-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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Subject to the authorization of Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)

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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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