Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol1/p9a/item55 |
Title | Court case between municipality and constructor concerning road from Jerusalem to Jaffa, 9 May 1892 (Gregorian calendar) - 27 Nîsân 1308 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1892-05-9 |
Dates Start | 1892-05-09 |
Dates End | 1892-05-09 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The khawâja Georgi Atînâki, [who is] the contractor for the construction of the road leading from Jerusalem to Jaffa, with the guarantee of the khawâja Georgi Butrîdi, has rejected the verdict concerning them issued by the civil court (mahkama bidâ’iya) in Jerusalem with respect to their inadequacy (qusûr) in the construction of the mentioned road. A summons (waraqat ihdâr) has been sent to one of us, the vice-president [of the city council] the respectable Zaki Effendi in order for him to go to Beirut. Since it is impossible for the aforementioned to go, one of us, [illegible] the respectable Muhammad ‘Abd al-Wahâb was elected as a authorized representative (wakîl) of the [city] council to follow the lawsuit in the court of appeal in Beirut. Therefore it has been decided on the council-level to give full power of attorney (wakâla mutlaqa) for this to the above mentioned, and to compensate him and pay for him all necessary expenses from the city council’s treasury in Jerusalem. This decision was taken on this basis by majority vote (kathiriyat al arâ). Written on the 27th of Nîsân (1)308 (9th of May 1892). [2 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 |