Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol10/p6a/item32 |
Title | Upon a letter regarding the Dutch auction of transportation fee of mails sent by land from Jerusalem to Jaffa and from Jaffa to Jerusalem, 2 July 1904 (Gregorian calendar) - 19 Huzayrân 1320 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1904-07-02 |
Dates Start | 1904-07-02 |
Dates End | 1904-07-02 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the letter, dated 11 June 1904 and numbered 15, sent by the Mail Directorate, regarding the Dutch auction for transportation fee of mails sent by land from Jerusalem to Jaffa and from Jaffa to Jerusalem After this letter, an announcement was made about the situation, but except for the contractor Yakup Şakir Agha, who offered 150 piasters, no one showed any interest. Yakup Agha was thus summoned to our council; after incentives jointly given with the Police Chief Inspector, he was persuaded to accept to make a discount from his previous offer and and it was decided that each round be undertaken by him at a rate of 75 piasters. The Dutch auction bill has been hereby presented and it is appropriate to relegate the matter to the Mail Directorate to take due actions in respect thereof. The 19th of Huzayrân (1)320 (2nd of June 1904). |
Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
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 |