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Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Upon a decree regarding the appointment of watchers, 26 December 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 13 Kânûn Awwal 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol16/p49a/item360
Title Upon a decree regarding the appointment of watchers, 26 December 1910 (Gregorian calendar) - 13 Kânûn Awwal 1326 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates 1910-12-26
Dates Start 1910-12-26
Dates End 1910-12-26
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Repository Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s) Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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Description Upon the decree sent from the office of mutasarrifate, dated 8 December 1910 and numbered 485, regarding the fact that a copy of the General Assembly’s note regarding the appointment of watchers has been hereby delivered
This decree by the mutasarrifate and the notified copy of the General Assembly’s note have been examined by our council. A negotiation has been held about the form of apportionment and collection of the said watchmen salaries. The 40. article of the Municipal Councils Regulations regarding the collection of municipal incomes openly reads: “To those having a debt to municipal offices and causing difficulties in its payment, a warning is sent by the council of the municipality of which they are a member; if they do not pay their debt within eight days as of the date of warning or provide a guarantor to undertake the payment in a month, they shall be arrested by the local administration following the notes to be given by the municipal council, and their debt thus collected.” However, as the provisions of this article are not in effect in accordance with the new organization, it largely prevents the collection of municipal incomes at specific times and leads to outstanding taxes. If the provisions of the article in question remain void, it is obvious that it will not be possible to wholly collect the payments to be allotted by apportionment among the real estate owners in exchange for watchmen salaries as stated in the General Assembly’s note. And it is clear that this will lead watchmen, charged with the task of ensuring general security, to leave their job when their salaries are not paid. Hence, our council shall not take the responsibility of this issue; and the current circumstances and affairs necessitate that the provisions of the said article be in effect in order to set the things right. As regards negotiating the issue and explaining the necessary action to be taken in respect thereof, it is thus appropriate to relegate the matter to the Sanjak Administrative Council. The 13th of Kânûn Awwal (1)326 (26th of December 1910).

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Language of material Ottoman Turkish

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Sources http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/upon-a-decree-regarding-the-appointment-of-watchers-26-december-1910-gregorian-calendar-13-kanun-awwal-1326-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en

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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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Conditions governing access 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
Related descriptions Record group of the Municipal Archives of Jerusalem during the British Mandate

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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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