This is the marginal note written upon the decision taken by the Sanjak Administrative Council regarding watchmen’s salaries, 16 February 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 3 Shubât 1322 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

This is the marginal note written upon the decision taken by the Sanjak Administrative Council regarding watchmen’s salaries, 16 February 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 3 Shubât 1322 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference	JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol12/p9a/item53
Title	This is the marginal note written upon the decision taken by the Sanjak Administrative Council regarding watchmen’s salaries, 16 February 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 3 Shubât 1322 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates	1907-02-16
Dates Start	1907-02-16
Dates End	1907-02-16
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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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This is the marginal note written upon the decision, dated 2 February 1907 and numbered 1362, taken by the Sanjak Administrative Council regarding watchmen’s salaries
The said proviso on watchmen has been wholly waived by the municipality as of last year upon the decision taken by the Sanjak Administrative Council; since then, no tax has been taken by the municipality from the townsfolk for protection expenses and the number of watchmen on active duty is not known by our council. As stated in the above-written marginal note, there is no statement, neither in the Municipal Councils Regulation nor in the decree regarding the sum to be allotted for cleaning costs, indicating that expenses for protection at nights shall pertain to the municipal councils. Hence, apportioning and collection of watchmen’s salaries shall be beyond the Municipal Office’s authority and the Municipal Fund would suffer if this matter were to be relegated to the municipality. It is obvious that the fund allotted for important services like the reparation, arrangement, cleaning and lighting of the town’s alleys and streets would thus be expended for the watchmen. As understood from this demand, it was apportioned by the Police Department in exchange for the town’s protection expenses; and it has been understood that the assigned taxes are paid by Ottoman subjects without hesitation and that their non-payment by foreign state subjects stems from the lack of notification of this situation to their consulates. Even though it has been considered by our council that determination of the number of watchmen necessary for 32 neighborhoods in total, seven within and twenty-seven outside the town; and distribution of their salaries are tasks pertaining to the police officials, taking due actions in respect thereof is left to your discretion. The 3rd of Shubât (1)322 (16th of February 1907).

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Ottoman Turkish

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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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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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