Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol12/p10b/item59 |
Title | Upon a bill by the Mail Directorate regarding the Dutch auction of mail drivings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron, 21 February 1907 (Gregorian calendar) - 8 Shubât 1322 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1907-02-21 |
Dates Start | 1907-02-21 |
Dates End | 1907-02-21 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the bill, dated 12 January 1907 and numbered 87, by the Mail Directorate, regarding the Dutch auction of mail drivings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron In accordance with the attached Dutch auction bills, the transfer fees of the said mails were put on Dutch auction. It was decided that the mails from the center to the railroad station be transferred at a monthly rate of 280 piasters by Yakûb Şâkir Ağa; the driving of mails in Hebron be undertaken at a rate of 209 piasters by İbrahim Al Şerabati from the townsfolk of Halil; and the driving of mails in Bethlehem be undertaken at a rate of 115 piasters by Mihal Talabay. As the guarantee, that has to be taken over İbrahim Al Şerabati, the contractor for mail drivings in Halil, has been accepted to be presented to the Hebron administration, it is appropriate to relegate it to the Sanjak Administrative Council for ratification. The 8th of Shubât (1)322 (21st of February 1907). |
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 |