Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol11/p21b/item119 |
Title | Decision to pursue tax farmer (intestines) in court because of unruly behavior towards the butchers, 7 March 1906 (Gregorian calendar) - 22 Shubât 1321 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1906-03-07 |
Dates Start | 1906-03-07 |
Dates End | 1906-03-07 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Khawâja Ilyâs Yûsuf Al Mûsilî, a tax farmer of intestines for the first of Rajab (1)321, has committed to dispose the sum of 6,955 piasters that has been registered to him. However, he tried to evade the payment by claiming that this sum should be paid by the butchers, but on the 28th of Kânûn Awwal he was given the same answer. A memorandum has been sent to the district to collect the mentioned sum with the knowledge of the Consul of Great England, with which Khawaja Ilyâs is associated. Upon reading the request, presented from the registered person by the mentioned consulate, it has become clear that he said he will pay the money to the council's treasury after he takes his claims from the butchers. However, it turned out that the claims were too big, the butchers did not have to pay the mentioned funds, and his claim was only to evade the payment. Accordingly, the council decided to file a lawsuit against the Khawâja at the court of first instance, with the knowledge of the council's under-secretary Jiryis Effendi Jawhariyya. In order to pay the allocated fees related to the lawsuit from the council's treasury, this decision was issued on the 22nd of Shubât (1)321 (7th of March 1906). [6 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 |