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Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

About taking or not road taxes for specific situations, 30 May 1899 (Gregorian calendar) - 19 Mayîs 1315 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol3/p42b/item293
Title About taking or not road taxes for specific situations, 30 May 1899 (Gregorian calendar) - 19 Mayîs 1315 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates 1899-05-30
Dates Start 1899-05-30
Dates End 1899-05-30
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Repository Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s) Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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Description In last month’s and this year’s specifications, it has been stipulated that a toll be taken from the draught animals and carriages from the villages of Lud, Ramla, Jaffa and Gaza to go to Jaffa via the macadam. Since there is no other road than the macadam road reaching the town from Tel-Aris in Basa, the passengers who were entering the macadam from the villages of Lud, Ramla, Jaffa and Gaza were exiting it and going to the town by departing from Basa and Tel-Aris in order to not pay taxes for their draught animals and carriages. Hence, a guard was previously deployed in this location for the purpose of collecting the determined tax. Since it is difficult to pass through the said location in winter, there is no necessity to deploy a guard here. As a guard has been deployed here in summer for many years, the multazim dictated in the specifications that no protest be made to the continuation of this practice. As there was no other suitor for the tender, this specification was deemed necessary and accepted not in order to take more tax, but to collect the tax, and it was included to this year’s specifications. The multazim, who has the authority to arrest the persons passing through the macadam, but avoiding tax, and to take a toll from them, shall be able to deploy a guard wherever he wants. The method of collection of the tax is indicated in the specifications. As stated in the herewith presented letter by the Kaymakamlık of Jaffa and also in this letter, the multazim has no right to take a tax from the passengers coming from between the gardens and passing through the macadam for a short distance. Additionally, it has been understood that there is no other sentry box other than the one of the guard located in the said locations of Tel-Aris and Basa. As regards this matter, seven documents have been enclosed herewith. It is requested that the matter be discussed and a conclusion reached as soon as possible. The 19th of Mâyis (1)315 (30th of May 1899).
[6 signatures]

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Language of material Ottoman Turkish

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Sources http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/about-taking-or-not-road-taxes-for-specific-situations-30-may-1899-gregorian-calendar-19-mayis-1315-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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