Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol14/p10b/item44 |
Title | Upon a letter from the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the macadam tax of Jerusalem-Jaffa, 3 February 1909 (Gregorian calendar) - 21 Kânûn Thânî 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1909-02-03 |
Dates Start | 1909-02-03 |
Dates End | 1909-02-03 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Upon the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ letter dated January 1909 and numbered 194, regarding the macadam tax of Jerusalem-Jaffa The tariff of the said toll has been specified and explained in the hereby presented bill. The annual incomes of the said tax approximates 150 thousand piasters; and on the basis of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ letter dated 9 July 1888 and numbered 20, a copy of which is hereby presented, this tax is taken as a recompense for the fixed expenses of the hospital. In accordance with the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ telegram dated 29 August 1908, an approximate sum of 401,000 piasters has been reduced from the annual incomes of the municipality. Therefore, the remaining sum, which is approximately 50,000 piasters, falls short in covering the salaries of the sanitary and municipal officials, roadwork, cleaning and lighting work, and other important and beneficial activities, which are a significant factor for overall development. Attempts were taken to close this down through necessary means; hence, it has been considered natural that the said hospital be closed down if no permission is taken for taking the said macadam tax the way it used to be. However, the closing down of this hospital would not be appropriate for the Ottoman Government and its subjects in the eyes of friend and foes. It is thus appropriate to notify in reply that the said tax be continued to be taken and that this tax cannot be imposed on the owners of carriages and animals. The 21st of Kânûn Thânî (1)324 (3rd of February 1909). |
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 |