Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol6/p17b/item108 |
Title | Issue regarding the use of stream sand in the reparation and improvements of roads, 28 July 1898 (Gregorian calendar) - 16 Tammûz 1314 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1898-07-28 |
Dates Start | 1898-07-28 |
Dates End | 1898-07-28 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | When both stream sand and sea sand is used in road work, they tend to deteriorate after a while, as they erode due to floods. On the other hand, even though sea sand would not lead to dust like hûr, its expenses are found to be exorbitant. The information received from the railroad commissar and other experts has led us to understand that it would be sufficient to use stream sand or hûr (?) instead. In our council’s record dated 23 June 1898 and in the Sanjak Administrative Council’s letter dated 25 June 1898, it has been decided that, 740 cubic meter of sea sand be used in the making of roads being constructed by our council, with each cubic meter at a rate of 81,3 piasters, adding up to an approximate sum of sixty thousand piasters. However, as it has turned out that the said expenses would be in vain, a Dutch auction has been organized for very thin ballast similar to sand. It has been decided that each cubic meter be brought at a rate of 11,5 piasters, with the total expense of the said 740 cubic meter adding up to 8,510 piasters. Based on this calculation, our council has considered that there would be a surplus of 52,485 piasters, and that this type of material can be sufficient. The matter is thus hereby submitted for your information. The 16th of Tammûz (1)314 (28th of July 1898). |
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 |