Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
| Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol14/p23b/item115 |
| Title | Taxes rate, 1 April 1909 (Gregorian calendar) - 19 Mârt 1325 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
| Dates | 1909-04-01 |
| Dates Start | 1909-04-01 |
| Dates End | 1909-04-01 |
| Level of description | Item |
| Extend and medium | 1 item |
| Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
| Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
| Description | Land cost taken from the carriages, running in the related spot, and cereals in exchange for the cleaning expenses of the square outside: 9,270 piasters Intestine cost taken in exchange for the slaughterhouse’s rental price: 50,000 piasters Taxes imposed on stone, lime and coal in exchange for road reparations: 69,000 piasters From carriages run outside Jerusalem in exchange for road reparations: 90,000 piasters Entrance tax taken from the Jerusalem-Jaffa macadam in exchange for hospital expenses: 15,000 piasters As for the above-written taxes, the annual costs of which amount to 388.200 piasters, taken for the benefit of the municipal hospital and other fixed expenses of the municipality, the Jerusalem-Jaffa macadam tax has been taken to the municipal fund in accordance with the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ letter dated 9 July 1888 and numbered 20 and with reference to the approval granted by the Council of Ministers; and other four taxes have been taken to the municipal fund on the basis of the Sanjak Administrative Council’s decisions and on the ground of old customs and conventions. With the re-implementation of the Constitution, townsfolk have begun to object to the taxes in question. A permission has been requested on this issue and these taxes have been avoided to be taken upon the Sanjak Administrative Council’s decision dated 18 August 1908 and numbered 601, leading to an inactivity in municipal affairs and to a postponement of the next year’s budget. It has been considered necessary that the means for removing the said inconveniences be completed; and for issuing a permission for the continuation of the said taxes as stated in the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ telegram dated 28 March 1909, it is appropriate to explain the situation to whom it may concern. The 19th of March (1)325 (1st of April 1909). |
| Language of material | Ottoman Turkish |
| Sources | http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/taxes-rate-1-april-1909-gregorian-calendar-19-mart-1325-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en |
| 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 |