Repairs works of two damaged stores, 25 May 1892 (Gregorian calendar) - 13 Mayîs 1308 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

Repairs works of two damaged stores, 25 May 1892 (Gregorian calendar) - 13 Mayîs 1308 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)

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Reference	JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol1/p12a/item71
Title	Repairs works of two damaged stores, 25 May 1892 (Gregorian calendar) - 13 Mayîs 1308 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi)
Dates	1892-05-25
Dates Start	1892-05-25
Dates End	1892-05-25
Level of description	Item
Extend and medium	1 item

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Repository	Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Name of creator(s)	Jerusalem Municipality (IY)

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Description

Since the mentioned stores are already eight years old __________ ?___ and because of the strong winds two centers were destroyed and _____ and the rest were torn. If they are left this way in the future it will be very costly. Therefore it has been found to be urgent to repair them and renew the two centers mentioned. If it was done by way of a public bid, it would not bring the necessary benefit. If was thus decided to conduct this (bi wujh al amâna) with the help of the inspectors, so that the expenses won’t exceed the amount indicated in the report (daftar). And in order for the works to start and the payment of the mentioned amount from the council’s funds from construction revenues, this decision was taken on the 13th of Mayîs (1)308 (25th of May 1892).
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Arabic

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http://www.archives.openjerusalem.org/index.php/repairs-works-of-two-damaged-stores-25-may-1892-gregorian-calendar-13-mayis-1308-ottoman-fiscal-calendar-rumi?sf_culture=en

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Fonds - 1 : Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period

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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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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

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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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