Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol13/p11b/item67 |
Title | Marginal note regarding lighting, cleaning and watchman services, 8 September 1908 (Gregorian date) - 26 Agustos 1324 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1908-09-08 |
Dates Start | 1908-09-08 |
Dates End | 1908-09-08 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | The marginal note written to the petition presented on 4 September 1908 by some people regarding lighting, cleaning and watchman services The Municipal Councils Regulation does not contain any provision about the obligation of municipal councils to cover the costs of the services of night watchmen in cities; the decree dated 16 August 1889 does not refer either to any provision for a recompense for cleaning services; and the allocations collected by the municipality from households and stores are not even sufficient for cleaning and lighting expenditures. As stated in the petition, even though some part of the said watchmen expenditures were collected by the municipality two years ago and were spent for watchmen, these collected money did not suffice for the salaries of all watchmen and the rest of salaries were covered from the municipal fund. It has turned out the continuation of this problem would hinder the municipality from carrying out its work and activities. Upon a request recently made, an examination was made about the budgets of sanjak municipal offices presented by the Ministry of Internal Affairs; and the Ministry of Internal Affair’s letter, dated 9 April 1905 and numbered 9, states that the Fiscal Office of the Council of State’s copy of the mandate communicated via the Grand Vizierate’s decree points out that those expenditures not pertaining to the municipality must be lowered in the said budgets. Hence, a letter was presented by our council and it has been stated in the Sanjak Administrative Council’s decision dated 27 March 1906 and numbered 82 that if there is a need for the employment of these watchmen, the Police Department must collect money by apportioning their salaries among relevant people. The salaries of these watchmen have been thenceforward apportioned and collected by the Police Department. Thus, supporting the content of this petition is outside the scope of municipality’s duties and it is appropriate that due action be taken in respect thereof. The 26th of Agustos (1)324 (8th of September 1908). [5 signatures] |
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 |