Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
Held by Jerusalem City Archives (AIY)
Reference | JM-AIY/OttomanRegisters/Vol6/p54a/item363 |
Title | Regarding the need to contact municipal police for unpaid debts, 12 April 1897 (Gregorian calendar) - 31 Mârt 1313 (Ottoman fiscal calendar (Rumi) |
Dates | 1897-04-12 |
Dates Start | 1897-04-12 |
Dates End | 1897-04-12 |
Level of description | Item |
Extend and medium | 1 item |
Repository | Jerusalem City Archives (AIY) |
Name of creator(s) | Jerusalem Municipality (IY) |
Description | Brokerage tax (1895-1896): the debtor is Muhammed Ebu Îyd, the guarantors are Mustafa Kalibu (?),Abbas el-Meddâh and Musa Ebu Îyd = 506 piasters 10 coins Brokerage tax (1896-1897): the debtors are Abbas el-Meddâh, Musa Ebu Îyd and el-Hâc Said Ebu Îyd, the guarantors are Mustafa Kalibu (?) ve Muhammed Ebu Îyd = 1,034 piasters = 1,540 piasters 10 coins – Only one thousand five hundred forty-five piasters eleven coins. Brokerage tax of the year 1311 (1895 – 1896) to be collected from Jerusalem is farmed out to the abovementioned person with the guarantee of the abovementioned person. These people still owe 1,540 piasters and 10 coins. The amount has been requested many times, however, it was not paid. According to the 40th article of the Municipal council Regulation, the municipal police should be communicated for the arrest of these names until they pay their debts to the coffers of the Municipal council. The 31st of Mârt (1)313 (12th of April 1897). |
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 |