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The Imperial Council of Legal Affairs (Meclis-i Vala-yı Ahkam-ı Adliye ) was founded as the assembly of reforms in 1838 after the Supreme Council and the Consultation Assembly (Meclis-i Meşveret) lost their functions and charged with conducting the Tanzimat’s reforms and innovations. This series includes documents related to the correspondences of the assembly and to the decision made by the assembly. In it, there are a lot of documents regarding any sort of change in the state institutions in the Tanzimat Era and de novo organisation of the state. Moreover, the application of the reforms and the difficulties that were faced could be monitored easily from these documents.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1258-1285.

This sub-series includes documents and information regarding assignments to the birth registration offices; lists in tabulated forms sent to birth registration offices; documents related to the birth registration; passports procedures; census; list of incidents peculiar (specific?) to the provinces, subdivisons of a province (sub-province = sandjak) and towns; and populations statistics.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are 1326-1336.

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After an improvment in local administration in 1909 (1327) the Correspondence Office duties (Dahiliye Nezareti Mektubi Kalemi) have been made over to the General Correspondence Office (Muhaberat-ı Umumiye Dairesi). Therefore, correspondence between the Ministry and the other ministries or provinces as well as official letters, telegraphs, petitions and reports over various subjects are, from this date, filed into this series.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are 1327-1329.

This is a register group resulting from the work of Employee Registry Commission (Sicil-i Ahvâl Komisyonu) founded during the rule of Abdulhamid in 1878. These registers may include short biographies of all the civil and judiciary officials. There are registers of 92.000 officials from 1879 to 1909, including their names, nicknames or identity records, fathers, families, inaugurations, educational levels, achievements and skills, dismissals or appointments or judgments and, if non-Muslim, their nationalities.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are 1283-1341.

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This series includes the invitation letters prepared for the assembly and ceremonies as well as protocol lists; congratulations sent for special days and appointments like Bairam and Christmas; and the brief notes given to the Office of Imperial Protocol (Teşrifat Kalemi).
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1256-1341.

This series includes documents about professors assignments ; management of the foundation goods; assignments of some religious officials like imams and preachers; states of zawiyahs; interventions (intercessions?) in the foundations; the repairing of the shrines; and conversion of some prayer rooms into mosques.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this series are: 1012-1298.