Steam engine purchase, undated
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Part of Registers of Jerusalem Municipality Council during the Ottoman period
A gas engine is being run for the purpose of processing wheat by the Ottoman subjects Şua Birmin (?) and Samuel Kohen, and the Spanish subject Samual, at the place named Cevret-ul-‘anab. Some people residing there presented a petition on the ground that the operation of this engine in the vicinity of and next to their buildings damages them, and demanded due actions to be taken in respect thereof, and a report was given by the municipal inspectorship concerning this matter. In the marginal note thereupon written by our council on 14 April 1904, it was emphasized that specified conditions are pointed out in the 12. article of the regulation on fixed steam engines for those who want to use steam engines, i.e., fixed steam boilers. It is obvious that they shall have to obtain a license from the Ministry of Commerce and Public Works only upon the mandates to be arranged and presented by the sanjak administrative councils as regards this matter. Likewise, in the letter, dated 12 May 1900 and numbered 1, sent by the Ministry of Commerce and Public Works, it is also clearly specified that it is necessary to present mandates to be arranged by administrative councils regarding the fact that there is no objection against the establishment and construction of factories for the boilers that have to be installed into the factories run with steam or petroleum; maps certified by the Engineering Office, showing the places and locations of the factories, the distance between the vicinity and the engine; and also a specification, signed and sealed by owners, showing the volume or length and caliber of the boilers to be installed, and the level of air pressure at which they would be run. Nonetheless, it has been understood from the said petition and report that the petrol engines, said to be later installed by their owners at the places in question and called as motors, are not a type of steam engine, and that these engines do not have any boiler. It could not be figured out whether these are the type of factories and engines that have to be licensed as stated in the said regulation and the ministry’s letter; thus, it was demanded that, in order to take due actions in respect thereof, the said machines be inspected and controlled one by one by the municipality and the engineer, and the situation be relegated to the Public Works Chief Engineering for explanation. This was thereupon relegated and it was understood that a marginal note, including the results of the inspection done by the engineers, was written and relegated to the Sanjak Administrative Council. Undated.