Identity area
Reference code
FR-CADN/294PO/B/5-a
Title
Ottoman legislation and municipal rules
Date(s)
- 1844-01-01-1912-12-31 (Creation)
Level of description
Subfile
Extent and medium
1 subfile
Context area
Name of creator
(1840-1941)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Foreign consulates: circulars, regulations, notes (1844-1879).
- Civil and trade procedure: circulars (several on origin certificates), press clippings, handwritten notes, correspondence (1893-1903).
- Municipal taxes, other taxes and fees [tithe, pets, butchers, city cleaning, lightning and watering, coach drivers, goods displays]: notes, correspondence, press clippings, circulars, account [many Arabic documents and their translation] (1847-1911).
- Leisure activities [theatrical performances in schools, cabarets and hotels, monnaies and games of chance, visitors and pilgrims]: correspondence, notes and Arabic circulars with their translation (1859-1912).
- Occupations [cawas, magistrates, doctors, chemists, mattress craftmen, carding workers, shopkeepers]: correspondence, notes and Arabic circulars with their translation (1883-1912).
- Hunting, fishing and growing [wheat, vine]: report on vineyards in Palestine, notes and circulars from the Municipality with their translation, correspondence (1872-1911).
- Movement of people [French citizens, Turkish passports, French assistance]: notes from Ottoman authorities, press clippings, passports regulations, correspondence with the Embassy, correspondence with the prosecutor about French convicted citizens
- Fire weapons: instruction from the Ottoman authorities and its translation (1909).
Public health measures: notes and correspondence about rabid dogs and smallpox (1909-1912). - Real estate and building issues: correspondence, notes about off-Walls buildings and buildings on "emiri lands" (1908-1912).
- Waste processing: note (undated).
- Import and export: circulars about the forbidden goods or cattle (1908-1911).
- Loan with interests: Ottoman law (1864).
- Press and Printer’s: notes from the Ottoman authorities (1874-1888).
- Streetlights holding and closing of the city gates: notes from the Ottoman authorities (1868-1899).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- French
- Arabic