Subfile FR-CADN/294PO/B/5-a - Ottoman legislation and municipal rules

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FR-CADN/294PO/B/5-a

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Ottoman legislation and municipal rules

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  • 1844-01-01-1912-12-31 (Creation)

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  • 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).

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  • French
  • Arabic

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