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Correspondence between the Consul [of France] and the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem, renting contracts, correspondence including letters with French Foreign Office and letters in Arabic and Italian, list of agents with annotations and date.

• 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).