File FR-CADN/294PO/B/11 - Ottoman Customs

1 box, 3 subfiles

11-a. Jaffa’s customs

• Fire weapons entries: circular about the removal of the ban on revolvers, cartridges and ink cartridges for printers’, notes, correspondence (1872-1908).
• Problems and claims: classified circular, notes, press clippings, correspondence (1894-1913) ; customs fees: correspondence (1848-1884).
• Post parcels: correspondence (1897).
• Annual statistics and regulation adjustment: note about customs slips, census tables of customs offices [some of them in Arabic], correspondence (1902-1911).

• Service improvement and new regulation: circular about custom surtax and Ottoman public debt, press clipping about the new law regarding analysis performed by customs [Moniteur Officiel du Commerce, August 3, 1905], notes, directives, correspondence (1905-1907).

  11-b. Custom immunities for clergymen :

• Regulation: directives, dispatch and attachment about the custom immunity project for all latin convents and charities, circular, correspondence (1851-1869).
• Yearly general administration: circulars, verbal notes, dispatches, telegramm, correspondence from the General Consul, census table of Holy Land Franciscan Custody institutions, correspondence about refund request (1851-1916).
• Opening of parcels and fee payment: circulars and dispatches, telegramms, correspondence (1863-1886).

• Information on religious institutions: correspondence, recap charts, notes in Arabic with French translation (1865-1891).

  11-c. Custom immunities for Consuls: directives, circulars, memo, blank model of custom declaration, correspondence (1853-1899)

• French

• Arabic