From the Pages of the Defter (ص 62)
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to Yanya and, finally, in 1862 experimental registration was carried out in the city of Beirut.”
lt was after carrying out registration in Bursa and Yanya that the 1860 Tahrir-1 Emlak ve
Nufus nizamnamesi was issued.”- In 1866, further regulations would be issued, extending the
Tahrir-i Emlak ve Nudfus regulations to the countryside. Property commissions were now to
be established and carry out registrations, assessments, and imposition of the vergi-yi cedid
(the new tax) in every sancak and qada.”°
On the Ground in Palestine:
Establishing the Administrative Apparatuses of Land Tenure Reform
According to Ottoman provincial yearbooks (salnames), tapu clerks had not been appointed
to Hebron or any of Palestine’s district capitals (qadas)as of the late 1860s, when Syrian
provincial salnames began to appear.” The 1869 (1286 H) sa/name for the province of Syria
names just five officials in the administration in the district of Khalil: the qaimaqam Nu‘man
Aga, the sharia court judge (nd’ib) Muhammad Asa‘d Effendi, the mufti Khalil Effendi, the
9" Ibid., 16-21.
** Stanford Shaw (1975) dates the empire-wide promulgation of a 0.004 percent vergi tax to a law issued
in January 1861 (15 Receb 1277) and instructions about it to earlier that month (18 Cemazi || 1277),
citing BOA, lrade, Meclis-i Mahsus 910. (Shaw, 427). Clearly, however, the 1860 law precedes it.
98 Kaya and Terzibasoglu, 23.
*“ The 1869 (1286 H) salname was the second yearbook for the province of Syria. The first was published
in 1868. Although the empire (dev/et) began to publish salnames at the imperial level in 1847, the first
salname at the provincial level would not appear until 1283 H (1866). In this year just one provincial
salname was compiled; it was for Bosna (Bosnia), The following year provincial salnames were issued
only for Bosna and Haleb (Aleppo). In 1868, five provincial salnames were published. These were for
Bosna, Haleb, Konya, Tuna (Danube), and Suriye (Syria). Hasan Duman, Ottoman Yearbooks (Salname
and Nevsal): A Bibliograph and a Union Catalogue with Reference to Istanbul Libraries (|stanbul: IRCICA,
1982). (Turkish).
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