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Documents Regarding Management of Menahem Daniel's Properties
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These are documents about Menahem Daniel's trust properties managed by the Baghdadi Jewish community, the printed regulations of the Jewish Properties Committee, and a blank ledger that is supposed to be on the properties belonging to charitable trusts managed by the Jewish community followed by a report.
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Menahem Salih Daniel Portfolio number: Year: Title: Committee for the Property of the Israelite Community Subject:
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Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad Number Date May 5, 1939 Honorable Distinguished Gentlemen Daoud Salim Salman Al-Kabir Saleh Shlouh Sion Hayhay Ezra Al-Waiba Meir Dangur Yusuf Khouri The Respected After greetings and respect I request your presence at the Community Administration at 6:00 PM next Tuesday May 9, 1939, to discuss some matters. Best regards; ⟦Nawrad Khouri⟧ Head of the Community
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Saleh Shlomo Baghdad ⟦line⟧ Baghdad / June 22, 1937 The Honorable Mr. Munshi Ibrahim Karchi, Respected After greetings, With reference to the verbal consultation between us. I would be very grateful if you would be so kind as to attend the office of Mr. Menahem Daniel, where the Jewish Community Property Committee will meet on Monday evening, June 28, 1937, at six-thirty P.M., in order to enlighten us with some information regarding the status of the properties of the Laura Kadoorie School. Please accept my abundant thanks and respect, Sincerely, (Saleh Shlomo)
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H. Sassoon Khedouri President of the Jewish Community * Baghdad Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri President of the Israelite Community - Baghdad Telephone Number: 531 Number :: 3649 Subject: Date :: 15 March 936 Honorable President and Members of the Lay Council Honorable Members of the Property Committee After greetings and respect Based on the receipt of a letter from the Secretariat of the Capital containing a decision issued by the Secretariat Council regarding the necessity of filling the two swamps located on Sheikh Omar Street, which are endowed to the Israelite Cemetery, within seven days from its date, we request the favor of your presence at the Community Administration at five o'clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, March 18, 936, to discuss this matter. May you remain well; ⟦signature⟧ President of the Community A.M.
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Presidency of the Israelite Community In Baghdad Number 3718 Date April 30, 1936 The honorable and virtuous Saleh Effendi ⟦Shumo⟧, respected After greetings and respect, I request the favor of your attendance at the community administration at eleven o'clock in the morning on (Friday, May 1, 1936) to discuss the matter of filling the swamps belonging to the community ⟦illegible signature⟧ President of the Community
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Bylaws Committee for the Properties of the Jewish Community Baghdad ⟦line⟧ ⟦line⟧ Al-Ma'arif Press - Baghdad
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Regulations of the Jewish Community Property Committee Baghdad 1 - The committee shall be called (The Jewish Community Property Committee in Baghdad) 2 - The committee shall be formed in accordance with Article 25 of the Jewish Community Regulations No. 36 of 1931 and for the purpose of Article 7 of the Jewish Community Law No. 77 of 1931 and Article 21 of the aforementioned regulation. 3 - In these regulations, the word "member" includes the president, and the word "president" includes the vice president in his absence 4 - The committee consists of five persons appointed by the Lay Council in Baghdad 5 - The committee must elect, in its first meeting following its formation, a president, a vice president, and a secretary, and shall notify the Lay Council accordingly 6 - The committee is represented by the president or by a member authorized by the president for that purpose. 7 - The president or the secretary shall sign correspondence in all matters. As for the withdrawal of funds, it shall always be with the signatures of both the president and the secretary 8 - A quorum of the committee consists of three members, and decisions are made by a majority of those present, and in the event of a tie, the president's side shall prevail
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3 The Committee, and no disbursement may be made without a decision from it. 15 - The functions of the Committee are to perform the following matters on behalf of the Lay Council: - a - Supervising the management of immovable property from estates, roofed properties, and exploited properties endowed for charitable purposes in general. b - Managing endowments for which a trustee cannot be appointed according to the conditions of its endower. c - Supervising church real estate. d - Supervising real estate and immovable property belonging to, endowed to, or bequeathed to the Jewish community and its institutions. e - Supervising all necessary repairs for immovable property; no institution or person may carry out any restoration in the aforementioned property before obtaining the approval of the Committee, which must notify the Council of that. f - The Committee may request the ratification of the Lay Council or its representative (if it is dissolved) on everything it deems appropriate to improve the condition of the mentioned properties, whether by carrying out total repairs or by other means. g - Committees, trustees, or their agents may not lease the community's properties except after obtaining the approval of the Property Committee for that.
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2 9 - The committee may establish the rules it deems appropriate for the purpose of organizing its meetings, its work, its records, and the method of distributing and arranging tasks among its members. 10 - If a member fails to attend three consecutive sessions without an excuse, the committee may request him in writing to attend the committee sessions consecutively. If he does not comply with the request, he may be considered as having resigned from membership. If one of the members travels on leave, the committee may keep his position vacant or request the appointment of another in his place temporarily during the period of his leave. Every member who replaces this absent member under this article shall have his membership terminated upon the end of the absent member's leave period. 11 - Every member intended to be appointed in place of an absent or resigned member from the committee shall be elected by the Physical Council from among three candidates presented to it by the committee or from others. 12 - The committee may invite to its meetings such persons as it deems necessary for consultation and to delegate to them any of its work, provided that they do not have a vote in its decisions. 13 - The committee may appoint such paid employee or employees as it deems necessary after obtaining the Council's approval for that. 14 - The committee must place all the money at its disposal in one of the banks whenever the amount exceeds fifteen dinars, provided that the account is in the name of
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4 16 - The committee must organize a register containing all the properties that are under its supervision as mentioned in the previous article and take the measures necessary to register those not registered in the Land Registry Department according to the procedures and the law, provided that all deeds, documents, and records are kept with the committee. 17 - The committee must issue an annual report on its work and submit it to the Lay Council, and it may publish the report in its entirety or what it deems necessary of it. 18 - The committee may communicate, regarding its duties, directly with the Lay Council and sectarian committees and institutions and all other administrations and persons who possess the immovable property over which the committee has the right of supervision, and these must provide the answer directly to the aforementioned committee, and it may also summon before it any person in whose possession or under whose management such properties are, to take from him the information it requires. The Lay Council approved this regulation in its session held on May 28, 1933. Heskiel Yaqub Murad Vice President of the Lay Council
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H. Sassoon Khedhouri President of the Jewish Community * Baghdad Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri President of the Israelite Community - Baghdad Telephone Number: 531 Number: 7511 Subject: Date: December 20, 1935 To the Honorable and Distinguished Notables Salman Effendi Al-Kabir Saleh Effendi Shlomo Sion Effendi Gegee After greetings and respect I request your presence at the Community Administration at four o'clock PM next Sunday, December 22, 1935, to deliberate on certain matters. The meeting will be attended by the President and members of the Lay Council and the notables Ibrahim Hayyim Effendi Moallem Nassim, Salim Effendi Tarzi, Ezra Effendi Menahim Daniel, and Yusuf Effendi Al-Kabir. Respectfully yours! ⟦Sassoon Khedhouri⟧ President of the Community A.M
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Baghdad on June 10, 1935 To the esteemed and virtuous notable, President of the Spiritual Council, respected, After greetings and respect, with reference to your letter No. 2885 dated May 22, 1935, It appears to us that there are two ways for the community to own immovable property, namely - First - that these properties be the absolute property of the community and registered in the Land Registry Department (Tabu) in the name of its head according to the provisions of the Law of Registration of Immovable Property in the Name of Juridical Persons for the year 1929. Second - that they be endowed (waqf) for the community or for one of its institutions. Each of the two methods has benefits and risks as shown by the following observations. The community's ownership of immovable property in accordance with the provisions of the Law of 1929 mentioned above gives it the scope to dispose of them in a wide manner and without restriction or condition. It is permissible to lease them for long periods, mortgage them, sell them, and buy other properties in their stead, and to dispose of their revenues and their total values in the manner and form that it deems appropriate. In this regard, they do not differ from the rest of the community's movable property such as furniture and money. Indeed, this method is not devoid of many benefits, as the community is able to dispose of these properties according to what circumstances and conditions require, the changing of matters, and the emergence of new needs. It may often be able to obtain the greatest benefit from them in view of what the interests of the community require from time to time. The disadvantages of this method - which are obvious to the eye - are that those in charge of the community's affairs at some time may err in their estimation of what is harmful or beneficial to the real interests of the community and dispose of these properties in a way that leads to the community's loss of its revenues for a short or long period, or to the loss of these properties entirely. Furthermore, the fate of these properties may be affected by sudden or pathological fluctuations that may occur in the community's affairs, and there might not occur in its management the required stability in the community's affairs, which should usually aim for the distant future. The benefits and risks inherent in the second part - i.e., the endowment (waqf) - are almost the same as the risks and benefits present in the matter of absolute ownership, but they come in an inverse form. The basic conditions of the endowment are the withholding of ownership, i.e., the impossibility of selling the endowed property except in special and exceptional cases, and the presence of a trustee (mutawalli) who manages it and spends its revenues on specific charitable entities where it may not be permissible to make changes or amendments. The most important advantages of this method are the community's retention of the endowed properties and their revenues in a perpetual manner, but its risks are not few, first because of the impossibility of changing the condition of the endower and disposing of these properties according to what circumstances, conditions, and the needs of the community require, which may change from time to time; and second, because of the presence of a trustee who may differ with the responsible community bodies on how to manage these endowments and follow the best ways to obtain the greatest benefit from them; and third, because of the impossibility of changing the entity for which the revenues of the endowed properties should be spent. This last point is very important as it imposes heavy restrictions on ⟦line⟧ - To be continued -
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- 2 - The administration of the community often faces the inability to expand the spending of these revenues on matters that the community deems more beneficial. We suggest merging the two aforementioned methods as much as possible and adopting the advantages of each, which can be achieved by endowing the property to the community - not to a specific body or institution - and by making the communal council the trustee over it, and that its revenues be collected in the community fund and spent under the supervision of the council on the community's needs. This method ensures that the community retains ownership of the properties permanently and provides it with a wide scope to dispose of its revenues in the manner it deems most appropriate, since these revenues would enter its fund like its other ordinary incomes. We have obtained the opinions of some responsible officials regarding the possibility of implementing this latter part, and there appears to be no practical obstacle to working accordingly. Respectfully yours. Property Committee
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Baghdad on / 11 June 1935 The honorable and virtuous President of the Lay Council, respected After greetings and respect, with reference to your letter No. 2884 dated May 22, 1935. 1 - The buildings constructed by the honorable Munshi Effendi Saleh are considered movable property and they belong to their owner, who has the right to dispose of them in all manners, and has the right to remove them and sell their debris, and they follow the fate of the rest of his properties and assets in all circumstances. It is not permissible to register them in the Land Registry (Tapu) separately and independently from the lands on which they are built. If it is desired to leave them to the community in a legal and final manner, they must be endowed (waqf) if the land on which they are built is endowed, and the conditions for the endowment of the building must not be contrary to the conditions of the endowment of the land. That is, if the land is endowed to be a place of prayer for the Israelite community, there is no objection to endowing the building on the condition that it be a place of prayer for the members of the community and a school for its children. The endowment of the building cannot be practically completed before registering the land in the Land Registry Department, as the endowment transaction requires determining the location of the land on which the building is constructed in a real manner, and this requires its prior registration to know the number and date of its specific title deed and its serial number. If the land is not registered now in the Land Registry Department as it appears, the only way to obtain the desired goal is to donate this building to the community, provided it is used as a place of prayer and a school for its children permanently, and this is done according to an instrument organized by the Notary Public. The provisions of a donation made in this manner do not differ from the provisions of an endowment in terms of the result and aim for the same purpose, and it is permissible, upon registering the land as an endowment in the Land Registry, to note in its specific record that the building is donated to be a place of prayer and a school for the members of the Israelite community. 2 - Please review the committee's letter dated June 10 regarding what was stated in the second paragraph of your letter which is being answered, and with respect to you; Property Committee
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An agreement and mutual consent have been reached between Yehuda Saleh Zelouf, President of the Lay Council of the Israelite Community in Baghdad, in his official capacity, hereinafter referred to as the First Party, and the lawyer Kochi Heskel, hereinafter referred to as the Second Party, regarding the following: First - The Second Party undertakes to record complete and true information regarding every piece of property belonging to the Israelite Community in Baghdad and to each of its affiliated institutions, as well as to each of the charitable institutions of the aforementioned community, including synagogues, schools, cemeteries, and all existing immovable property of various types that belongs directly to the Israelite Community or to one of those institutions and is endowed to each of them, and which has been managed by the community or one of those institutions for a long time in a manner not previously recorded for each of the questions contained in the printed form attached to this contract and signed by the two contracting parties. Second - A single form shall be allocated for the completion of each specific piece of the immovable property mentioned in the first item above. The term "one piece" refers to what is registered in the Land Registry Department (Tabu) as one piece and has its own sequence number, and what is currently actually subdivided and possesses its own municipal door number and is being managed as an independent single piece. The term "immovable property" includes only what is located within the boundaries of the Secretariat of the Capital (Amanat al-Asima). Third - The Second Party undertakes to record the information regarding each piece on two copies of the form, as an original and a duplicate. The original copies shall be bound in the form of a book containing all the immovable property whose details are listed in Articles One and Two above, and the second copies shall be unbound, each relating to a piece of these immovable properties only. Fourth - The Second Party undertakes to audit and track the records and registers of all the aforementioned immovable property when recording the information for each of them, as well as all existing endowment deeds (waqfiyyat), legal titles, notifications, and other valid documents concerning them, and to conduct inspections of these properties when necessary in order to obtain complete and true information and clarifications regarding them. Fifth - The Second Party undertakes to prepare all required information, record it in the forms, complete the work, finish it, and deliver all these forms to the First Party within the period ending on the last day of December 1935. This period may be extended by agreement between the two contracting parties if obstacles arise that prevent the completion of the work within it. Sixth - The First Party, or whomever he delegates for this purpose, shall issue the necessary instructions to the Second Party on how to organize, coordinate, and categorize these forms, and all matters that ensure their proper arrangement, and the Second Party undertakes to follow these instructions. Seventh - The First Party undertakes to provide possible assistance to the Second Party to obtain the required information to finish organizing and completing these records, and to provide him with all information available to the Community Board or to the boards of other institutions regarding all the aforementioned properties, and to enable him to review - To be continued -
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- 2 - all the restrictions, records, and all other documents related thereto. Eighth - The First Party undertakes to pay the Second Party a flat fee of one hundred and fifty fils for each piece of property for which the Second Party records complete information in each of the two forms pertaining to it. Half of this fee shall be paid for each piece after the completion of recording the information regarding it in the two forms, and the other half of the fee shall be paid after completing the organization of all forms in their two copies for all the properties mentioned in the first and second items of this contract. Ninth - If the Second Party does not complete the work within the period stipulated in the fifth item of this contract, or organizes the forms contrary to the instructions given to him by the First Party or whoever he delegates for this purpose, or records the information therein in an incomplete or untrue manner, or completes only a part of the work and did not record and register all the required information for each piece of the properties stipulated in the first and second items of this contract, then he shall have no right to claim the other half of the fee, amounting to seventy-five fils for each piece of property, and the First Party shall retain this amount against any damage and loss incurred as a result of the Second Party's failure to fulfill what he undertook under this contract, without the need for a notice or any other legal or formal procedures. And in accordance with this arrangement, the contract has been concluded between the two contracting parties, and this contract was drawn up in two copies so that each of them shall hold one copy. Baghdad /
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Agreement and mutual consent have been reached between Yehuda Saleh Zelouf, President of the Lay Council of the Jewish Community in Baghdad, in his capacity as proven hereinafter as the First Party, and the lawyer Khoji Heskel, proven hereinafter as the Second Party, regarding the following: First - The Second Party undertakes to record complete and true information regarding every piece of property belonging to the Jewish Community in Baghdad and to each of its affiliated institutions, as well as to each of the charitable institutions of the said community, including synagogues, schools, cemeteries, and all existing immovable properties of various types belonging directly to the Jewish Community or to one of those institutions and endowed to each of them, and which the community or one of those institutions has been managing for a long time, in the form of answers to each of the questions contained in the printed form attached to this contract and signed by the two contracting parties. Second - Each form shall be dedicated to one piece of the immovable properties mentioned in the first clause above. The term "one piece" means what is registered in the Land Registry Department as one piece and has its own serial number, and what is currently actually partitioned and has its own municipality door number and is being managed as a single independent piece. The term "immovable properties" includes what is located within the boundaries of the Capital Secretariat only. Third - The Second Party undertakes to record the information regarding each piece on two copies of the form, as original and duplicate. The original copies shall be bound in the form of a book containing all the immovable properties whose details are listed in Articles One and Two above, and the second copies shall be unbound, each pertaining to one piece of these immovable properties only. Fourth - The Second Party undertakes to audit and follow the records and registers of all the mentioned immovable properties when recording the information specific to each of them, as well as all existing documents, deeds, notifications, and other valid documents regarding them, and to conduct inspections of these properties when necessary in order to obtain complete and true information and clarifications regarding them. Fifth - The Second Party undertakes to prepare all the required information, record it in the forms, complete the work, finish, and deliver all these forms to the First Party within the period ending at the end of December 1935. This period may be extended by an agreement reached between the two contracting parties if obstacles appear that prevent the completion of the work within it. Sixth - The First Party, or whoever he delegates for this purpose, shall issue the necessary instructions to the Second Party on how to organize these forms, coordinate them, categorize them, and all matters that ensure their proper arrangement, and the Second Party undertakes to follow these instructions. Seventh - The First Party undertakes to provide possible assistance to the Second Party to obtain the required information to complete the organization and completion of these records, and to provide him with all the information available to the Community Authority or to the authorities of other institutions regarding all the mentioned properties, and to enable him to review ⟦line⟧ - To be continued -
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- 2 - all there is of restrictions, registers, and all other related documents. Eighth - The First Party undertakes to pay the Second Party a lump sum fee of one hundred and fifty fils for each piece of property for which the Second Party records information in each of the two forms and their two specific forms. Half of this fee shall be paid for each piece after completing the recording of information regarding it in the two forms, and the other half of the fee shall be paid after completing the organization of all forms in duplicate for all the properties shown in the first and second clauses of this contract. Ninth - If the Second Party does not complete the work within the period stipulated in the fifth clause of this contract or organizes the forms contrary to the instructions given to him by the First Party or whoever he delegates for this purpose, or records the information in them in an incomplete or untrue manner, or completes only a part of the work and does not record and register all the required information for each piece of property stipulated in the first and second clauses of this contract, he shall have no right to claim the other half of the fee, amounting to seventy- five fils for each piece of property, and the First Party shall retain this amount against any damage and loss incurred as a result of the Second Party's failure to complete what he undertook under this contract, without issuing a notice or any other legal and formal procedures. And according to this arrangement, the contract was concluded between the two contracting parties, and this contract was written in two copies so that each of them may have one copy. Baghdad /
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Portfolio No. ⟦line⟧ Report on immovable property belonging to charitable institutions and churches of the Israelite community in Baghdad and its dependencies Name of the institution to which those properties belong Number | Type of property and its description | Property category | Location | District | Door numbers | Was it registered in the Land Registry Office and is there a deed? | Number and date of the Land Registry deed or sequence | Land Registry portfolio number (sequence) | Area | How it is currently used | The entity to which the revenues are spent | Amount of shares | Name of the current possessor or trustee | Is there an endowment deed or other document regarding it, its number and date? | Remarks Declaration to be signed I acknowledge that the report and statement described above are consistent with the documents in my hand and according to my investigations and personal information Date ⟦line⟧ Signature ⟦line⟧ Position ⟦line⟧
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Portfolio No. ⟦line⟧ Report on immovable property belonging to charitable institutions of the Jewish community in Baghdad and its suburbs Name of the institution to which these properties belong ⟦line⟧ Number | Type of property and its description | Category of property | Location | Neighborhood | Door number | Is it registered in the Land Registry and is there a deed | Number and date of the Land Registry deed or sequence | Number of floors | Area | The entity to which the revenues are spent | Number of shares | Name of the manager or trustee | Is there an endowment deed or other document regarding it, its number and date | Remarks Declaration to be signed I acknowledge that the report and statement described above are consistent with the documents in my possession and according to my investigations and personal information Date ⟦line⟧ Signature ⟦line⟧ Position ⟦line⟧
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4 - Determining the status of the hospital and its relationship with the Lay Council in terms of financial responsibility The hospitals' needs for unlimited spending, and their capacity for permanent expansion, make the committee categorically refuse to entrust financial responsibility to the Lay Council, whose finances are barely sufficient to manage other institutions at the present time; otherwise, the community's fund would groan under the burden of the expenses needed by the hospitals to fully secure their technical requirements. All hospitals in other countries rely on the donations of benefactors and the efforts of those with zeal, and in our case, the committee finds no justification for relying on the Lay Council's fund. Its final opinion is that the council's financial responsibility towards the hospitals should be limited to an annual grant subject to increase or decrease according to the status of the financial councils each year. Beyond that, the council shall not be responsible for the hospitals, which must limit their spending according to their revenues. In the committee's view, this does not diminish the degree of supervision the council has over the hospitals in all other matters according to the regulations followed by both parties in their relationship until now, nor does it interfere with the hospitals' duty to submit the annual budget and accounts to the Lay Council as is customary. On this occasion, the committee wishes to urgently recommend the necessity for the hospitals to stop undertaking any other reform projects that require new expenditures before paying off the debt currently owed by them as a result of the constructions and repairs they recently carried out. It remains for the committee to express its opinion on the matter of the deeds and clever arguments held by the hospital. The summary of its opinion on the subject is that these documents have no practical value at the present time because the committee does not believe it is practically possible to bind the council forever to decisions issued many years ago under special circumstances by bodies that had no authority in terms of subject matter or duration. Respectfully yours. Ezra Eliyahu Ani | Yusuf Al-Kabir | Khedhouri Murad Shukur Number 3169 Date 5 April 935 His Excellency the Chairman of the Hospitals Committee, Respected After greetings, Further to your letter No. 2703 dated 12 November 1934, We present to you the report submitted to the esteemed General Council by the committee it formed for the purpose of studying the issues referred to in the report. Sincerely. Head of the Community The response of the respected Hospitals Committee to the copy of the committee's report Baghdad, 5 May 935 His Eminence the Head of the Israeli Community, Respected After greetings and respect, With reference to your letter No. 3169 dated 5 April 935, to which is attached a copy of the report of the respected committee formed by the esteemed General Council to study the pending issues of Meir Elias Hospital, I request that you allow us to state these observations and kindly present them to the High Council along with the aforementioned report to enlighten minds. 1 - The issue of the old debt owed by the hospital to the Lay Council Although our committee thanks the respected committee for its proposal to write off the debt amounting to 1848 Dinars and 470 Fils, it wished to inform the High Council of how this debt was incurred by the hospital and why the Hospitals Committee has not recognized it since it was imposed on the hospital. If we review the agreement referred to in the report of the committee held in the year 24/25 between the trustee of the Rebecca Nouriel endowments and the Council, we would find that the Lay Council, without obtaining the approval of the Hospitals Committee, allowed the entitlement of the pharmacy and the hospital from the yield of the Nouriel endowments—which was spent on the Rebecca Nouriel and Haron Saleh schools for the years preceding the date of May 1, 934—which is a significant amount. Then, in agreement with the trustee of the Rebecca Nouriel endowments, it imposed on the hospital all the remainder of the expenses for repairing the Shatt Cafe, half of whose revenues belong to the Nouriel school and the other half to the hospital. From this, it is clearly evident that this debt, besides being incorrect, has resulted in significant financial losses for the hospital as a result of this agreement.
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2 - The deficit in the hospitals' budget for the year 934/33 The respected committee mentioned, when it touched upon the investigation of this deficit, that it considers the allocations of the Lay Council to be fixed. While our committee respects this opinion, it does not believe that it is possible to include the hospital's financial relationship with the Lay Council for past years. The Lay Council had organized a budget for the hospital like other institutions and estimated allocations for it sufficient to cover the difference between income and expenditure. The Hospitals Committee found no justification for the Council to evade its responsibility for this budget and to pay off this deficit, which arose from the decrease in revenues estimated by the Council itself. As for if the committee means by (fixed allocations) the allocations designated for the hospital according to the deeds and regulations that the Lay Councils were following, and which our committee considers to be still in force as long as no decision has been issued to overturn them until now, the hospitals' entitlement according to these deeds and regulations is as follows:- Dinars 1000 | From the proceeds of the intestines for the hospital and the pharmacy 500 | Annual allocations to Meir Elias Hospital according to the deed in the hospital's possession 450 | Rima Khedouri allocations (and school clinics) according to the Lay Council's decision dated December 31, 923 1950 | ⟦line⟧ 1426 | Total allocations of the Lay Council according to the budget for the year 34/935 524 | The difference claimed by the hospital according to the fixed allocations shown above In both cases, the hospitals are entitled to the deficit amount of 513 dinars, which arose from the decrease in revenues as we mentioned earlier. As for the proposal of the respected committee stating that the debt owed by the hospital to others be paid during the next three years from the hospitals' fund - assuming there is a surplus in the fund - we would like to draw the attention of the High Council to the impossibility of implementing this proposal, as the hospital is indebted to pharmacies and to individuals who permanently supply the hospital with food and drink, and to salary earners among servants and employees, while the deficits of other institutions have been paid from the Council's fund for some time. From reviewing the budget book approved by the High Council for hospitals, we find that the approved allocations for the current year 34/935 amount likewise to 1935.488 dinars, which is equivalent to the allocations imposed in the previous period for hospitals as shown above as follows. Dinars | Fils 488 | 768 | Meir Elias Hospital 200 | 727 | Dar Al-Shifa Pharmacy 318 | | Rima Khedouri 800 | 121 | School clinics 1935 | 488 | ⟦line⟧ From this, it appears that the needs of the hospitals cannot be met with less than this amount at any time. Our committee thanks the respected committee for its proposal to write off 510 dinars from the budget of the year 34/935, this amount which our committee objected to calling it (hospitals' advance) without a clear reason, while it is part of the allocations. As for the rest of what the respected committee mentioned, we also entrust it to the High Council to take a decision on what is most beneficial for the public interest - this and to your Excellency, the highest respect. Ibrahim Nahum Chairman of the Hospitals Committee A copy of it to the esteemed Lay Council to express its opinion to the esteemed General Council Note: The Lay Council decided in its session held on May 30, 935, by a majority of the members present and with the opposition of member Meir Effendi Dangoor, to approve the contents of the report dated March 28, 935, organized by the committee formed by the High Council to discuss hospital issues (a copy of which you will find on the first page)
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Copy of letter No. 3007 dated November 12, 34 To the honorable notables Khedhouri Effendi Murad Shuker, Respectfully Ezra Effendi Eliyahu Al-Ani " Youssef Effendi Al-Kabir " After greetings and respect Based on the letter submitted to the esteemed General Council by the member Meir Effendi Dangoor, the Council decided in its session held on 4/11/934 to form a committee from your honors to study the contents of the mentioned letter, which are: 1 - The issue of the old debt owed by the Lay Council to the hospital. 2 - The deficit occurring in the hospitals' budget for the year 33/34 3 - The budget approved by the General Council for hospitals for the year 34/35 in terms of the salary of the male and female doctors and the examination revenues and the fees for overnight stays and operations, then giving your opinion on the matter of the advance of 510 Dinars. 4 - Studying the deeds and conditions in the possession of the hospital and determining the status of the hospital and its relationship with the Lay Council in terms of financial responsibility with the request to organize a report on all of that and submit it to the esteemed General Council. This, and your respected committee can be provided with all the papers and information necessary for your honors from the secretary of the administration of the Israelite Community, and may you remain in respect. Head of the Community For information: - A copy of it to His Excellency the Chairman of the Hospitals Committee " " " The honorable notable Meir Effendi Dangoor ⟦line⟧ Copy of the Committee Report ⟦line⟧ His Excellency the Head of the Israelite Community, Respectfully March 28, 935 After greetings and respect Reference to your letter No. 3007 dated November 12, 1934 Our committee, after studying the relevant papers, wishes to submit to the esteemed General Council its opinions on the matters entrusted to it, which are: - 1 - The issue of the old debt owed by the Lay Council to the hospital Most of this debt was incurred by the hospital during the years 24 - 925, i.e., ten years ago, as a result of the contract concluded between the agent of the trustee of the Nouriel endowments and the Lay Council. It appears from the text of the contract that the Hospitals Committee did not agree at the time to conclude this contract in its current form; therefore, it did not record the amount as a claim for the Council in its books. This is on one hand, and on the other hand, the Council was not able during a period of ten years to collect any amount of this debt. The total debt is 1848/470 Dinars, and this committee does not believe that the hospital's finances will help at any time to pay it off, and therefore suggests writing it off from the Lay Council's books. 2 - The deficit occurring in the hospitals' budget for the year 33 - 934 The committee's opinion on the relationship of the hospitals with the Lay Council in terms of financial responsibility will be expressed elsewhere in this report. In any case, the committee considers the Lay Council's allocations to the hospitals as a lump sum not related to the deficits and surpluses that occur in the hospitals' budget; therefore, the Council is not responsible, in the committee's view, for the deficit under discussion in any case. But if there is a debt owed by the hospitals to others against this deficit, it can be settled by paying it in annual installments from the hospital fund during the next three years. 3 - The current 34 - 935 budget Since the committee sees the necessity of limiting the Council's financial relationship with the hospital to the lump-sum aid, it did not find it necessary to delve into the figures of the current budget. In any case, the committee finds it appropriate - to alleviate the hospital's financial situation - to cancel the amount advanced on the budget (510 Dinars) and merge it into the allocations.