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Ottoman Bank - Baghdad .OTTOMAN BANK
BILLS FOR COLLECTION DEPARTMENT.
TELEGRAMS: OTTOMBANK, BAGHDAD.
TELEPHONE: BAGHDAD 111. PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE TWO LINES.
CODES: BROOMHALL (IMP. COMB. CYPHER) LIEBER. 1901, A.B.C. 5TH EDITION. PETERSONS 2ND & 3RD EDITION. BENTLEY'S COMPLETE PHRASE CODE.
BAGHDAD,: 9th May 1933.
POST BOX: 4.
Jewish Lay Council,
Baghdad.
Dear Sirs,
With reference to your letter of 19th ulto.,
we return herewith the compiala N°264260 mentioned therein
for ID.520.- duly endorsed by us.
Yours faithfully,
OTTOMAN BANK
BAGHDAD BRANCH
SUB-MANAGER. / MANAGER.
⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
ACCOUNTS
SEEN
BAGHDAD
Administration of the Lay Council
Baghdad
Number 2277
Date May 9, 1933
Directorate of Alliance Schools
Reference to your letter dated 4/24/933
We return to you the promissory note in the amount of five hundred and twenty Dinars 520, the amount of which we have paid
and recorded as follows:
Dinar | Fils
200 | ⟦line⟧ | On account of the accumulated allocations for the Alliance schools
120 | ⟦line⟧ | " " " for the Rachel Shahmoon School
115 | ⟦line⟧ | " " " for the National School
85 | ⟦line⟧ | " " " for the Masouda Salman School
520 | ⟦line⟧ | Total
Vice President of the Lay Council
A copy of it to the Directorate of Rachel Shahmoon Schools
" " the National School
" " Masouda Salman School
To record the amounts listed above on the accumulated account
Accountant for information
RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL | RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL
— ❖ — | — ❖ —
Number: 124
No.:
Baghdad on: May 14, 1922
Baghdad: 19
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
Greetings and respect,
It is not hidden from your esteemed council that there is a portion of the teachers' salaries
for the academic year 1920 / 1921 owed by our school administrations under the name "accumulated."
The previous Lay Council had pledged to pay them in specific installments according
to its letter No. 229 dated 6/18/1921, and this pledge was confirmed by
the former Acting Head of the Community in his letter No. 2060 dated December 9,
1921. Since the final installment of these salaries will be due on the 15th
of this month, we hope your esteemed council will kindly take the necessary action. With
utmost respect.
⟦illegible⟧ | Yaqub Mu'allim | ⟦illegible⟧
Director of Masouda Salman School | Acting Director of Rahel | Director of National Schools
And for the Al-Lorm School | Shahmoon
This letter is to be sent
urgently today
⟦illegible⟧
RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL
Rahel Shahmoon School
Number 122
Baghdad on March 11, 1922
No.
Baghdad 19
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
Greetings and respect
Enclosed is a copy of the letter received from the two schools, in accordance with Article
five of our letter submitted to your council under number 117 and dated December 16, 1921
jointly with the Al-Wataniya and Masouda Salman schools, and approved by your council as per
its letter numbered 2060 and dated December 24, 1921. Sincerely yours,
Yaqub Muallim
Acting Director
To be kept with
previous papers
⟦signature⟧
RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL
Rahel Shahmoon School
No.:
Number:
Baghdad:
Baghdad on:
19:
19:
(Image of the school book)
Baghdad May 11, 1922
Honorable Director of the Rahel Shahmoon School
Greetings and respect
With reference to the pledges you gave us to pay the accumulated installment on time.
We request you to take the necessary measures to pay the last installment of the debt due on 15
May 1922 according to the decision of the previous Physical Council, and stay well
The Teacher
Ibrahim Saleh
Bano | The Teacher
Ibrahim Twina | The Teacher
Rashid Rushdi | The Teacher
Nassim Roubin Jabbour
The Teacher
Salman Yousef
Hakim | The Teacher
Selim Al-Shahid
⟦Messiah⟧ | The Teacher
Saif Ishaq |
2289
17 May 1933
The final installment of accumulated allocations
Directorate of Rachel Shahmoon School
Directorate of the National School
Directorate of Masouda ⟦Shemtob⟧ and Albert Schools
Reference to your letter No. 134 dated 14 May 1933.
Due to the Council's financial constraints, it has been decided to postpone consideration of your request to pay the fourth installment of
accumulated allocations for four months.
Vice President of the Lay Council
⟦illegible⟧
RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL
Rahel Shahmoon School
Number: 127
No.:
Baghdad on: March 21, 1922
Baghdad: 19
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
Greetings and respect,
With reference to our joint letter No. 117 dated December 16,
1922, and with reference to the letter from the Community Presidency No. 2060 dated December 22,
1922, it was stated in the aforementioned letter that the Community Presidency undertakes to pay
our schools' monthly allocations at the end of each month and in a regular manner so that our school
administrations can pay one full salary at the end of each month, taking into account what was stated in the fourth clause,
meaning that two salaries remain in arrears throughout the current academic year.
Since the aforementioned Community Presidency did not pay us the monthly allocations at the beginning of May
stipulated in the budget, we hope your esteemed council will kindly pay us two full months' allocations
so that we can pay only one salary to each teacher who is requesting three full months' salaries
- excluding the accumulated salaries for the academic year 1921/20 mentioned in
the fifth clause of our aforementioned letter - especially during this season of holidays - Islamic
and Mosaic - and please accept our utmost respect.
Yaqub Mu'allim
Acting Director of Rahel Shahmoon School
⟦illegible⟧
Director of the National School
⟦illegible⟧
Director of Masouda Salman School
And its generous greeting
Finance
The request cannot be granted
Except in the event that funds are available
2/4/22
RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL
Rahel Shahmoon School
No. Number
Baghdad April 4, 1922
The Honorable
President of the Honorable Lay Council
Greetings and respect,
You will find below a list of the maturities of the promissory notes that we borrowed,
for your information. With great respect to you.
Amount Fils Dinar | Date | Period | Maturity
520/000 | December 19, 1921 | 3 months | April 19, 1922 The First
220/000 | January 1, 1922 | ~ 4 ~ | May 1, 1922 The Second
240/000 | March 1, 1922 | ~ 3 ~ | June 1, 1922 The Third
980/000 | Only eight hundred and eighty dinars and no more | |
⟦illegible⟧
On behalf of the Director, School Secretary
Note:
The amount of 200 dinars from the first promissory note belongs to the German School?
RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL
Rahel Shahmoon School
No.: 120
Baghdad: April 22, 1922
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
Greetings and respect,
Since the second promissory note in the amount of (220) two hundred and twenty Dinars became due
in 1922, we request that you kindly send to our school administrations the amounts listed
below, according to the decision of the former Acting Head of the Community, No. 60, dated
December 22, 1921. With our deepest respect to you.
Fils | Dinar
⟦line⟧ | 93 | For the account of Rahel Shahmoon School
⟦line⟧ | 70 | " National School
⟦line⟧ | 57 | " Masouda Salman School and her honorable associates
⟦line⟧ | 220 | Only two hundred and twenty Dinars and nothing else?
⟦illegible⟧
Director of Masouda Salman School and her honorable associates
Yaqub Muallim
Acting Director of Rahel Shahmoon School
⟦illegible⟧
Director of the National School
2256
1 May 1933
Directorate of Rachel Shahmoon School
Reference to your letter No. 130 dated 23 April 933
Enclosed is a check for ninety-three Dinars -/93 due for payment by you on the first
of May 933, calculated against your accumulated allocations. Please notify us of its receipt;
⟦initials⟧
⟦signature⟧
Vice President of the Lay Council
RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL
Rahel Shahmoon School
No.: 121
Baghdad: 19
Baghdad on: May 10, 1922
To the Honorable Vice President of the Lay Council
Greetings and respect,
With reference to your letter No. 2256 dated May 10, 1922, we inform you
that we have received the check in the amount of (92) ninety-two Dinars for deposit in the Ottoman Bank
issued upon the request of our school accumulated in the joint bills
with the Director of the National School and the Director of the Masouda Salman School and its major share due to us on this date.
Sincerely,
Yaqub Moallem
Nassim
Acting Director
⟦flourish⟧
2255
1 May 1933
Directorate of Masouda Salman and Al-Karm Schools
Reference to your letter No. 130 dated 23 April 1933
Enclosed is a check for fifty-seven Dinars -/57 due for payment
by you on the first of May 933, calculated from the accumulated allocations, and please notify us of its receipt.
To him
Vice President of the Lay Council
2257
1 May 1933
Directorate of the National School
Reference to your letter No. 130 dated 23 April 1933
Enclosed you will find a check for seventy dinars, the amount of the promissory note due for payment by you
on the first of May 1933, calculated from the accumulated allocations; please acknowledge receipt;
⟦illegible⟧
Deputy Chairman of the Physical Council
Rahel Shahmoon School
RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL
⟦line⟧
Number 124
Baghdad on May 18, 1922
No.
Baghdad 19
170
⟦illegible⟧
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
After greetings,
The final installment in the amount of (440) two hundred and forty Dinars became due
on June 1, 1922. We request that you kindly send it to our schools' administrations
the amounts mentioned below, in accordance with the decision of the Acting Head of the Community No.
2060 dated December 2, 1922. With great respect to you.
Fils | Dinar
⟦line⟧ | 52 | To the administration of Rahel Shahmoon School
⟦line⟧ | 60 | ~ The National School
⟦line⟧ | 128 | ~ Masouda Salman School and its major share
⟦line⟧ | 240 | Only two hundred and forty Dinars and nothing else
Supervisor of Masouda Salman School and its major share
Yaqub Mu'allim, Acting for Rahel Shahmoon School
Ezra Meir, Director of the National School
⟦illegible⟧ for the names who ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
2201
⟦Issued⟧
22 May 1933
The endorser to their order
Directorate of the National School
With reference to your letter No. 134 dated 18 May 1933, joint with the Rachel Shahmoon
and Masouda Salman schools regarding the maturity of promissory notes in the amount of 2.40 Dinars,
please provide us with the names of the persons to whose order these papers were endorsed,
⟦L⟧
Vice President of the Lay Council
WATANIYAH SCHOOL
The National School
Date: 27 May 1932
Number: 29
Subject: Regarding the promissory notes
Baghdad: 193
No.:
To the Honorable
President of the Lay Council
Greetings and respect,
In response to your letter No. 201 dated the 22nd of this month, you will find below
the details of the promissory notes for the amount of 400 Dinars due on June 1, 1932.
200 Dinars endorsed by Laur Cohen and Fattal & Co.
200 " " Khedhouri Zilkha.
With continued respect,
⟦S. Baier⟧
Director of the National School
To be placed in the special financial register (principal amount)
with every receipt
Form No. 7 - 500 - 1 - 1933
Administration of the Lay Council
Baghdad
Number 2819
Date May 29, 1933
Principal of Rachel Shahmoon School
" The National School
" Masouda Salman and Al-Karm School
Reference to your letter No. 134 dated May 18, 1933
After reviewing your letter to the former Acting Head of the Community No. 117 dated Dec 16, 1932
Our council found that the agreement was made to borrow 170 Dinars due on the first of June 1933
and 70 Dinars due on the first of July 1933, so it found no reason for your request to direct the payment of
the 70 Dinars which are due a month from now. Therefore, it decided in its session held on May 28,
1933 to spend the amount of one hundred and seventy Dinars and present it to your administration as follows, calculated against
the accumulated allocations:
Dinar |
52 | to Rachel Shahmoon School
60 | " The National School
58 | " Masouda Salman School
170 |
You will find the amounts listed above as checks to your order attached to this letter. Please notify us
of their receipt.
⟦illegible⟧
Vice President of the Lay Council
Shamash School
Baghdad
Shamash School
Baghdad
No. 292
Date: 25 / 4 / 44
Subject: Regarding Promissory Notes
His Excellency, the Respected President of the Lay Council
Greetings: The community schools have paid their teachers a portion of their salaries
in promissory notes, but our school has not made any arrangements in this regard. Please
send our share regarding the amounts taken for this, and with sincere thanks to you.
Dr. F. Kallay
School Principal
⟦illegible⟧ this story when reviewing the budget
File ⟦illegible⟧
ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE
A. D. SASSOON COLLEGE | Alliance Israélite School
Direction ⟦line⟧ | Baghdad
Administration ⟦line⟧
No. ⟦line⟧ | Number ⟦line⟧
Baghdad, April 26, 1933
Jewish Consistory
Baghdad
Mr. President,
By his letter of January 30, 1933, No. 2122, the
President of the Community, who lacked funds to pay
the subsidy for our schools, authorized us to discount
for the benefit of our schools' treasury a promissory note
of I.D. 100
- compiala, - with
our signature, the maturity of which would be set for May.
In accordance with this authorization, we
discounted on February 1st last, with the "Eastern Bank Ltd" of
our city, a compiala of 100 Dinars under the signature of Mr.
Sabagh to the order of Mr. Sasson. The maturity of this compiala is
May 16th next.
I would be obliged if you would take measures for
the payment of this amount at maturity, to be debited from the
arrears accounts of our schools.
Please accept, Mr. President, the assurance
of my devoted sentiments.
The Director
⟦Blam⟧
2272
8 May 1933
Payment of a promissory note amount
Directorate of Alliance Schools
Reference to your letter dated 26 April 1933
After reviewing the letter of the former representative of the head of the community No. 2122 dated 20 Jan 1933, our
council did not find in it an absolute commitment to pay the amount of the promissory note under discussion. All there is to it is that
the head of the community promised to pay the amount of one hundred dinars if financial circumstances were helpful, otherwise
it would be paid from student fees. In fact, the council's fund at the present time does not allow
at all for the payment of this amount, and therefore it was necessary to notify you of the need to pay it from the fees. Sincerely.
⟦illegible⟧
Vice President of the Lay Council
ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE
A. D. SASSOON COLLEGE Alliance Israelite School
Direction ⟦line⟧ Baghdad
⟦line⟧ Management ⟦line⟧
No. ⟦line⟧ Number ⟦line⟧
Baghdad, May 5, 1933
Israelite Consistory
Baghdad
Mr. President,
NOAM SCHOOL . - A subsidy of 100 Dinars was
fixed this year for the Noam school on condition that it be
sanctioned by the Consistory according to the letter from the former presi-
dent of the Consistory, Mr. Chohet, dated December 30, 1932, No. 2068.
I beg you to consider the fact, and to send us
the portion of this subsidy pertaining to the months of March
and April.
PROMISSORY NOTE. I must confirm to you my
letter of the 26th of the current month regarding the authorization given to us
by the former president of the Community, in his letter of January 30,
1933, No. 2122, to discount a promissory note of 100 Dinars
in favor of our schools with the promise that the Consistory would settle
this account in May, from its funds, by debiting the accounts of our
schools. This authorization is of the same order as that which he
gave to the other schools, for the second loan and which the Consistory
undertook to settle upon maturity.
I therefore ask you to do what is necessary for the withdrawal
of this promissory note which is held at Eastern Bank, upon maturity,
namely May 15 current.
Please accept, Mr. President, the assurance
of my best regards.
⟦Sassoon⟧
ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE
A. D. SASSOON COLLEGE | Alliance Israélite School
Direction ⟦line⟧ | Baghdad
⟦line⟧ | Administration
No. ⟦line⟧ | Number
Baghdad, May 9, 1933
Jewish Consistory
Baghdad
Mr. President,
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter
of yesterday, No. 2273, regarding the loan of 100 Dinars that we
took out for the school from the Eastern Bank of our city.
I beg you to note that the situation you are creating
for our schools is somewhat abnormal.
The loan I took out is exactly the same as the second
loan taken out by the directors of the other schools. You will pay the
latter, why leave ours in suspense? And yet, the
Consistory owes our schools much more than the others. And if there is
a favor to be granted, I believe it should be done for our schools which
have been more patient.
I can assure you that my means do not allow me
to meet our current needs and to settle this loan at the same time,
taken out, I repeat, in agreement with the President of the Com-
munity, just as much as the one taken out by the other directors who,
however, were due to receive less than us from the Community
Treasury. You will please consider that I have already had to pay,
no later than yesterday, from the amount of our summer school fees, a sum of
220 Dinars to Mr. Yamen Cohen, banker, who had kindly, upon my
signature, advanced us this sum in favor of our school. How
can I pay another month to our teachers and the 100 Dinars in
question? I cannot. When you have settled the second
loan of the directors of the Communal schools, they will only be
owed some 3 to 4 months of arrears. But by settling from your
treasury our regular loan of 100 Dinars, you will still owe our
schools 6 to 7 months of arrears. Is it for this reason that you would not
want to pay these 100 Dinars? Do you find that fair? It is always
with such arguments that our institutions have been pushed into the
situation they are currently in, namely that they are owed
two or even three times more than other institutions. Allow me
to say that this is not fair.
I have done everything in my power so far to
get out of trouble and not make the task of the Consistories more dif-
ficult. But, I beg you not to continue to abandon us.
Do for our schools what you do for the others. I do not
ask for more.
I do not have the means to pay these 100 Dinars, especially
since I have continued to pay until now the salary of Mr. Bogod
which is the responsibility of the Consistory. You see that I am providing
all possible facilities. I cannot do more. I do not have a
bank at my disposal.
I therefore rely on your sense of justice to settle
this matter.
⟦Sassoon⟧
The amount is credited to the school account
2287
17 May 1933
To -
Directorate of Alliance Schools
Reference to your letter dated 9 May 933
Our council has nothing at the present time to add to what was stated in our letter No. 2273 dated
the 8th of this month, in view of the financial constraints of the fund;
⟦signature⟧
Vice President of the Lay Council
⟦illegible signature/mark⟧
ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE
A. D. SASSOON COLLEGE Alliance Israelite School
Direction ⟦line⟧ Baghdad
Administration ⟦line⟧
No. ⟦line⟧ Number ⟦line⟧
Baghdad, May 19, 1933
Israelite Consistory
Baghdad
Mr. President,
I have just this moment received your letter of the 17th of this month
No. 2287, relating to the loan of 100 Dinars that we con-
tracted, following the agreement and authorization of the former head of the
Community, Mr. Shohet, for our schools from the Eastern Bank of
our city.
Thus, once again, our schools have been sacri-
ficed. Like all the other Consistories, your Council has just
practiced a conduct of partiality toward us: it was willing
to pay the two loans made by the directors of the
other schools but refused to settle the one we made
under the same conditions as our colleagues from other institutions.
Mr. Abdullah Battate will tell you how I had to
manage to pay this bill refused by you, upon its maturity.
You are not unaware that our situation is becoming more
and more difficult. The Consistory owes us more than 8 months of
arrears in subsidies while it only owes 3 to 4 months to the
other schools. You told me that you are not responsible
for this state of affairs which pertains to a previous period.
But now, not only have you done nothing <del>done</del> to repair
the injustice done to us and which you recognized, but
you are still maintaining and aggravating it to a certain extent.
I tell you frankly that it will be very difficult for me
to continue the work fruitfully under these conditions.
I do not have a bank at my disposal to draw from and complete
the additional deductions that have been made so far and that you
continue to make regarding our institutions alone. I
beg you to repair this injustice. I am not asking for more than the
others but I do not want our schools to be treated differently
than the others. That is all. And your refusal to settle our
loan of 100 Dinars <del>xxxxx xxxx xxxxx</del> while you have
settled the loans of the other schools has truly distressed me.
I express my protest to you regarding this.
You had, however, promised me that you would take your
measures so that all your institutions would receive the
same number of months of arrears. I beg you to <del>take</del> do
everything possible to achieve this fair result.
And as for these 100 Dinars, I expect from your
fairness that you settle it at the end of this month, with the subsidy
that you would remit to us for the current month of May
Your devoted
⟦Hanna⟧
19/5/33
2200
<del>2282</del>
May 22, 1933
Regarding your requests to the Council
Directorate of Alliance Schools
Reference to your letter dated May 19, 1933
Our council cannot decide its final plan regarding the accumulated requests before finishing
the budget that it is currently working on organizing. However, it will take into consideration
the equality of your school with other schools when settling these requests.
L. F.
⟦signature⟧
Vice President of the Communal Council