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IJA 3772

Financial Documents, Baghdadi Jewish Community

Description

These documents include financial receipts, including postage receipts, a bicycle purchase; bills such as power, water, and phone; community organization invoices, repairs for office equipment, construction materials, printing, office supplies, advertising, handwritten ledgers, notices for outstanding balances, community announcements in newspapers, and lists of expenditures for different items and services purchased by the Baghdadi Jewish Community. There are statements from La Société Anonyme Ottomane des Tramways Eclairages et Forces Electriques de Baghdad, the precursor to the Baghdad Light and Power company.

Metadata

Archive Reference: IJA 3772
Item Number: 6721
Date: Approx. January 1, 1921 to December 31, 1930
Languages: Multiple Languages
Keywords: Society of Water, Financial, Bills, Illustration, Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Religious Court, London, Revenue Stamp, Al-‘Ālam Al-‘Arabī, Newspaper, Ledger, Baghdad Light and Power, Department of Posts & Telegraphs, File Folder, Thumbprint, Typed, Advertisement, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Jewish Charitable Society Press, Electricity Bill, Clippings, Ink Stamp, Receipts, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, Letterhead, Invoice, Jewish Lay Council, Chief Rabbi, Al-‘Irāq, Doctors, Al-Istiqlāl, British Occupation, Annotation, Handwritten, Jewish Schools Committee

AI en Translation, Pages 276-300

Page 276

Statement of salaries and allowances disbursement for the month of August 949 from the Spiritual Council Fund
⟦line⟧
Salaries |  | Rs. As.
His Eminence Chief Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri | 425 | ..
Director of Correspondence Anwar Shaul | 250 | ..
Accountant Salim Darwish | 120 | ..
Clerk Shlomo Isaac Darwish | 80 | ..
Clerk Naji Isaac | 60 | ..
" Shimon Awal | 60 | ..
Attendant Gurji Saloon | 60 | ..
" Khedhouri Shaul | 50 | ..
" Yusuf Menachem | 45 | ..
" Isaac Eliyahu | 45 | ..
Doorman Trunji | 45 | ..
Total salaries of the Spiritual Administration | 640 | ..
" " ⟦Demolition/Crushing⟧ | 2728 | ..
" Pensioners, collection, and the infirm | 1090 | ..
Salary of Shaul Labib | 100 | ..
| ⟦line⟧ | 4748
Allowances |  |
Alliance School | 2220 | ..
Management of Meir Elias Hospital | 1250 | ..
Shamash School | 2022 | 8
" National | 1094 | ..
Rachel Shahmoon | 925 | ..
Laura Khedhouri | 560 | ..
Al-Karam School | 728 | ..
Silk Saving Association | 416 | ..
Ozrei Dalim Committee | 200 | ..
Blind Institution | 200 | ..
Miss A. Barhoon and wife | 135 | 9750 8
Bughia Pauli Yeshua | 668 |
" 55/- | 224 | 1002
To the expenses account |  |
To the Ministry of Education | 1290 |
The Hospital | 690 |
| ⟦line⟧ | 2080
To Noor al-Amal School | 500 | ..
| ⟦line⟧ | 18580 8
Only eighteen thousand five hundred and eighty rupees and eight annas and no more
14 August 949
Salim Darwish
Accountant

Page 278

List of expenses for the administration of the Israelite community for the month of March
Statement | Rupee | Anna
To Yusuf the usher for his travel to the hospital by carriage for official business | 9 | 2
A ledger for the Khan Bakr Committee | - | 4
Five hundred envelopes | 5 | -
Carriage fare for going to the memorial service of Ata al-Khatib | - | 10
Stationery as per the attached list dated 3/3/929 | 20 | 5
Two dictionaries | 15 | -
Car and carriage fares on the occasion of Ramadan greetings | 10 | -
Postage for sending prayer books to the Rabbi of Beirut | 1 | 4
Calendar | - | 10
Five sheets of official stamped paper | - | 3
Printing of the "Tefillin" circular, 500 copies | 5 | -
Aid for Meir Shabat via Ezra Munshi | 5 | -
Stamp for the Al-Nayla commitment contract | - | 8
To Yusuf the usher |  |
Anna | Rupee
Stamp for a letter to Jerusalem | - | 5
Stamp for a letter to Basra | - | 5
Stamp for the Al-Nayla contract (second time) | - | 8
Sugar cubes | - | 6
Gas | - | 2
Coffee | 1 | 4
Letter to Bombay | - | 6
Stamp for the Al-Ward and Elias contract | - | 8
Letter | - | 3
Gas | - | 2
Half an ounce of coffee | - | 7
Stamp Law | - | 8
An oka of coffee | 5 | -
⟦line⟧ | 10 | -
Car and carriage fares on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr | 30 | -
" " High Commissioner and Consul of Iran | 9 | -
Printing, binding, and purchasing paper for 6 outgoing and incoming ledgers for the administrations of the Council and the Council's Hakhambashi | 40 | 4
Bell | 2 | 8
Water fees for three months, January, February, March 929, as per the receipt dated 19/3/29 | 7 | 8
⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧
Subtotal | 173 | 2

Page 279

Description | Rupee | Anna
Previous balance | 173 | 2
Writing three plaques |  |
Anna
Rupee
Plaque of the Corporeal Council 2
" Chief Rabbi 2
Accountant 2 | 6 | -
Guarding according to a receipt dated 3/28/929 | 3 | -
Guarding for the administration guards according to the receipt dated April 1, 929 | 15 | -
Two desks | 47 | -
Fare for cars and carriages on the occasion of <del>Eid al-Fitr</del> ⟦Eid al-Adha⟧ for Christians to visit the Minister of Finance, consuls of states, and spiritual heads | 5 | 10
Assistance for Esther Sabbagh by sending a letter to Basra | - | 2
Stamp for Yusuf Shakarji | - | 1
A tin of gas | 1 | 14
Nails | - | 4
Completion for the Mashhad telegram | - | 2
Car fare to go to the Police Director for the Hebra Qadisha committee | - | 10
Letter stamp to Izmir | - | 3
Going to the Minister of Justice three times to confirm official business | 1 | 10
" " " Interior twice for Sabbagh's fees |  |
Anna Rupee
4 11 fare for the trip
6 what Sabbagh paid on behalf of the Council
⟦line⟧ | 5 | 4
Car fare (Director of Justice and Fahmi Effendi the teacher) | 2 | 6
Matches | - | 10
Coffee | 1 | 12
Mezuzah | - | 8
Stamp of the diamond and rose contractor | - | 8
Cigarettes | 4 | 9
Key to the Council room | - | 6
Car fare (prisons)
Files | 2
- | -
10
⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧
Two hundred and seventy-three rupees and two ⟦...⟧ annas | 273 | 3
Inkwell | 1 | -
<del>Fee for speaking on the phone to Baghdad Yehuda for three minutes</del> | - | -
Letter stamp to the acting Hakhambashi of Basra | - | 2
Two hundred and seventy-four rupees and five annas only | 274 | 5
⟦stamp impression illegible⟧