AI English Translation, Pages 26-50
Vision
58980 what precedes it
102468 what precedes it
Al-Karam School
10334 allocations
600 expenses
10934
Rent allowance for the school house
1695 first section
701 " second
2396
13330
121828
12 x 1183 Hospital Administration 14196
12 x 291 Talmud Torah Committee 3500
Ozri Dalim
12 x 250 allocations 3000
" Passover 800
" " Sukkot 400
4200
12 x 50 Blind Consolation House Committee 600
12 x 50 " Charitable Carpets 600
12 x 150 Pension of the former Hahambashi agent 1800
12 x 100 Cemetery Guarding 1200
The Amiri School
12 x 100 Salary of Dawoud Abboudi the teacher 1200
345 miscellaneous expenses
1545
Ghallat Al-Sabireen
12 x 1390 for Midrash Talmud Torah 16680
12 x 695 for Hospital Administration 8340
25020
100 School Committee expenses
9966 Total of the general expenditure list according to the submitted list
243535
9787 Subtract total Anglo-Jewish allocations for 725 pounds at a price of 13/8
233748 Correction difference of the soup allocation amount for hospital administration 12 x 224
4008
237756
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The Accountant
Statement of general expenses for the management of the Israelite community
| Rupee
Rent allowance for the community administration house | 1900
Guarantee of the khans |
Al-Taawun Khan | 150
Al-Shorja Khan | 125
| 275
Endowment property tax | 560
Holiday allocations for the poor | 400
" Holy places | 500
Slaughterhouse expenses | 675
Lighting and electricity | 260
Furniture and supplies | 370
Newspaper subscription | 158
Publishing advertisements and stamps | 250
Clothing and honors for the ushers | 100
Stationery | 150
Car fees | 100
Water fee and guarding | 120
Tea, sugar, coffee and others | 70
Gas, coal, matches " | 70
Checkbooks | 38
Expenses of the Emigrants' House | 35
Uncategorized and extraordinary expenses according to the list | 3835
| 9966
15 March 921
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Accountant
Baghdad on 15 / 3 / 1931
Statement of itemized list of unclassified and extraordinary expenses
| Rupee
Aid and travel expenses for the poor and strangers | 250
Spiritual administration expenses | 300
Assistance for girls' marriage | 300
Renovation of the slaughterhouse | 400
Maintenance expenses for the slaughterhouse and the spiritual court | 330
Gratuities to government department servants | 50
Extraordinary expenses - such as election expenses, the victory arch, and others | 2205
| 3835
15 March 931
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Accountant
Baghdad on March 15, 1931
Statement of salaries and allowances of the Lay Council for the month of March 31
Salaries | Anna | Rupee
Total salaries of the community administration employees | ⟦line⟧ | 515 | ⟦line⟧
" " administration of the clergy and the Ahi Shalom committee | " " | 1254 | "
" " " the Shohatim | " " | 1656 | "
" " the needy and retirees | " " | 792 | 8
" " Hakham Bashiate | " " | 697 | 8
Total salaries | | 4915 | "
School allowances | Rupee
The two Alliance schools | 2273
Shamash School | 2453
" Rachel Shahmoon | 1210
The National School | 1108
Al-Karam School | 861
Midrash Talmud Torah | 893
Total school allowances | 8798 | "
Community institutions
1183 Hospital administration
291 Talmud Torah Committee
250 " Azouzi Dalim
50 " Blind Relief House
50 " Al-Mujahid Charity
1824 | "
Soap yield for schools 139 rupees and for the hospital 695 rupees | 2985 | "
Pension of the former deputy Hakham Bashi | 150 | "
Guarding the cemeteries | 100 | "
Daoud Effendi Abboudi, teacher at the Amiri School | 100 | "
Total | 17972 | "
Difference in share of hospital allowances according to the report of March 24, 931
18406
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Accountant
100 Cemetery Guard
155 Pension of the former Deputy Chief Rabbi
Salaries
" 1254 Total salaries of the Spiritual Administration and the Ohevei Shalom Committee
" 1656 " " " the Shochatim
8 792 " " " the needy and retirees
4400 8 697 " " Rabbis of the Yeshivot
250 Ozrei Dalim Committee
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15084
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Note
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515 Paid total salaries of the community administration employees
Statement of salaries and allowances disbursement of the Great Council for the month of January 1931
Rupees Anna | Salaries
" 1254 | Total salaries of the Clerical Administration and Ohel Shalom Committee
" 1656 | " " " Ritual Slaughterers
" 792 | " " " The Needy and Pensioners
697 8 | " " " Yeshiva Rabbis
" 4400 |
" 100 | Cemetery Guarding
" 150 | Pension of the former Acting Chief Rabbi
" 2085 | Soap revenue for the Midrash 1390 and for the hospital 695
" 100 | Salary of Dawood Effendi, the teacher at the Amiriya school
| Schools Allowances
| The two Alliance schools
| 2273 Original allowances
936 | 1337 The advanced amount from the original promissory note of Monsieur Itta 2667 Rupees
2453 | Shamash School
1210 | " Rachel Shahmoon
1108 | National School
861 | Al-Karm School
893 | Administration of Midrash Talmud Torah
" 7461 |
| Community Institutions
1000 | The hospital after deducting the advanced amount of 600 Rupees
691 | Tomchei Torah Committee
250 | " Ozrei Dalim
50 | " Blind Consolation Home
50 | " Charitable Rugs
" 1641 |
" 15937 Only fifteen thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven rupees and no more
Written on 15 February 1931
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Accountant
Baghdad on 11 / 2 / 1931
The Honorable President of the Lay Council
I would like to inform you that:
1) The lease for the two Midrash schools and the Al-Taawun and Al-Shorja khans is due on 2 March 931
2) The rent for the National School is due at the end of March 1931
3) The rent for the Community Administration " " " April 5691 Hebrew
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The Accountant
10/2/1931
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
I submit to your honorable council, in my capacity as a member of the community and the father of a student at the
Laura Kadoorie School, the following:
The English language, which is the most important foreign language for this country, has
unfortunately become neglected in teaching at the Laura Kadoorie School for Girls to a great extent. After the
number of classes teaching English in the aforementioned school was ten classes out of 20 classes,
this number now does not exceed five, and these classes are the first three classes of
the school and the two high classes only.
Studying this language for five years does not provide the students with the required benefit, in addition to
the fact that the hours in which this language is taught are very few. I have written this letter to draw your council's attention
to this prominent deficiency in the curriculum of the aforementioned school, which is attributed to the presence of
only one English teacher in it. It is necessary to assign the teaching of the remaining five classes to an assistant
another teacher, as was the practice in the past and in all schools.
I also wish to submit to your council that among the thirty-three lessons received by
the fourth grade of the school per week, distributed as follows:
19 French, 9 Hebrew, 6 Arabic, 1 Physical Education (which is in fact a leisure lesson and nothing else), and 2 Sewing
there is not a single lesson for English.
This is what had to be presented to your honorable council, and the matter is for its guardian.
Yosef Levi
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A copy of it to the respected Schools Committee for information
1/27/1931 —
To the Honorable President of the Corporeal Council
The previous Corporeal Council had purchased a large quantity of English and Hebrew books to be sold
to school students, and there remain books valued at (2512/6) rupees distributed among the schools.
I request the Council to kindly look into this matter and take what it deems appropriate regarding this
outstanding amount;
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The Accountant
Baghdad on 1/26/1931
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
With reference to your letter No. 923 dated 1/24/1931 addressed to the Directorate of
The Midrash School, a copy of which was explained to me, requesting the deduction of half the salary of both
the teacher Bardash and the teacher Sharabi.
The salary of the teacher Sharabi is one hundred and thirty-five rupees, while for the salary of teacher Bardash
the community administration has no knowledge of its amount, so please inform us of that;
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The Accountant
Baghdad on 1/20/1931
The Respected Spiritual Council
I hope to inform the respected Council that Rabbi Salman Hoki Aboudi
signs the bordereau with one signature and on one stamp upon receiving three amounts:
1) His salary
2) Rabbi Shlomo's salary
3) The salaries of the cemetery guards
This is for your consideration;
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The Accountant
Baghdad on 1/16/1931
Presidency of the Honorable Lay Council
On the occasion of organizing the debts ledger, the accounting department has seen fit to dispense with the suspense account
So I request from the council —
1) To decide what it deems appropriate regarding the twenty-four rupees and two ⟦34/2⟧, the difference resulting
from the recovery of amounts received from the Execution Department regarding the lawsuit of Khedhouri, the former administrative clerk —
(Note that this case is among the issues whose resolution was entrusted to the lawyer Yusuf Zelkha)
2) An Ottoman Lira (value 11/12 rupees) was found in the iron safe which
the former Acting Hakham Bashi received from his predecessor, and it has remained in the suspense account
I suggest reversing its entry to general revenues
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Accountant
Statement of disbursement of salaries and allowances of the Physical Council for the month of ⟦April⟧ year 1930
Salaries | Rupee | Anna
Total salaries of the administration of the Spiritual Council and Ohebei Hashalom Committee | 1444 | "
" " " " the Shohatim | 1796 | "
Rupee total salaries of the needy and retirees | 807/8 |
" " " " the Hachami Yeshivoth | 697/8 |
| 1000 | 4745 "
Guarding the cemetery | 100 | "
Pension of the former deputy Hakham Bashi | 150 | "
School proceeds | |
For the Midrash | 1390 | "
For the hospital | 695 | "
| 2085 | "
Salary of Daoud Effendi Abboudi, the teacher at the Amiriyya School | 100 | "
School allowances | |
Alliance teachers | |
Original monthly allowances | 2273 |
Deducting the advance on the account of allowances | 135 |
| 2138 |
Shamash School | 2453 |
Shama'un School | 1210 |
National School | 1108 |
Karkh School | 861 |
The Midrash | 893 |
Community institutions | 8663 | "
Hospital administration | |
Original amount of allowances | 1917 | "
Deducting what was paid to it in advance in the month of April 1930 | 1200 | "
| 717 |
Tomchei Torah Association | 416 |
Ozrei Dalim Committee | 250 |
" Charitable Carpets | 100 |
" Blind Comfort Home | 100 |
| 1583 | "
| 17426 | "
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Accountant
Note
Rupee
17426 Total of the schedule
515 Paid previously to the community administration
17941
1200 The advance on the hospital
135 " Alliance teachers
19276
Baghdad on 5 / 1 / 1931
To the Honorable Secretary of the Lay Council
In reference to your inquiry during the council meeting on Sunday evening 4 / 1 / 1931 regarding the reason for not deducting
the difference of the salary reductions for hospital employees from the monthly allocations
I have reviewed the decision regarding the aforementioned reductions and found no mention requiring the deduction of these
differences from the allocations; meaning that the decision was in the form of an order to the hospital administration, and it is clear
from the council's decision in the same session, from which it appears that the monthly allocations must be 1917
Rupees
So I request your final order as to whether it is necessary to deduct the aforementioned reduction difference
amounting to 141 Rupees (and this amount is outside the budget approval decision) and whether the deduction
includes the months of November ⟦and⟧ December or this last month only;
As for the hospital budget approval
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The Accountant
Baghdad on 28 / 12 / 930
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
I hope to inform your Excellency that the amounts spent since the beginning of the fiscal year until
the current date on the account of the (Non-Budgetary Expenses) chapter have exceeded three thousand four hundred and sixty
rupees, even though the amount allocated for this chapter in the budget is 1500 rupees only. Therefore, I hope
you will kindly issue a resolution to carry out the transfer and conversion from other expenditure chapters and add
the sufficient amount to this chapter.
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The Accountant
Baghdad on 12/28/1935
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
With reference to your letter to the Directorate of the Midrash School numbered 887 and dated
12/25/1935, a copy of which was sent to me, I hope to inform your presence that the accounting
department may not deduct the surplus from the Council's approved allocations for the Midrash school; however, the aforementioned
difference will appear in the school's accounts when the accounts are settled at the end of the fiscal year
as is the custom in the rest of the schools.
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The Accountant
Baghdad on 12/19/935
Honorable President of the Lay Council
After greetings and respect,
With reference to the decision of the honorable Council dated 12/19/35, a copy of which
I place below: payment
(In view of the scarcity of the community's assets, the Council decided to postpone the disbursement of twenty-five percent of all
salaries and allowances due to all community employees for a period of four months starting
from the month of December 935, provided that the postponement period be reviewed at the end of the fiscal year so
that the Council can carry out its work during this year.)
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the aforementioned decision did not clarify whether the aforementioned
postponement concerns the salaries of employees and teachers only, or includes everyone who receives a salary or allowances
from the community fund, including the needy, retirees, the prominent, the Spajid Committee, Uzri
Dalim, and others, or not.
Furthermore, the accounting department has not been provided with the actual amounts for the total salary expenditures of the community's schools
and its hospitals.
So please provide me with this information so that I can act in accordance with the Council's decision on the subject
under discussion.
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The Accountant
Baghdad — 12/19/1935
His Excellency, the President of the Esteemed Lay Council
Greetings and respect,
It is not hidden from your Excellency's view that I have been ill for a while ⟦then⟧ and your Excellency knows
that this illness of mine has cost me extra expenses in addition to my many expenses, therefore I hope
from your Excellency to advance me the sum of sixty rupees against the current month's salary given my need
dire for this amount and I am unable to wait for the end of this month
This is for your Excellency, with plenty of thanks in advance and respect in any case.
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The Accountant ⟦line⟧
Statement of salaries and allowances of the Lay Council for the month of August year 30
Rupees | Salaries
Community Administration
120 | Accountant Yusuf Effendi Lawi
120 | Deputy Editor Shalom Effendi Darwish
60 | Corporal Naji Effendi Mukhtar
120 | Registrations - Process Servers
45 | Doorman
25 | Department Servant
490 | ⟦line⟧
1434 | Total salaries of the Spiritual Administration and Oseh Shalom Committee
1796 | ⟦line⟧ " " Music
792/8 | ⟦line⟧ " " Needy and Pensioners
652/8 | ⟦line⟧ " " Hakham Bashi ⟦illegible⟧
5165 | Cemetery Guarding
100 | Pension of the former Acting Hakham Bashi Sassoon Khedhouri Effendi
100 | For the needy for schools 5395 and for the hospital 695
2085 | Salary of Daoud Effendi Amoudi, Hebrew teacher at the Israelite State School
100 | Community Institutions
1917 | Hospital
416 | Tofei Nora Association
250 | Ozrei Dalim
100 | Ladies Charitable Committee
100 | Home for the Blind
2783 | ⟦line⟧
School Allowances
2453 | Shamash School
1210 | " Rachel Shahmoon
1108 | National School
861 | Al-Furn School
893 | " Midrash
6525 | ⟦line⟧
2250 | Fixed water supply allocation for Talmud Torah School
19158 | ⟦line⟧
Baghdad on August 24, 1930
Accountant
N. M.
Baghdad on 11/19/1930
H. S.
The Honorable President of the Lay Council
The Council has a claim against the administration of the Nuriel Endowments for an amount of (1/5314) since the year
1926-1927, and there is a decision by the previous Lay Council to collect this amount
from the rental fees of the twelve rooms and the tea house numbered 6/9, starting from the beginning
of the year 1930. Accordingly, the Acting Hakham Bashi had demanded the agent of the endowment trustee in his letter
No. 1151 dated May 21, 1930 (attached to this decision) to submit the rental fees
of the aforementioned endowments.
The aforementioned trustee's agent replied to His Excellency on May 6, 1930, that he had collected
the sum of (1362) Rupees from the aforementioned rental fees and that his failure to submit the said amount to
the Council is due to his desire to settle the account between him and the Council (the translation of the
aforementioned letter is attached to this report).
It appears from this to the honorable Council that we have not yet received a single dirham from the aforementioned rental fees
in payment of the aforementioned claim, in addition to the fact that the Council has a claim against the administration of the Nuriel and Haron Saleh schools
amounting to (30590) Rupees.
It was the custom to collect all revenues of the Nuriel endowments, and after paying the endowment expenses,
the remainder of the revenues would be divided equally: the first half to the hospital administration, and as for the remaining
half, it would be collected by the Council in settlement of its claims against the Nuriel and Haron Saleh schools.
The agent of the trustee of the Nuriel endowments is currently collecting all revenues and spending them
without paying attention to settling the claims of the Lay Council.
The previous Lay Council had notified the accounting department in its decision No. 372 dated
February 2, 1930, to record the amount of (5/6156) Rupees, the surplus found in the
Alliance fund, as a debt against the Alliance, while the reply from the Alliance Israelite Universelle in Paris is pending regarding the settlement of this
amount which has not been paid until now. Against all these claims, the Council has only an amount of Rupees
(4/2972), which is what remained from the revenues of the Nuriel endowments for the previous year.
This is what had to be presented, and the matter is for the Council to decide.
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Accountant
Baghdad on November 11, 1935
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council
There are four sofas in the administration whose fabrics have worn out and their stuffing is no longer fit for use.
Repairing them requires approximately 28 rupees, and the department is in need of such sofas
when holding General Council meetings. I request the honorable Council to approve the expenditure of this amount -
charged to the furniture and supplies account;
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The Accountant
Baghdad ⟦line⟧ 5 November 1930
To the Honorable Chairman of the Schools Committee
Subject: Information report on the cash and bond assets of the esteemed Council
Sir
I present to you below a summary statement of the assets of the esteemed Council in terms of cash and bonds
For your information
Anna | Rupee |
7 | 8128 | The balance in the Levant Bank as of this date
5 | 112 | " " " Ottoman Bank " " "
12 | 8240 |
Papers and Bonds
| 62717 | Promissory notes available at the Levant Bank
| 2667 | Deduct the promissory note of Monsieur ⟦Ena⟧ due June 930
| 60450 | "
12 | 68690 |
With respect,
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Accountant
A copy to the Secretary General of the esteemed Council
Statement of salaries and allowances of the Physical Council for the month of October 1930
Salaries | Rupees
Community Administration |
120 Accountant Yusuf Eff. Lawi |
110 Correspondence Clerk Shalom Eff. D. Ruwaish |
60 Employee Naji Eff. Mukhtar |
120 Attendants |
45 Doorman Gul Muhammad |
25 Department Servant | 480
Total salaries of the Spiritual Council administration with the Oheb Shalom Committee | 1402
The Shochtim | 1791
792/8 Rupees total salaries of the needy and retirees |
652/8 " " Rabbis of the Mashihot | 1445
Cemetery Guarding | 100
Pension of the former Acting Hakham Bashi - Sassoon Khedhouri Eff. | 150
Allowances for the Charitable Mosques Association | 100
Soap yield for the Midrash 1390 and for the hospital 695 | 2085
Salary of Dawood Effendi Abboudi, Hebrew teacher at the Amiriya School | 90
Allowance for Ezra Menashi Hindi, Beirut mission student, 2 Ottoman Liras with postage expenses | 26
Community Institutions |
1350 Rupees The Hospital |
416 " Tomchei Torah Association |
250 " Ozrei Dalim Committee | 2016
Schools Allowances |
2273 Rupees German teachers |
1210 " Shamoon School |
1108 " The National School |
861 " Al-Karim School |
560 " Midrash Schools | 6012
15697
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Baghdad on October 27, 1930
100/ -
For the Blind Consolation House
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Accountant
Baghdad on 26 / 10 / 1930
To the Honorable Secretary of the Lay Council
It was not mentioned in the Council's decision regarding the assistance for the mission student Ezra Munshi Hindi
whether the monthly installments should be paid since the payment was stopped or from the current month
Likewise, it was not mentioned in the Council's letter No. 752 dated 21 / 10 / 1930 regarding
the salary increase for Rabbi Sassoon Ishaq, so please clarify that
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The Accountant
Baghdad on 23 / 10 / 1930
The Presidency of the Esteemed Lay Council
Further to my report dated 9 September 1930 addressed to the Council Secretariat
1) The bordereau for the month of August 1930, which was sent to Rabbi Abraham Aslan to be signed
per the Council's letter No. 695 dated 21 September 1930, has not been returned to
this office until now, and the bordereau for the month of September has not yet been submitted despite my request for it
2) The head of the slaughterhouse refuses to submit the bordereau on the pretext that the Shohatim do not pay for the completion of the stamps
I submitted this report to clear responsibility;
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The Accountant