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Mr. ⟦illegible⟧ 24 / 2 / 1974 The receipts for this order Numbered 812852 pertain to Rent, salary receipts, and expenses for the Frank Eyni School and Shamashi ⟦signature⟧ 24 / 2
IJA 2844
Bills, Receipts, Employee Payment, Jewish Lay Council
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This item contains many records of the Baghdadi Jewish Lay Council’s financial transactions, utility bills, payments to employees, and other miscellaneous expenditures. There is a book list for the Frank Iny School and a note acknowledging received payment from the Frank Iny School.
AI en Translation, Pages 226-250
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The Lay Council of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Telephone Number 5452 Number: ⟦86/80⟧ Date: 27 / 5 / 1952 Subject Summary: Payment of an amount of 74/020 Dinars To - Mr. Edward Battat, the respected lawyer After greetings With reference to your letter dated 1/4/1952 The Lay Council decided in its session held on 23/5/1952 to pay an amount of 74/020 dinars to you for: Fils | Dinar | 050 | 40 | for the expenses you spent on the refugees of the Menashi Saleh shelter 970 | 33 | for the expenses of completing the bail for the prisoner Yona Jumaa 020 | 74 | only seventy-four dinars and twenty fils Please accept our highest respect ⟦signature⟧ Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council A copy of it to - Accountant of the <del>Presidency</del> Presidency of the Community - to act accordingly
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Fils Dinar 25/000 Twenty-five dinars only I received from the community account the check Numbered 892899, and that is for the rent Of the lands previously granted to me, and for that I gave this receipt 1954/5/28 Iraq 10 Fils Receipt Yaqub Fulful ⟦...⟧
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The Lay Council of the Israelite Community in Baghdad Telephone Number 5452 Number :: ⟦illegible⟧ Date :: 27 / 5 / 1952 Subject Summary :: Granting you an increase in your honorarium To -: Mr. Yaqub Haskil Mahlab, Respected Greetings, With reference to your petition dated 4 / 5 / 1952 and registered under Lay incoming number 805 on 4 / 5 / 1952, the Lay Council decided in its session held on 23 / 5 / 1952 to increase the honorarium granted to you by the Council's decision taken in its session held on 6 / 9 / 1951 amounting to one hundred Dinars and of which you have previously received from the Council fund, by twenty-five Dinars. Please accept our highest respect, Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council Copy to - The Community Presidency Accountant - to issue a check for the amount of 25 Dinars to the order of Mr. Yaqub Haskil Mahlab for the increase in the honorarium granted to him.
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Fils | Dinar 75/000 Only seventy-five dinars and no more I have received from the Presidency of the Community the amount above, only seventy-five dinars and no more as a gratuity for my services in the schools of the community, amounting to ten years, and for this reason this receipt was given on May 28, 1952 Kingdom of Iraq 10 Fils According to the numbered check 892891 dated May 27 Isaac ⟦Ezra⟧
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The Lay Council of the Israelite Community in Baghdad Telephone Number: 5452 Number: 52/847 Date: 27 / 5 / 1952 Subject Summary: Granting you a gratuity ⟦line⟧ To:- Mr. Isaac Ezra Abdullah, Respectfully After greetings, With reference to your petition dated 24 / 4 / 1952, the Lay Council decided in its session held on 23 / 5 / 1952, to grant you a gratuity of seventy- five Dinars for your previous services in the schools of this community, totaling ten years. Please accept our highest respect. ⟦signature⟧ Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council A copy to:- The Community Accountant - to withdraw the amount of 75 Dinars to the order of Mr. Isaac Ezra Abdullah as a gratuity for his previous services in the community schools. ⟦illegible⟧
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Fils Dinar 123/879 Only one hundred and twenty-three Dinars and eight hundred and seventy-nine Fils only I received from the Presidency of the Community the above amount only one hundred and twenty-three Dinars and eight hundred and seventy-nine Fils only, as per the check numbered 892897, for the endowments expenses of Shamash, according to the two attached lists, and for this reason I signed this receipt on 26 / 5 / 1954 ⟦illegible stamp cancellation⟧ Yousef Loui Trustee of Shamash School Endowments
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The Accountant To withdraw a check for the amount of: Fils | Dinar 979 | 24 | For invoice No. 1 900 | 88 | For invoice No. 2 879 | 112 | To the order of Mr. Yusuf Shomosh, Trustee of the Endowments of the Shamash School, from the surplus revenues of the fiscal year 51-52 deposited in the Council's fund. ⟦illegible⟧ The President 22 / 5 / 52
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List of reconstruction and travel expenses ⟦illegible⟧ Fils | Dinar | Description 750 | | Transportation fees for 15 trips from Shamash School for the reconstruction of ⟦illegible⟧ 200 | 7 | ⟦line⟧ Polishing and cleaning mosques 12 trips for silver and carpets 000 | 22 | Value of fabric and layer of bedding 100 meters 600 | 2 | ⟦line⟧ Lining for 15 trips, 12 curtains ⟦illegible⟧ 050 | | ⟦line⟧ Shipping, boxes, and a Raghad paper 600 | 15 | Reconstruction fees for 15 trips with polishing and cleaning 250 | 4 | Value of white raw material ⟦illegible⟧ for making bags with threads and ⟦illegible⟧ fees 500 | | Porterage fees for bags of Surah Shatira 400 | 3 | Expenses for obtaining an export permit and completion 150 | | Amount paid to the deportation committee for transportation fees 500 | 1 | Fees for writing 2 openings 850 | 208 | Statement of silver expenditure as follows Fils Dinar 877 119 ⟦line⟧ Silver expenditure to Ibrahim the Goldsmith Mithqal ⟦illegible⟧ Mithqal Net Mithqal 2867 2897 950 119 073 ⟦line⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ 21 900 88 The remainder due from you according to the above detail is only eighty-eight Dinars and nine hundred Fils only Baghdad 25 / 8 / 1951 Witnesses that these expenses have been spent on the aspects shown above. Accountant ⟦illegible⟧ Supervisor Agreed to be spent from the Shamash budget for the fiscal year 51 - 52 ⟦illegible⟧ 25 / 8 / 51
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His Excellency the President of the Lay Council of the Jewish Community in Baghdad, Respected Greetings I have a claim against the endowments of the Shamash School amounting to 34/979, for my payment of property tax on the shops for the installment the second of the financial year 49 / 50 and other expenses. Since my uncle Yusuf Shamash was not aware of this claim when he submitted his statement of account to your esteemed council, I therefore request you to kindly order its payment to me from the revenues of the mentioned endowments and you will find below a copy of the certificate signed by my uncle Yusuf confirming that. The matter is yours, sir. Rahmin Yaqub Aqirab Former agent for the Synagogue and Shamash School ⟦signature⟧ ⟦illegible signature⟧ Non-interference identity number 129 on 28 / 2 / 1951 12 / 7 / 1951 I certify that Mr. Rahmin Yaqub Aqirab, the signatory above, was an agent for us in spending amounts and collecting rent payments and other matters concerning the synagogue and the school mentioned above. After auditing his account by us, we confirmed that his mentioned claim above was not included in the statement of account that I submitted to your esteemed council. In this case, he has the right to claim it, so I request to pay it to him and consider it included in our previous list. I thank you in advance. Yusuf Shlomo Shamash Former Trustee of the Shamash School Endowments ⟦signature⟧ Approval for payment of the amount of 34/979 Dinars to Mr. Rahmin Yaqub Aqirab for his claim on the Shamash Endowments in view of the approval of the Trustee ⟦signature⟧ 22 / 5 / 1951
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1037 Volume Number 95869 Receipts for Dirhams collected for the government Serial Number 39 Fils/Dinar ⟦line⟧ 20 Name of Department ⟦illegible⟧ According to the instrument numbered ⟦illegible⟧ Received from the Directorate of ⟦illegible⟧ by the hand of Elias The amount of twenty Dinars and ⟦line⟧ Fils On account of the completion of ⟦illegible⟧ with ⟦illegible⟧ for the benefit of ⟦illegible⟧ According to ⟦illegible⟧ Signature of the receiver ⟦signature⟧ Dated 21/5/52 Job Title ⟦illegible⟧
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531 President
452 Secretary
Number: 52/⟦illegible⟧
Subject: Vaccine Advertisement
Date: 1952/5/20
"Outgoing No. 892"
1952/8/2
To -
Administration of Frank Iny School
Greetings,
Your letter No. F/52/69 dated 1952/5/18
1 - We approve the expenditure of an amount of twenty Dinars for the vaccine advertisement provided to your school through the administration of
Meir Elias Hospital.
2 - The amount shall be recorded as a charge against the purchases of Frank Iny and Shamash schools.
Please accept our highest respect
⟦illegible⟧
Acting President of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Copy to -
1 - Community Accountant - to issue a check in the amount of twenty Dinars to the order of Meir Elias Hospital
for the vaccine advertisement and to note what was stated in paragraph two above.
2 - Administration of Meir Elias Hospital - with an attached check for the value of twenty Dinars.
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Fils Dinars 260/000 Two hundred and sixty Dinars only I have received from the head of the community the amount above, only two hundred and sixty Dinars and no others And that is for the debt owed to me by the hospital and I have waived the remainder of the debt amounting to twenty Dinars, willingly ⟦and voluntarily⟧, and it shall be as a remission for the hospital, according to the check numbered 892895 and dated 5/22/1954 on the Ottoman Bank, and for this I signed this receipt In Baghdad on 5/24/954 Kingdom of Iraq 10 Fils ⟦illegible⟧
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone { 85431 President
85452 Secretary
Number: 52/
Subject: Request of the hospital ice supplier
Date: 23 / 5 / 1952
His Excellency the Respectable President of the Lay Council
After greetings
With reference to your Excellency's letter No. 52/2515 dated 20 / 5 / 1952.
We contacted Mr. Moshe Ibrahim, the hospital's ice supplier, and we sought to obtain from him a
reasonable allowance to be deducted from his claim; he agreed to grant an allowance of 20.598 Dinars, therefore the amount due
to be paid is 260 Dinars
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦signature⟧
The Secretary
The Accountant
A check for the amount of 260 Dinars shall be drawn to the order of
Mr. Moshe Ibrahim the ice supplier ⟦according to⟧ the decision
stated above.
⟦signature⟧
The President
25 / 5 / 52
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531 President / 5452 Secretary }
Number: ⟦106⟧ / 52
Subject: Request of the hospital ice supplier
Date: 20 / 5 / 1952
To -
The Honorable Secretary of the Presidency of the Jewish Community
After greetings
The Lay Council, in its session held on 15 / 5 / 1952, considered the request of the management
of the famous Meir Elias Hospital regarding the accumulated debt to the ice supplier Mr. Moshe Ibrahim, amounting to
598.280 Dinars, and since the aforementioned person used to discount a portion of the request for the hospital as a waiver
we request contacting the aforementioned person in an effort to obtain whatever waiver possible and informing the Council of the outcome.
Please accept our highest respect
⟦signature⟧
Acting President of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Copy to -
Management of Meir Elias Hospital - for information
The Community Accountant to pay the net amount after deducting whatever waiver is possible, as the
Council approved in its aforementioned session the payment of the net amount upon notification from us..
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Fils | Dinar 50/000 Fifty Dinars only I received from the Presidency of the Israelite Community The above amount, exactly fifty Dinars and no other And that is pursuant to the check numbered 82824 Dated 22 / 5 / 1954 and for that purpose I signed this receipt on 22 / 5 / 1954 The Kingdom of Iraq 90 Fils This amount is an allowance ⟦shortage⟧ of the schedule that it has been distributed ⟦Khalil⟧ 84 9
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Fils Dinar 138/250 One hundred and thirty-eight Dinars and two hundred and fifty Fils only 1 I received from the Presidency of the Jewish Community the above amount, only one hundred and thirty-eight Dinars and two hundred and fifty Fils only, and that is for my accumulated leave for ⟦...⟧ Elias until 15 / 5 / 954 Receipt on 20 / 5 / 954 ⟦stamp: 20 Fils⟧ Dr. Nassim Rabie According to the check numbered 891894 and dated 20 / 5 / 954
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Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Telephone number ⟦3531⟧ President 5452 Secretary Number: 52/⟦...⟧ Date: 1952/5/20 Subject: Leave payments for Dr. Naeem Rabi' To the Administration of Mir Elias Hospital After greetings With reference to your letter numbered M Sh/3 and dated 1952/5/5, attached to the letter numbered HS/174/3 and dated 1952/5/4. 1 - The Secular Council decided in its session held on 1952/5/15 to approve the payment of an amount of -/250 138 Dinars for the accumulated leave of Dr. Naeem Rabi' calculated up to 1952/5/15. 2 - We enclose herewith check number 89289 dated 52/5/20 for the mentioned amount to the order of Dr. Naeem Rabi'. Please receive it and deliver it to the mentioned doctor and kindly return the enclosed receipt. 3 - This amount is to be recorded as a debt on the hospital to the Secular Council. Please accept our highest respect Acting President of the Community President of the Secular Council A copy to:- The Community Accountant - to act accordingly. Dr. Naeem Rabi' - to receive the mentioned check from the hospital administration. ⟦scribble⟧
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IRAQ TOURS Ltd., Iraq Tourism Company Limited BAGHDAD - (IRAQ) Rashid Street - Baghdad Tel. 3889 & 3743 Telephone: 3889, 3743 ⟦General Travel Account⟧ ⟦...⟧ Date: 22 / 5 / 19 No: 00531 Received from: Presidency of the Jewish Community The sum of I.D.: A check for the amount of one thousand one hundred and seven dinars only On account of: Travel of Jews whose citizenship has been revoked I.D. 1107 / Fils - 10 Fils For IRAQ TOURS Ltd.
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531
5452
Number: 52/
Date: 1952/5/19
Subject: Transportation of persons whose Iraqi citizenship has been revoked
To -
The Iraqi Tourism Company Ltd.
Greetings,
With reference to your letter numbered 6/305 dated 1952/2/10 and our reply to it in our letter numbered T/52/2312
dated 1952/2/11
1 - In view of the gathering of persons whose Iraqi citizenship has been revoked, numbering between 56 - 58 persons, and in order
to prepare two planes to transport them out of Iraq, we ask your esteemed company to prepare two planes, provided that this is not delayed beyond the end
of the current week ⟦at the latest⟧
2 - Attached is check number 812890 dated 1952/5/19 in the amount of 1175/000 Dinars for the fees
of these two planes paid in advance at a rate of 587/500 Dinars for each plane, requesting that you send the receipt of delivery.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦signature⟧
Acting President of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Attachments
1 Check numbered 812890 dated 1952/5/19 in the amount of 1175/000 Dinars.
A copy of it to -
1 - His Excellency the Director of the Travel and Nationality Company -- for information and with reference to his letter numbered 10705 dated 52/4/28
2 - The Accountant of the Presidency of the Community -- to take the necessary action.
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Committee Ezra Menahem Daniel Stadium Baghdad Physical Council Administration Telephone: 85267 - Baghdad Number 817 Date 20 / 5 / 52 File Number ⟦line⟧ Number: 15 / 52 Date: 20 / 5 / 1952 His Excellency the Chairman of the Respected Physical Council After greetings: - We received checks numbered 889 and 890 dated the 18th of this month on the Ottoman Bank in the amount of one hundred and fifty Dinars drawn to the order of the Committee Chairman Yusuf Rubin Sabri, and this is the account of the Ezra Menahem Daniel Stadium budget for the year 1952. Thus, the total of what we have received from your esteemed Council is (400) four hundred Dinars. Please accept our highest respect. ⟦illegible⟧ Committee Chairman Salman 1- Record the entry 2- File the transaction with the papers in the salary record related to it ⟦illegible⟧ 20 / 5
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Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Telephone Number ⟦illegible⟧ 5052 Number: 52/2299 Subject: Date: 13 / 5 / 1952 To - Ezra Menachem Daniel Stadium Committee After greetings With reference to your letter No. 52/13 dated 7 / 5 / 1952; 1 - We approve the disbursement of 150 Dinars (One hundred and fifty Dinars) to your committee, charged to the budget of the academic year 51 - 52. 2 - Accordingly, the amounts disbursed to your committee from the Presidency of the Lay Council become 400 Dinars (Four hundred Dinars). Please accept our highest respect ⟦signature⟧ Acting President of the Community President of the Lay Council A copy to - The Community Accountant to draw a check for the amount of 150 Dinars (One hundred and fifty Dinars) and hand it to Mr. Yusuf Masri against a receipt and to record the amount in the account of the mentioned committee.