Financial Documents; Important Roles Baghdadi Jews Play in Iraqi Society
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21 / 5 / 57 7250 | Ezra Hakkak 1066 | Daoud Youssef 1158 | Mansour Mourad 1836 | Naji Sasson 250 | Moussa Daoud 11560 | Honorable Vice President Kindly deposit the amount of 11,560 Dinars for the slaughterhouse deduction for the month of May 957 the list issued in the council. The original list is attached herewith. Edmond 6/15 14 / 6
Selim Agha I spoke to Rabbi Daoud ⟦Soliman⟧ Regarding the deductions of the ⟦Hevra⟧ employees and he informed me that He will submit a detailed list of the deductions Starting from 1/1/1950 ⟦signature⟧
His Excellency the President of the Lay Council, the Respected Baghdad Subject: Expenditure from the deductions for the month of May 1952 | Fils | Dinars Moshe Eliyahu for working (18) times after hours, Schedule (2) P | 500 | 4 Hakham Saleh for working once after hours | 250 | - " " Isaac Eliyahu " " " " on the feast day | 500 | - " " Yusuf Hay " " " " | 250 | - Naeem Hakham Eliyahu " twice after hours | 200 | - Salim Hakham Eliyahu " once after hours | 050 | - Hakham Aaron for working 9 times after hours | 148 | 2 Gut cutting | 600 | - Yahya Dabba ⟦Sahasha⟧ | 100 | - Total | 698 | 8 Total is only eight dinars and six hundred and ninety-eight fils and no more ⟦Rawad⟧ Ezra Head of the Slaughterhouse 7/6/52 Audited Accountant 8/6 To be deposited in the collection 7/6 Note The deductions for this month have reached 11/520 Dinars and they will be deposited in the fund Belonging to the Lay Council according to the regulations 11/6
His Excellency the President of the Lay Council, the respected Baghdad Subject: Slaughterhouse expenses for the month of May 1950 Fils | Dinar | 500 | 2 | Painting for the annex 500 | 2 | ⟦Wage for two people⟧ against stomatitis 450 | 2 | Salman Shaul, floor supervisor --- | 2 | " " for Kosher meat --- | 7 | Moshi Eliyahu, ⟦Ritual slaughterer⟧ and sharpening knives --- | 1 | Slaughterhouse cleaning for one month --- | 1 | Salim Hakham Eliyahu 950 | 1 | Electricity repairs by Salim, per attached receipt 500 | --- | Additional cook for Wednesday and the day before for ⟦departure⟧ 500 | --- | For the Muslim salters for the day of Shavuot 700 | 28 | Total: Only twenty-eight dinars and seven hundred fils, no more ⟦Daoud Cohen⟧ Head of the Slaughterhouse 7 / 6 / 50 Audited Accountant 6/8 To be paid by the Council 6/9 28 700 ⟦1 452⟧ ⟦line⟧ 27 / 248 Approved ⟦illegible⟧
Fils Dinar Expenses at the workshop Dinar | Fils | Statement | 240 | Holder Abbi Baii | 80 | Interior Holder 2 | 910 | Piston 12 | 200 | Quadruple Holder 2 | 20 | Screw Wire 2 | 500 | Wages 1 | 950 | Only one dinar and nine hundred and fifty fils only Accountant ⟦signature⟧ BAGHDAD
G. M. SOFFER & SHOUA S. ZELOOF GENERAL CONTRACTORS MERCHANTS & COMMISSION TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS TELEPHONE No. 6294 Old Ottoman Bank Room No. 1 G. M. Soffer and Shoua S. Zeloof General Contractors Trade and Commission Telegraphic Address: Telephone No. 6294 Old Ottoman Bank premises, Room No. 1 No.: Number: BAGHDAD,: 10 / 5 / 1950 To the Honorable President of the Lay Council of the Jewish Community Baghdad Subject: - Restoration of the Jewish Al-Hazra building in Baghdad Greetings: - With reference to your letter No. 50/501 dated 26 / 4 / 1950 We wish to inform you that the required restorations for the above Al-Hazra have been completed, and we enclose a list with 26 documents for the expenses incurred for the mentioned work, requesting your kind order to pay the remaining amount, which is only seven dinars and eight hundred and nineteen fils only (7/819) Please accept our highest respect Accountant ⟦signature⟧ Accountant This amount is to be paid by the Council to the contractors according to our attached documents Accountant 12/5 To be presented to the Council 11 / 5 / ⟦illegible⟧ Selim Effendi I have audited the entire attached list It was found to be correct and matching the receipts attached Accountant 9/5 ⟦signature⟧ To be presented to the building committee for expression [of opinion] According to procedures ⟦illegible⟧ 14 / 5
List No. (1) Work Name: Renovations for the Jewish Community Slaughterhouse building in Baghdad Work Number G. M. SOFFER G. M. SOFFER Contractor Fils | Dinar | Fils | Dinar | Fils | Dinar | Receipt No. | Details | Date | | | | 500 | | 1 | Value of 5 mud | 1950/4/28 | | | | 810 | | 2 | Value of nails | 1950/4/26 | | | | 440 | | 3 | Value of bricks | 1950/4/28 | | | | 440 | | 4 | Value of pipes | 1950/4/28 | | | | 6222 | | 5 | Value of bricks | 1950/4/27 | | | | 9700 | | 6 | Value of cement | 1950/4/28 | | | | 27746 | | 7 | Value of timber | 1950/4/28 | | | | 8700 | | 8 | Value of river sand, Karbala sand and gravel | 1950/4/28 | | | | 750 | | 9 | List of workers' wages | 1950/4/28 | | | | 4500 | | 10 | Value of paints | 1950/5/2 | | | | 1050 | | 11 | Value of tie wire | 1950/5/5 | | | | 1285 | | 12 | Material transport wages | 1950/5/5 | | | | 1000 | | 13 | Guard's wage | 1950/5/6 | | | | 340 | | 14 | Value of nails | 1950/5/5 | | | | 520 | | 15 | Value of nails | 1950/4/30 | | | | 520 | | 16 | Value of iron hooks | 1950/5/4 | | | | 200 | | 17 | Value of shovel and lead | 1950/5/4 | | | | 7500 | | 18 | Value of wood | 1950/5/4 | | | | 2375 | | 19 | Value of cement | 1950/5/5 | | | | 9700 | | 20 | Value of cement | 1950/5/10 | | | | 9700 | | 21 | Value of cement | 1950/5/12 | | | | 125889 | | | Carried forward |
List No. (2) Work name: Renovations of the Qadiriyya Al-Hadra building ⟦Dinar⟧ Work number G. M. Soffer G. M. SOFFER Contractor Date | Description | Voucher No. | Dinar | Fils | Dinar | Fils | Dinar | Fils | Dinar | Fils | Brought forward | | | | | | | | ✓ | 175/889 1956/5/4 | Ginko value | 22 | | | | | | | ✓ | 8/000 1956/5/5 | Workers' wages list | 23 | | | | | | | ✓ | 42/680 1956/5/6 | " " " | 24 | | | | | | | ✓ | 2/500 1956/5/6 | Master Taha's wages | 25 | | | | | | | ✓ | 15/000 1956/5/7 | Clerk's wages | 26 | | | | | | | ✓ | 8/000 | Total | | | | | | | | | 252/069 | Deduct return of empty cement bags | | | | | | | | ✓ | -/900 | | | | | | | | | ✓ | 251/169 | Received via check on Ottoman Bank | | 100/000 | ✓ | | | | | | | " " " | | 100/000 | ✓ | | | | | | | | | 200/000 | | | | | | ✓ | 200/000 | Remainder | | | | | | | | ✓ | 51/169 Only fifty-one Dinars and one hundred and sixty-nine Fils, nothing else. Executor of the work ⟦signature⟧
The Accountant We attach the delivery order of the competent District Committee regarding allowances, with a list including the number of days the slaughterhouse employees were recently absent, with the note to perform the deduction considering the salary and the cost-of-living allowance together. To be distributed to everyone ⟦illegible⟧ 2/2/⟦52⟧ Th. Honorable Vice President The head of the slaughterhouse will follow the method proposed by the mentioned committee with some detailed statement of the employees' absence days in the coming month, and therefore requests approval for the disbursement of this list's amount due to his urgent need for it ⟦illegible⟧ Secretary
Honorable Vice President The slaughterhouse deductions for the month of April amounted to 10/490 Dinars according to the list submitted by Rabbi David Musli, while the overtime wages paid amounted to 9/522 Dinars. Please review the enclosed expense report, in addition to the amount of 2/544 Dinars for the previous grain grinding, so the head of the slaughterhouse can discuss the overtime wages with the Council. Note: The deduction amount has been deposited into the fund by us. The list is enclosed. Gad 10/51
20 ⟦illegible⟧ 6 ✓ ⟦...⟧ 20 ✓ ⟦...⟧ 612 ✓ ⟦...⟧ 350 ✓ ⟦...⟧ 500 ✓ ⟦...⟧ 250 ✓ ⟦...⟧ 408 ✓ ⟦...⟧ ⟦line⟧ 10290 H- What are the working hours Please answer with details about the number of days of absence during this deduction considering both the salary and the cost of living allowance together
Baghdad on 7 / 5 / 950 His Excellency the Chairman of the Honorable Lay Council Subject: Slaughterhouse expenses for the month of April 1950 Details | Fils | Dinars Paint for the floor | 500 | 2 Wiping the Shamash alarm of the Shohatim | -- | 2 Salman Shaul, floor supervisor | 250 | 2 " " Kosher meat | -- | 1 Moshe Elias, sharpening and removing knives | -- | 7 Salim Hakham Eliyahu | -- | 1 Slaughterhouse cleaning for one month | -- | 10 Electricity repair by Nassim Hub, receipt attached | 450 | 2 Electricity repair on Eid day | 150 | Wages of a Muslim cook for the first two days of Eid and one day of the second Eid | 500 | 1 Notebook and pen by Salman Shaul | 140 | Floor repair by Nuri the cook | 450 | To Hakham Aaron for working after hours | 500 | 2 " " Saleh " " " | -- | 1 " " Moshe Elias " " " | -- | 4 " " Hakham Yosef Hay " " " | 500 | " " " Ahmed Eliyahu " " " | 250 | " " " Khedhouri Faraj " " " | 250 | " " " Shamash " " " | 92 | Yahya alarm and wiping Shamash with Eid tip | 200 | Wages for cutting Taref intestines | 600 | Tea for additional workers | 220 | The previous request according to the list submitted to the Community Council dated 29 / 2 / 50 | 024 | 2 43 201 Total only forty-three Dinars and two hundred and one Fils only 4 500 Value of tools and wages for repairing water pipes - according to Tawfiq Razzouqi's list 47 / 701 Only forty-seven Dinars and seven hundred and one Fils only Daoud Ezra Inspector Head of the Slaughterhouse Audited ⟦signature⟧ 2 / 500 1 000 4 000 500 250 250 92 600 220 ⟦line⟧ 9 412
Fils / Dinar 4/500 Only ⟦four⟧ Dinars ⟦and five hundred⟧ Fils Received from the accountant of the Mosaic Community the above-mentioned, and that is for the value and wages of changing the water pipes of the slaughterhouse, and for this reason I have given this receipt 1950/5/10 Subhi Abdullah Kingdom of Iraq 8 Fils ⟦signature⟧
⟦...⟧ 2 200 ⟦...⟧ 2 120 ⟦...⟧ 2 820 ⟦...⟧ 2 50 ⟦...⟧ 2 260 ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ 2 250 Carrier 50 Return 2/400 110 2/290 Labor fee ⟦lotion⟧ 1/210 4/500 = only four dinars and a half and no more half ⟦Mansour⟧ ⟦signature⟧
The Lay Council of the Jewish Community * Baghdad To the Honorable Vice President I request your kind approval to carry out some repairs in the water pipes located in the slaughterhouse as they have become in a condition unfit for use. <del>will</del> Replacing the mentioned pipes will cost approximately five Dinars. The matter is yours for consideration, please. ⟦illegible⟧ The Accountant Baghdad on 27 / 4 / 950 Approved ⟦illegible⟧ 27 / 4
Baghdad on 3/29/1956 His Excellency the President of the Respectable Lay Council Baghdad Subject: Slaughterhouse expenses for the month of March 1956 Fils | Dinar | 500 | 2 | Dye for cooking ⟦line⟧ | 2 | Isaac Shemesh 250 | 2 | Salman Shaul, cooking supervisor ⟦line⟧ | 1 | " " Kosher meat ⟦line⟧ | 7 | Marshi Elias, his wish and extracting knives ⟦line⟧ | 1 | Nissim Hakham Eliyahu ⟦line⟧ | 10 | Cleaning of the slaughterhouse for one month The total is only twenty-five dinars and seven hundred and fifty fils, no more 750 25 26/100 350 Repairing water pipes according to attached receipt Handed over to Raad by hand ⟦three hundred and fifty fils⟧ David Ezra Inspector Head of the Slaughterhouse Audited ⟦signature⟧ 3/31 26750 52990 79740 Nuri ⟦...⟧
Baghdad on 3/29/1950 His Excellency the President of the Lay Council, Respected Baghdad We list below the amounts spent during the month of March 1950 from the total income of daily salaries deducted from the employees of the Slaughterhouse: - Dinar | Fils | 2 | 250 | To Moshe Eliyahu for working 12 times after hours 2 | 250 | To Isaac Shemesh " 9 times " " - | 250 | To Hakham Saleh for working one time after hours - | 250 | " " Aaron " " " " " - | 250 | " " Yosef Hai " " " " " - | 250 | " " Isaac Eliyahu " " " " " - | 100 | Salim Hakham Eliyahu - | 600 | Cutting intestines - | 100 | Yahya assistant to Isaac Shemesh - | 050 | Rahamim 2 | 867 | Gratuity to Shalom Rahmani for the termination of his connection with the Slaughterhouse 10 | 217 | Total spent during the mentioned month Dinar | Fils | 2 | 959 | The remainder from the previous month's revenue 4 | 224 | Revenue from deductions, the list of which was submitted to the Community Accountant 7 | 183 | Total Dinar | Fils | 10 | 217 | Total spent during the mentioned month 7 | 183 | The revenue during this month and the revenue remaining from the previous month, deducted from | | the above-mentioned amount 3 | 124 | Total remaining amount Raouf Ezra Qussai Head of the Slaughterhouse
Fils / Dinar 600 / - Only six hundred fils and no more I received from the accountant of the Jewish Community the amount mentioned above, which is the value for repairing the water tank located in the bakery according to the attached list dated 2/22/51 Sabri Abboud ⟦illegible⟧
List of repairs in the slaughterhouse Fils Dinar Ismail | 150 Walid | 100 Salim | 50 Ismail | 300 Three hundred | 300 The accountant To be spent ⟦with it⟧ provided it is entered in the slaughterhouse list ⟦signature⟧ 2/22
Presidency of the Israelite Community ⟦illegible⟧ To the honorable Mr. Sassoon Bashir, respected After greetings, and based on the instructions of the Vice President, I present herewith the slaughterhouse deduction lists for three months for your kind study and to inform us as soon as possible with your observations regarding to discuss the subject in the next council meeting Thank you very much ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ 2/9
Dear Selim Effendi I have reviewed the attached lists and return them to you with comments regarding the following amounts whose nature was not clarified and require clarification December 1949 Fils Dinar 12 - Requested from me previously 9 782 } It appears this amount represents the deductions for the month mentioned above January 150 - Cars - There is no such expenditure in the early months February 1400 - Elias Hospital ⟦illegible⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Date: 8 / 2 / 1950 Dear Vice President You have previously requested the head of the slaughterhouse to submit monthly lists of slaughterhouse deductions and how they are distributed I hereby submit the lists provided by the head of the slaughterhouse for the three months: December 1949 and January and February 1950 I suggest referring this matter to the Committee of ⟦Secretariat⟧ Affairs to audit it from both procedural and accounting perspectives Approved 2/8 Secretary ⟦illegible signature⟧
21 1 50 <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> ⟦illegible⟧ Basket 6025 Travel to ⟦illegible⟧ 2150 Trumpet and Pink 1816 Bread and Basket 1270 Salt and Olive 500 Bread and Basket 250 Bread and Basket 250 Salt and Olive ⟦line⟧ Travel and Shipping 12261 750 ⟦line⟧ 13011
His Excellency the President of the Lay Council, Respected We list below the amounts spent during the month of February 1950 from the total income of the intermittent daily salaries of the slaughterhouse employees: Statement | Dinar | Fils To Masoud Shammas for working 14 times after hours | 2 | 500 " Moshi Elias " " " " " | 1 | 400 " Rabbi Reuben for working once after hours | - | 250 " " Saleh " " " " | - | 250 " " Joseph Hay " " " " | - | 250 " " Jacob Masfi " " " " | - | 250 " " Masoud Eliyahu " " " " | - | 250 Cutting intestines | - | 600 Cars | - | 400 To Yahya beside Masoud Shammas | - | 100 Tea | - | 70 ⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ Dinars, the total expenditure during the mentioned month | 7 | 320 11.095 dinars, the amount received from the deductions, and a list has been submitted to the community accountant and the house, from which the aforementioned amount was deducted. Statement | Fils | Dinar Received from deductions during this month | 095 | 11 Expended during this month | 320 | 7 ⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ Balance from this month | 775 | 3 Remaining from the expenditure of the previous month | 816 | - ⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ The remaining amount from the revenue during this month | 959 | 2 David Ezra Shechita Head of the Slaughterhouse 1 / 3 / 1950 Accountant To audit the entry of the marked paragraph in red ink ⟦signature⟧ 2 / 3