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fees paid to the office and also its record of buildings.”” It is unclear whether these
positions had been filled.
Be that as it may, evidence shows that emlak registrations had already been carried
out in Palestine. According to an 1867 central-government order, by that year registration
had been completed in the provinces (sancaks) of Yafa (Jaffa) and ‘Akka (Acre).”® Likely this
document refers to registration having taken place in the cities (kasabalar) only, not the
entire province.
In 1869, according to the sa/name, no property or tapu officials had been appointed
yet for the /iwa of ‘Akka or any of its districts: ‘Akka (Acre), Haifa, Tabarya (Tiberias), Safad or
al-Nasira (Nazareth).?” To the north, however, in the /iwa of Beirut, the sa/name indicates
that a combination lands clerk (arazi me’muri) and head tapu clerk (tapu baskatibi) had been
appointed at the provincial level, along with a colleague (refiq) to assist him, similar to the
‘09 This arrangement prevailed in the Hawran’”. and also in the
situation in Jerusalem.
province of Balga, to which Nablus, Salt and Karak belonged.” Likewise, there were in
Beirut also a number of additional property-related positions named but apparently not yet
*” ISAM, Salname 1286., 70.
38 BOA, Iradeler, Meclis-i mahsus 34/1409, 123, as sited in Kaya ve Terzibasoglu, 24 and Tablo 1, 25.
*° ISAM, Salname 1286., 85-90.
‘09 These were Luis Effendi and Salim Effendi. ISAM, Salname 1286, 76.
‘°° Ibid., 104.
10? Ihid., 110.
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