From the Pages of the Defter (ص 65)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 65)

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filled. These were property-registration (tahrir emlak) clerks: a head scribe, a scribe to
record transactions, and a scribe to write tapu certificates and official orders and reports.
Additionally, there were clerks who would comprise a traveling team but who had not yet
arrived at their post (henuz burada seyyar bulunacak memurin). They were two registration
officials (tahrir memuri, refaket katibi), two registrars, two assessors, and two surveyors, all
103 “ys . . .
The exact same positions, filled and “to be” filled in the same manner, were
unnamed.
likewise listed in the /iwa of Tarablus Sham (Tripoli), the only difference being that the
combination lands clerk and head tapu clerk in Tripoli, ‘Ali Effendi, had two assistants (refiq)
104 At this stage, then, it appears that one who wanted to register
instead of one, as in Beirut.
his or her land and receive a tapu certificate needed to travel to the provincial capital or to
wait for the occasional visit from lands officials making rounds (or lands officials who would
soon be appointed to make rounds) in the provinces.
Two years later, according to the sa/name of 1871 (1288 H), a defter-1 khakani galami
(Office of the Imperial Land Register) for the vilayet of Syria had been established in
Damascus. It consisted of a manager and his assistant (mudir ve mu ‘avin), a collator of
documents (mukabele-ci), and two registrars (mukayyed) for each of four geographically
divided branches (su‘bes): Damascus-Hawran-Balqa; Jerusalem-Acre; Beirut-Hama; and
103 ISAM, Salname 1286, 76.
104 ISAM, Salname 1286, 81.
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