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Job title

Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi

Group of job titles: Justice and legal affairs

Stored spellings: Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi; hukuk musavirligi kalemi

6 officials held the job title Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi. Its 10 annual entries run from 1900 to 1910 (AH 1318 to 1327). The median of the 10 recorded monthly salaries is 525 kuruş, against 456.25 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The median entry paid 1.2 times the collection median of its year. On average an official was paid more than 45 per cent of the other officials with a salary in the same year. Half of the officials have an entry in it in no more than 1 different years, and a quarter in 2 or more. It was the first title on record for 50 per cent of the officials and the last for 83 per cent. No other title is recorded for 50 per cent of them. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.

Officials
6
Years on recordAH 1318 to 1327, 7 years with an entry
1900 to 1910
Median monthly salary1.16× the collection median of the same years (456.25 kuruş)
525 kuruş
Places with officials
1
First job title on recordfor 3 of the 6 officials
50%

Profile of the group: Justice and legal affairs

No source read describes Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.

Officials of the courts and offices of the Ministry of Justice (Adliye), created on 14 February 1870 from the court Divan-ı Ahkam-ı Adliye. The new courts (nizamiye) were set up in the provinces from the 1860s.

History

The regulation of 21 May 1879 organised the ministry as the Ministry of Justice and Sects (Adliye ve Mezahib Nezareti), with an undersecretary, a corresponding secretary, directors for criminal and civil affairs, for the records of officials and for documents, and an accountant. The commercial courts came under the ministry in 1875.

Sources

  1. Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 178. Used for: summary.
  2. Yavuz, Hulusi (1988). Adliye Nezâreti. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 1, 389-390. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 389. Used for: summary, history.

Pay against the whole collection

Officials by their median monthly salary in this job
Officials of this jobWhole collection
17%17%17%17%17%17%01002003004005007501,0001,5002,500

6 officials with a salary, each counted once in the band of the median of the official's salaries in this job. A bar runs from its number to the next; the last is 2,500 kuruş and more. Most officials (17%) are in the band 0 to 100 kuruş.

The same numbers as a table
Officials of Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi by median monthly salary
Median monthly salary, kuruşOfficialsShareWhole collection
0 to 100117%3%
100 to 200117%10%
200 to 300117%17%
300 to 40000%18%
400 to 50000%17%
500 to 75000%23%
750 to 1,000117%5%
1,000 to 1,500117%4%
1,500 to 2,500117%2%
2,500 and more00%1%

The median of the 10 recorded monthly salaries of this job is 525 kuruş. In the same years the whole collection paid a median of 456.25 kuruş. The median entry paid 1.16× the collection median of its year, and the middle half of the entries between 0.25× and 2.54×. On average an official of this job was paid more than 45% of the other paid officials of the same year.

Times the collection median1.16×0.13×0.25×0.5×1×2×4×Share of paid officials earning less45%0%25%50%75%100%

The dot is the median, the box the middle half of the entries. Dashed lines: the collection median of the same years (1×) and the middle of the paid officials (50%).

Career paths: the titles just before and after

The number is the officials who made the move. Under it, the median change of the monthly salary: the first salary of the later title less the last salary of the earlier one, where at least 5 moves have both.

Held just before

The title of the entries just before a run of Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi. Pay: the change on moving from that title to Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi. The 3 titles with most officials, of 3 moves in all.

  1. Deavi Kalemi1
  2. Muhasebe Kalemiaccounts office1
  3. Tahsilat Kalemicollections office1

Held just after

The title of the entries just after a run of Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi. Pay: the change on moving from Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi to that title.

  1. Tahsilat Kalemi Mumeyyizi1

Of the 4 moves shown, 0 cross at least one year without an annual entry; nothing is known about those years. Two posts held in the same years are not counted as a move.

Time in the job

Years with an entry in the job
1.5 yearsmedian over 6 officials
A quarter of the officials
2 years or moreupper quartile
Most years of one official
3 years
  1. First job title on recordthe first year with an entry with a job title has it50%3 officials
  2. Last job title on recordthe last such year has it83%5 officials
  3. No other job titlein the whole record50%3 officials
  4. One place in the jobof 6 officials with a place recorded100%6 officials

Years are years with an annual entry in the job, each counted once for an official. They need not follow one another, and nothing is known about a year without an entry. With two posts in the first or last year, both count.

Who held the job

Officials of this jobWhole collection

Community

6 officials with it recorded.

  1. Muslim (Müslüman)100%6

Age at the first annual entry in the job

6 officials with it recorded.

  1. under 150%0
  2. 15 to 190%0
  3. 20 to 2450%3
  4. 25 to 290%0
  5. 30 to 3417%1
  6. 35 to 390%0
  7. 40 and over33%2

Province of birth

5 officials with it recorded.

  1. Aleppo (Halep) province20%1
  2. Erzurum province20%1
  3. Istanbul (Dersaadet) province20%1
  4. Sivas province20%1
  5. Thessaloniki (Selanik) province20%1

Schooling

5 officials with it recorded. An official can have several, so the shares add up to more than 100%. The groups of the schools recorded for each official.

  1. İdadi40%2
  2. Rüşdiye40%2
  3. Other named school20%1

Languages

5 officials with it recorded. An official can have several, so the shares add up to more than 100%.

  1. Turkish100%5
  2. Arabic20%1

Qualification

6 officials with it recorded. A diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan) recorded in the schooling or the work.

  1. No50%3
  2. Yes50%3
All years

Officials on record each year

The fullest year is 1908/09 (AH 1326) with 3 officials. Years with an annual entry: 7.
01231900/01AH 13181901/02AH 13191902/03AH 13201903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221905/06AH 13231906/07AH 13241907/08AH 13251908/09AH 13261909/10AH 13273 in 1908/09Recorded in an earlier year tooFirst recorded in this year

The same numbers as a table
Officials on record each year, Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi
YearOfficials on recordFirst recordedAnnual entries
1900/01 (AH 1318)222
1901/02 (AH 1319)101
1905/06 (AH 1323)111
1906/07 (AH 1324)101
1907/08 (AH 1325)101
1908/09 (AH 1326)333
1909/10 (AH 1327)101

An official is counted once in a year. First recorded is the first year in which the collection has an annual entry of the official on this page. It is not a hiring date.

Places

Places of Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province6101900 to 1910

Ottoman officials recorded

6 officials, the one with most annual entries first.

Officials of Hukuk Musavirligi Kalemi
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ali Haydar Efendi1905 to 19083100Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Abdulgafur Hamit Efendi1908 to 191021,000 to 1,500Aleppo (Halep)
İsmail Hakkı Efendi1900 to 19022800Erzincan
Hüseyin Rıza Efendi1908/09125Niksar
Mehmet Faik Efendi1908/091250Thessaloniki (Selanik)
Unnamed official (0081_0143, sayfa no:283.)1900/0111,850Cerkezistan

Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.

How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.

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