Job title
Rusumat Emanet Memuru
Group of job titles: Customs
2 officials held the job title Rusumat Emanet Memuru. Its 16 annual entries run from 1862 to 1874 (AH 1279 to 1290). The median of the 16 recorded monthly salaries is 730 kuruş, against 600 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.
- Officials
- 2
- Years on recordAH 1279 to 1290, 12 years with an entry
- 1862 to 1874
- Median monthly salaryfrom 16 recorded salaries
- 730 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Customs
No source read describes Rusumat Emanet Memuru by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Officials of the customs. From 1860 the customs were run by salaried officials instead of tax farmers, and from 1870 by the Customs Administration (Rüsumat Emaneti) in Istanbul with seventeen directorates in the provinces and inspectors to check the work.
History
A regulation of 1891 set the procedures of the customs: hours, loading and unloading, transit, inspection, ships' manifests and bonded stores.
Sources
- Kütükoğlu, Mübahat S. (1996). Gümrük (Osmanlılar'da gümrük). TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 14, 263-268. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 263-268. Used for: summary, history.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 2 | 16 | 1862 to 1874 |
Ottoman officials recorded
2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Avnullah Efendi | 1862 to 1874 | 12 | 500 to 750 | Çemişgezek |
| Es-Seyyid Ali Riza Efendi | 1862 to 1866 | 4 | 750 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
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.
Subjects
- Rusumat Emanet Memuru
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)