Job title
Rusumat Kalem Muduru
Group of job titles: Customs
1 official held the job title Rusumat Kalem Muduru. Its 13 annual entries run from 1894 to 1907 (AH 1312 to 1324). The median of the 13 recorded monthly salaries is 2,300 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Trabzon.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1312 to 1324, 13 years with an entry
- 1894 to 1907
- Median monthly salaryfrom 13 recorded salaries
- 2,300 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Customs
No source read describes Rusumat Kalem Muduru 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trabzon | Trabzon province | 1 | 13 | 1894 to 1907 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehmet Besim Efendi | 1894 to 1907 | 13 | 1,600 to 2,900 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Rusumat Kalem Muduru
- 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)