Job title
Rusumat Kolculugu
Group of job titles: Customs
2 officials held the job title Rusumat Kolculugu. Its 16 annual entries run from 1875 to 1894 (AH 1292 to 1311). The median of the 16 recorded monthly salaries is 200 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Trabzon, with 1.
- Officials
- 2
- Years on recordAH 1292 to 1311, 16 years with an entry
- 1875 to 1894
- Median monthly salaryfrom 16 recorded salaries
- 200 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 2
Profile of the group: Customs
No source read describes Rusumat Kolculugu by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Officials of the customs (gümrük, rüsumat).1 From 1860 (1277) all customs were run by officials appointed by the state (emanet) instead of by tax farmers (iltizam),2 and from 1870 (1287) by the Rüsumat Emaneti, with seventeen directorates in the provinces and inspectors to check that the work followed the rules.3 In May 1885, for example, new posts of overseer (mubassır), appraiser (muhammin), searcher (arayıcı), clerk, guard (kolcu), quay official and manifest official, and even of porter, were opened in the customs directorates of Salonica, Beirut, Çanakkale and Preveze and in the customs superintendencies (nezaret) of Crete and Erzurum.4
History
A regulation of 1891 set the procedures of the customs: the hours at which goods could pass, loading, unloading and transit, where and how goods were examined, ships' manifests, and the keeping of goods whose duty was unpaid in stores and bonded warehouses.5
Notes
- Not stated in the sources read; inferred from the words of the titles.
- Kütükoğlu, Mübahat S. (1996). Gümrük (Osmanlılar'da gümrük). TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 14, 263-268, paragraphs beginning ‘Gümrük İdare Şekilleri’ and ‘1277’den (1860) itibaren’. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).
- Kütükoğlu (1996), ‘Gümrük (Osmanlılar'da gümrük)’, paragraph beginning ‘1277’den (1860) itibaren’.
- Kütükoğlu (1996), ‘Gümrük (Osmanlılar'da gümrük)’, paragraph beginning ‘Osmanlı gümrükleri, sahil’.
- Kütükoğlu (1996), ‘Gümrük (Osmanlılar'da gümrük)’, paragraph beginning ‘1891’de gümrüklerde uygulanacak’.
Each statement above ends with the number of its note, which gives the work and the page or paragraph it comes from. A note that says "inferred" marks a statement that no source read states.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trabzon | Trabzon province | 1 | 12 | 1875 to 1886 |
| Thessaloniki (Selanik) | Thessaloniki (Selanik) province | 1 | 4 | 1890 to 1894 |
Ottoman officials recorded
2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salih Efendi | 1875 to 1886 | 12 | 150 to 250 | Trabzon |
| Ziya Efendi | 1890 to 1894 | 4 | 150 | 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 Kolculugu
- 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)