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Job title

Rusumat Mudur Muavini

Group of job titles: Customs

1 official held the job title Rusumat Mudur Muavini. Its 12 annual entries run from 1868 to 1879 (AH 1285 to 1296). The median of the 12 recorded monthly salaries is 1,950 kuruş, against 571.25 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Adana, with 1.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1285 to 1296, 12 years with an entry
1868 to 1879
Median monthly salaryfrom 12 recorded salaries
1,950 kuruş
Places with officials
2

Profile of the group: Customs

No source read describes Rusumat Mudur Muavini 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

  1. 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

Places of Rusumat Mudur Muavini, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
AdanaAdana province191871 to 1879
YozgatAnkara province131868 to 1871

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Rusumat Mudur Muavini
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesKuruş a monthBirthplace
Ahmet Hamdi Efendi1868 to 1879121,575 to 2,000Harput

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

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