Job title
Rusumat Sandik Emenati
Group of job titles: Customs
2 officials held the job title Rusumat Sandik Emenati. Its 18 annual entries run from 1862 to 1883 (AH 1279 to 1300). The median of the 18 recorded monthly salaries is 525 kuruş, against 550 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 3 places. The place with the largest number of officials is Thessaloniki (Selanik), with 1.
- Officials
- 2
- Years on recordAH 1279 to 1300, 18 years with an entry
- 1862 to 1883
- Median monthly salaryfrom 18 recorded salaries
- 525 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 3
Profile of the group: Customs
No source read describes Rusumat Sandik Emenati 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.
Where the job was held
| Place | Officials | Remark |
|---|---|---|
| Giresun | 1 | |
| Ioannina (Yanya) | 1 | |
| Thessaloniki (Selanik) | 1 |
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thessaloniki (Selanik) | Thessaloniki (Selanik) province | 1 | 16 | 1868 to 1883 |
| Giresun | Trabzon province | 1 | 1 | 1864/65 |
| Ioannina (Yanya) | Ioannina (Yanya) province | 1 | 1 | 1862/63 |
Ottoman officials recorded
2 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mehmet Emin Efendi | 1862 to 1883 | 17 | 300 to 800 | Mytilene (Midilli) |
| Mehmet Tevfik Efendi | 1864/65 | 1 | 300 | Trabzon |
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 Sandik Emenati
- 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)