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consentment of the lucerne vendors that the first crop should be sold as twenty one-oke bundles and
the following crops should be marketed as eighteen one-oke bundles. Vendors had nevertheless
returned to the Council and said that they could not sell at these prices. When they were asked why
they did not accept selling a lesser amount while they were obliged to deliver twenty-four and
twenty bundle chords before. They answered that the records were correct, but added that the
municipal officials were coming to their shops and collecting one or two akçes everyday from them
under the pretext that they were selling underweight stuff and then tolerating the sales. It was
resolved that the current price should be observed.
The felt laid under the saddle will weigh one and a half oke and the producer will charge four and a
half akça for it while the price at the saddlemaker will be five akças.
The special one-oke saddle felts will sell for three akças if they are cured.
Lumber:
The shingle sheaths will be two ziraîs long and there will not be more than twenty planks per
hundred pieces.
Lengths of the carpenter, furniture-maker and flooring planks were eight, nine and twelve spans
respectively under the old rules, which went into complete disregard in the last four or five years
still for the previous reasons.
The firewood to be hauled on mules will be three spans long. Nine spans are allowed for those
carried on camels. It was reported that a little bit was always cut off the tips of these wood stems
once they arrive at the yards of woodsellers who thereby tried to compensate for the bribes paid to
the municipal officials.
Goldsmiths:
Assessors of goldsmiths in the Council reported that there was an imperial edict to the effect that all
silver objects would be made in eight-tenths purity level. The examinations made in the shops of
jewellers revealed however many silver plated copper buttons. The goldsmiths said that they were
not of their products, but they were actually buying them from the passengers coming from
stanbul. The goldsmiths were ordered to revert to the old rules and never use gold inferior to the
quality of the one selling for sixty akças per miskal. Though the old rules was such, violations were
determined for the same reasons.
Coppersmiths:
The coppersmiths never tinned the old copperware and sold them as new before. They always did
their sales on the ten-eleven basis. The situation was found different today and they were ordered to
revert to the old rules.
Nightcap makers:
The nightcap makers summoned to the Council and asked to explain the old rules said that they
used to sew taffeta linings into the night caps embellished with gold coins. Linings of the village
women’s caps were of cheesecloth while the city women wore honan caps and hemmed. Lower
quality cloths were never permitted. The button for the veil, now simply glued by a sort of cement,
was always strongly sewn at the inner side. The examinations made on actual objects confirmed
what was said by the assessors and the old rules were ordered to be implemented.
Cotton carders:
The cotton carders used to charge half an akça for one hundred dirhams of cotton to be carded.
When they sold carded cotton, they used the ten-eleven rule. It was found that the old rules were in
force in this vocation.
Haberdashers:
It reportedly was not customary to set prices for the habersdashers. Yet they used to add five
dirhams of poppy seed oil to one hundred dirhams of sweetmeal oil. Some of the haberdashers even
used more poppy seed oil to obtain a heavier stuff. The old rules were reinstalled and the paper
wrapping used for selling sugar should not be more than three layers and the powder of the sugar
should be placed into a separate paper cone at the delivery to the customer and that they should
apply the ten-eleven rule in their sales.
CIHEAM-IAMM
Juin 2005
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