Tenure Regulations of Sephardim – Ashkenazim – Printed Proclamation – Jerusalem, 1875

Tenure Regulations of Sephardim – Ashkenazim – Printed Proclamation – Jerusalem, 1875
"Tenure regulations", a proclamation with regulations by Jerusalem rabbis from 1957-1959 concerning leasing houses and courtyards in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, [c. 1875].
Printed signatures: Rabbi "Moshe Yehuda Leiben [should be Leib, Ben] Binyamin" [Zilberberg] – "Rabbi of Kutno"; Rabbi Shmuel Salant; Rabbi Mordechai [Chaim] Meyuchas; Rabbi Ya'akov Kapiloto, Rabbi Avraham Ashkenazi and Rabbi Mordechai Meir ben Rabbi Eliyahu [Rabinson].
The regulations concern both Sephardim and Ashkenazim but after the signatures the Sephardi rabbis added: "This has been decided by the Sephardim and the Ashkenazim, and if an Ashkenazi tradesman (!) lives in a Sephardi courtyard or the opposite, they will conduct themselves according to the regulations… But we, the Sephardim have a different way of settling matters…".
Leaf, 30 cm. Good condition. Dark-colored paper, folding marks, tiny hole.
S. HaLevi (no. 57) lists the date of printing: 1859, but this is erroneous since Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib of Kutno died in 1865 and here he is already referred to as after his death. The shape of the letters also indicate that the leaf was printed later than the date of the regulations. The estimated date has been written according to the Bibliography Institute CD.