Typical of the status of the signatories is that of the first name, R. Hayyim Abraham Ben Moses Gagin (1787–1848), chief rabbi of Jerusalem. R. Gagin was born in Constantinople. He became rishon le-Zion (Sephardi chief rabbi) in 1842 and was the first to bear the official title of hakham bashi. Gagin was responsible for the taxes of the Jews to the government, and was granted authority to impose taxation within the community on meat ('gabela'), maẓẓot, wine, etc. He lived in the Old City of Jerusalem in the courtyard of his grandfather, R. Shalom Sharabi , the kabbalist, and the government placed a guard of ten soldiers near his dwelling to protect the Jewish quarter. In his time a violent dispute broke out among the rabbis of Jerusalem with reference to the Kolelim and the distribution of the funds for them which arrived from abroad. The following of his works were published: Minhah Tehorah (Salonika, n. d. c. 1825–36), Hukkei Hayyim (1843); Ḥayyim mi-Yrushalayim (1882); and Yeri'ot ha-Ohel (2 pts., 1886–1904).

בלא שער. כולל גם אגרות רבני הספרדים בצפת ובטבריה, רבני וממוני הפרושים בירושלים, רבני ופקידי הספרדים בחברון ורבני וממוני אשכנזים חב"ד בחברון, כולן מן החדשים טבת-שבט תר"ו, וקריאה להגביר את התרומות ליושבי ארץ ישראל, מאת "פקידי ואמרכלי ערי הקודש... יושבי אמשטרדאם": צבי הירשל לעהרן, אלי' אברהם פרינץ, זלמן רובענס ויעקב מאיר לעהרן, ב ניסן תר"ו.