Each of these Sub-Committees has its particular work, the nature of which can be recognised from its name. The Sub-Committee which exercises, perhaps, the greatest amount of influence is that whose name stands first in the list. It is the _Higher Education Sub-Committee_, which provides funds for the carrying on of the Bridlington, Pocklington, and Beverley Grammar Schools; which founded the Bridlington and Beverley High Schools for Girls; which provides the villages of the East Riding with lectures on Dairy Farming, Poultry Keeping, Gardening, and Beekeeping; which organises classes for Cookery, Laundry-Work, Dressmaking, Carpentry, Wood-Carving, and Domestic Economy; which grants Scholarships to deserving boys and girls who wish to continue their education at a Secondary or a Technical School. A very special kind of work carried on by the East Riding County Council is that known as the _Registration of Deeds_. As a result of this work the Council possesses a record of all sales of land in the East Riding since the year 1706. There are only two counties in Britain that keep such records, Yorkshire being one and Middlesex the other. For carrying on its numerous branches of work the County Council needs large supplies of money. In the year 1901–2 its total receipts were £61,760; in the year 1910–11 they had grown to £190,927. These figures show how the work of the Council increased during the nine intervening years. About one-fifth of this large sum of money is provided by the Government, the rest of it by the inhabitants of the Riding. The latter is made up of rates, rents, licenses for traction engines and motor cars, fees for pedlars’ and chimney sweeps’ certificates, fines imposed by magistrates, and so on. Of course very accurate accounts have to be kept of all items of Income and Expenditure. In the accounts for 1910–11 there are such items as the following:— _Income Account_:— £ s. d. Charge for Loan of Hose Pipe 0 15 0 Sale of Old Hurdles, etc. 0 8 3 Cash found on Drowned Person 0 16 6 _Expenditure Account_:— Caution Posts—Painting and Repairing 18 9 6 Skerne—Tree-Topping 2 9 0 Taking Samples of Bread and Expenses 0 0 1 All moneys received and all moneys paid away must be accounted for, and the accounts for 1910–11 show that for the whole year the _Receipts_ amounted to £190,927, while the _Payments_ amounted to £191,161. You may, perhaps, think that you see in these figures something like a mathematical impossibility; but that is only because you have not reached the higher stages of commercial arithmetic. * * * * *