The meetings of the County Council and those of its different Committees and Sub-Committees are held at the COUNTY HALL, Beverley.[73] That is the reason Beverley, though only a small town, is called the ‘Capital of the East Riding.’ Footnote 73: The meetings of the Hull City Council, and the Beverley, Bridlington and Hedon Town Councils are held in their respective _Town Halls_. [Illustration: THE COUNCIL CHAMBER AT THE COUNTY HALL, BEVERLEY.] The full meetings of the Council take place in the _Council Chamber_ four times each year—in the months of January, May, July, and October. Each meeting is presided over by the Chairman, or in his absence, by the Deputy-Chairman; and the conduct of the meeting is in accordance with a set of rules known as the _Standing Orders of the East Riding County Council_. To each resolution brought forward and put to the vote the members give their assent, or refuse it, by the words _Aye_ and _No_. Both the County Council and the Town Councils have a body of officers to see that their wishes are properly carried out. They comprise a _Clerk_, _Treasurer_, _Accountant_, _Surveyor_, _Medical Officer of Health_, _Inspector of Weights and Measures_, _Analyst_, and so on, down perhaps, to the _Gardener_. In the case of the County Council the adjective _County_ is prefixed to the name of the office; in the case of a city or town, the word _Borough_. The chief officer in each is known as the _Clerk of the Council_ and the _Town Clerk_. The Urban and Rural District Councils, and also the Parish Councils, have each a smaller body of officers whose duties resemble those of the officers mentioned above. XXX. EAST RIDING SCHOOLS. To have behind it a history that goes back certainly for eight hundred years, and in all probability for a thousand, is something of which a school may be proud. Such is the rightful boast of the BEVERLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. [Illustration: ARMS OF BEVERLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. ] As far back as the year 1100 there is mention of the schoolmaster in the Minster records. But the earliest known mention of the school is contained in a letter written in 1276 by Walter Giffard, Archbishop of York, to his bailiff at Beverley. In this letter the bailiff is directed to maintain John Aucher and his two companions attending school at Beverley from Michaelmas last, with 2s. a week, and their small necessaries in fitting style; and pay 36s. for three gowns for their use.