Several committees were formed, usually headed by scribes but reporting to the council, to undertake various studies pertaining to the city, particularly of a military and commercial nature. One of these studies was to be a census of ships and captains, the results of which were to be private to the council. Other studies, the results of which would be kept similarly private to the council, dealt with the city defenses, and her stores of wood, grain, salt, stone and tharlarion oil. Also considered, though nothing was determined that night, were matters of taxation, the unification and revision of the codes of the five Ubars, the establishment of council courts, replacing those of the Ubars, and the acquistion of a sizable number of men-at-arms, who would be directly responsible to the council itself, in effect, a small council police or army. Such a body of men, it might be noted, though restricted in numbers and limited in jurisdiction, already existed in the arsenal."
Raiders of Gor

The Scribes' Caste of Port Kar

This is a High Caste of Gor, the second highest of all Castes.

Their Caste color is blue. There are various divisions and rankings, from simple copiers to savants. There are a number of sub-castes including Lawyers, Scholars, Record Keepers, Teachers, Clerks, Historians, Accountants, Geographers, and Cartographers. Much of the copy work, lower-order clerical work, trivial account keeping is done by slaves.

The Scribes help render the Gorean language more uniform. 
They are accepted as arbiters of such matters and stipulate that certain 
pronunciations and grammatical formations are preferred over others. 

"The scribes, of course, are the scholars and clerks of Gor,
and there are divisions and ranking within the group,
from simple copiers to the savants of the city."
Tarnsman of Gor 3:44

The Scribes wear blue, and handle most of the white-collar work, so to speak, 
in the cities, keeping records, teaching, attending to the law, and such.

-John Norman, Letter to the Gorean Group, Sept 20th 2000 -

...Many castes, incidentally, have branches and divisions. Lawyers and Scholars, for example, and Record Keepers, Teachers, Clerks, Historians and Accountants are all Scribes. 
-Assassin of Gor, 15:208