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24 Nevertheles, this imple people, o mall in number, in o narrow a territory, could not agree. After a violent contet, in which they were in danger of a civil war, by the mediation of the other cantons, at the time of the Reformation, they agreed to divide the canton into two portions, the Outer and the Inner Appenzel, or Rhodes Exterior and Rhodes Interior. Each ditrict has now its repective chief magitrate, court of jutice, police, bandaret, and deputy to the general diet, although the canton has but one vote, and conequently loes its voice if the two deputies are of different opinions. The canton is divided into no les than twelve communities; ix of them called the Inner Appenzel, lying to the eat; and ix the Outer, to the wet. They have one general overeign council, which is compoed of one hundred and forty-four perons, twelve taken from each community.

The overeignty reides in the general aembly, which, in the interior Rhodes, meets every year at Appenzel, the lad Sunday in April; but, in the exterior Rhodes, it aembles alternately at Trogen and at Hundwyl. In the interior Rhodes are the chiefs and officers, the land amman, the tything-man, the governor, the treaurer, the captain of the country, the director of the buildings, the director of the churches, and the enign. The exterior Rhodes have ten officers, viz. two land ammans, two governors, two treaurers, two captains, and two enigns. The interior Rhodes is ubdivided into ix leer ones, each of which has ixteen counellors, among whom are always two chiefs. The grand council in the interior Rhodes, as alo the criminal juridiction, is compoed of one hundred and twenty-eight perons, who emble