Nevertheleſs, this ſimple people, ſo ſmall in number, in ſo narrow a territory, could not agree. After a violent conteſt, 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 diſtrict has now its reſpective chief magiſtrate, court of juſtice, police, bandaret, and deputy to the general diet, although the canton has but one vote, and conſequently loſes its voice if the two deputies are of different opinions. The canton is divided into no leſs than twelve communities; ſix of them called the Inner Appenzel, lying to the eaſt; and ſix the Outer, to the weſt. They have one general ſovereign council, which is compoſed of one hundred and forty-four perſons, twelve taken from each community.
The ſovereignty reſides in the general aſſembly, which, in the interior Rhodes, meets every year at Appenzel, the lad Sunday in April; but, in the exterior Rhodes, it aſſembles alternately at Trogen and at Hundwyl. In the interior Rhodes are the chiefs and officers, the land amman, the tything-man, the governor, the treaſurer, the captain of the country, the director of the buildings, the director of the churches, and the enſign. The exterior Rhodes have ten officers, viz. two land ammans, two governors, two treaſurers, two captains, and two enſigns. The interior Rhodes is ſubdivided into ſix leſſer ones, each of which has ſixteen counſellors, among whom are always two chiefs. The grand council in the interior Rhodes, as alſo the criminal juriſdiction, is compoſed of one hundred and twenty-eight perſons, who aſ-
