each local assembly (_tagwen_) adds two members to the one which it appoints to form a simple council. Thus the triple council is composed there of one hundred and seventeen members, as follows: (1) Of the nine members of the Commission of State. (2) Of thirty-five members appointed by the _tagwen_ following fixed proportions. (3) Of seventy members appointed by the same assemblies, following the same proportions. (4) Finally, of three Catholic members, appointed by the same council, and of which one forms a part.[51] The principal functions of the triple council are to watch over the council and the tribunal, to establish the project of the budget of receipts and expenditures, and to convoke the Landsgemeinde in extraordinary assembly. The process of addition is applied in many ways in Appenzell-interior; it is applied in particular to the little council, which is charged with the principal judicial powers. This body judges sometimes as a weekly council; it is then only a section of the little council; sometimes with a simple addition, again with the reinforced addition. Finally, with a last reinforcement, it forms what is called the council of blood (_Blutrath_). As there are councils formed by addition, so there are others formed by reduction, as, for example, the weekly council of Unterwald-lower. It is appointed by the Great Council (Landrath) and chosen from its body. It is the executive, administrative, and police authority, subordinated to the Great Council. It is composed of the Landammann, as President, and of twelve members appointed for two years. It assembles in ordinary session on Monday of each week, and in extraordinary session, when convoked by the President, and as often as there is need. The third and remaining authority in this pure democracy is the Commission of State. It is appointed by the Landsgemeinde, and replaces the council, for affairs of lesser importance. In Glarus this commission is divided into two sections, to expedite business. The first is composed of all the members of the commission; and the second, of three members, the President included, alternating among themselves after a manner of rotation, established by the commission. The first section (or the commission _in pleno_) is charged with the correspondence of foreign states, the federal authority, and the Confederate states; with giving preliminary advice upon questions referred to it, or even with deciding them by the council. The second section is charged with the ratification of deeds of sale and of wills, with decisions upon the prolongation of the terms for the liquidation of bankrupt estates, etc. The Commission of State of Appenzell-exterior has also the surveillance of the administration of the Communes. The Landammann presides over the Landsgemeinde, the double or triple council, the council or Landrath, and the Commission of State. He receives all the despatches addressed to the authorities presided over by him, and he