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According to the regulations,
any one of the three ducal ministers
might wear one additional symbol of distinction - that of the descending dragon.
But if such an addition were made (to his eight symbols),
it must be by special grant.
There were only nine symbols (in all).
The ruler of a state of the second class
wore only seven of them,
and the ruler of a small state
only five.
The high minister of a great state
could not wear more than three of the symbols,
and the ministers below him only two.
The high ministers of a small state, and Great officers of the lowest class, wore only one.


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