These limitations in number do not affect the foreign recipients of the order.
Through Brennan's subtle urging, the authorities, ultimate recipients of our tips, were learning to deny them outright or down playing their importance.
The only foreign recipients up to 1910 were Field Marshals Yamagata and Oyama and Admiral Togo.
The recipients eligible for the various classes are graded, from the first grade of the first class for reigning sovereigns down to the fifth class for merchants and manufacturers.
The number of the recipients of this free gift grew so enormously, that both Caesar and Augustus were obliged to reduce it.
