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 | | Nevertheless, on the 26th September 1917, the Order was revised under the name "Order of the Tower and of the Sword, of Valour, Loyalty and Merit", with four classes, the first and highest class belonging, by right, to the President of the Republic. |
 | | Thus, the first President of the Republic to wear it was Dr. Bernardino Machado. |
 | | The Order, as an Order of Merit, was conferred to reward heroic deeds in the battlefields, acts of self-sacrifice and of civic courage or outstanding service to humanity, to the Country and the Republic. |
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