The dagger (also known as an obelisk) is properly used for the second footnote. The asterisk is for the first, and the double dagger is for the third. This is supported by several websites: Wikipedia; Typography.com; Grammar Girl; Almost all of the Google search results indicate that the dagger is to be used second. And so on. More @Wikipedia
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