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<br />WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS: That the Washington International Insurance Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws
<br />of the State of Arizona, and having its principal office in the Village of Itasca, Illinois does hereby constitute and appoint
<br />BARRY N. BLANCHARD, E/ EEN A. BLANCHARD, TIMOTHY J. BLANCHARD, JOHN M. DEER,
<br />AND SANDRA K. PIERCE EACH IN THEIR SEPARATE CAPACITY
<br />its true and lawful attorney(s)-in-fact to execute, seal and deliver for and on its behalf as surety, any and all bonds and undertakings,
<br />recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, which are or may be allowed, required, or permitted by
<br />law, statute, rule, regulation, contract or otherwise, and the execution of such instrument(s) in pursuance of these presents, shall be as binding
<br />upon the said Washington International Insurance Company as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, as if the same has been duly executed
<br />and acknowledged by its President and / orits principal officers.
<br />This Power of Attorney shall be limited in amount to $7,500,000.00 for any single obligation.
<br />This Power of Attorney is issued pursuant to authority granted by the resolutions of the Board of Directors adopted March 22, 1978,
<br />July 3, 1980 and October 21, 1986 which read, in part, as follows:
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<br />1. The Chairman of the Board, President, !1Vice_ Pr_esd_ent, Assistant Secretary, Tneasurer and Secretary may designate Attorneys-in-Fact,
<br />and authorize them to execute on behalf of the Company, and attach the Seal of the Company thereto, bonds, and undertakings,
<br />recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, and to appoint Special Attorneys-in-Fact, who
<br />are hereby authorized to certify copies of any power-of-attorney issued in pursuant to this section and/or any of the By-Laws of the
<br />Company, and to remove, at any time, any such Attorney-in-Fact or Special Attorney-in-Fact and revoke the authority given him.
<br />2. The signatures of the Chairman of the Board, the President, Vice President, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer and Secretary, and the
<br />corporate seal of the Company, may be affixed to any Power of Attorney, certificate, bond or undertaking relating thereto, by facsimile.
<br />Any such Power of Attorney, certificate bond or. undertaking bearing such facsimile signature or facsimile seal affixed in the ordinary
<br />course of business:shall be valid and binding upon the Company.
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<br />ST; fE`OF,&IIIN?IS)
<br />COUNTY OF DUPAGE)
<br />EOF, the Washington International Insurance Company has caused this instrument to be signed and its corporate seal
<br />? ized officer, this 29th day of November, 1999.
<br />W ON INT NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY
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<br />St W F?+derson, Senior Vice-President
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<br />On this 29th day of November, 1999, before me came the individual who executed the preceding instrument, to me personally known, and, being
<br />by me duly sworn, said that he is the therein described and authorized officer of the Washington International Insurance Company; that the seal
<br />affixed to said instrument is the Corporate Seal of said Company;
<br />IN TES P FO?,I, I?jy
<br />j&Leunto set my !hand and affixed my Official Seal, the day and year first above written.
<br />OFFICIAL SEAL
<br />YASMIN A PATEL ?-
<br />NOTAAY PUBLIC, STATE OF ILLINOtS Yasmi Patel, Notary Public
<br />MY COMKISSION EXPIRES:08118/02 My Commission Expires October 15, 2001
<br />STATE OF ILLINOIS)
<br />COUNTY OF DUPAGE)
<br />I, the undersigned, Vice-President of WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY, an ARIZONA Corporation, DO HEREBY
<br />CERTIFY that the foregoing and attached POWER OF ATTORNEY remains in full force and has not been revoked, and furthermore that Article
<br />III, Section 5 of the By-Laws of the Corporation., and the Resolution of the Board of Directors, set forth in the Power of Attorney, are now in force.
<br />Signed and sealed in the County of Dupage. Dated the 5th day of September 2000
<br />Jame . C penter ice-President
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