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Continental*Casualty Company for All Ihe Commi n N • m . % Y o u M x k e - A N I L L I N O I S C O R P O R A T I O N POWER OF ATTORNEY APPOINTING INDIVIDUAL ATTORNEY-IN-FACT Know All Men by these Presents, That CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, a corporation duly organized and existing under the taws of the State of Illinois, and having its principal office in the City of Chicago, and State of Illinois, does hereby make, constitute and appoint Florine M. Peterson, Individually of Denver Colorado Its true and lawful Attorney-in-fact with full power and authority hereby conferred to sign, seal and execute in its behalf bonds, undertakings and other obligatory instruments of similar nature - In Unlimited Amounts - and to bind CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such instruments were signed by the duly authorized officers of CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY and all the acts of said Attorney, pursuant to the authority hereby given are hereby ratified and confirmed. This Power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following By-Law duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company. "Article IX--Execution of Documents Section 3. Appointment of Attorney-in-fact. The President or a Vice President may, from time to time, appoint by writtencertificates attorneys-in-fact to act in behalf of the Company in the excecution of policies of insurance, bonds, undertakings and other obligatory instruments of like nature. Such attorneys-in-fact, subject to the limitations set forth in their respective certificates of authority, shall have full power to bind the Company by their signature and execution of any such instruments and to attach the seal of the Company thereto. The President or any Vice President or the Board of Directors may at any time revoke all power and authority previously given to any attorney-in-fact." This Power of Attorney is signed and sealed by facsimile under and by the authority of the following Resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company at a meeting duly called and held on the 3rd day of April, 1957. "Resolved, that the signature of the President or Vice President and the seal of the Company may be affixed by facsimile on any power of attorney granted pursuant to Section 3 of Article IX of the By-Laws, and the signature of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary and the seal of the Company may be affixed by facsimile to any certificate of any such power, and any power or certificate bearing such facsimile signatures and seal shall be valid and binding on the Company. Any such power so executed and sealed and certified byy certificate so executed and sealed shall, with respect to any bond or undertaking to which it is attached, continue to be valid and bindina on the Company." In Witness Whereof, CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY has caused these presents to be signed by its Vice President and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed on this 15th day of November , 19_$2. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY SU4,r? State of Illinois) z c°"Of??r County of Cook { ss s °V SEAL ?-•l,?-'/ "" J. E. Purtell Vice President. On this 15th day of November 19 9 , before me personally came J. E. Purtell, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say: that he resides in the Village of Glenview, State of Illinois; that he is a Vice-President of CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, the corporation described in and which executed the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said Corporation; that the seal affixed to the said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed pursuant to the said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed pursuant to authority given by the Board of Directors of said corporation and that he signed his name thereto pursuant to like authority, and acknowledges same to be the act and deed of said corporation. 1, C. OF?A NOTARY m PUBLIC 0 * IT (_?/,1917?? - ? UrfouJ_4.1 Co..Public. Linda C. Dempsey CERTIFICATE My Commission Expires Novemb r 12, 1990 1, George R. Hobaugh, Assistant Secretary of CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, do hereby certify that the Power of Attorney herein above set forth is still in force, and further certify that Section 3 of Article IX of the By-Laws of the Company and the Resolution of the Board of Directors, set forth in said Power of Attorney are still in force. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said 25th November 91 Company this day of 19 _ George R. Hobaugh Assistant ecretary °v SEAL i 977 Form 1.23142-B INV. NO. G-59200-B