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<br />Seals
<br />/EMC Insurance Companies.
<br />IOWA
<br />LAUREL A. BLOSS
<br />COMMISSION NO. 183662
<br />MY COMMISSION EXPIRES
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<br />P.O. Box 712 • Des Moines, Iowa 50306 -0712
<br />CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY INDIVIDUAL ATTORNEY -IN -FACT
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that:
<br />1. Employers Mutual Casualty Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />2. EMCASCO Insurance Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />3. Union Insurance Company of Providence, an Iowa Corporation
<br />4. Illinois EMCASCO Insurance Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />hereinafter referred to severally as "Company" and collectively as "Companies ", each does, by these presents, make, constitute and appoint:
<br />TIMOTHY J. BLANCHARD, ANDREW P. WALTERS, ,ASHLEY K. BRYANT, INDIVIDUALLY, GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO
<br />its true and lawful attorney -in -fact, with full power and authority conferred to sign, seal, and execute the following Surety Bond:
<br />ANY AND ALL BONDS
<br />and to bind each Company thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such instruments were signed by the duly authorized officers of each such Company, and all
<br />of the acts of said attorney pursuant to the authority hereby given are hereby ratified and confirmed.
<br />AUTHORITY FOR POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />This Power -of- Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by the authority of the following resolution of the Boards of Directors of each of the Companies at the
<br />first regularly scheduled meeting of each company duly called and held in 1999:
<br />RESOLVED: The President and Chief Executive Officer, any Vice President, the Treasurer and the Secretary of Employers Mutual Casualty Company shall have
<br />power and authority to (1) appoint attorneys -in -fact and authorize them to execute on behalf of each Company and attach the seal of the Company thereto, bonds
<br />and undertakings, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof; and (2) to remove any such attorney -in -fact at any time
<br />and revoke the power and authority given to him or her. Attorneys -in -fact shall have power and authority, subject to the terms and limitations of the power -of- attorney
<br />issued to them, to execute and deliver on behalf of the Company, and to attach the seal of the Company thereto, bonds and undertakings, recognizances, contracts of
<br />indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, and any such instrument executed by any such attorney -in -fact shall be fully and in all respects binding upon
<br />the Company. Certification as to the validity of any power -of- attorney authorized herein made by an officer of Employers Mutual Casualty Company shall be fully and in all
<br />respects binding upon this Company. The facsimile or mechanically reproduced signature of such officer, whether made heretofore or hereafter, wherever appearing upon
<br />a certified copy of any power -of- attorney of the Company, shall be valid and binding upon the Company with the same force and effect as though manually affixed.
<br />IN WITNESS THEREOF, the Companies have caused these presents to be signed for each by their officers as shown, and the Corporate seals to be hereto affixed this
<br />22nd day of June, 2010.
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<br />Bruce G. Kelley, Chairman
<br />of Companies 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6; President
<br />of Company 1; Vice Chairman and
<br />CEO of Company 7
<br />On this 22nd day of June, AD 2010 before me a Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa,
<br />personally appeared Bruce G. Kelley and Michael Freel, who, being by me duly sworn,
<br />did say that they are, and are known to me to be the Chairman, President, Vice Chairman
<br />and CEO, and /or Assistant Secretary, respectively, of each of the Companies above; that
<br />the seals affixed to this instrument are the seals of said corporations; that said instrument
<br />was signed and sealed on behalf of each of the Companies by authority of their respective
<br />Boards of Directors; and that the said Bruce G. Kelley and Michael Freel, as such officers,
<br />acknowledged the execution of said instrument to be their voluntary act and deed, and the
<br />voluntary act and deed of each of the Companies.
<br />My Commission Expires March 13, 2014.
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<br />5. Dakota Fire Insurance Company, a North Dakota Corporation
<br />6. EMC Property & Casualty Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />7. Hamilton Mutual Insurance Company, an Iowa Corporation
<br />Michael Freel
<br />Assistant Secretary
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<br />Public in and for the State of Iowa
<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />I, Jim D. Clough, Vice President of the Companies, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution of the Boards of Directors by each of the Companies, and this
<br />Power of Attorney issued pursuant thereto on 22nd day of June, 2010, are true and correct and are still in full force and effect.
<br />In Testimony Whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the facsimile seal of each Company this 1st day of
<br />March
<br />2012
<br />Vice President
<br />7832 SPC "For verification of the authenticity of the Power of Attorney you may call (515) 345 - 2689."
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