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<br />POWER~OF ATTORNEY
<br />INTERNATIONAE FIDELIT¥ INSURA.NCECOMPAN¥
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<br />HOME OFFICE: ONE NEWARK CENTER, 20TH FLOOR
<br />NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07102-5207
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<br />~NOW ALL MEN 8:Y 1HESE PRESENTS: T~tINTERNA TlONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized and e~sting
<br />lawS of the State of New Jersey, and having its principal office in the City of Newark, New Jersey, does hereby constitute and appoint
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<br />R.A. BASS, JAMES B. SHEA, THERESE A. MCNULTY, JOHN J. CASEY
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<br />San Francisco, CA.
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<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, contracts of indemnity and
<br />other writings obligatory tn the nature thereof. which are or may be allowed, required or permitted by law, statu~rulelreJtulation, contract or otherwise, and
<br />the execution of such instrument(s) in pursuance of these presents, shall be as bindmg upon the said INl.r.RNI\.TIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE
<br />COMPANY. as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been duly executed and acknowledged by its regularly elected officers at its
<br />principal office.
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<br />This Power of Attorney- is executed, and may pe revoked, pursuant to and by authority of Article 3-Section 3, of the By-Laws adopted by the Board of
<br />Directors of INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY at a meeting called and held on the 7th day ofFebruary, f974.
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<br />The President or any Vice President, Executive Vice President, Secretary or Assistant Secretary, shall have power and authority
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<br />(1) To appoint Attorneys-in-fact, and to authorize them to execute on behalf of the Company, and attach the Seal of the Company thereto, bonds and
<br />undertakings. contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof and,
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<br />(2) To remove, at any time, any such attorney-in-fact and revoke the authority given.
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<br />Further, this Power of Attorney is signed and sealed by facsimile pursuant to resolutioh of the Board of Directors of said Company adopted at a meeting
<br />duly called and held on the 29th day of April, 1982 of which the following is a true excerpt:
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<br />Now therefore the signatures of such officers and the seal of the Company may be affixed to any such rower of attorney or any certificate relating thereto by
<br />facsimile. and any such power of attorney or certificate bearing such facsimile signatures or facsimile sea shall be valid and bindmg UI:)()fi the Company and any
<br />such power so executed and certified by facsimile signatures and facsimile seal shall be valid and binding upon the Company in the future with respect to any
<br />bond or undertaking to which it is attached.
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<br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY has caused this instrument to be
<br />signed and its corporate seal to be affixed by its authorized officer, this 31st day of August, A.D. 1998.
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<br />STATE OF NEW JERSEY
<br />County of Essex
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<br />On this 31st da¥ of August 1998. before me came the individual who executed the preceding instrument, to~~personally known, and, being by me duly
<br />sworn, said the he IS the therein described and authorized officer of the INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY; that the seal affIXed to
<br />said instrument is the Corporate Seal of said Company; that the said Corporate Seal and his signature were duly affixed by order of the Board of Directors of
<br />said Company.
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<br />IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand affixed my Official Seal,
<br />at the City of Newark, New Jersey the day and year first above written.
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<br />A NOTARY PUBLIC OF NEW JERSEY
<br />My Cotrimission Expires Nov. 21, 2005
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<br />CERTIFICATION
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<br />I, the undersigned officer of INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of the
<br />Power of Attorney and affidavit, and the copy of the Section of the By-Laws of said Company as set forth in said Power of Attorney, with the ORIGINALS ON
<br />IN THE HOME OFFICE OF SAID COMPANY, and that the same are correct transcripts thereof, and of the whole of the said originals, and that the said P()wer
<br />of Attorney has not been revoked and is now in full force and effect
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<br />IN TESTIMONY WijEREOF,I have hereunto setmy hand this
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<br />3rd
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<br />day of
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<br />August, 2004
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