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-GULF INSURANCE COMPANY HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
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<br /> POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />ORIGINALS OF THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY ARE PRINTED ON BLUE SAFETY PAPER WITH TEAL INK.
<br /> KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the Gulf Insurance Company, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut, having
<br />its principal office in the city of irving, Texas, pursuant to the following resolution, adopted by the Finance & Executive Committee of the Board of Directors
<br />of the said Company on the 10th day of August, 1993, to wit:
<br /> "RESOLVED, that the President, Executive Vice President or any Senior Vice President of the Company shall have authority to make, execute and deliver a
<br />Power of Attorney constituting as Attorney-in-Fact, such persons, firms, or corporations as may be selected from time to time; and any such Attorney-in-Fact
<br />may be removed and the authority granted him revoked by the President, or any Executive Vice President, or any Senior Vice President, or by the Board of
<br />Directors or by the Finance and Executive Committee of the Board of Directors.
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<br /> RESOLVED, that nothing in this Power of Attorney shall be construed as a grant of authority to the attomey(s)-in-fact to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver
<br />or otherwise issue a policy or policies of insurance on behalf of Gulf Insurance Company.
<br /> RESOLVED, that the signature of the President, Executive Vice President or any Senior Vice President, and the Seal of the Company may be affixed to any
<br />such Power of Attorney or any cedificate relating thereto by facsimile, and any such powers so executed and certified by facsimile signature and facsimile
<br />seal shall be valid and binding upon the Company in the future with respect to any bond and documents relating to such bonds to which they are attached."
<br />Gulf insurance Company does hereby make, constitute and appoint
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<br /> Alden W. Long Maureen Bell
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<br /> its true and lawful attorney(s)-in-fact, with full power and authority hereby conferred in its name, place and stead, to sign, execute, acknowledge and deliver
<br /> in its behalf, as surety, any and all bonds and undertakings of suretyship, and to bind Gulf Insurance Company thereby as fully and to the same extent as if
<br /> any bonds, undertakings and documents relating to such bonds and/or uncle[takings were signed by the duly authorized officer of the Gulf insurance Company
<br /> and all the acts of said attorney(s)qn-fact, pursuant to the authority herein given, are hereby ratified and confirmed.
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<br /> The obligation of the Company shall not exceed five million (5,000,000) dollars.
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<br /> IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Gulf Insurance Company has caused these presents to be signed by any officer of the Company and its Corporate Seal to
<br /> be hereto affixed. J ~ GULFLawrencelNSURAN~Ep. COMPAN~
<br /> STATE OF NEW YORK ~ SS Miniter
<br /> COUNTY OF NEW YORK Executive Vice President
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<br /> On this 1st day of October, AD 2001, before me came Lawrence P. Miniter, known to me pemonally who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say:
<br /> that he resides in the County of Bergen, State of New Jersey; that he is the Executive Vice President of the Gulf Insurance Company, the corporation described
<br /> in and which executed the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to the said instruments is such corporate seal;
<br /> that it was so affixed by order of the Board of 0irectors of said corporation and that he signed his name, thereto by like order.
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<br /> ANGLE MAHABIR-BEGAZO
<br /> STATE OF NEWYORK ~ SS Notary Public, State of New York
<br /> No. 01MA6019988
<br /> COUNTY OF NEWYORKJ Qualified in Kings County
<br /> Commission Expires February 16, 2003
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<br /> I, the undersigned, Senior Vice President of the Gulf Insurance Company, a Connecticut Corporation, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing and attached
<br /> POWER OF ATTORNEY remains in full force.
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<br /> Signed and Sealed at the City of NewYork. ~O~, ~,Op, ANC£0 Dated the 2 0~h day of AI. ICYL1S JC , a0 0 2
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<br /> George Biancardi
<br /> Senior Vice President
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