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115043
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<br /> American Contractors Indemnity Company
<br /> Los Angeles, California
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<br /> POWER OF ATTORNEY
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<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMiNrrY COMPANY, a California Corporation
<br />(the "Company"), and having its principal office in Los Angeles, California does hereby constitute and appoint:
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<br /> Mark J. Gentry, Madelaine E. Gentry of San Jose, California
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<br />as its true and lawful Attorney(s)-in-fact, in amount of $.2,500,000.00, to execute, seal and deliver for and on its behalf as surety, any
<br />and alt bonds and undertakings, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, which are or may
<br />be allowed, required or permitted by law, statute, rule, regulation, contract or otherwise, and the execution of such instrument(s) in pursuance
<br />of these presents, shall be as binding upon the said AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMlqlTY COMPANY, as fully and amply, to all
<br />intents and purposes, as if the same had been duly executed and acknowledged by its regularly elected officers at its principal office.
<br />This Power of Attorney is executed, and may be certified to and may be revoked, pursuant to and by authority of resolutions adopted by the Board
<br />of Directors of AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMI'qlTY COMPANY, at a meeting called and held on the 6th day of Decerabex, 1990.
<br />RESOLVED that the Chief Executive Officer, President or any Vice President, Executive Vice President, Secretary or Assistant Secretary,
<br />shall have power and authority.
<br /> 1. To appoint Attorney(s)-in-fact and to authorize them to execute on behalf of the Company, and attach the Seal of the Company
<br /> thereto, bonds and undertakings, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof and,
<br /> 2. To remove, at any time, any such Attorney-in-fact and revoke the authority given.
<br />RESOLVED FURTHER, that the signature of such officers and the seal of the Company may be affixed to any such power of attorney or
<br />any certificate relating thereto by facsimile, and any such power of attorney or certificate bearing such facsimile signatures or facsimile seal
<br />shall be valid and binding upon the Company and any such power so executed and certified by facsimile signatures and facsimile seal shall
<br />be valid and binding upon the Company in the future with respect to any bond or undertaking to which it is attached.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY has caused this instrument to be signed and its
<br />corporate seal to be affixed by its authorized officer this 10th day of September , 1999 .
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<br /> And~ FaUst President
<br />STATE OF CALIFORNIA
<br />COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
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<br />On September 10, 1999 before me, Deborah Reese , personally appeared Andy Faust
<br />personally known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the
<br />same in his authorized capacity, and that by his signature on the instrument the person, or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted,
<br />executed the instrument.
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<br />WITNESS my hand and official seal.
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<br />I, the undersigned officer of AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY do hereby certify that I have compared the
<br />foregoing copy of the Power of Attorney and affidavit, and the copy of the resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of said Company
<br />as set forth in said Power of Attorney, with the ORIGINALS ON FII.~ IN THE HOME O~ICE OF SAID COMPANY, and that same am
<br />correct transcripts thereof and of the whole of the said originals, and that the said Power of Attorney has not been revoked and is now in full
<br />force and effect.
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<br /> IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I'have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of APRIL , 2000
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