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• Merchants Bonding Company
<br /> (Mutual)
<br /> POWER OF ATTORNEY Band No.
<br /> Know All Persons By These Presents , that the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) , a corporation duly organized under
<br /> the laws of the State of Iowa , and having its principal office in the City of Des Moines , County of Polk, State of Iowa, hath
<br /> made ,
<br /> constituted and appointed, and does by these presents make, constitute and appoint
<br /> Joseph W. LoPresti, Rita M. Lucas, Russell Steven Ayers,
<br /> Peter N. Lagos and/or Maureen E. Sherman
<br /> of Tampa and State of Florida its true and lawful Attomey-in-Fact, with full power
<br /> and authority hereby conferred in its name , place and stead , to sign, execute, acknowledge and deliver in its behalf as surety
<br /> any
<br /> and all bonds, undertakings, recognizances or other written obligations in the nature thereof, subject to the limitation that any such
<br /> instrument shall not exceed the amount of:
<br /> THREE MILLION ($3 ,000,000.00) DOLLARS
<br /> and to bind the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such bond or
<br /> undertaking was signed by the duly authorized officers of the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) , and all the acts of
<br /> said Attorney-in-Fact, pursuant to the authority herein given , are hereby ratified and confirmed .
<br /> This Power-of-Attomey is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following Amended Substituted and Restated By-
<br /> Laws adopted by the Board of Directors of the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) on October 3, 1992,
<br /> ARTICLE 11 , SECTION 8 - The Chairman of the Board or President or any Vice President or Secretary shall have power and
<br /> authority to appoint Attomeys-in-Fad, and to authorize them to execute on behalf of the Company, and attach the Seal of the
<br /> Company thereto, bonds and undertakings , recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory in the nature
<br /> thereof.
<br /> ARTICLE 11 , SECTION 9 - The signature of any authorized officer and the Seal of the Company may be affixed by facsimile
<br /> to any Power of Attorney or Certification thereof authorizing the execution and delivery of any bond,
<br /> undertaking,
<br /> recognizance, or other suretyship obligations of the Company, and such signature and seal when so used shall have the
<br /> same force and effect as though manually fixed.
<br /> In Witness Whereof, MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) has caused these presents to be signed by its President and
<br /> its corporate seal to be hereto affixed , this 2nd day of January 2003
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<br /> On this 2nd day of January 2003 before me appeared Larry Taylor, to
<br /> me personally known, who being by me duly swom did say that he is President of the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) ,
<br /> the corporation described in the foregoing instrument, and that the Seal affixed to the said instrument is the Corporate Seal of the said
<br /> Corporation and that the said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said Corporation by authority of its Board of Directors .
<br /> In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal at the City of Des Moines , Iowa, the day and year first
<br /> above written.
<br /> t, MARILYN BOYD
<br /> Commission Number 10012
<br /> My Commission Expires
<br /> November 4, 2004
<br /> Notary Public, Polk County, Iowa
<br /> STATE OF IOWA
<br /> COUNTY OF POLK ss.
<br /> I, William Warner, Jr., Secretary of the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) , do hereby certify that the above and foregoing
<br /> is a true and correct copy of the POWER-OF-ATTORNEY executed by said MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) , which is
<br /> still in force and effect
<br /> In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Company on
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