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Merchants Bonding Company
<br /> (Mutual)
<br /> POWER OF ATTORNEY
<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 made,
<br /> constituted and appointed, and does by these presents make, constitute and appoint
<br /> Lenita W. Wright, Mary Butcher, Peggy Broughton
<br /> Of Cocoa and State of Flordia 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 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 /> FIVE MILLION ($5,000,000.00) 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 Allomey-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 November 16, 2002.
<br /> ARTICLE II, 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-Fact, 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 II, 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 , 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 16th day of January, 2006.
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<br /> STATE OF IOWA , . President
<br /> COUNTY OF POLK as.
<br /> On this 16th day of January, 2006, before me appeared Larry Taylor, to me personally known, who being by me duly sworn did say that
<br /> he is President of the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL), the corporation described in the foregoing instrument, and that the
<br /> Seal affixed to the said instrument is the Corporate Seal of the said Corporation and that the said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf
<br /> 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 /> pp CINDY SMYTH
<br /> > F Commission Number 173504 Wrt-
<br /> My Commission Ex has
<br /> March 16, 2009 Notary Public, Polk County, Iowa
<br /> STATE OF IOWA
<br /> COUNTY OF POLK as.
<br /> 1, Wiliam Warner, Jr., Secretary of the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL), do hereby certify that the above and foregoing
<br /> is a We and correct copy of the POWER-OF-ATTORNEY executed by said MERCHANTS BQRDINCwi(,R> p� ANY (MUTUAL), which is
<br /> still in full fxce and effect and has not been amended or revoked. ,,�j .'`,y`g """pi�w{ y za ' +,y,,
<br /> In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the t,�rlp jr7,grtthhis� ay Sf d « lath-. , driog
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