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NAS SURETY GROUP
<br /> NORTH AMERICAN SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
<br /> WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY
<br /> GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br /> KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT North American Specialty Insurance Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under
<br /> laws of the State of New Hampshire, and having its principal office in the City of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Washington International
<br /> Insurance Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Arizona and having its principal office in the City of Itasca,
<br /> Illinois, each does hereby make, constitute and appoint:
<br /> STEVEN L. WULFF, JACK R. SHUGG, JR.
<br /> THOMAS J. McMAHON, JR. and DANA M. PLAISANCE
<br /> jointly or severally
<br /> Its true and lawful Attorney(s)-in-Fact, to make, execute, seal and deliver, for and on its behalf and as its act and deed, bonds or other writings
<br /> obligatory in the nature of a bond on behalf of each of said Companies, as surety, on contracts of suretyship as are or may be required or permitted
<br /> by
<br /> law, regulation, contract or otherwise, provided that no bond or undertaking or contract or suretyship executed under this authority shall exceed the
<br /> amount of: TEN MILLION ( 10,000,000.00) DOLLARS
<br /> This Power of Attorney is granted and is signed by facsimile under and by the authority of the following Resolutions adopted by the Boards of
<br /> Directors of both North American Specialty Insurance Company and Washington International Insurance Company at meetings duly called and held
<br /> on the 24`h of March, 2000 :
<br /> "RESOLVED, that any two of the President, any Executive Vice President, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary or any
<br /> Assistant Secretary be, and each or any of them hereby is authorized to execute a Power of Attorney qualifying the attorney named in the given Power
<br /> of Attorney to execute on behalf of the Company bonds, undertakings and all contracts of surety, and that each or any of them hereby is authorized to
<br /> attest to the execution of any such Power of Attorney and to attach therein the seal of the Company; and it is
<br /> FURTHER RESOLVED, that the signature of such officers and the seal of the Company may be affixed to any such Power of Attorney or to any
<br /> certificate relating thereto by facsimile, and any such Power of Attorney or certificate bearing such facsimile signatures or facsimile seal shall be
<br /> binding upon the Company when so affixed and in the future with regard to any bond, undertaking or contract of surety to which it is attached."
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<br /> By i CORPORATE j
<br /> Paul D. Amstutz, President & Chief Executive Officer of Washington International Insurance Company & x
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<br /> Vice President of North American Specialty Insurance Company yt SEAL
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<br /> Steven P. Anderson, Executive Vice President of Washington International Insurance Company &
<br /> Vice President of North American Specialty Insurance Company
<br /> IN WITNESS WHEREOF, North American Specialty Insurance Company and Washington International Insurance Company have caused their
<br /> official seals to be hereunto affixed, and these presents to be signed by their authorized officers this 18 day of may 12004 .
<br /> North American Specialty Insurance Company
<br /> Washington International Insurance Company
<br /> State of Illinois
<br /> County of Du Page ss :
<br /> On this 18 day of May 20 04 , before me, a Notary Public personally appeared Paul D. Amstutz President and CEO of
<br /> Washington International Insurance Company and Vice President of North American Specialty Insurance Company and Steven P. Anderson
<br /> Executive Vice President of Washington International Insurance Company and Vice President of North American Specialty Insurance Company,
<br /> personally known to me, who being by me duly swom, acknowledged that they signed the above Power of Attorney as officers of and
<br /> acknowledged said instrument to be the voluntary act and deed of their respective companies.
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<br /> Yasmin A. Patel, Notary Public
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<br /> I , James A. Carpenter the duly elected Assistant Secretary of North American Specialty Ins, ap and Washington
<br /> International Insurance Company, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct co c& a ti�i a of A iven b said
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<br /> American Specialty Insurance Company and Washington International Insurance Company, which is still infulf foial3ert r
<br /> IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand and affixed the seals of the Companies this day of _ ` ' ` ' LL�" k til—,
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<br /> James A. Carpenter, Vice President & Assistant Sogretary oflydpna62nsum, ce Company &
<br /> Assistant Secretary of North Anirim 9Mxialiy Insurance Cogodny
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