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<br />TRAVELERS CASUALTY AND SURETY COMP A-NY OF AMERICA
<br />TRAVELERS CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY
<br />F.&RMINGTON CASUALTY COMPANY
<br />Hartford, Connecticut 06183-w9062
<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY AND CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY OF ATTORNEYS) -IN-FACT
<br />KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT TRAVELERS CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY OF
<br />AMERICA, TRAVELERS CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY and FARMINGTON CASUALTY COMPANY,
<br />corporations daily organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut, and having their principal affices in the City of Hartford,
<br />County of Hailford, State of Connecticut, (hereinafter the "Companies") hath made, constituted and appointed, and do by these
<br />presents make, constitute and appoint: Larry A. Summers, Charles D. Thompson, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, their true and
<br />lawful Attorneys) -in - act, with full power and authority hereby conferred to sign, execute and acknowledge, at ally place within the
<br />United States, the following instrument(s). by his/her sole signature and act., any and all bonds, recogni7ances, contracts of
<br />indemnity, and other writings obligatory in the nature of a bond, recognizance, or conditional undertaking and any and all consents
<br />incident ihereto and to bind the Companies, thereby as fully and to the same extent as if the same were signed by the duly authorized
<br />officers of the Companies, and all the acts of said Attorneys) -in -Fact; pursuant to the authority herein given, are hereby ratified and
<br />confirmed.
<br />This appointment is made under and by authority of the following Standing Resolutions of said Companies, which Resolutions are
<br />now in full force and effect:
<br />VOTED: That the Chairman, the President, any Vice Chairman, any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President; any Vice President, any
<br />Second Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary or any Assistant Secretary may appoint AttDrncys-in.-Fact
<br />and Agents to act for and on behalf' ofthe company and may give such appointee such authority as his or her certificate of authority may prescribe
<br />to sign with the Company's name and seal with the Company's seal bonds, recognizances, contracts of indemnity, and other writings obligatory in
<br />the nature of a bond, recognizance, or conditional undertaking, and any of said officers or the Board of Directors at any time may remove any such
<br />appointee and revoke the power given him or her.
<br />VOTED: That the Chairman, the President, any Vice Chairman, any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President or any Vice President
<br />may delegate all or any part of the foregoing authority to one or more officers or employees of this Company, provided that each such delegation is
<br />in writing and a copy thereof is tiled in the office of the Secretary,
<br />VOTED- That any bond, recognizance, contract of indemnity, or writing obligatory in the nature of a bond, recognizance, or conditional
<br />undertaking shall be valid and binding upon the Company when (a) signed by the President, any Vice Chairman. any Executive Vice President, any
<br />Senior Vice President, or any Vice President, any Second Vice President, the Treasurer, any 'Assistant Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary or any
<br />Assistant Secretary and duly attested and sealed with the Company's seal by a Secretary or ,assistant Secretary, or (b) duly executed (under seall, if
<br />required) by one or more Attorneys -Lri-Fact and Agents pursuant to the power prescribed in his or her certificate or their certificates of authority or
<br />by one or more Company officers pursuant to a written delegation of authority.
<br />This Power of Attorney and Certificate of Authority is signed and sealed by facsimile (mechanical or printed) under and by
<br />authority of the following Standing Resolution voted by the Boards of Directors of TRAVELERS CASUALTY AND SURETY
<br />COMPANY OF AMERICA, TRAVELERS CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY and FARMINGTON CASUALTY
<br />COMPANY, which Resolution is now in full force and effect:
<br />VOTED: .I list the signature of each of; the followin.g officers: President, any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President, any Vice
<br />President, any Assistant Vice President, any Secretary, any Assistant Set-Tetary, and the seal of the Company may be affixed by facsimile to arty
<br />power of attorney or to any certificate relating thereto appointing Resident Vice !residents, Resident Assistari, Secretaries or Attomeys-L—Fact for
<br />purposes only of executing and attesting bonds and undertakings and other %Titings obligatore in the nature thereof, and any such power of attorney
<br />or certificate bearing such facsimile signature or facsimile seal shall be valid and binding upon. the Company and any such power so executed and
<br />certified by such facsimile sip-nature and facsimile seal shall be valid and binding upon the Company in the future with respect to any bond or
<br />undertaking to vvhich it is attached.
<br />(02-05) 1-Iniiinited
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