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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 <br />