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POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />UNITED STATES FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />PRINCIPAL OFFICE - MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY
<br />0092723
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That United States Fire Insurance Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the state of Delaware, has
<br />made, constituted and appointed, and does hereby make, constitute and appoint:
<br />/an A. Nipper, David Russell Hoover, Joseph Penichet Nielson,
<br />Charles David Nielson, Charles Jackson Nielson, Shawn Alan Burton, Jarrett Merlucci
<br />each, its true and lawful Attomey(s)-In-Fact, with full power and authority hereby conferred in its name, place and stead, to execute, acknowledge and deliver: Any and all bonds
<br />and undertakings of surety and other documents that the ordinary course of surety business may require, and to bind United States Fire Insurance Company thereby as fully and to
<br />the same extent as if such bonds or undertakings had been duly executed and acknowledged by the regularly elected officers of United States Fire Insurance Company at its principal
<br />office, in amounts or penalties not exceeding: Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($7,500,000).
<br />This Power of Attorney limits the act of those named therein to the bonds and undertakings specifically named therein, and they have no authority to bind United States Fire Insurance
<br />Company except in the manner and to the extent therein stated.
<br />This Power of Attorney revokes all previous Powers of Attorney issued on behalf of the Attorneys -In -Fact named above and expires on January 31, 2024.
<br />This Power of Attorney is granted pursuant to Article IV of the By -Laws of United States Fire Insurance Company as now in full force and effect, and consistent with Article III
<br />thereof, which Articles provide, in pertinent part:
<br />Article IV, Execution of Instruments - Except as the Board of Directors may authorize by resolution, the Chairman of the Board, President, any Vice -President,
<br />any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary, or any Assistant Secretary shall have power on behalf of the Corporation:
<br />(a) to execute, affix the corporate seal manually or by facsimile to, acknowledge, verify and deliver any contracts, obligations, instruments and documents
<br />whatsoever in connection with its business including, without limiting the foregoing, any bonds, guarantees, undertakings, recognizances, powers of attorney or
<br />revocations of any powers of attorney, stipulations, policies of insurance, deeds, leases, mortgages, releases, satisfactions and agency agreements;
<br />(b) to appoint, in writing, one or more persons for any or all of the purposes mentioned in the preceding paragraph (a), including affixing the seal of the Corporation.
<br />Article III, Officers, Section 3.11, Facsimile Signatures. The signature of any officer authorized by the Corporation to sign any bonds, guarantees, undertakings,
<br />recognizances, stipulations, powers of attorney or revocations of any powers of attorney and policies of insurance issued by the Corporation may be printed,
<br />facsimile, lithographed or otherwise produced. In addition, if and as authorized by the Board of Directors, dividend warrants or checks, or other numerous
<br />instruments similar to one another in form, may be signed by the facsimile signature or signatures, lithographed or otherwise produced, of such officer or officers
<br />of the Corporation as from time to time may be authorized to sign such instruments on behalf of the Corporation. The Corporation may continue to use for the
<br />purposes herein stated the facsimile signature of any person or persons who shall have been such officer or officers of the Corporation, notwithstanding the fact
<br />that he may have ceased to be such at the time when such instruments shall be issued.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, United States Fire Insurance Company has caused these presents to be signed and attested by its appropriate officer and its corporate seal hereunto
<br />affixed this 28' day of September, 2021.
<br />UNITED STATES FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />Matthew E. Lubin, President
<br />State of New Jersey }
<br />County of Morris }
<br />On this 280' day of September, 2021, before me, a Notary public of the State of New Jersey, came the above named officer of United States Fire Insurance
<br />Company, to me personally known to be the individual and officer described herein, and acknowledged that he executed the foregoing instrument and affixed
<br />the seal of United States Fire Insurance Company thereto by the authority of his office.
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<br />Melissa H. D'Alessio
<br />(Notary Public)
<br />1, the undersigned officer of United States Fire Insurance Company, a Delaware corporation, do hereby certify that the original Power of Attorney of which the
<br />foregoing is a full, true and correct copy.is still in force and effect and has not been revoked.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the corporate seal of United States Fire Insurance Company on 6th day
<br />the of April 2023
<br />UNITED STATES FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />Alfred N. Wright, Senior Vice President
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