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<br />Merchants Bonding Company
<br />(Mutual) BOND NO. FL-5616
<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY
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<br />Know All Persons flY 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
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<br />Monique S. Lee, Michael H. Burton and/or Michele A. Mohoney
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<br />of Plantation and State of Florida its true and lawful Attorney-In-Fact, with full power
<br />and authority hereby conferred in its name, piace 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:
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<br />Two Millon ($2,000,000.00) DoHars
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<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 Attorney-In-Fact, pursuant to the authority herein given, are hereby ratified and confirmed.
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<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 October 3. 1992.
<br />ARTICLE 11, SECTION 8 - The Chainnan of the Board or President or any Vice President or Secretary shall have power arid
<br />authority to appoint Attorneys-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 11. 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.
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<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 I st day of January 200 I
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<br />MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL)
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<br />STATE OF IOWA
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<br />By ~ 7.,L
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<br />President
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<br />On this I st day of January ,2001. before me appeared Larry Taylor, to
<br />me personaliy known, who being by me duly sworn did say that he is President of the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL),
<br />the corporation described in the foregoing instrument, and that the Seal affixed to the said instrument is the Corporate Seal of the said
<br />Corporation and that the said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said CorporaHon by authority of its Board of Directors.
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<br />\n 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
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<br />COUNTY OF POLK S5.
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<br />1, William Warner, Jr., Secretary of the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL). do hereby certify that the above and foregoing
<br />is a true and correct copy of the POWER.OF-A TIORNEY executed by said MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL), which is
<br />still in force and effect
<br />In Witnass Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Company on
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