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<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />CAROLINA CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
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<br />No, 282
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<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: that CAROLINA CASUALTY rNSURANCE COMPANY ("Company") a corporation duly
<br />organized and existing under the laws of the State of Florida, having its principal office in Jacksonville, Florida, has made, constituted and
<br />appointed, and does by these presents make, constitute and appoint: Charles J. Nielson or Charles D. Nielson or Warren M. Alter or Joseph P.
<br />Nielson or Olga M. Nielson or Kevin R. Wojtowicz of Nielson & Company, Inc. of Miami Lakes, FL
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<br />its true and lawful Agent and Attorney-in-Fact, with the power and authority hereby conferred in its name, place and stead, to execute, seal,
<br />acknowledge and deliver: any and all bonds and undertakings providing that no single obligation shall exceed Fifteen Million and 001\00 Dollars
<br />($15,000,000.00)
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<br />and to bind the Company thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such bonds had been duly executed and acknowledged by the regularly elected
<br />officers of the Company at its principal office in their own proper persons.
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<br />This Power of Attorney is granted pursuant to the Minutes of the Special Meeting of the Board of Directors of Carolina Casualty Insurance Company
<br />held on March 30, 1966, to wit:
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<br />RESOLVED: "That the following Officers of the Carolina Casualty Insurance Company, Chairman of the Board, President, Secretary and
<br />Treasurer, or either of them, are hereby authorized to execute on behalf of Carolina Casualty Insurance Company, Powers of Attorney
<br />authorizing and qualifying the Attorney-in-Fact named therein to execute bonds on behalf of the Carolina Casualty Insurance Company,
<br />and further, that the said Officers of the Company mentioned, are hereby authorized to affix the corporate seal of the said Company to
<br />Powers of Attorney executed pursuant hereto".
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<br />RESOLVED FURTHER, this Power of Attorney limits the acts of those named therein to the bonds and undertakings specifically named therein,
<br />and they have no authority to bind the company except in the manner and to the extent therein stated.
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<br />RESOL VED FURTHER, this Power of Attorney revokes all previous powers issued in behalf of the Attorney-in-Fact named above.
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<br />RESOL VED FURTHER, that the signature of any authorized officer and the seal of the Company may be affixed by facsimile to any power of
<br />attorney or certification thereof authorizing the execution and delivery of any bond, undertaking, recognizance, or other suretyship obligations of the
<br />Company; and such signature and seal when so used shall have the same force and effect as though manually affixed, The Company may continue
<br />to use for the purposes herein stated the facsimile signature of any person or persons who shall have been such officer or officers of the Company,
<br />notwithstanding the fact that they may have ceased to be such at the time when such instruments shall be issued.
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<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Carolina Casualty Insurance Company has caused these presents to be signed and attested by its appropriate officers
<br />and its corporate seal hereunto affixed this 5th day of AUgust ?001.
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<br />Betty C. S rand
<br />Vice President and Secretary
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<br />Carolina Casualty Insurance Company
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<br />By: Vo../ ~ I.-
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<br />Armin W. Blumberg
<br />President and Chief Executive Officer
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<br />WARNING:
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<br />THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY INVALID IF NOT PRINTED ON GREEN "MONITOR" SECURITY PAPER,
<br />STATE OF FLORIDA)
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<br />COUNTY OF DUVAL)
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<br />On this 5th day of AUGUst , 2003 , before me personally came Betty C. Sutherland to me known, who, being by me duly
<br />sworn, did depose and say: that she is Secretary of Carolina Casualty Insurance Company, the Corporation described in and which executed the
<br />above instrument; and that*'fshe knows the seal of said Corporation; that the seal affixed to the said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so
<br />affixed by order of the Board of Directors of said Corporation and that .k9{she signed his/her name thereto by like order.
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<br />IN WIT
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<br />~~L.eJ~p!~set my hand ad affixed my official seal; the day an
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<br />SEPT 23,2006
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<br />CERTIFICATE
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<br />I, the undersigned, Secretary of CAROLINA CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a just, true,
<br />correct and complete copy of original Power of Attorney; that the said Power of Attorney has not been revoked or rescinded and that the authority of
<br />the Attorney-in-~:lct set forth therein, who executed the bond to which this Power of Attorney is attached, is in full force and eg8~ as of this date.
<br />Given under my hand and the seal of the Company, this 9th day of Augus t , 2 .
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