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NAS SURETY GROUP
<br />NORTH AMERICAN SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />KI��OW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT North American Specialty Insurance Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under
<br />law�s of the State of New Hampshire, and having its principal office in the City of Manchester, New Harnpshire, and Washington Internationai
<br />Insurance Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Arizona and having its principal office in the City of Itasca,
<br />Illinois, each does hereby make, constitute and appoint:
<br />NICHOLAS L. NEWTON, JEFFREY R. MAAS,
<br />CHERYL L. BREYEN and STACEY SCHMIDT .
<br />JOINTLY OR SEVERALLY
<br />Its tnie and lawful Attorney(s)-in-Fact, to make, execute, seal and deliver, for and on its behalf and as its act and deed, bonds or other writings
<br />obligatory in the na[ure of a bond on behalf of each of said Companies, as surety, on contracts of suretyship as are or may be required or permit[ed by
<br />law, regulation, contract or otherwise, provided that no bond or undertaking or contract or suretyship executed under this authority shall exceed the
<br />amount of: TEN M(LL[ON (]0,000,000.00) DOLLARS
<br />This Power of At[omey is granted and is signed by facsimile under and by the authority of the following Resolutions adopted by the Boards of
<br />Directors of both North American Specialty Insurance Company and ��'ashing[on International Insurance Company at meetings duly called and held
<br />on the 24`h of March, 2000:
<br />"RESOLVED, that any [wo of the President, any Eaecuti�e Vice President, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, [he Secretary or any
<br />Assistant Secretary be, and each or any of them hereby is authorized to execute a Power of Attorney qualifyina the attorney named in the given Power
<br />of Attorney to execute on behalf of the Company bonds, undertal:ings and all con[racts of surety, and that each or any of them hereby is authorized to
<br />attest to the execution of any such Power of Attorney and to attach therein the seal of the Company; and it is
<br />FURTHER RESOLVED, that the signature of such officers and the seal of the Company may be affixed to any such Power of Attorney or to any
<br />certificate relating thereto by facsimile, and any such Power of Attomey or certificate bearing such facsimile signatures or facsimile seal shall be
<br />binding upon the Company when so affixed and in the future with regard to any bond, undertaking or contract of surety to which it is attached."
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<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, North American Speeialty Insurance Company and Washington International Insurance Compam� have caused d�eir
<br />official seals to be hereunto affixed, and these presents to be signed by their authorized officers this 23rd day of _ �9ay , �p Ob
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<br />Washinhton Intcrnational Insurancc Company
<br />S[ate cf Illinois
<br />County of Du Page ss:
<br />On this 23rd day of May ,?p 06 , before me, a Notary Public personally appeared Steven P. Anderson , President and CEO of
<br />Washington Intemational Insurance Company and Vice President of North American Specialty Insurance Company and David� M. La'yman .
<br />Vice President of Washington In[ernational Insurance Company and Vice President of North American Specialty lnsurance Company,
<br />personally known to me, who being by me duly sworn, acknowled�ed that they signed the above Power of Attomey as officers of and
<br />acknowledged said instrument to be the voluntary act and deed of their respective companies.
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<br />fvolary°uLlic.5lateoi=linds Susan Ansel, Notary Public
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<br />I, James A. Carpenter , the duly elected Assistant Secretarv of Nor[h American Specialty Insurance Company and Washington
<br />Intemational [nsurance Company, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a Power of Attorney �iven by said North
<br />American Specialty Insurance Company and Washington Intema[ional Insurance Company, which is stil] in full force and effect.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have set my hand and affixed the seals of the Companies this � 1 day of 1�1iU��� 20�.
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<br />James A. Carpemer, Vice President d Assismnl Secreian� of Washington Intemational Insuranre Companc d
<br />Nonh Amencan Speaaln� Insurance Companp
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