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<br />NAS SURETY GROUP
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<br />NORTH AMERICAN SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY
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<br />GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
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<br />KNOW ALL l\tIEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT North American Specialty Insurance Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under
<br />laws of the State of New Hampshire, and having its plincipal office in the City of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Washington International
<br />Insurance Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Arizona and having its plincipal office in the City ofItasca,
<br />Illinois, each does hereby make, constitute and appoint:
<br />NICHOLAS 1. NEWTON, JEFFREY R. MAAS, CHERYL 1. BREYEN,
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<br />STACEY SCHMIDT and MARGARET WUEBKERS
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<br />jointly or severally
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<br />Its true 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 nature of a bond on behalf of each of said Companies, as surety, on contracts of suretyship as are or may be required or permitted 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:
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<br />TEN MILLION (10,000,000.00) DOLLARS
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<br />This Power of Attorney 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 Washington International Insurance Company at meetings duly called and held
<br />on the 24th of March, 2000:
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<br />"RESOLVED, that any two of the President, any Executive Vice President, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary or any
<br />Assistant Secretary be, and each or any of them hereby is authorized to execute a Power of Attorney qualifying the attorney named in the given Power
<br />of Attorney to execute on behalf of the Company bonds, undertakings and all contracts 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
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<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 Attorney 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 />By
<br />Steven P. Anderson, Executive Vice President of Washington International Insurance Company &
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<br />By
<br />Paul D. Amstutz, President & Chief Executivc Officcr of\Vashington International Insurance Company &
<br />Vice President of North American Specialty Insurancc Company
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<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, North American Specialty Insurance Company and Washington International Insurance Company have caused their
<br />official seals to be hereunto affixed, and these presents to be signed by their authorized officers this -.lL day of December , 20~.
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<br />North American Specialty Insurance Company
<br />Washington International Insurance Company
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<br />State of Illinois
<br />County of Du Page
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<br />On this ~ day of December , 20~, before me, a Notary Public personally appeared Paul D. Amstutz , President and CEO of
<br />Washington International Insurance Company and Vice President of North American Specialty Insurance Company and Steven P. Anderson
<br />Executive Vice President of Washington International Insurance Company and Vice President of North American Specialty Insurance Company,
<br />personally known to me, who being by me duly sworn, acknowledged that they signed the above Power of Attorney as officers of and
<br />acknowledged said instrument to be the voluntary act and deed of their respective companies.
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<br />YasTIlin A. Patel, t~otary Pubiic
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<br />I, James A. Carpenter ,the duly elected Assistant Secretary of North American Specialty Insurance Company and Washington
<br />International Insurance Company, do hereby certifY that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a Power of Attorney given by said North
<br />American Specialty Insurance Company and Washington International Insurance Company, which is still in full force and effect.
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<br />11'-I V/TT1'~ESS V/HEREOF) T have set 111Y nand and affixed the seals of the C0111panies
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<br />James A. Carpenter, Vice President & Assistant Secretary of Washington Intemational Insunll1ce Company &
<br />Assistant Secretary of North American Specialty Insurance Company
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