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<br />NAS SURETY GROUP
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<br />NORTH AMERICAN SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
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<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT North American Specialty Insurance Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under
<br />the laws of the State of New Hampshire, and having its principal 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 principal office in the City ofItasca,
<br />Illinois, each does hereby make, constitute and appoint:
<br />NICHOLAS L. NEWTON, JEFFREY R. MAAS, CHERYL L. 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 of suretyship executed under this authority shall exceed the
<br />amount of: 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 24'h of March, 2000:
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<br />"RESOL VED, that any two of the President, any Senior 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 sueh 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 />~_u t. SEAL \ ~m~ Paul D. Amstutz, President & Chief Exccutin Officer of\Vashington Inlcrnationallnsurancc Compan)' & ; ~.! CORPORAlt \ ~ ~
<br />Vice President of Korth Amencan Spt.-'dalty Insurance Company _ I- ,..
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<br />?/IIIItIIUH\\\\\\\'\ Steyen P. Anderson. Sr. Vlee Presldcnt of \\'ashington International Insurance Company & """',,~\,,\\\\\.
<br />Vice President of l\'orth American Specialty Insurance 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 ~ day of April . 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 DuPage
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<br />~day of April ,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 />Sr. Vice President of Washington International Insurance Company & Vice President of North American Specialty Insurance Company, personally known
<br />to me, who being by me duly sworn, acknowledged that they signed the above Power of Attorney as offieers of, and acknowledged said instrument to be
<br />the voluntary act and deed of, their respective companies.
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<br />OFFICIAL SEAL
<br />VASMJN A PATEL
<br />IIOOT AllY 1IJIIUaUC. aT A Tl! OF M..tJNOtra
<br />-CO_"""""""~""'2 Yasmin A. Patel, Notary Public
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<br />I, James A. Carpenter , Vice President & Assistant Secretary of Washington International Insurance Company and the Assistant Secretary of
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<br />North Arnerican Speciality Insurance Company, do hereby certifY that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a Power of Attorney given
<br />by the companies, which is stilI in full force and effect.
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<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand and affixed the seals of the Companies this ~day of April
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<br />James A. Carpenter, Vice Presidcnt & Assistant Secretary of Washington International Insurance Company &
<br />Assistant Secretary of1"ortb American Speciality Insurance Company
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