GULF INSURANCE COMPANY
<br /> N HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
<br /> POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br /> ORIGINALS OF THIS POWER OF ATTORNEY ARE PRINTED ON BLUE SAFETY PAPER WITH TEAL INK.
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<br /> KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That the Gulf Insurance Company, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut, having
<br /> its principal office in the city of Irving , Texas, pursuant to the following resolution, adopted by the Finance & Executive Committee of the Board of Directors
<br /> of the said Company on the 10th day of August, 1993, to wit:
<br /> y " RESOLVED , that the President, Executive Vice President or any Senior Vice President of the Company shall have authority to make, execute and deliver a
<br /> Power of Attorney constituting as Attorney-in-Fact, such persons, firms, or corporations as may be selected from time to time; and any such Attorney-in-Fact
<br /> may be removed and the authority granted him revoked by the President, or any Executive Vice President, or any Senior Vice President, or by the Board of
<br /> Directors or by the Finance and Executive Committee of the Board of Directors.
<br /> RESOLVED , that nothing in this Power of Attorney shall be construed as a grant of authority to the attorney(s)-in-tact to sign, execute, acknowledge, deliver
<br /> or otherwise issue a policy or policies of insurance on behalf of Gulf Insurance Company.
<br /> RESOLVED, that the signature of the President, Executive Vice President or any Senior Vice President, and the Seal of the Company may be affixed to any
<br /> such Power of Attorney or any certificate relating thereto by facsimile, and any such powers so executed and certified by facsimile signature and facsimile
<br /> seal shall be valid and binding upon the Company in the future with respect to any bond and documents relating to such bonds to which they are attached."
<br /> Gulf Insurance Company does hereby make, constitute and appoint
<br /> James T. Smith John B. Manus Kathy Hobbs James H. Martin Raymond M. Hundley
<br /> Brook T. Smith Jason D. Cromwell
<br /> its true and lawful attorney(s)-in-tact, with full power and authority hereby conferred in its name, place and stead, to sign, execute; acknowledge and deliver
<br /> in its behalf, as surety, any and all bonds and undertakings of suretyship, and to bind Gulf Insurance Company thereby as fully and to the same extent as if
<br /> any bonds, undertakings and documents relating to such bonds and/or undertakings were signed by the duly authorized officer of the Gulf Insurance Company
<br /> and all the acts of said attorney(s)-in-fact, pursuant to the authority herein given , are hereby ratified and confirmed.
<br /> The obligation of the Company shall not exceed five million (5,000,000) dollars.
<br /> IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Gulf Insurance Company has caused these presents to be signed by any officer of the Company and its Corporate Seal to
<br /> be hereto affixed .
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<br /> Ecc Lawrence P. Mi
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<br /> On this isl day of October AD 2001 , before me came Lawrence P. Minder, known to me personally who being by me duly sworn, did depose and say:
<br /> that he resides in the County of Bergen, State of New Jersey; that he is the Executive Vice President of the Gulf Insurance Company, the corporation described
<br /> in and which executed the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to the said Instruments is such corporate seal;
<br /> that it was so affixed by order of the Board of Directors of said corporation and that he signed his name, thereto by like order.
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<br /> TAUB�-�G OANGIE MAHABIR•BEGAZO
<br /> STATE OF NEW YORK SS � > Notary Public, State of New York
<br /> COUNTY OF NEW YORK OF NEt1 No. OIMA6019988
<br /> Qualified in IGngs County
<br /> Commission Expires February 16, 2007
<br /> I , the undersigned , Senior Vice President of the Gulf insurance Company, a Connecticut Corporation, DO HEREBY CERTIFYthat the foregoing and attached
<br /> POWER OF ATTORNEY remains in full force .
<br /> \aOUMNCECO Dated the 15th day of July 120 03
<br /> Signed and Sealed at the City of New York.
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<br /> George Biancardi
<br /> Senior Vice President
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