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<br />UNIVERSAL SURETY
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<br />Western Surety Company
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<br />Know An Men By These Presc:nlS, that WESTERN SURETY COMPANY, a ctlrl'oration duly organized and existing under the
<br />laws of the Stale of South Dakota, and having its principal office in Sioux falls. South Dakota (the "Company"), docs by these pn:sents
<br />make, constitute and appoint DAVID ROVCE SEWELL
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<br />its Ir",c and lawful attomey(s)-in-facl, with full power and aurhority hereby confen-ed, to ellccute, acknowledge and deliver for and on
<br />its behalf as Surety, bonds for:
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<br />Principal: Brooks Concrete, Inc.
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<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY. CERTIFIED COpy
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<br />SP123Jl96~
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<br />Amount:
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<br />City of LaPortl:
<br />568,424.00
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<br />Obligee:
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<br />and to bind rhe Company then:by as fully and to the same elltent 8S if such bonds were signed by the Presidc:nt, sealed with the
<br />corporate seal of the Company and duly attested by its Secretary, hereby ratifying and confirming a1! that the said attorney(s)-i:l.fact
<br />may do within the above stated limitations. Said appointment is made under and by authority of the following bylaw of Western Surety
<br />Company which remains in full force and effect
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<br />"Sectioo 7. All bonds, policies. undertakings, Powers of Attomey or other Ilbligations of the corporation shall be executed in the
<br />corporate name of the Company by tbe President, Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, Treasul"C:', 01" any Vice President or by such other
<br />officers as the Board of Directors may authorize. The President, any Vice President, Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, or the Treasurer
<br />may appoint Attorneys in Fact or a8c:nts who shall have authority to issue bonds, policies, or undertakings in the name of the Company.
<br />The corporate seal is not necessary for the validity of any bonds, policies, undertakings, Powers of Attomey or other obligations of the
<br />corporation. The signature of any such officer and the cOrporate seal may be prinrcd by facsimile."
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<br />All authority hereby conferred shall expire and terminate, without notice, unless used before midnight of NOVEMBER 09
<br />1998 . but until such time shall be irrevocable and in full force and effect
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<br />eof, Western Surety Company has caused these fresenrs to be signed by its President, StC'p~en T. , and its
<br />e eel thislO1H day o5F.PT 998 .
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<br />On this 10TH day of SEPT. , in the year [998 . before me, a notary public, personally appeared Stephen
<br />T. Pate. who being to me duly sworn, acknowledged that he signed the above Power of Attorney as the aforesaid officer of WESTERN
<br />SURETY COMPANY and acknowledged said instrument to be the voluntary act and deed ofssid CCll'pOralion.
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<br />~ D. KRELL I
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<br />Stephen T. Pale. President
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<br />Norary Public " Soulh Dakota
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<br />I the undersigned officer of Western Surety Company, a stock corporation of the State of South Dakota, do hereby certify that the
<br />attached Power of Attorney is in full fon:e and e:fTect and is irrevocable, and furthennore, that Section 7 of the bylaws of the Company
<br />as set forth in the Power of Allomcy is now in force.
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<br />In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Western Sureiy Com any this I TH day Of~EPT.
<br />1998 . ~J-,-
<br />_ WEST! U ETY~~
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<br />Stephen T. PUll, President
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