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MERcxANTs 1'
<br />BONDING COMPANY,
<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />Know All Persons By These Presents, that MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) and MERCHANTS NATIONAL BONDING,
<br />INC., both being corporations duly organized under the laws of the State of Iowa (herein collectively called the "Companies"),
<br />and that the Companies do hereby make, constitute and appoint, Individually,
<br />James Baldassare Jr; Lawrence F McMahon
<br />of San Diego and State of California their true and lawful Attorney -In -Fact, with full power
<br />and authority hereby conferred In their name, place and stead, to sign, execute, acknowledge and deliver In their behalf as surety
<br />any and all bonds, undertakings, recognizances or other written obligations in the nature thereof, subject to the limitation that any
<br />such Instrument shall not exceed the amount of:
<br />TWO MILLION ($2,000,000.00) DOLLARS
<br />and to bind the Companies thereby as fully and to the same extent as If such bond or undertaking was signed by the duly
<br />authorized officers of the Companies, and all the acts of said Attorney -In -Fact, pursuant to the authority herein given, are
<br />hereby ratified and confirmed.
<br />This Power -of -Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the following By -Laws adopted by the Board of
<br />Directors of the Merchants Bonding Company (Mutual) on April 23, 2011 and adopted by the Board of Directors of Merchants National
<br />Bonding, Inc„ on October 24, 2011,
<br />"The President, Secretary, Treasurer, or any Assistant Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary or any Vice President shall have
<br />power and authority to appoint Attorneys -in -Fact, and to authorize them to execute on behalf of the Company, and attach the
<br />seal of the Company thereto, bonds and undertakings, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other writings obligatory In
<br />the nature thereof.
<br />The signature of any authorized officer and the seal of the Company may be affixed by facslmile or electronic transmission to
<br />any Power of Attorney or Cartiflcation thereof authorizing the execution and delivery of any bond, undertaking, recognizance,
<br />or other suretyship obligations of the Company, and such signature and seal when so used shall have the same force and
<br />effect as though manually fixed."
<br />In Witness Whereof, the Companies have caused this Instrument to be signed and sealed this 13thday of August , 2014.
<br />STATE OF IOWA
<br />COUNTY OF POLK ss,
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<br />"a.President
<br />On this 19th day of August 2014, before me appeared Larry Taylor, to me personally known, who being by me duly sworn did
<br />say that he is President of the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) and MERCHANTS NATIONAL BONDING, INC.; and
<br />that the seals affixed to the foregoing Instrument is the Corporate Seals of the Companies; and that the said Instrument was signed and
<br />sealed In behalf of the Companies by authority of their respective Boards of Directors.
<br />In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal at the City of Des Molnes, Iowa, the day and year
<br />first-abovewritten: _.... _—......... __._ _........... .. ... _. .. .. ._ _..__ ._
<br />WENDY WOODY
<br />Alon�
<br />Commission Number 7$4654
<br />My Commission Expires
<br />June 20, 2017
<br />Notary Public, Polk County, Iowa
<br />STATE OF IOWA
<br />COUNTY OF POLK ss.
<br />I, William Warner, Jr., Secretary of the MERCHANTS BONDING COMPANY (MUTUAL) and MERCHANTS NATIONAL BONDING, INC.,
<br />do hereby certlfy that the above and foregoing Is a truo and correct copy of the POWER-OF-ATTORNEY executed by said Companies,
<br />which is still in full force and effect and has not been amended or revoked.
<br />In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto
<br />this 21st day of April
<br />POA 0014 (7/14) fly"•*
<br />my hand and affixed the seal of the Companies on
<br />Secretary /'
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