<br />GRANITE RE, INC.
<br />GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
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<br />Know all Men by these Presents:
<br />That GRANITE RE, INC., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of OKLAHOMA and having its principal office
<br />at the City of OKLAHOMA CITY in the State of OKLAHOMA does hereby constitute and appoint:
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<br />JONATHAN PATE, WANDA FRANZ, TOM LAHL, LISA M. FRANCOUR its true and lawful Attorney-in-Fact(s) for the following purposes, to
<br />wit:
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<br />To sign its name as surety to, and to execute, seal and acknowledge any and all bonds, and to respectively do and perform any and all acts
<br />and things set forth in the resolution of the Board of Directors of the said GRANITE RE, INC. a certified copy of which is hereto annexed and made
<br />a part ofthis Power of Attorney; and the said GRANITE RE, INC. through us, its Board of Directors, hereby ratifies and confirms all and whatsoever
<br />the said:
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<br />JONATHAN PATE, WANDA FRANZ, TOM LAHL, LISAM. FRANCOUR may lawfully do in the premises by virtue of these presents.
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<br />In Witness Whereof, the said GRANITE RE, INC. has caused this instrument to be sealed with its corporate seal, duly attested by the
<br />signatures of its Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer, this 26th day of October, 2004.
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<br />STATE OF OKLAHOMA )
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<br />COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA )
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<br />Rodrtlan A. Frates, Secretary/Treasurer
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<br />On this 26th day of October, 2004, before me personally came R. Darryl Fisher, Vice President of the GRANITE RE, INC. Company and
<br />Rodman A. Frates, Secretary/Treasurer of said Company, with both of whom I am personally acquainted, who being by me severally duly sworn,
<br />said, that they, the said R. Darryl Fisher and Rodman A. Frates were respectively the Vice President and the Secretaryffreasurer of the GRANITE
<br />RE, INC., the corporation described in and which executed the foregoing Power of Attorney; that they each knew the seal of said corporation; that
<br />the seal affixed to said Power of attorney was such corporate seal, that it was so fixed by order of the Board of Directors of said corporation, and that
<br />they signed their name thereto by like order as Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer, respectively, of the Company.
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<br />My Commission Expires:
<br />May 9,2008
<br />Commission #:00005708
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<br />Notary Public
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<br />GRANITE RE, INC.
<br />Certificate
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<br />THE UNDERSIGNED, being the duly elected and acting Secretary/Treasurer of Granite Re, Inc., an Oklahoma Corporation, HEREBY CERTIFIES
<br />that the following resolution is a true and correct excerpt from the July 15, 1987, minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors of Granite Re, Inc.
<br />and that said Power of Attorney has not been revoked and is now in full force and effect.
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<br />"RESOLVED, that the President, any Vice President, the Secretary, and any Assistant Vice President shall each have authority to appoint
<br />individuals as attorneys-in-fact or under other appropriate titles with authority to execute on behalf of the company fidelity and surety
<br />bonds and other documents of similar character issued by the Company in the course of its business. On any instrument making or
<br />evidencing such appointment, the signatures may be affixed by facsimile. On any instrument conferring such authority or on any bond or
<br />undertaking of the Company, the seal, or a facsimile thereof, may be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced; provided,
<br />however, that the seal shall not be necessary to the validity of any such instrument or undertaking."
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<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed this Certificate and affixed the corporate seal of the Corporation this 27th day of
<br />September, 2005.
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<br />dman A. Frates, Secretaryffreasurer
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