Western Surety Company
<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY APPOINTING INDIVIDUAL ATTORNEY -IN -FACT
<br />Know All Men By These Presents, That WESTERN SURETY COMPANY, a South Dakota corporation, is a duly organized and existing corporation
<br />having its principal office in the City of Sioux Falls, and State of South Dakota, and that it does by virtue of the signature and seal herein affixed hereby make,
<br />constitute and appoint
<br />Thomas J Me Govern, Elaine K Miller, Jada M Karst, Thomas J Van Dyck, Laura L Diver,
<br />Tracie M McBride, Individually
<br />of Fort Wayne, IN, its true and lawful Attomey(s)-in-Fact with full power and authority hereby conferred to sign, seal and execute for and on its behalf bonds,
<br />undertakings and other obligatory instruments of similar nature
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<br />and to bind it thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such instruments were signed by a duly authorized officer of the corporation and all the acts of said
<br />Attorney, pursuant to the authority hereby given, are hereby ratified and confirmed.
<br />This Power of Attorney is made and executed pursuant to and by authority of the By -Law printed on the reverse hereof, duly adopted, as indicated, by
<br />the shareholders of the corporation.
<br />In Witness Whereof, WESTERN SURETY COMPANY has caused these presents to be signed by its Vice President and its corporate seal to be hereto
<br />affixed on this 4th day of January, 2023.
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<br />On this 4th day of January, 2023, before me personally came Paul T. Bruflat, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say: that he
<br />resides in the City of Sioux Falls, State of South Dakota; that he is the Vice President of WESTERN SURETY COMPANY described in and which executed
<br />the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to the said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed pursuant
<br />to authority given by the Board of Directors of said corporation and that he signed his name thereto pursuant to like authority, and acknowledges same to be
<br />the act and deed of said corporation.
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<br />M. Bent, Notary Public
<br />CERTIFICATE
<br />1, L. Nelson, Assistant Secretary of WESTERN SURETY COMPANY do hereby certify that the Power ofAttorney hereinabove set forth is still in force,
<br />and further certify that the By -Law of the corporation printed on the reverse hereof is still in force. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name
<br />and affixed the seal of the said corporation this 13th day of Feb,uary, 2024,
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<br />L. Nelson, Assistant Secretary
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