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<br /> TRAVELERS i St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company
<br /> POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br /> KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America, Travelers Casualty and Surety Company, and
<br /> ' St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company are corporations duly organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut (herein
<br /> collectively called the"Companies"),and that the Companies do hereby make,constitute and appoint ANDREW P THOME of
<br /> CHESTERFIELD , Missouri their true and lawful Attorney(s)-in-Fact to sign, execute, seal and
<br /> acknowledge any and all bonds, recognizances, conditional undertakings and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof on behalf of
<br /> the Companies in their business of guaranteeing the fidelity of persons, guaranteeing the performance of contracts and executing or
<br /> guaranteeing bonds and undertakings required or permitted in any actions or proceedings allowed by law.
<br /> 1N WITNESS WHEREOF,the Companies have caused this instrument to be signed,and their corporate seals to be hereto affixed,this 21st day of April,
<br /> 2021.
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<br /> City of Hartford ss. Robert L.Rane , enior Vice President
<br /> ' On this the 21st day of April, 2021, before me personally appeared Robert L. Raney, who acknowledged himself to be the Senior
<br /> Vice President of each of the Companies, and that he, as such, being authorized so to do, executed the foregoing instrument for the
<br /> purposes therein contained by signing on behalf of said Companies by himself as a duly authorized officer.
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<br /> IN WITNESS WHEREOF,I hereunto set my hand and official seal. C
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<br /> My Commission expires the 30th day of June,2026uv Anna P.Nowik,Notary Public
<br /> ' This Power of Attorney is granted under and by the authority of the following resolutions adopted by the Boards of Directors of each of
<br /> the Companies,which resolutions are now in full force and effect,reading as follows:
<br /> ' RESOLVED, that the Chairman, the President, any Vice Chairman, any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President, any Vice
<br /> President,any Second Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary or any Assistant Secretary may appoint
<br /> Attomeys-in-Fact and Agents to act for and on behalf of the Company and may give such appointee such authority as his or her certificate of authority
<br /> may prescribe to sign with the Company's name and seal with the Company's seal bonds, recognizances, contracts of indemnity, and other writings
<br /> obligatory in the nature of a bond, recognizance, or conditional undertaking, and any of said officers or the Board of Directors at any time may
<br /> ' remove any such appointee and revoke the power given him or her;and it is
<br /> FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chairman, the President, any Vice Chairman, any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President or
<br /> any Vice President may delegate all or any part of the foregoing authority to one or more officers or employees of this Company, provided
<br /> that each such delegation is in writing and a copy thereof is filed in the office of the Secretary;and it is
<br /> FURTHER RESOLVED, that any bond, recognizance, contract of indemnity, or writing obligatory in the nature of a bond, recognizance,
<br /> or conditional undertaking shall be valid and binding upon the Company when (a) signed by the President, any Vice Chairman, any Executive
<br /> Vice President, any Senior Vice President or any Vice President, any Second Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the
<br /> Corporate Secretary or any Assistant Secretary and duly attested and sealed with the Company's seal by a Secretary or Assistant Secretary;
<br /> ' or (b) duly executed (under seal, if required) by one or more Attomeys-in-Fact and Agents pursuant to the power prescribed in his or her
<br /> certificate or their certificates of authority or by one or more Company officers pursuant to a written delegation of authority;and it is
<br /> FURTHER RESOLVED, that the signature of each of the following officers: President, any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President,
<br /> any Vice President,any Assistant Vice President,any Secretary,any Assistant Secretary,and the seal of the Company may be affixed by facsimile to
<br /> ' any Power of Attorney or to any certificate relating thereto appointing Resident Vice Presidents, Resident Assistant Secretaries or Attorneys-in-
<br /> Fact for purposes only of executing and attesting bonds and undertakings and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof,and any such Power of
<br /> Attorney or certificate bearing such facsimile signature or facsimile seal shall be valid and binding upon the Company and any such power so executed
<br /> and certified by such facsimile signature and facsimile seal shall be valid and binding on the Company in the future with respect to any bond or
<br /> understanding to which it is attached.
<br /> 1, Kevin E. Hughes, the undersigned, Assistant Secretary of each of the Companies, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a
<br /> true and correct copy of the Power of Attorney executed by said Companies,which remains in full force and effect.
<br /> ' Dated this 27 day of June , 2022
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<br /> �-. Kevin E.Hughes,Asst taut Secretary
<br /> To verify the authenticity of this Power of Attorney,please call us at 1-800-421-3880.
<br /> ' Please refer to the above-named Attorneys)-in-Fact and the details of the bond to which this Power of Attorney is attached.
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