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<br />Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America
<br />AW Travelers Casualty and Surety Company
<br />TRAVELERS J 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 Kathleen Earle of
<br />SAN FRANCISCO , California , their true and lawful Attomey(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 />IN 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. Raney, Senior 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.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and official seal.
<br />My Commission expires the 30th day of June, 2026 PUsuc
<br />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 />Attorneys -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 Attorneys -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 Attomeys-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 />I, 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 8th day of May 2024
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<br />= Kevin E. Hughes, Assistant Secretary
<br />To verHythe authenticity of this'Power of Attorney; please can us at 1-800-421-3880.
<br />Please refer to the above -named Attorneys) -in -Fact and the -details oFthe bond to which this Power of Attorney is attached.
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