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CONTINUATION CERTIFICATE

NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL COR 606 E. MAGRILL LONGVIEW, TX 75601

SD PUBLIC UTILITIES 500 E CAPITOL AVE PIERRE, SD 57501-5070

ORIGINAL FOR BOND RENEWAL

EXPIRATION DATE

2 11 2014

THIS BOND CONTINUES IN FORCE TO THE ABOVE EXPIRATION DATE CONDITIONED AND PROVIDED THAT THE LOSSES OR RECOVERIES ON

IT Al\JD ANY AND ALL ENDORSEMENTS SHALL NEVER EXCEED THE PENAL TY SET FORTH 11,J THE BOND AND WHETHER THE LOSSES OR

RECOVERIES ARE WITHIN THE FIRST AND/OR SUBSEQUENT OR WITHIN ANY EXTEl\JSION OR RENEWAL PERIOD. PRESENT. PAST OR FUTURE.

ALL OTHER TERlvlS AND CONDITIONS REMAIN UNCHANGED.

SIGNED AND DATED THIS -~T=H=I~R=T=E=E=N~T~H~---- DAY OF _~F~E=B=R~U=A=R~Y~~2~0~1~3 ________ _

89-6287 GANS & SMITH INS . AGENCY, 1109 JUDSON ROAD P 0 BOX 2869 LONGVIEW, TX 75606-2869

903-757-4601

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SURETY COMPANY

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: t hat OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY, a Wisconsin stock insurance corporation, di:\t:s make, constitute and appoint: . ·-··:..·

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KAREN ·MCCLUSK_Y, OFB,ROOKFIELD, WI ·:. -:· ..

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its true and lawfui Attorney(s)-in-Fact, with full power and authority; .. not exceedi!)g $20,000,000, for and on behalf of the company as surety, to execute and deliver and affix the seal of the company thereto (if a seal is required);·boncis;· undertakings, recognizances or other written obligations in the nature thereof, (other than bail bonds, bank depository bonds, mortgage deficiency bonds, mortgage·:guaranty bonds, guarantees of installment paper and note guaranty bonds, self-insurance workers compensation bonds guaranteeing payment of benefits, asbestos abateinen(contract bonds, waste management bonds, hazardous waste remediation bonds or black lung. bonds), as follows: · ::,_.,.{{.: · ··

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a:Actt~ :bind ,OLD REPUBLIC SURETY CQMPANY thereby, and all of the acts ofs~ict . Attb~eys"iri-Fa~t. ~~rsuant to thes~ prese~ts , are raiilled and confirmed. :Ihis .·~ocurnerit is.not valid unless pnntedon colored background and is multi-colored. ·this appoiiltmeih is made.under and by .authority of the board of directors . at a-'special medingheld ·on February:· I 8, ·I 982 . . , This Power o.f Attorney is signed and sealed byfacsiinile under aiid-by· the authority of the following resolutions.

·. ·, ad~pted by the board ~f directors ofthe OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY on Febftiary is:· I 9~2. · · ·.·. : · . ··

;-: ·- :=-::· RESOLVED that, the president/ any .vice-p.resident, or ~ssistffi\t vice president, in conjunctiori with the secretary or any assistant·secretary, may appoint attorneys-in-fact or agents with authority as defined or: limite~':(n the instrument evidencing the appointment in each case, for and on behal( ofthe company to .:. · execute and deliver and affix the seal of the company to bonds, undertakings, recognizances, and suretyship obligations of all kinds; and said.officers.may remove any such attorney-in-fact or agent and revoke any Power" of Attorney previously granted to such person.

RESOLVED FURTHER, that any bond, undertaking, recognizance, or suretyship obligation shall be valid and binding upon the Company (i) when signed by the president, any vice president or assistant vice president, and attested and sealed (if a seal be required) by any secretary or assistant

secretary; or (ii) when signed by the president, any vice president or assistant vice president, secretary or assistant secretary, and countersigned and sealed (if a seal be

required) by a duly authorized attorney-in-fact or agent; or ,.,. . ·.' , .. (iii) when duly executed and ·sealed (if a seal be required) by one or more attorneys-in-fact or agents pursuant to and within the limits of the authority

evidenced by the Power ·of Attorney issued J:>y the company to such person or persons. ·· · ·

RES.CL VED FURTHER.':that the signature of ~riy ~uthor.ized officer and the seal of the company may.b~ affixed by facsimile to any Power of Aitoniey or certification ther(:of ai:ithonz ing the execution and delivery of any bond, undertaking, recognizance, or .pther.suretyship obligations of the company; and such signature and s·eal when so used:.shall have the same.force.imd ef[ect as though manually affixed. . . .. . · .. ::: .

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY has caused ihese presents to be signed by its p~~per officer, and its corporate sea.I to bt affixed this 8Ttt' day of JANUARY; 201 i-: . . . . . ..

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STAT.E::oF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF WAUKESHA-SS ~ ,... .. :·

Ort this '' 8TH ,.i' da; :or JANUARY, 2013 , personally cam'ii befd~~ me} : \.Geraid C'. Leach .· and

Phyllis M. Johnson , to me kno\Yn to be the individuals and officers oftl;e OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY who executed the above . :, instrument, and they each acknowledged the exe6~tioii .~f the ~~lne, and being by me duly 'sworn; did: ~~verally depose a~d say; that th~y are the ;a"i<l ~ffi~~~ of ihe .

:. corporation aforesaid, and that the seal affi.xed to the above· instrum~nt is the seal of the corjioration: and that said corporate seal and theirsi~atures as su~h -officers .

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~ Notary Public

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CERTIFICATE

I, the undersigned, assistant secretary of the OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY, a Wisconsin corporation, CERTIFY that theforegoing and attached Power

of Attorney remains in full force \!Qd has not been.r evoked; and furthermore, that the Resolutions of the board of directors set forth in the Power of Attorney, are now

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Signed and sealed at the City of Brookfield, WI this /3 - di!Y or>:J-..tv Uca:i!Y.- at I ;5 ..

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