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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that we, Peninsular Telephone
Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the State of Florida, as principal, and Hartford Accident and
Indemnity Co., of Hartford, Connecticut, a corporation organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut, as surety,
are held and firmly bound unto the City of Clearwater, Florida, a
municipal corporation located in Pinellas County, Florida, in the
penal sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) for the payment whereof
well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our successors and
as,signs, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
THE CONDITION of this obligation is such that, whereas the
said City of Clearwater, Florida, and the said Peninsular Telephone
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Company have entered into an agreement dated the /7- day of
September 1952, covering the installation of certain telephone
facilities in the said City of Glearwater,Florida, by the said
Peninsular Telephone Company in consideration of the passage of an
Ordinance by the said City of Clearwater, Florida, granting to the
said Peninsular Telephone Company a franchise in accordance with the
understanding of said parties, as will more fully appear from a copy
of the, said agreement attached hereto and marked Exhibit ~Ifor
identification, and whereas the said agreement provides that the said
Peninsular Telephone Company will procure and deliver to the said
City of Clearwater, Florida, a bond in the amount of Ten Thousand
Dollars ($10,000), payable to the said City of Clearwater, Florida,
and conditioned upon the faithful performance of the matters and
things set forth in the said agreement during the period beginning
with the date of the said agreement and ending on the first day of
September, 1955, as will more fully appear from the copy of the said
agreement attached hereto, Exhibit 'A' aforesaid.
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NOW THEREFORE, if the said Peninsular Telephone Company, its
successors and assigns, shall well and truly observe, perform,
fulfill and keep all and singular, the terms, conditions and
agreements, on the part of the said Peninsular Telephone Company,
its successors and assigns, to be observed, performed, fulfilled and
kept according to the true intent and purpose of said agreement,
Exhibit tA' aforesaid. during the period beginning with the date
of said agreement, and ending at midnight September 1, 1955, then
this obligation shall be null and void, else to remain in full
force and effect.
SIGNED AND SEALED AT TAMPA, FLORIDA this the 17th day of
September, A. D., 1952.
PENINSULAR TELEPHONE COMPANY
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HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY CO. OF
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" . HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT .
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all men by these Presents, That the HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND
INDEMNITY COMPANY, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Connecticut, and having its principal
office in the City of Hartford, County of Hartford, State of Connecticut, does hereby make, constitute and appoint
JOHN C. FRITCHMAN, of TAMPA, FLORIDA,
,its true and lawful Attorney(s)-in-fact, with full power and authority to sign, execute and acknowledge
any and all bonds and undertakings on behalf of the Company in its business of
guaranteeing the fidelity of persona holding places of public or private trust;
guaranteeing the performance of contracts other than insurance policies; guarantee-
ing the performance of insurance contracts where surety bonds are accepted by states
or municipalities; and executing or guaranteeing bonds and undertakings required or
permitted in all actions or proceedings or by law allowed,
and to bind the HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY thereby as fully and to the same extent as if such bonds
and undertakings and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof were signed by an Executive Officer of the HARTFORD
ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY and sealed and attested by one other of such officers, and hereby ratifies and
confirms all that its said Attorney(s)-in-fact may do in pursuance hereof.
This power of attorney is granted under and by authority of the following By-Law adopted by the Stockholders
of the HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY at a meeting duly called and held on the 10th day of February, 1943.
ARTICLE IV
Section 8. The President or any Vice-President, acting with any Secretary or Assistant Secretary, shall have power and authority to
appoint, for purposes only of executing and attesting bonds and undertakings and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, one or more
Resident Vice-Presidents, Resident Assistant Secretaries and Attorneys-in-fact and at any time to remove any such Resident Vice-President,
Resident Assistant Secretary, or Attorney-in-fact, and revoke the power and authority given to him.
SECTION 11. Attorneys-in-fact shall have power and authority, subject to the terms and limitations of the power of attorney issued to
them, to execute and deliver on behalf of the Company and to attach the seal of the Company thereto any and all bonds and undertakings,
and other writings obligatory in the nature thereof, and any such instrument executed by any such Attorney-in-fact shall be as binding upon the
Company as if signed by an Executive Officer and sealed and attested by one other of such Officers.
In Witness Whereof, the HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY has caused these presents to be signed
by its Vice-President, and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed, duly attested by its ~~lrSecretary, this 2d
day of J 1952.
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Attest:
HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, 1
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COUNTY OF HARTFORD, J
On this 2d day of June ,A. D. 19 52 ,before me personally came
J. L. BARTER ,to me known, who being by me duly sworn, did depose
and say: that he resides in the County of Hartford, State of Connecticut; that he is the Vice-President of the HARTFORD
ACCIDENT .AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, the corporation described in and which executed the above instrument; that he
knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to the said instrument is suchcorporate seal; that it was so
affixed by order of the Board of Directors of said corporation and that he signed his name thereto by like order.
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NOTARIAL SEt_L
CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CONNECTICUT, 1
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COUNTY OF HARTFORD, J
I, the undersigned, Assistant Secretary of the HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY COMPANY, a Connecticut
Corporation, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing and attached POWER OF ATTORNEY remains in full
force and.has not been revoked; and furthermore, that Article IV, Sections 8 and 11, of the By-Laws of the Company,
set forth in the Power of Attorney, is now in force.
Given under my hand and the seal of the company, at the City of Hartford, 0
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Form 8-3321 Printed in U, S, A.
Assistant Secretary
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