connection with any Judicial proceeding. The
said Company is authorized and empowered to
become sole surety in all cases where by law
two or more sureties are required."" That the Di-
rectors shall elect from their number an Executive
Committee."" The Board of Directors or the Executive
Committee so chosen by said Board shall have
power to elect non-resident local boards, non-resident
local Vice-Presidents and non-resident local assist-
ant Secretaries and such local Vice-Presidents and
local assistance Secretaries may be vested by the
said Board or Executive Committee with power to
sign and delivers bonds of suretyship, undertakings
and other obligations for and on behalf of and
in the name of said Company, to the same ef-
fect and with the same binding obligation as if
the said instruments had been executed by the
President or a Vice-President and Secretary or
Assistant Secretary elected by the Board of
Directors, and the said Executive Committee
shall have full authority to exercise all the
powers of said Board during the intervals be-
tween the meetings of said Board." Extract from
minutes of a meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee, held at the office of the Company at
Baltimore, Maryland, on the 9th day of Sept-
ember 1912. There was nominated and seconded
for non-resident local officers, to serve at Gain-
esville, Alachua County, Florida, the following:
Local Vice-President: A.M. Cushman Local
Assistant Secretary: Thomas W. Fielding and
there is hereby vested in said A.M. Cushman
as local Vice-President and in each of them. full right, power and
authority to execute, sign, seal and deliver
in the name of and on behalf of said Com-
pany, as surety, any and all Bonds, Obli-
gations or Undertakings, (other than appeal,
supersedeas, dissolve attachment, redelivery, in-
junction, dissolve injunctions, defendant bond
in replevin, refunding bonds, bail, recogni-
zance or appearance bonds, and assignees

Side note on document reads: Notice: This instrument does
not cover the execution of appeal or supersedeas
bonds and you are warned against executing the same.