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<br />DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
<br />That I, MARGARET E. HODGSON, have made, constituted and
<br />appointed, and by these presents do make constitute and appoint,
<br />Gerald M. Hodgson, true and lawful attorney for me and in my
<br />name, place and stead, and on my behalf, to do and execute all or
<br />any of the following acts, deeds and things:
<br />1. To receive debts, payments and property. To ask,
<br />demand, sue for, recover and receive all sums of money,
<br />debts, dues, goods, wares, merchandise, chattels,
<br />effects and things of whatsoever nature or description
<br />which now are or hereafter shall be or.become due,
<br />owing, payable, or belonging to me in or by any right,
<br />title, ways or means howsoever, and upon receipt
<br />thereof, or of any part thereof, to make, sign, execute
<br />and deliver such receipts, releases or other discharges
<br />for the same respectively as my said attorney shall
<br />deem advisable.
<br />2. To settle accounts. To settle any account or reckoning
<br />whatsoever I now am or at any time hereafter shall be
<br />in any wise interested or concerned with any person
<br />whomsoever, and to pay or receive the balance thereof
<br />as the case may require.
<br />3. To satisfy security interests and mortgages. To
<br />receive every sum of money which now is or hereafter
<br />shall be due or belonging to me upon the security or by
<br />virtue of any security interest or agreement, or
<br />mortgage, and on receipt of the full amount secured
<br />thereby to execute a good and sufficient release or
<br />other discharge of such security interest, or mortgage
<br />by deed or otherwise.
<br />4. To compound, submit to arbitration, or otherwise settle
<br />or adjust differences. To compound with or make
<br />allowances to any person for or in respect to any debt
<br />or demand whatsoever which now is or shall at any time
<br />hereafter become due and payable to me, or by me, or
<br />upon my account, and to take and receive, or to pay and
<br />discharge (as the case may be), any composition or
<br />dividend thereof or thereupon, and to give or receive
<br />releases or other discharges for the whole of such
<br />debts or demands, or to settle, compromise, or submit
<br />to arbitration every such debt or demand and every
<br />other right, matter, and thing due to or concerning me
<br />as my attorney shall think best, and for that purpose
<br />to enter into and execute and deliver such bonds of
<br />arbitration or other instruments as my attorney may
<br />deem advisable in the premises.
<br />5. To prosecute and defend. To commence, prosecute,
<br />discontinue, or defend all actions or other legal
<br />proceedings touching my estate or any part thereof, or
<br />touching any matter in which I or my estate may be in
<br />any wise concerned.
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