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<br />[Ft?RM DF B6^iD OF THE ~a'Zt !ES DIIE 1998]
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<br />NORTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERYlC£ COMPANY
<br />FIRST MORTGAGE BOND, 4.R>~b SFxiFS DUE 1998
<br />DoE DECEMBER ., 1948
<br />Northwestern Public Service Company, a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the "Company" ),
<br />for value received, hereby promises to pay to or registered assigns, the priatcipat sum of
<br />Dollars on the first day of December, 194$, and w pay interest on said sum from the date
<br />hereof, at the rate of nine and eighty-five hundredths per centum per annum, payable half-yearly on the
<br />Errs[ day of June and the first day of December in each year, until said principal sum is paid. The interest
<br />so payable oa any 3une 1 or December 1, subject to certain exceptions provided is the Supplemental
<br />Indenture hereinafter mentioned, will be paid to the person in whose name this bond is registered at the
<br />close of business on the immediately preceding May IS or November t5, as the case may be. Bath the
<br />principal of and the interest on this bond shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the
<br />City of Chicago, State of Illinois, in any cola or currency of the United States of America which at the time
<br />of payment is legs! tender for public and private debts, or, at the option of the registered owner, in like
<br />coin or currency, at the at&ce or agency of the Company in the Borough of it~ianhattan, the Ciey of New
<br />York, State of New York.
<br />?''„i, bans is one of the bonds issued and to be issued from time to time under and in ata~rrdaaa with
<br />and all secured by the indenture of mortgage or deed of trust dated August I, 194Q, executed sad delivered
<br />by the Company ta The Chase National Bank of ti`te City of New York (to which The Chase Manhattan
<br />Bank (National Association), hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Trustee", is the suocessor} and
<br />Cart fi. I'suckiey (I. 3. O'Connell being his successor), as Trustees, as supplemented and amended by
<br />certain indentures supplemental thereto, including a Supplemental Indenture dated Otxober i, !4k£, sad a
<br />Supplemental Indenture dated December I, 1978 (the Supplements[ iadearure dated December 1, 1978,
<br />being hc.cin ;efetred to as the "Supplemental Indenture", and said indenture of mortgage as so
<br />supplemented and amended being herein sometimes referred to as the "Indenture"), to which Indenture
<br />ref rence is hereby made far a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature sad extent
<br />of the security and the rights o{the holders and registered owners of said bawds and of the Trustees and of
<br />the Company in respect of such security. By the terms of the Indenture the bonds to be secured thereby arc
<br />issuabtetn series which may vary as to date, amount, date of maturity, rate of interest, redemption
<br />provisions, medium of payment and in other respects as is the Iadenrure provided. To the extent
<br />permitted by, and as provided ur, the Iadenrure, modifications or alterations of the Iadenrure, or o£ say
<br />irtdeature supplemental thereto, and of the rights sad obligations of the Company and of the holders of the
<br />bonds and coupons may be made with the consent of the Company by an affirmative vote of the holders of
<br />not less than bfi?5~ itr aQQ gate principal amount of the bands entitled to cote then outstanding, at a
<br />meeting of bandhotders called and held as provided in the Indenture, and by as affirlnatiue vote of the
<br />holders of sot less than 6fi'~a~,o in aggregate principal amount of the bonds of any series entitled to vote
<br />then outstanding and affected by such modification or alteration, in case one ar mare but less than all of
<br />the series of bonds then outstanding under the Indenture are so affected; provided, however, that ao such
<br />modification ar alteration shall be made which will affect the terms of payment of the prinapaI of ar
<br />interest ar premium, if any, on, this bond.
<br />Bonds of the Series due 1998, of which this is one, are subject to redemption as follows:
<br />(i) At the optio$ of the Company and upon the notice and in the manner and with the e!f'ect provided
<br />in the Iadenrure, any ar alt of the bonds of the Series due 1998 may be redeemed by the Company at say
<br />time sad-from tune to time upon payment of the following percentages of the principal amount thereof:
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