POSASR

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 10, 2006

Registration No. 333-132297

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Post-Effective Amendment No. 1
to

Form S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

U.S. Bancorp	Delaware	41-0255900
USB Capital IX	Delaware	20-6524064
(Exact name of registrant	(State or other jurisdiction	(I.R.S. Employer
as specified in its charter)	of incorporation or organization)	Identification No.)

800 Nicollet Mall	Lee R. Mitau, Esq.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402-4302	800 Nicollet Mall
(651) 466-3000	Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402-4302
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,	(651) 466-3000
including area code, of registrant’s principal	(Name, address and telephone number,
executive offices)	including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

James J. Barresi, Esq.
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.
312 Walnut Street, Suite 3500
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-4036
(513) 361-1200 Mark J. Welshimer, Esq.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
125 Broad Street
New York, New York 10004-2498
(212) 558-4000

     Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement.

     If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. o

     If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. þ

     If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o

     If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. o

     If this Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the following box. þ

     If this Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant to General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box. þ

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

				Proposed			Proposed
	Amount			Maximum			Maximum			Amount of
Title of Each Class of	to be			Offering Price			Aggregate			Registration
Securities to be Registered (1)	Registered			Per Unit			Offering Price			Fee
Fixed-to-Floating Rate Normal Income Trust Securities (“ITS”) of USB Capital IX		(2	)	$	(2	)	$	(2	)	$	(2	)
Stripped ITS of USB Capital IX		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)
Capital ITS of USB Capital IX		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)
Junior Subordinated Notes of U.S. Bancorp	$	(2	)	$	(2	)	$	(2	)	$	(2	)
Debentures of U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)
Stock Purchase Contracts of U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)
Preferred Stock of U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)
Guarantees of payment on trust preferred securities by U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2)(3	)		(2)(3	)		(2	)
Senior Notes of U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)
Subordinated Notes of U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)
Common Stock of U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)
Depositary Shares of U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)		(2	)
Debt Warrants of U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2)(4	)		(2)(4	)		(2	)
Equity Warrants of U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2)(5	)		(2)(5	)		(2	)
Units of U.S. Bancorp		(2	)		(2)(6	)		(2)(6	)		(2	)
Total:										$	(2	)

(footnotes on next page)

(1)	The securities of each class may be offered and sold by the Registrants and/or may be offered and sold, from time to time, by one or more selling securityholders to be identified in the future. The selling securityholders may purchase the securities directly from the Registrant or from one or more underwriters, dealers or agents.
(2)	An indeterminate aggregate initial offering price or number of the securities of each identified class is being registered as may from time to time be issued at indeterminate prices. Separate consideration may or may not be received for securities that are issuable upon exercise, conversion or exchange of other securities or that are issued in units. In accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r), the Registrants are deferring payment of all of the registration fee and will pay the registration fee subsequently in advance or on a pay-as-you-go basis.
(3)	Pursuant to Rule 457(n) under the Securities Act, no additional registration fee is due for guarantees.
(4)	Debt Warrants will represent rights to purchase debt securities registered hereby. Because the Debt Warrants will provide a right only to purchase the debt securities offered hereunder, no additional registration fee is required for the Debt Warrants.
(5)	Equity Warrants will represent rights to purchase equity securities registered hereby. Because the Equity Warrants will provide a right only to purchase the equity securities offered hereunder, no additional registration fee is required for the Equity Warrants.
(6)	Any registered securities may be sold separately or as Units with other registered securities. Units may consist of two or more securities in any combination, which may or may not be separable from one another. Each Unit will be issued under a unit agreement. Because Units will consist of securities registered hereunder, no additional registration fee is required for the Units.

Explanatory Note

     This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement (File No. 333-132297) is being filed by U.S. Bancorp for the purpose of (i) adding USB Capital IX, a statutory trust formed under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Trust”), as an issuer and co-registrant to the Registration Statement hereunder, (ii) adding additional classes of securities of the Trust to the Registration Statement as described in the accompanying prospectus, (iii) updating the information in Part II with respect to the addition of the Trust and the additional classes of securities referenced herein, and (iv) filing additional exhibits to the Registration Statement. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 shall become effective immediately upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

  PROSPECTUS

U.S. Bancorp

800 Nicollet Mall

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

(651) 466-3000

U.S. Bancorp

Junior Subordinated Notes

Debentures

Stock Purchase Contracts

Preferred Stock

Guarantees

Senior Notes

Subordinated Notes

Common Stock

Depositary Shares

Debt Warrants

Equity Warrants

Units

USB Capital IX

Normal ITS

Stripped ITS

Capital ITS

        The securities of each class may be offered and sold by us and/or may be offered and sold, from time to time, by one or more selling securityholders to be identified in the future. We will provide the specific terms of these securities in supplements to this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement carefully before you invest in the securities described in the applicable prospectus supplement.

      These securities will be our equity securities or unsecured obligations and will not be savings accounts, deposits or other obligations of any bank or nonbank subsidiary of ours and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Bank Insurance Fund or any other government agency.

      Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

      This prospectus may not be used to sell securities unless accompanied by the applicable prospectus supplement.

The date of this prospectus is March 10, 2006.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	Page
Item	Number
Where You Can Find More Information		1
Validity of Securities		1
Experts		2
Restated Certificate of Trust of USB Capital IX
Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement
Form of Guarantee Agreement
Opinion and Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility - Amended and Restated Trust Agreement
Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility - Guarantee Agreement

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      The words “USB,” “Company,” “we,” “our,” “ours” and “us” refer to U.S. Bancorp and its subsidiaries, unless otherwise stated.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

      We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy any document that we file at the SEC’s public reference room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the public reference room. In addition, our SEC filings are available to the public from the SEC’s web site at http://www.sec.gov. Our SEC filings are also available at the offices of the New York Stock Exchange. For further information on obtaining copies of our public filings at the New York Stock Exchange, you should call (212) 656-5060.

      The SEC allows us to incorporate by reference the information we file with them, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this prospectus, and later information that we file with the SEC will automatically update and supersede this information. We incorporate by reference the following documents listed below and any future filings made with the SEC under Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, until we or any underwriters sell all of the securities:

•  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005; and

•  Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on January 17, 2006 (two reports) and February 1, 2006 (on Form 8-K/A).

      You may request a copy of these filings, at no cost, by writing or telephoning us at the following address:

U.S. Bancorp

800 Nicollet Mall

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

Attn: Investor Relations Department

(612) 303-0799 or (866) 775-9668

      The trust has no separate financial statements. The statements would not be material to holders of the securities because the trust has no independent operations.

VALIDITY OF SECURITIES

      Unless otherwise indicated in the applicable prospectus supplement, some legal matters will be passed upon for us by our counsel, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., Cincinnati, Ohio. Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, special Delaware counsel for the trust, will pass on some legal matters for the trust. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. will rely on the opinion of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware as to matters of Delaware law regarding the trust. Any underwriters will be represented by their own legal counsel.

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EXPERTS

      Our financial statements as of December 31, 2005 and 2004 and for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2005 and management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005 incorporated in this prospectus by reference from our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their reports which are incorporated by reference in this prospectus. Such financial statements and management’s assessment are incorporated in reliance upon the reports of such firm given on its authority as experts in accounting and auditing.

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U.S. Bancorp

Junior Subordinated Notes

Debentures

Stock Purchase Contracts

Preferred Stock

Guarantees

Senior Notes

Subordinated Notes

Common Stock

Depositary Shares

Debt Warrants

Equity Warrants

Units

USB Capital IX

Normal ITS

Stripped ITS

Capital ITS

PROSPECTUS

March 10, 2006.

PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law contains detailed provisions for indemnification of directors and officers of Delaware corporations against expenses, judgments, fines and settlements in connection with litigation.

     Article Eighth of U.S. Bancorp’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, provides that a director will not be personally liable to U.S. Bancorp or its stockholders for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (1) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to U.S. Bancorp or its stockholders, (2) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3) under the Delaware statutory provision making directors personally liable for unlawful dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions or (4) for any transaction for which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

     The bylaws of U.S. Bancorp provide that the officers and directors of U.S. Bancorp and certain others will be indemnified to substantially the same extent permitted by Delaware law.

     U.S. Bancorp maintains a standard policy of officers’ and directors’ insurance.

     The trust agreement for USB Capital IX, filed as Exhibit 4.15 to this Registration Statement, provides for broad indemnification of the trustees of the trust and the officers and directors of such trustees.

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Item 16. Exhibits.

     The exhibits filed as a part of this Registration Statement are as follows:

Exhibits
1.1	Proposed form of Distribution Agreement with respect to certain debt securities (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.2 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 33-58521)).
1.2	Underwriting Agreement.*
4.1.1	Restated Certificate of Incorporation of U.S. Bancorp, as amended through May 5, 2005 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to U.S. Bancorp’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2005).
4.1.2	Certificate of Designations with respect to Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock.*
4.2	Indenture dated as of October 1, 1991 between U.S. Bancorp and Citibank, N.A., as Senior Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to U.S. Bancorp’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 12, 1991).
4.3	Indenture dated as of October 1, 1991 between U.S. Bancorp and Citibank, N.A., as Subordinated Trustee, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 1, 1993 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to U.S. Bancorp’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 12, 1991 and Exhibit 4.1 to U.S. Bancorp’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 26, 1993).
4.4.1	Junior Subordinated Indenture dated as of April 28, 2005, between U.S. Bancorp and Delaware Trust Company, National Association, as original Junior Subordinated Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2.3 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-124535)).
4.4.2	First Supplemental Indenture to Junior Subordinated Indenture dated as of August 3, 2005 between U.S. Bancorp and Delaware Trust Company, National Association, as original Junior Subordinated Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 01-06880)).
4.4.3	Second Supplemental Indenture to Junior Subordinated Indenture dated as of December 29, 2005 among U.S. Bancorp, Delaware Trust Company, National Association, as original Junior Subordinated Trustee and Wilmington Trust Company, as successor Junior Subordinated Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to U.S. Bancorp’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 29, 2005).
4.4.4	Third Supplemental Indenture to Junior Subordinated Indenture between U.S. Bancorp and Wilmington Trust Company, as successor Junior Subordinated Trustee.*
4.5	Indenture dated as of December 9, 2005 among U.S. Bancorp, Citibank, N.A., as Trustee and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Authenticating Agent.**
4.6	Registration Rights Agreement dated as of December 9, 2005 by and among U.S. Bancorp, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.**

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4.7	Form of Common Stock certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to U.S. Bancorp’s registration statement on Form S-8 dated August 1, 1997).
4.8	Form of Floating Rate Convertible Senior Debentures due 2035 (included in exhibit 4.5).
4.9	Form of Debt Securities Warrant Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 33-39303)).
4.10	Form of Debt Securities Warrant Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.9).
4.11	Form of Deposit Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.8 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-1455)).
4.12	Form of Equity Securities Warrant Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.15 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-124535)).
4.13	Form of Equity Securities Warrant Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.12).
4.14	Restated Certificate of Trust of USB Capital IX.***
4.15	Trust Agreement of USB Capital IX (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4.3 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-124535)).
4.16	Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement among U.S. Bancorp, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee and Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.***
4.17	Stock Purchase Contract Agreement between U.S. Bancorp and USB Capital IX, acting through Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee.*
4.18	Form of Guarantee Agreement by and between U.S. Bancorp, as Guarantor, and Wilmington Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee.***
4.19	Form of Junior Subordinated Note (included in Exhibit 4.4.4).
4.20	Form of Normal ITS Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.16)
4.21	Form of Stripped ITS Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.16)
4.22	Form of Capital ITS Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.16)
5.1	Opinion and consent of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.**
5.2	Opinion and Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.***
8.1	Tax Opinion of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.*
10.1	Collateral Agreement among U.S. Bancorp, U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar, and USB Capital IX, acting through Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee.*
12.1	Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 12 to U.S. Bancorp’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005).
23.1	Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.***

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23.2	Consent of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. (included in Exhibit 5.1 and 8.1).
23.3	Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. (included in Exhibit 5.2).
24	Powers of Attorney.**
25.1	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Citibank, N.A. to act as Senior Trustee and Subordinated Trustee under the Senior Indenture and the Subordinated Indenture, respectively.**
25.2	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Wilmington Trust Company to act as Trustee with respect to the Junior Subordinated Indenture.**
25.3	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Citibank, N.A., to act as Trustee with respect to the Indenture dated December 9, 2005.**
25.4	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Wilmington Trust Company to act as Trustee with respect to the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement.***
25.5	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Wilmington Trust Company to act as Trustee with respect to the Guarantee Agreement.***

*	To be subsequently filed by an amendment to the Registration Statement or incorporated by reference pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K in connection with an offering of securities.
**	Previously filed.
***	Filed herewith.

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Item 17. Undertakings.

     Each of the undersigned registrants hereby undertakes:

     (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

     (i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

     (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (17 C.F.R. § 424(b)) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and

     (iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement;

      Provided, however, That:

     (A) Paragraphs (1)(i), (1)(ii) and (1)(iii) of this section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3 (17 C.F.R. § 239.13) or Form F-3 (17 C.F.R. § 239.33) and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) (17 C.F.R. § 230.424(b)) that is part of the registration statement.

     (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

     (4) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser:

     (i) Each prospectus filed by any of the registrants pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) (17 C.F.R. § 230.424(b)(3)) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and

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     (ii) Each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) (17 C.F.R. § 230.424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7)) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x) (17 C.F.R. § 230.415(a)(1)(i), (vii), or (x)) for the purpose of providing the information required by section 10(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuers and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.

     (5) That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrants under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities:

     The undersigned registrants undertake that in a primary offering of the applicable registrant’s securities pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the applicable undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

     (i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of any of the undersigned registrants relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (17 C.F.R. § 230.424);

     (ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of any of the undersigned registrants or used or referred to by any of the undersigned registrants;

     (iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about any of the undersigned registrants or their securities provided by or on behalf of any of the undersigned registrants; and

     (iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by any of the undersigned registrants to the purchaser.

     Each of the undersigned registrants hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of each registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, each registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by each registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of each registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in

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connection with the securities being registered, each registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

     Each of the undersigned registrants hereby undertakes to file applications for the purpose of determining the eligibility of the trustee to act under subsection (a) of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Commission under Section 305(b)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act.

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SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement (File No. 333-132297) to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota, on March 10, 2006.

U.S. Bancorp
By:	/s/ Jerry A. Grundhofer
	Jerry A. Grundhofer
	Chief Executive Officer
	(principal executive officer)

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement (File No. 333-132297) has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Jerry A. Grundhofer Jerry A. Grundhofer	Chief Executive Officer and Director (principal executive officer)	March 10, 2006
/s/ David M. Moffett David M. Moffett	Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer (principal financial officer)	March 10, 2006
/s/ Terrance R. Dolan Terrance R. Dolan	Executive Vice President and Controller (principal accounting officer)	March 10, 2006
/s/ Victoria Buyniski Gluckman* Victoria Buyniski Gluckman	Director	March 10, 2006
/s/ Arthur D. Collins, Jr.* Arthur D. Collins, Jr.	Director	March 10, 2006
/s/ Peter H. Coors* Peter H. Coors	Director	March 10, 2006
/s/ Joel W. Johnson* Joel W. Johnson	Director	March 10, 2006
/s/ Jerry W. Levin* Jerry W. Levin	Director	March 10, 2006
/s/ David B. O’Maley* David B. O’Maley	Director	March 10, 2006
/s/ O’dell M. Owens, M.D., M.P.H.* O’dell M. Owens, M.D., M.P.H	Director	March 10, 2006

Signature	Title	Date
/s/ Richard G. Reiten* Richard G. Reiten	Director	March 10, 2006
/s/ Craig D. Schnuck* Craig D. Schnuck	Director	March 10, 2006
/s/ Warren R. Staley* Warren R. Staley	Director	March 10, 2006
/s/ Patrick T. Stokes* Patrick T. Stokes	Director	March 10, 2006
*By                 /s/ Terrance R. Dolan                             Terrance R. Dolan                              Attorney-in-fact	Attorney-in-fact for the persons indicated above with an *

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, USB Capital IX certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No 1. to the Registration Statement (File No. 333-132297) to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis, and State of Minnesota, on March 10, 2006.

USB CAPITAL IX
By: U.S. Bancorp, as Depositor
By:	/s/ Lee R. Mitau
	Lee R. Mitau

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Exhibits
1.1	Proposed form of Distribution Agreement with respect to certain debt securities (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.2 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 33-58521)).
1.2	Underwriting Agreement.*
4.1.1	Restated Certificate of Incorporation of U.S. Bancorp, as amended through May 5, 2005 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to U.S. Bancorp’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2005).
4.1.2	Certificate of Designations with respect to Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock.*
4.2	Indenture dated as of October 1, 1991 between U.S. Bancorp and Citibank, N.A., as Senior Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to U.S. Bancorp’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 12, 1991).
4.3	Indenture dated as of October 1, 1991 between U.S. Bancorp and Citibank, N.A., as Subordinated Trustee, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of April 1, 1993 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to U.S. Bancorp’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 12, 1991 and Exhibit 4.1 to U.S. Bancorp’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 26, 1993).
4.4.1	Junior Subordinated Indenture dated as of April 28, 2005, between U.S. Bancorp and Delaware Trust Company, National Association, as original Junior Subordinated Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2.3 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-124535)).
4.4.2	First Supplemental Indenture to Junior Subordinated Indenture dated as of August 3, 2005 between U.S. Bancorp and Delaware Trust Company, National Association, as original Junior Subordinated Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 01-06880)).
4.4.3	Second Supplemental Indenture to Junior Subordinated Indenture dated as of December 29, 2005 among U.S. Bancorp, Delaware Trust Company, National Association, as original Junior Subordinated Trustee and Wilmington Trust Company, as successor Junior Subordinated Trustee (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to U.S. Bancorp’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 29, 2005).
4.4.4	Third Supplemental Indenture to Junior Subordinated Indenture between U.S. Bancorp and Wilmington Trust Company, as successor Junior Subordinated Trustee.*
4.5	Indenture dated as of December 9, 2005 among U.S. Bancorp, Citibank, N.A., as Trustee and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Authenticating Agent.**
4.6	Registration Rights Agreement dated as of December 9, 2005 by and among U.S. Bancorp, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.**
4.7	Form of Common Stock certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to U.S. Bancorp’s registration statement on Form S-8 dated August 1, 1997).

4.8	Form of Floating Rate Convertible Senior Debentures due 2035 (included in exhibit 4.5).
4.9	Form of Debt Securities Warrant Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 33-39303)).
4.10	Form of Debt Securities Warrant Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.9).
4.11	Form of Deposit Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.8 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-1455)).
4.12	Form of Equity Securities Warrant Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.15 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-124535)).
4.13	Form of Equity Securities Warrant Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.12).
4.14	Restated Certificate of Trust of USB Capital IX.***
4.15	Trust Agreement of USB Capital IX (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4.3 to U.S. Bancorp’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-124535)).
4.16	Form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement among U.S. Bancorp, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee and Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees named therein.***
4.17	Stock Purchase Contract Agreement between U.S. Bancorp and USB Capital IX, acting through Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee.*
4.18	Form of Guarantee Agreement by and between U.S. Bancorp, as Guarantor, and Wilmington Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee.***
4.19	Form of Junior Subordinated Note (included in Exhibit 4.4.4).
4.20	Form of Normal ITS Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.16)
4.21	Form of Stripped ITS Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.16)
4.22	Form of Capital ITS Certificate (included in Exhibit 4.16)
5.1	Opinion and Consent of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.**
5.2	Opinion and Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.***
8.1	Tax Opinion of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.*
10.1	Collateral Agreement among U.S. Bancorp, U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar, and USB Capital IX, acting through Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee.*
12.1	Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 12 to U.S. Bancorp’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005).
23.1	Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.***
23.2	Consent of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. (included in Exhibit 5.1 and 8.1).

23.3	Consent of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. (included in Exhibit 5.2).
24	Powers of Attorney.**
25.1	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Citibank, N.A. to act as Senior Trustee and Subordinated Trustee under the Senior Indenture and the Subordinated Indenture, respectively.**
25.2	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Wilmington Trust Company to act as Trustee with respect to the Junior Subordinated Indenture.**
25.3	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Citibank, N.A., to act as Trustee with respect to the Indenture dated December 9, 2005.**
25.4	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Wilmington Trust Company to act as Trustee with respect to the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement.***
25.5	Form T-1 Statement of Eligibility of Wilmington Trust Company to act as Trustee with respect to the Guarantee Agreement.***

*	To be subsequently filed by an amendment to the Registration Statement or incorporated by reference pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K in connection with an offering of securities.
**	Previously filed.
***	Filed herewith.

EX-4.14

Exhibit 4.14

State of Delaware

Secretary of State

Division of Corporations

Delivered 11:49 AM 01/18/2006

FILED 11:49 AM 01/18/2006

SRV 060046277 - 3961739 FILE

RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF TRUST

OF

USB CAPITAL IX

     THIS RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF TRUST of USB CAPITAL IX (the “Trust”) is being duly executed and filed by the undersigned, as trustees, to amend and restate under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12 Del. C. (Section) 3801 et seq.) the Certificate of Trust of the Trust which was originally filed on April 27, 2005.

     The Certificate of Trust is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

      1. NAME. The name of the statutory trust is USB Capital IX.

     2. DELAWARE TRUSTEE. The name and business address of the trustee of the Trust with a principal place of business in the State of Delaware are Wilmington Trust Company, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890.

     3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Restated Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon filing.

[Signature page follows]

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the trustees of the Trust, have executed this Restated Certificate of Trust as of the date first above written.

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity but
solely as Trustee
By:	/s/ Kristin L. Moore
	Name: Kristin L. Moore
	Title: Financial Services Officer
David M. Moffett, not in his individual capacity but solely
as Administrative Trustee
Daryl N. Bible, not in his individual capacity but solely
as Administrative Trustee
Lee R. Mitau, not in his individual capacity but solely
as Administrative Trustee

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the trustees of the Trust, have executed this Restated Certificate of Trust as of the date first above written.

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity but
solely as Trustee
By:
	Name:
	Title:
/s/ David M. Moffett
David M. Moffett not in his individual capacity but solely
as Administrative Trustee
/s/ Daryl N. Bible
Daryl N. Bible, not in his individual capacity but solely
as Administrative Trustee
/s/ Lee R. Mitau
Lee R. Mitau, not in his individual capacity but solely
as Administrative Trustee

EX-4.16

Exhibit 4.16

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement

among

U.S. Bancorp,
as Depositor,

Wilmington Trust Company,
as Property Trustee,

Wilmington Trust Company,
as Delaware Trustee,

the Administrative Trustees (as named herein),

and the several Holders of the Trust Securities

Dated as of •, 2006

of

USB Capital IX

U.S. Bancorp

Certain Sections of this Trust Agreement relating to Section 310 through 318, inclusive, of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939:

Trust Indenture	Trust Agreement
Act Section	Section
§ 310(a)(1)	8.7
(a)(2)	8.7
(a)(3)	8.9
(a)(4)	2.7(a)(ii)
(b)	8.8
(c)	Not applicable
§ 311(a)	8.13
(b)	8.13
§ 312(a)	5.7
(b)	5.7
(c)	5.7
§ 313(a)	8.15(a), 8.15(b)
(b)	8.15(b)
(c)	12.8
(d)	8.15(c)
§ 314(a)	8.16
(b)	Not applicable
(c)(1)	8.17
(c)(2)	8.17
(c)(3)	Not applicable
(d)	Not applicable
(e)	1.1, 8.17
§ 315(a)	8.1(a), 8.3(a)
(b)	8.2, 12.8
(c)	8.1(d)
(d)	8.1(e), 8.3
(e)	Not applicable
§ 316(a)	Not applicable
(a)(1)(A)	Not applicable
(a)(1)(B)	5.16(e)
(a)(2)	Not applicable
(b)	5.16
(c)	6.8
§ 317(a)(1)	Not applicable
(a)(2)	8.14
(b)	5.9
§ 318(a)	12.10
(b)	12.10

Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose be deemed to be part of the Trust Agreement.

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Table of Contents

		Page
ARTICLE I
Defined Terms
Section 1.1	Definitions		1
ARTICLE II
Continuation of the Issuer Trust; Issuance of Trust Preferred Securities; and Related Matters
Section 2.1	Name		18
Section 2.2	Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business		18
Section 2.3	Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses		18
Section 2.4	Issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities		19
Section 2.5	Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Notes		19
Section 2.6	Declaration of Trust		20
Section 2.7	Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions		20
Section 2.8	Assets of Issuer Trust		24
Section 2.9	Title to Trust Property		24
ARTICLE III
Payment Account
Section 3.1	Payment Account		24
ARTICLE IV
Distributions; Redemption, Etc.
Section 4.1	Distributions		25
Section 4.2	Redemption		27
Section 4.3	Subordination of Common Securities		30
Section 4.4	Payment Procedures		31
Section 4.5	Tax Returns and Reports		31
Section 4.6	Payment of Expenses of the Issuer Trust		32
Section 4.7	Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions		32
Section 4.8	Combination of Stripped ITS and Normal ITS after Stock Purchase Date		32

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ARTICLE V
Trust Securities Certificates
Section 5.1	Initial Ownership		33
Section 5.2	The Trust Securities Certificates		33
Section 5.3	Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates		33
Section 5.4	Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates		34
Section 5.5	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates		35
Section 5.6	Persons Deemed Holders		35
Section 5.7	List of Holders’ Names and Addresses		35
Section 5.8	Maintenance of Office Agency		36
Section 5.9	Appointment of Paying Agent		36
Section 5.10	Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor; Common Securities Certificate		37
Section 5.11	Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates		37
Section 5.12	Notices to Clearing Agency		39
Section 5.13	Exchanges		39
Section 5.14	Remarketing Elections		41
Section 5.15	Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates		44
Section 5.16	Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults		44
Section 5.17	CUSIP Numbers		47
Section 5.18	Remarketing Procedures		47
ARTICLE VI
Acts of Holders; Meetings; Voting
Section 6.1	Limitations on Voting Rights		48
Section 6.2	Notice of Meetings		50
Section 6.3	Meetings of Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities		50
Section 6.4	Voting Rights		50
Section 6.5	All Votes Must Be Made by a United States Person		50
Section 6.6	Proxies, Etc		51
Section 6.7	Holder Action by Written Consent		51
Section 6.8	Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes		51
Section 6.9	Acts of Holders		51
Section 6.10	Inspection of Records		52
ARTICLE VII
Representations and Warranties
Section 7.1	Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee		52
Section 7.2	Representations and Warranties of Depositor		54

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ARTICLE VIII
The Issuer Trustees
Section 8.1	Certain Duties and Responsibilities		54
Section 8.2	Certain Notices		56
Section 8.3	Certain Rights of Property Trustee		57
Section 8.4	Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities		59
Section 8.5	May Hold Securities		59
Section 8.6	Compensation; Indemnity; Fees		59
Section 8.7	Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Issuer Trustees and Administrative Trustees		60
Section 8.8	Conflicting Interests		60
Section 8.9	Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee		61
Section 8.10	Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor		62
Section 8.11	Acceptance of Appointment by Successor		63
Section 8.12	Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business		64
Section 8.13	Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Issuer Trust		64
Section 8.14	Property Trustee May File Proofs of Claim		64
Section 8.15	Reports by Property Trustee		65
Section 8.16	Reports to the Property Trustee		65
Section 8.17	Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent		65
Section 8.18	Number of Issuer Trustees		66
Section 8.19	Delegation of Power		66
ARTICLE IX
Dissolution, Liquidation and Merger
Section 9.1	Perpetual Existence.		66
Section 9.2	Early Dissolution.		66
Section 9.3	Dissolution.		67
Section 9.4	Liquidation.		67
Section 9.5	Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of Issuer Trust.		68
ARTICLE X
Qualifying Treasury Securities
Section 10.1	Qualifying Treasury Securities		69
ARTICLE XI
Other ITS Related Provisions
Section 11.1	Tax Treatment		70

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ARTICLE XII
Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 12.1	Limitation of Rights of Holders		71
Section 12.2	Amendment		71
Section 12.3	Separability Clause		73
Section 12.4	Governing Law		73
Section 12.5	Payments Due on Non-Business Day		73
Section 12.6	Successors and Assigns		73
Section 12.7	Effect of Headings and Table of Contents		73
Section 12.8	Reports, Notices and Demands		73
Section 12.9	Agreement Not to Petition		74
Section 12.10	Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act		74
Section 12.11	Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee Agreement and Indenture		75

EXHIBITS:

Exhibit A —	Original Certificate of Trust
Exhibit B —	Restated Certificate of Trust
Exhibit C —	Form of Capital ITS Certificate
Exhibit D —	Form of Common Securities Certificate
Exhibit E —	Form of Normal ITS Certificate
Exhibit F —	Form of Stripped ITS Certificate

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     Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of •, 2006, among (i) U.S. Bancorp, a Delaware corporation (including any successors or assigns, the “Depositor”), (ii) Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as property trustee (in such capacity, the “Property Trustee”); (iii) Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as Delaware trustee (in such capacity, the “Delaware Trustee”), (iv) David M. Moffett, an individual, and Daryl N. Bible, an individual and Lee R. Mitau, an individual, each of whose address is c/o U.S. Bancorp, 800 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 (each, an “Administrative Trustee,” and collectively, the “Administrative Trustees”) (the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees being referred to collectively as the “Issuer Trustees”), and (iv) the several Holders, as hereinafter defined.

Recital of the Depositor

     The Depositor and Delaware Trust Company, National Association (the “Original Trustee”), have heretofore duly declared and established a statutory trust (the “Issuer Trust”), pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (as hereinafter defined) by entering into that certain Trust Agreement, dated as of April 27, 2005 (the “Original Trust Agreement”), and by the execution and filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware the Certificate of Trust, filed on April 27, 2005, attached as Exhibit A (the “Original Certificate of Trust”). Pursuant to an Omnibus Appointment and Resignation Agreement, dated as of January 18, 2006, the Original Trustee resigned and Wilmington Trust Company was appointed by the Depositor as successor trustee under the Original Trust Agreement and a Restated Certificate of Trust, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit B (the “Restated Certificate of Trust” and together with the Original Certificate of Trust, the “Certificate of Trust”), was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on January 18, 2006.

     The Depositor and the Issuer Trustees desire to amend and restate the Trust Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other things, (i) the issuance of the Common Securities by the Issuer Trust to the Depositor, (ii) the issuance of Normal ITS by the Issuer Trust and their issuance and sale pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, (iii) the issuance of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS in Exchange for Normal ITS as provided in Section 5.13, (iv) the acquisition by the Issuer Trust from the Depositor of all of the right, title and interest in the Notes, and (v) the entering into by the Issuer Trust with the Depositor of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement and, pursuant to the Stock Purchase Contracts evidenced by that Agreement, the purchase by the Issuer Trust of shares of Preferred Stock on the Stock Purchase Date.

     Now, therefore, this Trust Agreement witnesseth: For and in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other parties and for the benefit of the Holders, hereby amends and restates the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:

ARTICLE I

Defined Terms

     Section 1.1 Definitions.

     For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

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     (i) The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular.

     (ii) All other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein.

     (iii) All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term “generally accepted accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles that are generally accepted at the date or time of such computation; provided that when two or more principles are so generally accepted, it shall mean that set of principles consistent with those in use by the Depositor.

     (iv) The words “hereby”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.

     “Act” has the meaning specified in Section 6.9.

     “Actual/360 Basis” means, for purposes of calculating the rate of Distributions, such rate calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and the number of days actually elapsed.

     “Additional Amount” means, with respect to Normal ITS and Capital ITS of a given Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of Additional Interest paid by the Depositor on a Like Amount of Notes for such period.

     “Additional Distribution Date” means each January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15 commencing on the first such date on which Stripped ITS are Outstanding (or, if any such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day).

     “Additional Interest” has the meaning specified in the Base Indenture.

     “Administrative Trustee” means each of the individuals identified as an “Administrative Trustee” in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in such individual’s capacity as Administrative Trustee of the Issuer Trust and not in such individual’s individual capacity, or such Administrative Trustee’s successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as herein provided.

     “Affected Class(es)” means, (i) if a proposed action or inaction or Event of Default or other relevant circumstance relates solely and specifically to Trust Property, each Class for which such Trust Property is a Corresponding Asset, (ii) if a proposed action or inaction or Event of Default or other relevant circumstance does not relate specifically and solely to Trust Property, then each Class that could reasonably be expected to be affected by the action proposed or inaction or Event of Default, and (iii) for purposes of Section 5.16 at any time, the Classes of Trust Preferred Securities for which Notes at such time are Corresponding Assets (that is, (A) for purposes of Sections 5.16(b) and 5.16(c), until the Remarketing Settlement Date the Normal ITS and the Capital ITS and, thereafter, the Capital ITS, (B) for purposes of Section 5.16(d), the Normal ITS and the Stripped ITS, and (C) for purposes of Section 5.16(e), (I) if the Event of Default is of the type referred to in clause (a) of the definition of that term, the Normal ITS and the Capital ITS until the Remarketing Settlement Date and the Capital ITS thereafter, (II) if the

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Event of Default is of the type described in paragraph (b) of the definition of that term, the Normal ITS and Stripped ITS, (III) if the Event of Default is of the type described in clause (d) of the definition of that term, the Classes of Trust Preferred Securities that were to have been redeemed, and (IV) if the Event of Default is of the type described in any of clause (c), (e) or (f) of the definition of that term, each Class of Trust Preferred Securities then outstanding).

     “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

     “Agent Agreement” has the meaning specified in Section 5.4.

     “Authorized Officer” of any Person means any officer of such Person or any Person authorized by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors of such Person.

     “Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person:

     (a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises judging such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjudication or composition of or in respect of such Person under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or

     (b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate action by such Person in furtherance of any such action.

     “Bankruptcy Laws” has the meaning specified in Section 12.9.

     “Base Indenture” means the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of April 28, 2005, between the Depositor and Delaware Trust Company, National Association (the “Original Note Trustee”), as amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 3, 2005, between the Depositor and the Original Note Trustee, as further amended and supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 29, 2005, among the Depositor, the Original Note Trustee and the Note Trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

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     “Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of any Person or any committee of that board of directors duly authorized to act.

     “Book-Entry Transfer” means:

     (a) as to Trust Preferred Securities represented by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and as to Notes represented by global certificates that settle and clear through a Clearing Agency’s system, transfer or delivery in accordance with the rules and procedures of the applicable Clearing Agency (including, in the case for DTC if it is the Clearing Agency, book-entry deliveries through DTC’s Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian DWAC system); and

     (b) as to treasury securities (including Qualifying Treasury Securities), transfer or delivery in accordance with the regulations of the United States Department of the Treasury governing book-entry treasury securities, including those currently at 12 C.F.R. Part 357.

     “Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities” means Trust Preferred Securities the ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as provided in Section 5.11.

     “Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate” means a Trust Preferred Securities Certificate evidencing ownership of Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities.

     “Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, or any other day on which banking institutions in New York, New York, Minneapolis, Minnesota or Wilmington, Delaware are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed.

     “Capital ITS” means a beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 per Capital ITS and having the rights provided for Capital ITS in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.

     “Capital ITS Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Capital ITS, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.

     “Capital ITS Distribution Date” means (i) each April 15 and October 15, commencing with the first such date on which Capital ITS are Outstanding and continuing through and including the last such date to occur prior to the Remarketing Date for a Successful Remarketing, and (ii) thereafter for so long as Capital ITS remain outstanding, each day that is an interest payment date for the Notes.

     “Capital ITS Distribution Rate” means (i) from the Closing Date to but not including the Remarketing Settlement Date for a Successful Remarketing, Ÿ% per annum (calculated on a 30/360 Basis), and (ii) thereafter, the rate per annum, whether a fixed rate or a rate determined pursuant to a formula, determined pursuant to the Remarketing Agreement in connection with the Remarketing (it being understood and agreed that, if there is not a Successful Remarketing of the Notes, the Capital ITS Distribution Rate pursuant to clause (i) shall remain in effect for so long as Capital ITS are outstanding).

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     “Capital ITS Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Capital ITS to be redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement; provided that (i) each Note Redemption Date shall be a Capital ITS Redemption Date for a Like Amount of Capital ITS and (ii) if a Successful Remarketing occurs, the first Business Day after the Stock Purchase Date shall be a Capital ITS Redemption Date for a redemption in kind pursuant to Section 4.2(c).

     “Capital ITS Redemption Price” means, with respect to a redemption of Capital ITS for a Redemption Price payable in cash pursuant to Section 4.2(a) and the related Capital ITS Redemption Date, the redemption price for a Like Amount of Notes redeemed on such date in accordance with the Indenture.

     “Certificate” means a Capital ITS Certificate, a Normal ITS Certificate, a Stripped ITS Certificate or a Common Securities Certificate.

     “Certificate Custodian” means, with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities of a Class, the Securities Registrar, as custodian with respect to the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates representing the Trust Preferred Securities of such Class, or any successor entity thereto.

     “Certificate Depositary Agreement” means the agreement among the Issuer Trust, the Paying Agent and DTC, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the Closing Date.

     “Certificate of Designation” means the “Certificate of Designation Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of U.S. Bancorp”, dated Ÿ , 2006, setting forth the resolutions of the Depositor’s Board of Directors fixing the designations, voting powers, preferences and relative, participating and other special rights, and qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof of the shares of the Preferred Stock as a new series of the Depositor’s preferred stock.

     “Certificate of Trust” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereof, as amended from time to time.

     “Class” means each of the Normal ITS, the Stripped ITS, the Capital ITS and the Common Securities, each as a class of beneficial interests in the Issuer Trust.

     “Clearing Agency” means an organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act. DTC will be the initial Clearing Agency.

     “Clearing Agency Participant” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.

     “Closing Date” means the Time of Delivery, which date is also the date of execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement.

     “Collateral Account” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

     “Collateral Agent” means U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent under the Collateral Agreement until a successor Collateral Agent shall have been appointed and qualified pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Collateral Agreement, and thereafter “Collateral Agent” shall mean the Person who is then the Collateral Agent thereunder.

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     “Collateral Agreement” means the Collateral Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Depositor, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent, the Securities Intermediary, the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) and the Securities Registrar for the ITS, as amended from time to time.

     “Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act or, if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.

     “Common Securities Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Common Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D.

     “Common Security” means a beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.

     “Contingent Disposition Election” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14(a)(ii).

     “Contingent Exchange Election” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14(a)(i).

     “Contract Payments” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

     “Corresponding Assets” means, with respect to each $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities:

     (a) in the case of Normal ITS and Common Securities, (i) from the Time of Delivery to but not including the Remarketing Settlement Date for a Successful Remarketing, $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Notes and a 1/100th interest in a Stock Purchase Contract, (ii) from and including the Remarketing Settlement Date for a Successful Remarketing to but not including the Stock Purchase Date, the U.S. Bank Deposit made with the net proceeds of each $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Notes sold in such Successful Remarketing on such Remarketing Settlement Date and a 1/100th interest in a Stock Purchase Contract, and (iii) from and including the Stock Purchase Date and thereafter for so long as Normal ITS are outstanding, 1/100th of a share of Preferred Stock;

     (b) in the case of Stripped ITS, (i) from the date of issuance for each Stripped ITS to but not including the Stock Purchase Date, $1,000 principal amount of Pledged Treasury Securities and a 1/100th interest in a Stock Purchase Contract, and (ii) from and including the Stock Purchase Date and thereafter for so long as Stripped ITS are outstanding, 1/100th of a share of Preferred Stock, subject to Section 4.8; and

     (c) in the case of Capital ITS, from the date of issuance for each Capital ITS, $1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to Section 5.14.

     “Corporate Trust Office” means (i) when used with respect to the Property Trustee, the office of the Property Trustee at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001,

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Attn: Corporate Trust Administration, and (ii) when used with respect to the Note Trustee, the principal office of the Note Trustee located at Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001, Attn: Corporate Trust Administration.

     “Custodial Agent” means U.S. Bank National Association, as Custodial Agent under the Collateral Agreement until a successor Custodial Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Collateral Agreement, and thereafter “Custodial Agent” shall mean the Person who is then the Custodial Agent thereunder.

     “Custody Account” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

     “Deferred Contract Payment Amount” means, at any time for each $100,000 stated amount of Stock Purchase Contracts, the amount of the Contract Payments accrued on such stated amount that has been deferred and not paid by reason of the Depositor’s exercise of its right to defer payment of Contract Payments pursuant to Section 2.7 of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, together with interest accrued on such amount in accordance with the terms of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

     “Deferred Note Interest Amount” means, at any time for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes, the amount of interest accrued on such principal amount that has been deferred and not paid by reason of the Depositor’s exercise of its right to defer payment of interest pursuant to Section 3.11 of the Base Indenture or Section 2.5 of the Indenture Supplement, together with interest accrued on such amount in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and the Indenture Supplement.

     “Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates” means either or both (as the context requires) of (i) Trust Preferred Securities Certificates issued as Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates as provided in Section 5.11, and (ii) Trust Preferred Securities Certificates issued in certificated, fully registered form as provided in Section 5.15.

     “Delaware Statutory Trust Act” means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. C. ss. 3801 et seq., as it may be amended from time to time.

     “Delaware Trustee” means the Person identified as the “Delaware Trustee” in the preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Issuer Trust and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor Delaware trustee appointed as herein provided.

     “Depositor” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.

     “Direct Action” has the meaning specified in Section 5.16(c) and Section 5.16(d).

     “Distribution Date” means an Additional Distribution Date, a Capital ITS Distribution Date or a Regular Distribution Date.

     “Distribution Period” means:

     (i) with respect to Normal ITS, Stripped ITS and Common Securities, each period of time beginning on a Regular Distribution Date (or the Closing Date in the case

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of the Distribution Period ending in April 2006) and continuing to but not including the next succeeding Regular Distribution Date for such Class; and

     (ii) with respect to Capital ITS, each period of time beginning on a Capital ITS Distribution Date (or the Closing Date in the case of the Distribution Period ending in April 2006) and continuing to but not including the next succeeding Capital ITS Distribution Date.

     “Distributions” means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in Section 4.1.

     “Dividend Payment Date” has the meaning specified in the Certificate of Designation.

     “DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.

     “Early Dissolution Event” has the meaning specified in Section 9.2.

     “Early Settlement Event” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

     “Event of Default” means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such event and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

     (a) the occurrence of a Note Event of Default; or

     (b) the occurrence of a Preferred Stock Default; or

     (c) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any Distribution when it becomes due and payable, and continuation of such default for a period of 30 days; or

     (d) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of any Trust Security when it becomes due and payable; or

     (e) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of any covenant or warranty of the Issuer Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other than those specified in clause (b) or (c) above) and continuation of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer Trustees and to the Depositor by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or

     (f) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property Trustee if a successor Property Trustee has not been appointed within 90 days thereof.

     “Excess Proceeds Distribution” means the distribution that each Holder of Stripped ITS shall receive on each Additional Distribution Date on a pro rata basis from the Trust of the amount by which the proceeds of the Qualifying Treasury Securities pledged by the Trust in respect of Stock Purchase Contracts maturing at least one business day prior to such date exceed the amount required to purchase replacement Qualifying Treasury Securities.

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     “Exchange” has the meaning specified in Section 5.13(a).

     “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

     “Exchange Period” means the Collateral Agent’s and the Securities Registrar’s normal business hours on any Business Day other than (i) any day in January, April, July or October that is on or after the first day of such month through the 15th day of such month (or the next Business Day if the 15th day is not a Business Day) and (ii) the period from 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the second Business Day before any Remarketing Date to but not including the Business Day after that Remarketing Date.

     “Failed Remarketing” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

     “Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as from time to time constituted, or if at any time after the execution of this Trust Agreement the Federal Reserve is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it, then the bodies performing such duties at such time, or the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, or any successor Federal reserve bank having primary jurisdiction over the Depositor.

     “Final Remarketing” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

     “Guarantee Agreement” means the Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered by the Depositor and Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as guarantee trustee, contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, as amended from time to time.

     “Holder” means, with respect to a Trust Security, the Person in whose name the Trust Security evidenced by a Certificate is registered in the Security Register (and any such Person shall be deemed to be a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act); provided, however, that solely for the purpose of determining whether the Holders of the requisite number of ITS have voted on any matter (and not for any other purpose hereunder), if the ITS remains in the form of one or more Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and if the Clearing Agency (or its nominee) that is the registered holder of such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate has sent an omnibus proxy assigning voting rights to the Clearing Agency Participants to whose accounts the ITS are credited on the record date, the term “Holder” shall mean such Clearing Agency Participant acting at the direction of the Owners.

     “Indemnified Person” has the meaning specified in Section 8.6(c).

     “Indenture” means the Base Indenture and the Indenture Supplement, taken together.

     “Indenture Supplement” means the Third Supplemental Indenture to the Base Indenture, dated as of •, 2006, between the Depositor and the Note Trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

     “Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, or any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

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     “Issuer Trust” means the Delaware statutory trust known as “USB Capital IX”, which was created under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement and the filing of the Certificate of Trust, and continued pursuant to this Trust Agreement.

     “Issuer Trustees” means, collectively, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, and the Administrative Trustees.

     “ITS” means each of the Normal ITS, the Stripped ITS and the Capital ITS.

     “Lien” means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of trust, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever.

     “Like Amount” means:

     (a) with respect to a distribution of Notes to Holders of Normal ITS, Capital ITS or Common Securities in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Issuer Trust or a redemption in kind of Capital ITS pursuant to Section 4.2(c), Notes having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Notes are distributed;

     (b) with respect to a distribution of Pledged Treasury Securities to Holders of Stripped ITS in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, Pledged Treasury Securities having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Stripped ITS to whom such Pledged Treasury Securities are distributed;

     (c) with respect to a distribution of Preferred Stock or fractional interests in Preferred Stock to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, Preferred Stock or a fractional interest in a share of Preferred Stock (which may be effected by the Issuer Trust through the creation of depositary shares) having a liquidation preference equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such shares of Preferred Stock or a fractional interest in a share of Preferred Stock (including through a depositary share) are distributed;

     (d) with respect to any distribution of Additional Amounts to Holders of Normal ITS, Capital ITS or Common Securities, Notes having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Normal ITS, Capital ITS or Common Securities in respect of which such distribution is made;

     (e) with respect to a redemption of Preferred Stock, 1/100th of a share of Preferred Stock for each Normal ITS or Common Security;

     (f) with respect to an Exchange of Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped ITS and Capital ITS pursuant to Section 5.13(b), a number of Stripped ITS and a number of Capital ITS in each case equal to the number of Normal ITS included in such Exchange (e.g., if 1,000 Normal ITS are being Exchanged, the Holder will receive 1,000 Stripped ITS and 1,000 Capital ITS in accordance with and subject to Section 5.13);

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     (g) with respect to an Exchange of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS for Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities, a number of Normal ITS equal to the number of Stripped ITS and the number of Capital ITS being Exchanged (e.g., if 1,000 Stripped ITS and 1,000 Capital ITS are being Exchanged, the Holder will receive upon the Exchange 1,000 Normal ITS together with $1,000,000 principal amount of Qualifying Treasury Securities released from the Pledge, in accordance with and subject to Section 5.13(e));

     (h) with respect to Notes (including Pledged Notes as applicable) being deposited or delivered in connection with an Exchange, Notes having a principal amount equal to $1,000 for each normal ITS involved in the Exchange;

     (i) with respect to Section 5.16(c), $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Trust Preferred Securities of each Affected Class; and

     (j) with respect to Section 5.16(d), 1/100th of a Stock Purchase Contract with its stated amount of $100,000 for each $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes.

     “Liquidation Amount” means the stated amount of $1,000 per Trust Security.

     “Liquidation Date” means the date of the distribution of the assets of the Issuer Trust to Holders pursuant to Section 9.4.

     “Liquidation Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d).

     “Majority in Liquidation Amount” means as to a Class or Classes of Trust Securities, except as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, Trust Securities of such Class or Classes representing more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all Outstanding Trust Securities of such Class or Classes.

     “Normal ITS” means a beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided for Normal ITS in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.

     “Normal ITS Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Normal ITS, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit E.

     “Normal ITS Distribution Rate” means (i) from the Closing Date to but not including the later of the Regular Distribution Date in April 2011 and the Stock Purchase Date (and for each related Distribution Period), •% per annum (calculated on a 30/360 Basis) and (ii) thereafter, for each Distribution Period and related Regular Distribution Date, the greater of (A) Three-Month LIBOR for such Distribution Period plus •% and (B) • % (calculated on an Actual/360 Basis).¹

     “Normal ITS Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Normal ITS to be redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement; provided that each Preferred Stock Redemption Date shall be a Redemption Date for a like amount of Normal ITS.

¹ Clause (i) is the sum of the per annum interest rate on the Notes and the per annum Contract Payments rate; clause (ii) is the per annum dividend rate on the Preferred Stock.

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     “Normal ITS Redemption Price” means, with respect to any Normal ITS and Common Securities and the related Normal ITS Redemption Date, the redemption price for a Like Amount of Preferred Stock redeemed in accordance with the Certificate of Designation.

     “Note Event of Default” means any “Event of Default” specified in Section 5.1 of the Base Indenture.

     “Note Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Notes to be redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption of such Notes under the Indenture.

     “Note Redemption Price” means, with respect to any Notes to be redeemed under the Indenture, the Redemption Price for such redemption and related Note Redemption Date determined in accordance with the Indenture.

     “Note Trustee” means Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, solely in its capacity as trustee pursuant to the Indenture and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as provided in the Indenture.

     “Notes” means the $•,000,000 initial aggregate principal amount of the Depositor’s Remarketable Junior Subordinated Notes due 2042 issued pursuant to the Indenture.

     “Notice of Contingent Disposition Election” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14(f).

     “Notice of Contingent Exchange Election” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14(d)(i).

     “Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by any two Authorized Officers of such Person. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall include:

     (a) a statement by each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate that such officer has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;

     (b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken by such officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate;

     (c) a statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in such officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

     (d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

     “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or an employee of the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.

     “Original Trust Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Trust Agreement.

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     “Outstanding,” when used with respect to Trust Securities of a Class, means, as of the date of determination, all Trust Securities of such Class theretofore executed and delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:

     (a) Trust Securities of such Class theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee or delivered to the Property Trustee for cancellation;

     (b) Trust Securities of such Class for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or any Paying Agent; provided that if such Trust Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and

     (c) Trust Securities of such Class that have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Trust Preferred Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.11 and 5.13;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of a Class have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Trust Preferred Securities of such Class owned by the Depositor, any Issuer Trustee, or any Affiliate of the Depositor or any Issuer Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that (a) in determining whether any Issuer Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Trust Preferred Securities of such Class that such Issuer Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded, and (b) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of the outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of such Class are owned by the Depositor, one or more of the Issuer Trustees, and/or any such Affiliate. Trust Preferred Securities of a Class so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrative Trustees the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Trust Preferred Securities and that the pledgee is not the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.

     “Owner” means each Person who is the beneficial owner of Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities as reflected in the records of the Clearing Agency or, if a Clearing Agency Participant is not the Owner, then as reflected in the records of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly or indirectly, in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).

     “Paying Agent” means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to Section 5.9 and shall initially be U.S. Bank National Association.

     “Payment Account” means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust account maintained by the Property Trustee initially with U.S. Bank National Association (in its corporate capacity and not as Paying Agent), in its trust department for the benefit of the Holders in which all amounts paid in respect of the Notes will be held and from which the Property Trustee, through the Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Holders in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.2. After the Stock Purchase Date, the Payment Account may at any time be established with any commercial bank by the Property Trustee.

     “Person” means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, company, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated association, or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature.

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     “Pledge” means the pledge under the Collateral Agreement of Notes or Qualifying Treasury Securities, as the case may be.

     “Pledged Notes” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

     “Pledged Treasury Securities” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

     “Predecessor Capital ITS Certificate” of any particular Capital ITS Certificate means every previous Capital ITS Certificate evidencing all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Depositor and the Holder under the Capital ITS evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Capital ITS Certificate delivered under Section 5.5 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Capital ITS Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights and obligations of the Depositor and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Capital ITS Certificate.

     “Predecessor Certificate” means a Predecessor Normal ITS Certificate, a Predecessor Stripped ITS Certificate or a Predecessor Capital ITS Certificate, as applicable.

     “Predecessor Normal ITS Certificate” of any particular Normal ITS Certificate means every previous Normal ITS Certificate evidencing all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Depositor and the Holder under the Normal ITS evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Normal ITS Certificate delivered under Section 5.5 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Normal ITS Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights and obligations of the Depositor and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Normal ITS Certificate.

     “Predecessor Stripped ITS Certificate” of any particular Stripped ITS Certificate means every previous Stripped ITS Certificate evidencing all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Depositor and the Holder under the Stripped ITS evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Stripped ITS Certificate delivered under Section 5.5 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Stripped ITS Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights and obligations of the Depositor and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Stripped ITS Certificate.

     “Preferred Stock” means the Series A Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, $100,000 liquidation preference per share, no par value, of the Depositor.

     “Preferred Stock Default” means the failure of the Depositor to comply in any material respect with any of its obligations (i) under the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or (ii) as issuer of the Preferred Stock, including in the Certificate of Designation, the Depositor’s certificate of incorporation, or arising under applicable law.

     “Preferred Stock Redemption Date” means, with respect to any shares of Preferred Stock to be redeemed under the Certificate of Designation, the date fixed for redemption of such shares under the Certificate of Designation.

     “Proceeds” has the meaning specified in the Collateral Agreement.

     “Property Trustee” means the Person identified as the “Property Trustee” in the preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust and not in its

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individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor property trustee appointed as herein provided.

     “Prospectus” means the prospectus, dated Ÿ , 2006, of the Depositor relating to the offering of the Normal ITS.

     “Qualifying Treasury Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 10.1.

     “Recombination Notice and Request” has the meaning specified in Section 5.13(d)(ii).

     “Redemption Date” means a Normal ITS Redemption Date or a Capital ITS Redemption Date, as applicable.

     “Redemption Price” means, (i) with respect to a redemption of Normal ITS, the Normal ITS Redemption Price, and (ii) with respect to a redemption of Capital ITS, the Capital ITS Redemption Price.

     “Regular Distribution Date” means:

     (a) each April 15 and October 15 occurring prior to and including the later of April 15, 2011 and the Stock Purchase Date, commencing April 15, 2006 (or, in the case of Stripped ITS, the first such date on which Stripped ITS are outstanding;

     (b) after the later of April 15, 2011 and the Stock Purchase Date, each January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15, or if any such date is not a Business Day, the next Business Day; and

     (c) the Stock Purchase Date if not otherwise a Regular Distribution Date;

provided, however, that the last Regular Distribution Date for the Stripped ITS shall be the Stock Purchase Date.

     “Relevant Trustee” shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.10.

     “Remarketing” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

     “Remarketing Agent” means, as to a Remarketing and Remarketing Agreement, the remarketing agent and any successor or replacement remarketing agent appointed by the Depositor.

     “Remarketing Agent’s Fee” means, as to the Remarketing Agent and a Remarketing, the fee provided for in the Remarketing Agreement.

     “Remarketing Agreement” means the Remarketing Agreement to be entered into prior to the first Remarketing among the Depositor, the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) and the Remarketing Agent, as amended or supplemented from time to time.

     “Remarketing Date” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

     “Remarketing Settlement Date” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

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     “Reset Rate” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement (and is the interest rate applicable to the Notes and the Capital ITS Distribution Rate commencing on the Remarketing Settlement Date).

     “Responsible Officer” means, with respect to any Issuer Trustee other than an Administrative Trustee, the President, any Senior Vice President, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, any Trust Officer, any Assistant Trust Officer or any Financial Services Officer of such Issuer Trustee.

     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, and any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

     “Securities Intermediary” means U.S. Bank National Association, as Securities Intermediary under the Collateral Agreement until a successor Securities Intermediary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Collateral Agreement, and thereafter “Securities Intermediary” shall mean such successor or any subsequent successor who is appointed pursuant to the Collateral Agreement.

     “Securities Register” has the meaning specified in Section 5.4.

     “Securities Registrar” means the transfer agent and registrar designated by the Administrative Trustees for the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 5.4.

     “Stock Purchase Contract” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

     “Stock Purchase Contract Agreement” means the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Depositor and the Property Trustee (acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust).

     “Stock Purchase Date” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

     “Stripped ITS” means a beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided for Stripped ITS in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.

     “Stripped ITS Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Stripped ITS, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit F.

     “Stripped ITS Distribution Rate” means •% per annum, calculated on a 30/360 Basis.

     “Stripped ITS Treasury Roll Over Amount” means, for each Additional Distribution Date on which Stripped ITS are Outstanding, an amount per $1,000 of Stripped ITS equal to the excess (if any) of $1,000 (which is the principal amount of Pledged Treasury Securities per Stripped ITS maturing at least one but not more than six Business Days prior to such date) over the amount required to be expended by the Collateral Agent to purchase Qualifying Treasury Securities maturing at least one but not more than six Business Days prior to the next succeeding January 15, April 15, July 15 or October 15, as applicable, in the amount of $1,000.

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     “Stripping Notice and Request” has the meaning specified in Section 5.13(b)(iii).

     “Successful” has the meaning specified in the Indenture Supplement.

     “Successor Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 9.5.

     “30/360 Basis” means, for purposes of calculating a rate for Distributions, such rate calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

     “Three-Month LIBOR” means, for any Distribution Period commencing on or after the Stock Purchase Date, “Three-Month LIBOR” for the corresponding Dividend Period as defined in and determined pursuant to the Certificate of Designation.

     “Time of Delivery” means •, 2006.

     “Transaction Agreements” means each of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, the Collateral Agreement, the Underwriting Agreement, the Notes, the Certificate Depositary Agreement, the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement and any other agreement determined by an Issuer Trustee to be appropriate in exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Issuer Trustees under this Trust Agreement.

     “Trust Agreement” means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the applicable provisions hereof, including (i) all exhibits, and (ii) for all purposes of this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or supplement, respectively.

     “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended.

     “Trust Preferred Securities” means the Normal ITS, the Stripped ITS and the Capital ITS.

     “Trust Preferred Securities Certificate” means a Normal ITS Certificate, a Stripped ITS Certificate or a Capital ITS Certificate.

     “Trust Property” means (a) the Notes for so long as they are owned by the Issuer Trust in accordance with this Trust Agreement, (b) the Stock Purchase Contracts, (c) the Preferred Stock once acquired by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Stock Purchase Contracts, (d) treasury securities (that are required to be Qualifying Treasury Securities when delivered) delivered to the Property Trustee (or the Collateral Agent) pursuant to Section 5.13 or Section 5.14, (e) the rights of the Issuer Trust under the Transaction Agreements, and (f) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing and any other property and assets for the time being held or deemed to be held by the Property Trustee pursuant to the Trust Agreement.

     “Trust Security” means any one of the Common Securities or the Trust Preferred Securities.

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     “Trust Securities Certificate” means any one of the Common Securities Certificates or the Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

     “Underwriting Agreement” means the Underwriting Agreement, dated Ÿ, 2006, among the Issuer Trust, the Depositor and the underwriters named therein.

     “United States Person” means, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, a citizen or resident of the United States, a domestic partnership, a domestic corporation, an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source, and a trust if (i) a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust, and (ii) one or more United States persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust.

     “U.S. Bank Deposit” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement.

ARTICLE II

Continuation of the Issuer Trust; Issuance of Trust Preferred
Securities; and Related Matters

     Section 2.1 Name.

     The trust continued hereby shall be known as “USB Capital IX,” as such name may be modified from time to time by the Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Holders and the other Issuer Trustees, in which name the Administrative Trustees and the other Issuer Trustees may conduct the business of the Issuer Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Issuer Trust and sue and be sued on behalf of the Issuer Trust.

     Section 2.2 Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.

     The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1600, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or such other address in the State of Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Depositor, the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. The principal executive office of the Issuer Trust is c/o U.S. Bancorp, 800 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

     Section 2.3 Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses.

     The Issuer Trustees acknowledge receipt from the Depositor in connection with the Original Trust Agreement of the sum of $10, which constituted the initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay organizational expenses of the Issuer Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of any Issuer Trustee, promptly reimburse such Issuer Trustee for any such expenses paid by such Issuer Trustee. The Depositor shall not make any claim upon the Trust Property for the payment of such expenses.

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     Section 2.4 Issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities.

     (a) On •, 2006, the Depositor, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, executed and delivered the Underwriting Agreement, which action is hereby authorized, approved, ratified and confirmed in all respects. Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, in connection with the execution and delivery on such date of • Normal ITS to the underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement, shall execute in accordance with Section 5.3 and deliver to the Clearing Agency a Normal ITS Certificate or Certificates that are Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the Clearing Agency (or its nominee) representing • Normal ITS, against payment of $1,000 per Normal ITS or $• in the aggregate, net of the applicable underwriting discount determined in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement, as the purchase price therefor in immediately available funds, which funds such Administrative Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Property Trustee or its designee.

     (b) On the date on which an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust executes and delivers a Normal ITS Certificate pursuant to Section 2.4(a), such Administrative Trustee shall also execute in accordance with Section 5.3 and deliver to the Clearing Agency or the Certificate Custodian two additional Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, one of which shall be a Capital ITS Certificate and the other of which shall be a Stripped ITS Certificate, each representing up to a maximum number of Capital ITS or Stripped ITS, as applicable, that is the same as the number of Normal ITS evidenced by the Certificate contemporaneously issued as a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate pursuant to Section 2.4(b) and Section 2.4(c).

     (c) In order to give effect to Exchanges, the Securities Registrar may, as provided in Section 5.11, endorse Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates to reduce or increase the number of Normal ITS, Stripped ITS or Capital ITS evidenced by each such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate, provided that no such endorsement shall result in a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate evidencing a number of Normal ITS, Stripped ITS or Capital ITS exceeding the maximum number set forth on the face of such Certificate.

     Section 2.5 Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Notes.

     Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall execute in accordance with Section 5.3 and deliver to the Depositor a Common Securities Certificate, registered in the name of the Depositor, evidencing 1,000 Common Securities, each having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $1,000,000, against payment by the Depositor of the purchase price therefor in immediately available funds, which amount such Administrative Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Property Trustee or its designee. Contemporaneously therewith, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall (x) subscribe to and purchase from the Depositor the Notes registered in the name of the Issuer Trust and having an aggregate initial principal amount equal to $•,000,000, (y) shall deliver to the Depositor the purchase price therefor (being the sum of the amounts delivered to the Property Trustee or its designee pursuant to (i) the second sentence of Section 2.4 and (ii) the first sentence of this Section 2.5), and (z) shall instruct the Depositor to deliver the Notes to the Collateral Agent for deposit in the Collateral Account.

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     Section 2.6 Declaration of Trust.

     The exclusive purposes and functions of the Issuer Trust are (a) to issue and sell Trust Securities, (b) to use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the Notes, (c) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Transaction Agreements (including, on the Stock Purchase Date, to acquire Preferred Stock pursuant to the Stock Purchase Contracts), (d) to hold the Notes and certain treasury securities and the U.S. Bank Deposit and pledge them to secure the Issuer Trust’s obligations under the Stock Purchase Contracts, and (e) to engage in those activities necessary or incidental thereto. The Depositor hereby appoints the Issuer Trustees as trustees of the Issuer Trust, to have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth herein, and the Issuer Trustees hereby accept such appointment. The Property Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Property upon and subject to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and the Holders. The Administrative Trustees shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth herein and in accordance with applicable law with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Issuer Trust. The Delaware Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any of the duties and responsibilities of the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees, or any of the duties and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees generally, set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one of the trustees of the Issuer Trust for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807(a) of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and for taking such actions as are required to be taken by a Delaware trustee under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

Section 2.7 Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.

     (a) The Issuer Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust in accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations set forth in Section 2.7(b), and in accordance with the following clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 2.7(a), the Issuer Trustees shall have the authority to enter into all transactions and agreements determined by the Issuer Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Issuer Trustees under this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof, including the following:

     (i) As among the Issuer Trustees, the Administrative Trustees, and each of them, shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the Issuer Trust with respect to the following matters:

     (A) execution of the Trust Securities on behalf of the Issuer Trust in accordance with this Trust Agreement and the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;

     (B) causing the Issuer Trust to perform the Underwriting Agreement and causing the Issuer Trust to enter into, and to execute, deliver and perform the Certificate Depository Agreement and such other agreements as may be necessary or desirable in connection with the purposes and function of the Issuer Trust;

     (C) assisting in the registration of the Trust Preferred Securities under the Securities Act and under state securities or blue sky laws, and the qualification of this Trust Agreement under the Trust Indenture Act;

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     (D) assisting in the listing of the Trust Preferred Securities upon such securities exchange or exchanges, if any, as shall be determined by the Depositor, with the registration of the Trust Preferred Securities under the Exchange Act, if required, and with the preparation and filing of all periodic and other reports and other documents pursuant to the foregoing;

     (E) assisting in the sending of notices (other than notices of default) and other information regarding the Trust Securities, the Notes and the Preferred Stock to the Holders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;

     (F) appointing a Paying Agent and a Securities Registrar and any successor Paying Agent or Securities Registrar in accordance with this Trust Agreement to U.S. Bank National Association, as initial Paying Agent and Securities Registrar;

     (G) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Issuer Trust and the execution and filing of the certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware;

     (H) execution and delivery of closing certificates, if any, pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and any Remarketing Agreement and application for a taxpayer identification number for the Issuer Trust;

     (I) unless otherwise required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, the Trust Indenture Act or other applicable law, execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust (either acting alone or together with any or all of the Administrative Trustees) of any documents that the Administrative Trustees have the power to execute pursuant to this Trust Agreement;

     (J) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the Issuer Trustees may from time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement; and

     (K) the taking of any action required to be taken by the Administrative Trustees under any of the Transaction Agreements.

     (ii) As among the Issuer Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the power, duty and authority to act on behalf of the Issuer Trust with respect to the following matters:

     (A) the establishment of the Payment Account;

     (B) the execution and delivery on behalf of the Issuer Trust of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, the Collateral Agreement, the Remarketing Agreement, and any other Transaction Agreement other than the Underwriting Agreement and the Certificate Depository Agreement and the performance by the Issuer Trust of its obligations and the exercise by the Issuer Trust of its rights thereunder;

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     (C) the receipt of the Notes and, in connection with an Exchange, Notice of Contingent Exchange Election or Remarketing, the receipt of Qualifying Treasury Securities;

     (D) the pledge of Notes and Qualifying Treasury Securities pursuant to the Collateral Agreement;

     (E) the receipt of the Preferred Stock on the Stock Purchase Date;

     (F) the collection of interest, principal and any other payments or instruments (including due bills or promissory notes of the Depositor issuable under or with respect to the Notes) made in respect of the Notes and the holding of such amounts in the Payment Account;

     (G) the collection of the Contract Payments and any other payments or instruments (including due bills or promissory notes of the Depositor issuable under the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or with respect to the Contract Payments) and the holding of such amounts in the Payment Account;

     (H) the collection of payment of dividends, redemption price and other payments made in respect of the Preferred Stock and the holding of such amounts in the Payment Account;

     (I) the distribution through the Paying Agent of amounts or property or instruments (including due bills or promissory notes of the Depositor issuable under or with respect to the Notes or the Stock Purchase Contracts) distributable to the Holders in respect of the Trust Securities;

     (J) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of a holder of the Notes for so long as the Issuer Trust holds Notes, subject to Articles V and VI of this Trust Agreement;

     (K) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of a holder of Preferred Stock for so long as the Issuer Trust holds Preferred Stock, subject to Articles V and VI of this Trust Agreement;

     (L) the sending of notices of default and other information regarding the Trust Securities, the Notes, the Preferred Stock and the Transaction Agreements to the Holders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;

     (M) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;

     (N) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the Issuer Trust and the preparation, execution and filing of the certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware; and

     (O) after an Event of Default (other than under paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) of the definition of such term if such Event of Default is by or with respect to the Property Trustee), the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as

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the Property Trustee may from time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement and to protect and conserve the Trust Property for the benefit of the Holders (without consideration of the effect of any such action on any particular Holder).

Except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.7(a)(ii), the Property Trustee shall have none of the duties, liabilities, powers or the authority of the Administrative Trustees set forth in Section 2.7(a)(i).

     (b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Issuer Trust (or the Issuer Trustees acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall not undertake any business, activities or transactions except as expressly provided herein or contemplated hereby. In particular, the Issuer Trustees (acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall not (i) acquire any investments or engage in any activities not authorized by this Trust Agreement, (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests therein, including to Holders, except as expressly provided herein, (iii) take any action that would cause the Issuer Trust to become taxable as a corporation or classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (iv) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt, (v) take or consent to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of the Trust Property, except as expressly provided herein, (vi) apply any of the Trust Property or its proceeds other than as provided herein, (vii) acquire any assets other than the Trust Property, (viii) possess any power or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the Trust Property, except as expressly provided herein, (ix) possess any power or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the terms of the Trust Securities in any way whatsoever (except to the extent expressly authorized in this Trust Agreement or by the terms of the Trust Securities) or (x) issue any securities or other evidences of beneficial ownership of, or beneficial interest in, the Issuer Trust other than the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall defend all claims and demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust Property adverse to the interest of the Issuer Trust or the Holders in their capacity as Holders (other than the Lien created by the Collateral Agreement, which is a permitted Lien).

     (c) In connection with the issuance and sale of the Trust Preferred Securities, the Depositor shall have the right and, if the Depositor shall desire that the actions be taken, the responsibility to assist the Issuer Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the following (and any actions taken by the Depositor in furtherance of the following prior to the date of this Trust Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects):

     (i) the preparation and filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission of and the execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of a registration statement on the appropriate form in relation to the Trust Preferred Securities, including any amendments thereto;

     (ii) the determination of the states in which to take appropriate action to qualify or register for sale all or part of the Trust Preferred Securities and the determination of any and all such acts, other than actions that must be taken by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the advice to the Issuer Trust of actions they must take on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the preparation for execution and filing of any documents to be executed and filed by the Issuer Trust or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, as the Depositor deems necessary or advisable in order to comply with the applicable laws of any such states;

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     (iii) the preparation for filing by the Issuer Trust and execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of an application to the New York Stock Exchange or any other national stock exchange or the Nasdaq National Market or any other automated quotation system for listing upon notice of issuance of any Trust Preferred Securities and filing with such exchange or self-regulatory organization such notification and documents as may be necessary from time to time to maintain such listing;

     (iv) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery of, the Underwriting Agreement providing for the sale of the Trust Preferred Securities; and

     (v) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to carry out any of the foregoing activities.

     (d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Trustees are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust and to operate the Issuer Trust so that the Issuer Trust will not be deemed to be an “investment company” required to be registered under the Investment Company Act, and will not be taxable as a corporation or classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. In this connection, the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees are authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with applicable law, the Certificate of Trust or this Trust Agreement, that they determine in their discretion to be necessary or desirable for such purposes, as long as such action does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Holders of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities. In no event shall the Depositor or the Issuer Trustees be liable to the Issuer Trust or the Holders for any failure to comply with this Section that results from a change in law or regulation or in the interpretation thereof.

     Section 2.8 Assets of Issuer Trust.

     The assets of the Issuer Trust shall consist solely of the Trust Property.

     Section 2.9 Title to Trust Property.

     Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) and shall be held and administered by the Property Trustee in trust for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and the Holders in accordance with this Trust Agreement, subject to the terms and provisions of the Collateral Agreement.

ARTICLE III

Payment Account

     Section 3.1 Payment Account.

     (a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall establish or cause to be established the Payment Account. The Property Trustee and its agents shall have exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits in and withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance with this Trust Agreement. All monies and other property deposited or held from time to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the Payment Account for the exclusive benefit of the Holders and for distribution as herein provided, including (and subject to) any priority of payments provided for herein.

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     (b) The Property Trustee shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Payment Account, promptly upon receipt, (i) all payments of principal of or interest on, and any other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Notes, (ii) all Contract Payments, (iii) all Excess Proceeds Distributions, (iv) all Stripped ITS Treasury Roll Over Amounts, (v) all payments of dividends or redemption price on, and other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Preferred Stock or the Stock Purchase Contracts and (vi) all other cash amounts received as payments on or with respect to the Trust Property. Amounts held in the Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending distribution thereof.

ARTICLE IV

Distributions; Redemption, Etc.

     Section 4.1 Distributions.

     (a) The Trust Securities represent beneficial interests in the Issuer Trust, and Distributions will be made on the Trust Securities of a Class on applicable Distribution Dates in amounts that correspond to amounts of interest, dividends or Contract Payments, as applicable (and (i) in the case of the Normal ITS, Capital ITS and Common Securities, Additional Amounts and Deferred Note Interest Amounts, and (ii) in the case of the Normal ITS, Stripped ITS and Common Securities, Deferred Contract Payment Amounts) that are received by the Property Trustee or the Paying Agent on or in connection with each applicable Distribution Date on the Trust Property that is the Corresponding Assets for such Class, as provided in Sections 4.1(b), (c) and (d).

     (b) In the case of the Normal ITS and the Common Securities, subject to Section 4.1(e):

     (i) Distributions will be payable in cash on each Regular Distribution Date;

     (ii) the Distributions payable on each Regular Distribution Date for the related Distribution Period will be at a rate per annum applied to the Liquidation Amount per Normal ITS and Common Security equal to the Normal ITS Distribution Rate for such Distribution Period (with the consequence that the amount of the Distribution for each $1,000 of Normal ITS or Common Securities payable on each Regular Distribution Date being equal to (x) the sum of the amount of interest payable on such Regular Distribution Date on a Like Amount of Notes (without giving effect to any change in the interest rate on the Notes in connection with a Remarketing) plus 1/100th of the Contract Payment payable on a Stock Purchase Contract having a stated amount of $100,000 for each Distribution Period ending on or before the Stock Purchase Date and (y) the amount of dividends payable on such Regular Distribution Date on a Like Amount of Preferred Stock for each Distribution Period thereafter;

     (iii) Distributions shall be cumulative for each Regular Distribution Date to and including the Stock Purchase Date (because the Corresponding Assets to such date include Notes or Pledged Securities in a Like Amount) and non-cumulative thereafter (because the Corresponding Assets thereafter are the Preferred Stock); and

     (iv) the amount of Distributions payable for any Distribution Period ending on or prior to the Stock Purchase Date shall include the Additional Amounts received by the Issuer Trust, if any.

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     (c) In the case of Capital ITS, subject to Section 4.1(e):

     (i) Distributions will be payable in cash on each Capital ITS Distribution Date;

     (ii) the Distributions payable on each Capital ITS Distribution Date for the related Distribution Period will be at a rate per annum applied to the Liquidation Amount per Capital ITS equal to the Capital ITS Distribution Rate for such Distribution Period, with the consequence that the amount of the Distribution for each $1,000 of Capital ITS payable on each Capital ITS Distribution Date is equal to the amount of interest payable on or accrued to (as applicable) such Distribution Date on a Like Amount of Notes;

     (iii) Distributions shall be cumulative; and

     (iv) the amount of Distributions payable for any Distribution Period shall include the Additional Amounts, if any.

     (d) In the case of Stripped ITS, subject to Section 4.1(e):

     (i) Distributions will be payable in cash on each Regular Distribution Date;

     (ii) the Distributions payable on each Regular Distribution Date for the related Distribution Period will be at a rate per annum applied to the Liquidation Amount per Stripped ITS equal to 1/100th of the Contract Payment payable on a Stock Purchase Contract having a stated amount of $100,000 on such Stripped ITS Distribution Date (expressed as a percentage);

     (iii) Distributions shall be cumulative; and

     (iv) additionally, on each Additional Distribution Date on which Stripped ITS are Outstanding (or as promptly thereafter as the Collateral Agent and the Paying Agent determine to be practicable), the Property Trustee shall distribute or cause to be distributed through the Paying Agent an amount per $1,000 of Stripped ITS equal to, the Stripped ITS Treasury Roll-Over Amount for such Additional Distribution Date.

     (e) Distributions on the Trust Securities of a Class shall be made by the Paying Agent from the Payment Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account from the Corresponding Assets of such Class for the payment of such Distributions. The Issuer Trust will have amounts to make full Distributions on the relevant Classes of Trust Securities in accordance with Sections 4.1(b), (c) and (d) on an applicable Distribution Date only if the Depositor has not (i) defaulted in paying interest on the Notes or Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts or (ii) exercised its right to defer payment of interest on the Notes and Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts and, accordingly, there is no outstanding Deferred Note Interest Amount or Deferred Contract Payment Amount. Deferred Note Interest Amounts and Deferred Contract Payment Amounts will be paid to Holders of the relevant Classes of Trust Securities on a pro rata basis on the applicable Distribution Dates on which such amounts are received by the Issuer Trust (or as soon thereafter as the Property Trustee determines to be practicable).

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     (f) In the event the Property Trustee or the Paying Agent receives any other cash or non-cash payments or distributions with respect to Corresponding Assets for any Class of Trust Preferred Securities (including promissory notes of the Depositor delivered pursuant to (i) Section 2.7(c) of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement if there are any Deferred Contract Payment Amounts outstanding on the Stock Purchase Date or (ii) Section 2.5(c) of the Indenture Supplement if there are any Deferred Note Interest Amounts outstanding on the Stock Purchase Date), the Property Trustee shall distribute or cause to be distributed through the Paying Agent such cash amounts to the Holders of the related Classes of Trust Preferred Securities on a pro rata basis promptly after receipt and may, in its discretion, distribute non-cash amounts on a pro rata basis (or on a basis that is as close as possible to a pro rata basis as it determines to be reasonably practicable).

     (g) Distributions in cash on the Trust Securities of a Class with respect to an applicable Distribution Date shall be payable to the Holders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities at the close of business on the relevant record date for such Distribution Date, which shall be the last day of the month immediately preceding the month in which the relevant Distribution Date falls. Distributions payable on any Trust Securities of a Class that are not punctually paid on an applicable Distribution Date will cease to be payable to the Person in whose name such Trust Securities are registered on the relevant record date, and such defaulted Distribution will instead be payable to the Person in whose name such Trust Securities are registered on the special record date or other specified date for determining Holders entitled to such defaulted Distributions.

     Section 4.2 Redemption.

     (a) On each Preferred Stock Redemption Date, the Issuer Trust will be required to redeem a Like Amount of Normal ITS and Common Securities at the Preferred Stock Redemption Price (it being understood and agreed that, because (i) the Preferred Stock will not become Trust Property until the Stock Purchase Date, and (ii) on the Stock Purchase Date, subject to Section 4.8, each $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Stripped ITS will automatically become $1,000 Liquidation Amount of Normal ITS, without any action by or on behalf of Holders being necessary, no redemption of Normal ITS, Stripped ITS or Common Securities will occur prior to the Stock Purchase Date).

     (b) On each Note Redemption Date, the Issuer Trust will be required to redeem a Like Amount of Capital ITS at the Note Redemption Price (it being understood and agreed that, because (i) the Notes by their terms are not redeemable prior to April 15, 2015, (ii) the Issuer Trust is required to redeem the Capital ITS in kind after the Stock Purchase Date pursuant to Section 4.2(c) if there is a Successful Remarketing, and (iii) the Depositor has the right to cause the Issuer Trust to redeem the Capital ITS in kind after the Stock Purchase Date pursuant to Section 4.2 if there is a Failed Remarketing or if the Stock Purchase Contracts terminate, a redemption of Capital ITS other than in kind pursuant to such Section 4.2(c) will only occur after April 15, 2015 and only if there is a Failed Remarketing and the Depositor does not exercise its right to cause the Trust to redeem the Capital ITS in kind).

     (c) If a Successful Remarketing occurs, then promptly after the Remarketing Settlement Date the Issuer Trust shall redeem the Capital ITS, in whole but not in part, in kind by exchanging for each Capital ITS a Like Amount of Notes. If a Failed Remarketing occurs but on the Stock Purchase Date there is no Deferred Note Interest Amount outstanding, then promptly after the Stock Purchase Date the Issuer Trust shall redeem the Capital ITS, in whole but not in part, in kind by exchanging for each Capital ITS a Like Amount of Notes. If a Failed

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Remarketing occurs and there is a Deferred Note Interest Amount outstanding on the Stock Purchase Date, or if the Stock Purchase Contracts terminate in accordance with the terms of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement prior to a Stock Purchase Date occurring, then the Depositor may instruct the Issuer Trust at any time thereafter when no Deferred Note Interest Amount is outstanding to redeem the Capital ITS, in whole but not in part, in kind by exchanging for each Capital ITS a Like Amount of Notes. Any such redemption will be effected by Book-Entry Transfer of Notes in global form if the Notes then settle and clear through the Clearing Agency, and if the Notes do not then settle and clear through the Clearing Agency by delivery of definitive certificates evidencing the Notes to the Holders of Capital ITS.

     (d) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 (or not less than 20 in the case of a redemption in kind pursuant to Section 4.2(c) after a Successful Remarketing) nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed, at such Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register. All notices of redemption shall state:

     (i) the Redemption Date;

     (ii) unless the redemption is a redemption of Capital ITS in kind pursuant to Section 4.2(c), the Redemption Price or if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to the time the notice is required to be sent, the estimate of the Redemption Price together with a statement that it is an estimate and that the actual Redemption Price will be calculated on the third Business Day prior to the Redemption Date (and if an estimate is provided, a further notice shall be sent of the actual Redemption Price on the date that such Redemption Price is calculated);

     (iii) the CUSIP number or CUSIP numbers of the Trust Preferred Securities affected;

     (iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed, the identification and the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the particular Trust Securities of the relevant Class to be redeemed;

     (v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be redeemed and that Distributions thereon will cease to accumulate on and after said date, except as provided in Section 4.2(e)(ii) below; and

     (vi) if the Trust Preferred Securities Certificates are not Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates on the Redemption Date, the place or places where the Trust Preferred Securities Certificates are to be surrendered for the payment of the Redemption Price.

     (e) In the case of a redemption of Normal ITS and Common Securities pursuant to Section 4.2(a) or Capital ITS pursuant to Section 4.2(b), in each case for payment of a cash Redemption Price:

     (i) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous redemption of a Like Amount of Preferred Stock or Notes, as applicable. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each

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Redemption Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account from the Depositor’s redemption of Preferred Stock or Notes, as applicable, for the payment of such Redemption Price.

     (ii) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of any Trust Preferred Securities, then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, subject to Section 4.2(c), the Property Trustee will, with respect to Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities, irrevocably deposit with the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities, to the extent available therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give such Clearing Agency irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities. With respect to Trust Preferred Securities that are not Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee, subject to Section 4.2(e)(i), will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent, to the extent available therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give the Paying Agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities upon surrender of their Trust Preferred Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust Securities as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record dates for the related Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall have been given and funds deposited as required, then upon the date of such deposit, all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities so called for redemption will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive the Redemption Price and any Distribution payable in respect of the Trust Securities on or prior to the Redemption Date, but without interest, and such Trust Securities will cease to be outstanding. In the event that payment of the Redemption Price in respect of any Trust Securities called for redemption is improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by the Issuer Trust or by the Depositor pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement, Distributions on such Trust Securities will continue to accumulate, as set forth in Section 4.1, from the Redemption Date originally established by the Issuer Trust for such Trust Securities to the date such Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case the actual payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price.

     (iii) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Normal ITS and Common Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Normal ITS and Common Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated pro rata to the Common Securities and the Normal ITS being redeemed based upon the relative Liquidation Amounts of such classes. The particular Normal ITS to be redeemed shall be selected on a pro rata basis based upon their respective Liquidation Amounts not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Property Trustee from the Outstanding Normal ITS not previously called for redemption by any method the Property Trustee deems fair and appropriate, provided that so long as the Normal ITS are in book-entry form, such selection shall be made in accordance with the customary procedures for the Clearing Agency for the Normal ITS. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the Normal ITS selected for redemption and, in the case of any Normal ITS selected for partial redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Normal ITS shall relate, in the case of any Normal ITS redeemed or to be redeemed only in part,

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to the portion of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Normal ITS that has been or is to be redeemed.

     (iv) If less than all the Outstanding Capital ITS are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the particular Capital ITS to be redeemed shall be selected on a pro rata basis based upon their respective Liquidation Amounts not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Property Trustee from the Outstanding Capital ITS not previously called for redemption by any method the Property Trustee deems fair and appropriate, provided that so long as the Capital ITS are in book-entry form, such selection shall be made in accordance with the customary procedures for the Clearing Agency for the Capital ITS. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the Capital ITS selected for redemption and, in the case of any Capital ITS selected for partial redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Capital ITS shall relate, in the case of any Capital ITS redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Capital ITS that has been or is to be redeemed.

     Section 4.3 Subordination of Common Securities.

     (a) If on any Distribution Date the Paying Agent lacks funds available from payments of interest, dividends or Contract Payments (as applicable) to make full Distributions then due on all of the outstanding Trust Securities in accordance with Section 4.1 (other than because of the Depositor’s proper exercise of its right to (i) defer payment of Contract Payments, resulting in Deferred Contract Payment Amounts, or (ii) defer payment of interest on the Notes, resulting in Deferred Note Interest Amounts), then:

     (i) if the deficiency in funds results from the Depositor’s failure to make a full payment of interest on the Notes on an interest payment date for the Notes, then the available funds from the Depositor’s payment of interest on the Notes shall be applied first to make the Distributions then due on the Normal ITS and the Capital ITS on a pro rata basis on such Distribution Date up to the amount of such Distributions corresponding to interest payments on the Notes (or, if less, the amount of the corresponding Distributions that would have been made on the Normal ITS and Capital ITS had the Depositor made a full payment of interest on the Notes) before any such amount is applied to make a Distribution on Common Securities on such Distribution Date;

     (ii) if the deficiency in funds results from the Depositor’s failure to make a full payment of Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts on a payment date for Contract Payments, then the available funds from the Depositor’s payment of Contract Payments shall be applied first to make Distributions then due on the Normal ITS and the Stripped ITS on a pro rata basis on such Distribution Date up to the amount of such Distributions corresponding to the Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts (or, if less, the amount of the corresponding Distributions that would have been made on the Normal ITS and the Stripped ITS had the Depositor made a full payment of Contract Payments on the Stock Purchase Contracts) before any such amount is applied to make a Distribution on Common Securities on such Distribution Date; and

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Stock, then the available funds from the Depositor’s payment of dividends on the Preferred Stock shall be applied first to make Distributions then due on the Normal ITS on a pro rata basis on such Distribution Date up to the amount of such Distributions corresponding to dividends on the Preferred Stock (or, if less, the amount of the corresponding Distributions that would have been made on the Normal ITS and the Stripped ITS, if any, had the Depositor paid a full dividend on the Preferred Stock) before any such amount is applied to make a Distribution on Common Securities on such Distribution Date.

     (b) If on any Redemption Date for a redemption pursuant to Section 4.2(a) the Paying Agent lacks funds available from the Depositor’s redemption of shares of Preferred Stock to pay the full Redemption Price then due on all of the outstanding Trust Securities to be redeemed in accordance with Section 4.2, then (i) the available funds shall be applied first to pay the Redemption Price on the Trust Preferred Securities to be redeemed on such Redemption Date and (ii) Common Securities shall be redeemed only to the extent funds are available for such purpose after the payment of the full Redemption Price on the Trust Preferred Securities to be redeemed, as aforesaid.

     (c) If an Early Dissolution Event occurs, no Liquidation Distributions shall be made on the Common Securities until full Liquidation Distributions have been made on each Class of Trust Preferred Securities in accordance with Section 9.4(d).

     (d) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting from any Note Event of Default or Preferred Stock Default, the Holders of the Common Securities shall have no right to act with respect to any such Event of Default under this Trust Agreement until the effect of all such Events of Default with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities have been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated. Until all such Events of Default under this Trust Agreement with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities have been so cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act solely on behalf of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities and not on behalf of the Holders of the Common Securities, and only the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities will have the right to direct the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.

     Section 4.4 Payment Procedures.

     Payments of cash Distributions (including any Additional Amounts) in respect of the Trust Preferred Securities shall, subject to the next succeeding sentence, be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Securities Register or, if the Trust Preferred Securities are held by a Clearing Agency, such Distributions shall be made to the Clearing Agency by wire transfer of immediately available funds. A Holder of $1,000,000 or more in aggregate Liquidation Amount of Trust Preferred Securities may receive payments of cash Distributions (including any Additional Amounts) by wire transfer of immediately available funds upon written request to the Property Trustee not later than the 15^th calendar day, whether or not a Business Day, before the relevant Distribution Date. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall be made in such manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Holders of the Common Securities.

     Section 4.5 Tax Returns and Reports.

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to be filed by or in respect of the Issuer Trust. In this regard, the Administrative Trustees shall (a) prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed) all Internal Revenue Service forms required to be filed in respect of the Issuer Trust in each taxable year of the Issuer Trust, and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to be prepared and furnished) to each Holder all Internal Revenue Service forms required to be provided by the Issuer Trust. The Administrative Trustees shall provide the Depositor and the Property Trustee with a copy of all such returns and reports promptly after such filing or furnishing. The Issuer Trustees shall comply with U.S. federal withholding and backup withholding tax laws and information reporting requirements with respect to any payments to Holders under the Trust Securities.

     Section 4.6 Payment of Expenses of the Issuer Trust.

     The Depositor shall pay to the Issuer Trust, and reimburse the Issuer Trust for, the full amount of any costs, expenses or liabilities of the Issuer Trust (other than obligations of the Issuer Trust to pay the Holders of any Trust Preferred Securities or other similar interests in the Issuer Trust the amounts due such Holders pursuant to the terms of the Trust Preferred Securities or such other similar interests, as the case may be), including, without limitation, any taxes, duties or other governmental charges of whatever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed on the Issuer Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority. Such payment obligation includes any such costs, expenses or liabilities of the Issuer Trust that are required by applicable law to be satisfied in connection with a dissolution of the Issuer Trust.

     Section 4.7 Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.

     Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities (or any Owner with respect thereto) shall be reduced by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or Owner) has directly received pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Base Indenture, Section 3.1 of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or Section 5.16 of this Trust Agreement.

     Section 4.8 Combination of Stripped ITS and Normal ITS after Stock Purchase Date.

     If either (x) there has been a Successful Remarketing or (y) there has been a Failed Remarketing but on the Stock Purchase Date there is no Deferred Note Interest Amount outstanding (but in the case of each of clause (x) and (y) only if the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement is fully performed on the Stock Purchase Date), at the Securities Registrar’s opening of business on the Business Day next succeeding the Stock Purchase Date each Stripped ITS with its $1,000 Liquidation Amount shall automatically be and become a Normal ITS with a $1,000 Liquidation Amount, and each Stripped ITS Certificate (whether or not a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate) shall be deemed to represent a number of Normal ITS equal to the number of Stripped ITS represented by such Stripped ITS Certificate immediately prior to the Securities Registrar’s opening of business on such date. If there has been a Failed Remarketing and on the Stock Purchase Date there is a Deferred Note Interest Amount outstanding, then Stripped ITS will continue to remain outstanding after the Stock Purchase Date until the first date on which no Deferred Note Interest Amount is outstanding (including because any notes delivered pursuant to Section 2.5(c) of the Indenture Supplement have been fully paid) and, on the Business Day after all Deferred Note Interest Amounts have been fully paid, each Stripped ITS with its $1,000 Liquidation Amount shall automatically be and become a Normal ITS with a $1,000 Liquidation Amount, and each Stripped ITS Certificate (whether or not a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate) shall be deemed to represent a number of Normal ITS equal to the number of Stripped ITS represented by such Stripped ITS Certificate immediately prior to the Securities Registrar’s opening of business on such date. On or after such date determined

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pursuant to either of the two preceding sentences, (a) upon surrender by a Holder of a Stripped ITS Certificate to the Securities Registrar, an Administrative Trustee shall execute and deliver to the Securities Registrar (who shall then deliver to such Holder) a Normal ITS Certificate representing the appropriate number of Normal ITS, and the Securities Registrar shall enter such Holder as appropriate in the Securities Register for the Normal ITS, and (b) as to Normal ITS and Stripped ITS represented by Book-Entry Preferred Securities, the Depositor, the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee, the Securities Registrar and the Paying Agent shall cooperate in an effort to cause the Stripped ITS to become Normal ITS in accordance with the rules and procedures of the applicable Clearing Agency (including, in the case of DTC if it is the Clearing Agency, adjustment if necessary or appropriate through DTC’s Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian DWAC system).

ARTICLE V

Trust Securities Certificates

     Section 5.1 Initial Ownership.

     Upon the formation of the Issuer Trust and the contribution by the Depositor pursuant to Section 2.3 and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at any time during which no Trust Securities are outstanding, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Issuer Trust.

     Section 5.2 The Trust Securities Certificates.

     The Trust Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of one Trust Preferred Security and integral multiples thereof (corresponding to $1,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof), and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of one Common Security and integral multiples thereof (corresponding to $1,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples thereof). Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and Common Securities Certificates shall not be issued in denominations representing fractions of a Trust Preferred Security or Common Security, as applicable. The Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust by manual signature of at least one Administrative Trustee. Trust Securities Certificates bearing the manual signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, Administrative Trustees shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be Administrative Trustees prior to the delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall become a Holder, and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Holder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust Securities Certificate in such transferee’s name pursuant to Section 5.4, 5.11 or 5.13.

     Section 5.3 Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates.

     At the Time of Delivery, an Administrative Trustees shall cause Trust Securities Certificates representing the number of Trust Securities of the applicable Class provided in Sections 2.4 and 2.5 to be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust and delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor, such written order executed by one Authorized Officer thereof, without further corporate action by the Depositor, in authorized denominations.

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     Section 5.4 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

     The Administrative Trustees shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8, a register or registers for the purpose of registering Trust Securities Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates (the “Securities Register”) in which the Securities Registrar, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for the registration of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and Common Securities Certificates (subject to Section 5.10 in the case of the Common Securities Certificates) and registration of transfers and exchanges of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates as herein provided. The provisions of Sections 8.1 (other than (c), (d), (e)(i) and (e)(iii) (e)(vii) thereof), 8.3 (other than (g) and (j) thereof) and 8.6 shall apply to the Securities Registrar in the same manner that by their terms they apply to the Property Trustee, mutatis mutandis, as modified by the terms of the letter agreement, dated Ÿ, 2006 (the “Agent Agreement”), by and among the Depositor, the Administrative Trustees, the Securities Registrar and the Paying Agent, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof, and subject to the rights, privileges and immunities of the Securities Registrar under the Collateral Agreement. The Administrative Trustees shall take such action as shall be necessary to ensure that at all times there is a Securities Registrar and that, through the Stock Purchase Date, the same commercial bank is both Securities Registrar and Collateral Agent. By executing this Trust Agreement, the Administrative Trustees appoint U.S. Bank National Association, as the initial Securities Registrar. Subject to the second preceding sentence, the Administrative Trustees may dismiss the Securities Registrar and appoint a commercial bank or trust company to act as successor Securities Registrar. Any Person acting as Securities Registrar shall be permitted to resign as Securities Registrar upon 30 days’ written notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee.

     Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Preferred Securities Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8, the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute on behalf of the Issuer Trust and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount dated the date of execution by such Administrative Trustee or Trustees. At the option of a Holder, Trust Preferred Securities Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of the same class and of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount upon surrender of the Trust Preferred Securities Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8. Neither the Trust nor the Securities Registrar shall be required, pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.4, (a) to register the transfer of or exchange any Trust Preferred Security during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of Trust Preferred Securities and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of notice of redemption or (b) to transfer or exchange any Trust Preferred Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Trust Preferred Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.

     Every Trust Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to an Administrative Trustee and the Securities Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Preferred Securities Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by an Administrative Trustee or the Securities Registrar in accordance with such Person’s customary practice.

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     No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, but the Securities Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

     Section 5.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates.

     If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be surrendered to the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust Securities Certificate, and (b) there shall be delivered to the Securities Registrar and the Administrative Trustees such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall execute and make available for delivery, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust Securities Certificate under this Section 5.5, the Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust corresponding to that evidenced by the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate shall be found at any time.

     Section 5.6 Persons Deemed Holders.

     The Issuer Trustees and the Securities Registrar shall each treat the Person in whose name any Trust Securities Certificate shall be registered in the Securities Register as the owner of such Trust Securities Certificate for the purpose of receiving Distributions and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Issuer Trustees, the Administrative Trustees and the Securities Registrar shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.

     Section 5.7 List of Holders’ Names and Addresses.

     Each of the Depositor and any one of the Administrative Trustees will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Property Trustee:

     (i) monthly, quarterly or semi-annually, as the case may be, not more than 15 days after each regular record date in each year, a list, in such form as the Property Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Trust Securities as of such regular record date, and

     (ii) at such other times as the Property Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished,

excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Property Trustee at any time that is acting as Securities Registrar.

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     The Property Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Property Trustee as provided in this Section 5.7 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Property Trustee at any time that is acting as Securities Registrar. The Property Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.7 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

     The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Trust Agreement or under the Trust Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Property Trustee, shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act.

     Each Holder and each Owner shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold the Depositor, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.

     Section 5.8 Maintenance of Office Agency.

     The Administrative Trustees shall designate an office or offices or agency or agencies where Trust Preferred Securities Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and for payment, and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuer Trustees in respect of this Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities Certificates may be served. The Administrative Trustees initially designate U.S. Bank National Association, 100 Wall Street, 16th Floor, New York, New York 10005 Attention: Corporate Trust Services, as their office and agency for such purposes of surrendering for registration of transfer or exchange and for payment and designate c/o U.S. Bancorp, 800 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 550402, Attention: Treasury Department, as their office and agency for the purposes of serving such demands and notices. An Administrative Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, the Property Trustees and to the Holders of any change in the location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency.

     Section 5.9 Appointment of Paying Agent.

     The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Holders from the Payment Account and shall report the amounts of such Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account solely for the purpose of making the Distributions referred to above. The Administrative Trustees may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent in their sole discretion. The Paying Agent shall initially be U.S. National Association. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days’ written notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee. If U.S. National Association shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign or its authority to act be revoked, the Administrative Trustees shall appoint a successor (which shall be a bank or trust company) that is reasonably acceptable to the Property Trustee and the Depositor to act as Paying Agent. Such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent shall execute and deliver to the Issuer Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Issuer Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Holders in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Property Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions of Sections 8.1 (other than (c), (d), (e)(i) and (e)(iii), thereof), 8.3 (other than (g) and (j) thereof) and 8.6 shall apply also to the Paying Agent for so long as it shall act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder, in the same manner

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that by their terms they apply to the Property Trustee, mutatis mutandis, as modified by the terms of the Agent Agreement. Any reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.

     Section 5.10 Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor; Common Securities Certificate.

     (a) At the Time of Delivery, the Depositor shall acquire beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. To the fullest extent permitted by law, other than a transfer in connection with a consolidation or merger of the Depositor into another Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Base Indenture, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities other than to a direct or indirect subsidiary of the Depositor shall be void. The Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Depositor to contain a legend consistent with this Section 5.10.

     (b) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common Securities shall be issued to the Depositor in the form of a definitive Common Securities Certificate.

     Section 5.11 Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

     (a) Except where Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates have been issued to Owners pursuant to Section 5.15:

     (i) the provisions of this Section 5.11(a) shall apply and be in full force and effect;

     (ii) the Securities Registrar, the Paying Agent and the Issuer Trustees shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency, or its nominee, for all purposes of this Trust Agreement relating to the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates (including the payment of the Liquidation Amount of and Distributions on the Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and the giving of instructions or directions to Owners of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates) as the sole Holder of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and shall have no obligations to the Owners thereof, and neither any Clearing Agency Participants nor any other Persons on whose behalf Clearing Agency Participants may act shall have any rights under this Trust Agreement with respect to any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the name of the Clearing Agency or any nominee thereof or otherwise;

     (iii) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 5.11 conflict with any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, the provisions of this Section 5.11 shall control; and

     (iv) the rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the Certificate Depository Agreement, unless and until Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates are issued pursuant to Section 5.15, the initial Clearing Agency will make book-entry transfers

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among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit payments on the Trust Preferred Securities to such Clearing Agency Participants. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) the Holder of a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including the Clearing Agency Participants and other Persons that are Owners, to take any action that a Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of the relevant Class is entitled to take under this Trust Agreement or the Trust Preferred Securities of the relevant Class, and (y) nothing herein shall prevent the Securities Registrar or the Issuer Trustees from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Clearing Agency or shall impair, as between the Clearing Agency and the Clearing Agency Participants, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of an Owner of any Trust Preferred Security.

     (b) Any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate shall represent such number of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Class as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate number of Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Class from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate number of Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Class represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect transfers, redemptions or exchanges (including the Exchanges pursuant to Section 5.13). Any endorsement of a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate to reflect the number, or any increase or decrease in the number, of Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Class represented thereby shall be made by the Securities Registrar (i) in such a manner and upon instructions given by such Person or Persons as shall be specified in such Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Class or in a Depositor order to be delivered to the Securities Registrar pursuant to Section 5.3 or (ii) otherwise in accordance with written instructions or such other written form or instructions as is customary for the Clearing Agency for such Trust Preferred Securities, from such Clearing Agency or its nominee on behalf of any Person having a beneficial interest in such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate. Subject to the provisions of Section 5.4, the Securities Registrar shall deliver and redeliver any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate in the manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified in such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate or in the applicable Depositor order (and an Administrative Trustee shall execute such Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate as shall be necessary in order to give effect to the foregoing).

     (c) Any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate may be deposited with the Clearing Agency or its nominee, or may remain in the custody of the Certificate Custodian.

     (d) Notwithstanding Section 5.4, transfers of a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate shall be limited to transfers in whole, but not in part, to the Clearing Agency, its successors or their respective nominees. Interests of Owners in a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate may be transferred in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Clearing Agency. Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates shall be transferred to Owners in exchange for their beneficial interests in a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate if, and only if, either (1) the Clearing Agency notifies the Depositor and the Securities Registrar that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Clearing Agency for the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities or if at any time the Clearing Agency ceases to be a Clearing Agency registered under the Exchange Act and, in either case, a successor Clearing Agency is not appointed by the Depositor within 90 days of such notice, (2) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Securities Registrar has received a request from the Clearing Agency to issue Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of each Class in lieu of all or a portion of

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the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities (in which case an Administrative Trustee shall execute and deliver Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates within 30 days of such request), or (3) the Depositor determines not to have the Trust Preferred Securities represented by the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

     (e) In connection with any transfer of a portion of the beneficial interests in a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate to Owners pursuant to this Section 5.11, the Securities Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the number of Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Class in an amount equal to the number of such Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Class to be transferred, and an Administrative Trustee shall execute and deliver one or more Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of the same Class representing the appropriate number of Trust Preferred Securities of such Class.

     (f) In connection with the transfer of all the beneficial interests in a Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate to Owners pursuant to this Section 5.11, the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Securities Registrar for cancellation, and an Administrative Trustee shall execute and deliver to each Owner identified by the Clearing Agency in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificate being cancelled, a Definitive Trust Preferred Security Certificate representing an equal number of Trust Preferred Securities of the applicable Class.

     (g) None of the Issuer Trustees, the Securities Registrar, the Paying Agent or the Depositor will have any responsibility or liability for any acts or omissions of any Clearing Agency with respect to any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities, or any aspect of the records relating to, or payments made on account of, Trust Preferred Securities by the Clearing Agency, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records of the Clearing Agency relating to the Trust Preferred Securities, or for any transactions between or among a Clearing Agency and a Clearing Agency Participant and/or an Owner of a beneficial interest in any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities for transfers of beneficial interests in any Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities. None of the Issuer Trustees, the Securities Registrar, the Paying Agent or the Depositor shall be liable for any delay by the Clearing Agency in identifying Owners, and each such Person may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, instructions from the Clearing Agency for all purposes (including with respect to the registration and delivery, in the respective amounts, of Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates to be issued).

     Section 5.12 Notices to Clearing Agency.

     To the extent that a notice or other communication to the Holders is required under this Trust Agreement, for so long as Trust Preferred Securities are represented by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, the Administrative Trustees shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations to the Owners.

     Section 5.13 Exchanges.

     (a) This Section 5.13 provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders:

     (i) of Normal ITS may exchange Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped ITS and Capital ITS; and

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     (ii) of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS may exchange Stripped ITS and Capital ITS for Normal ITS and Pledged Treasury Securities

(each, an “Exchange”, and the terms “Exchanged”, “Exchanging” and “Exchanges” having correlative meanings). All deposits, deliveries or transfers by a Holder pursuant to this Section 5.13 of Normal ITS, Capital ITS and treasury securities (including Qualifying Treasury Securities) shall be made by Book-Entry Transfer unless the recipient of such deposit, delivery or transfer expressly agrees otherwise in writing.

     (b) Subject to the conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement, during any Exchange Period a Holder of Normal ITS may effect an Exchange of Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of such Normal ITS for Stripped ITS and Capital ITS, each having a Liquidation Amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of such Normal ITS, by:

     (i) depositing with the Collateral Agent the treasury security that is the Qualifying Treasury Security on the date of deposit, in the principal amount of $1,000 for each Normal ITS being Exchanged;

     (ii) transferring the Normal ITS being Exchanged to the Securities Registrar; and

     (iii) delivering to the Collateral Agent and the Securities Registrar, together with the deposit of Qualifying Treasury Securities deposited pursuant to clause (i) and the transfer of Normal ITS pursuant to clause (ii), a duly executed and completed “Stripping Notice and Request” in the form printed on the reverse side of the form of Normal ITS Certificate (x) stating that the Holder is depositing the appropriate Qualifying Treasury Securities with the Collateral Agent for deposit in the Collateral Account, (y) stating that the Holder is transferring the related Normal ITS to the Securities Registrar in connection with an Exchange of such Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for a Like Amount of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS, and (z) requesting the delivery to the Holder of such Stripped ITS and Capital ITS.

     (c) Upon the deposit and transfer pursuant to Section 5.13(b) and receipt of the notice and request referred to in Section 5.13(b)(iii):

     (i) the Collateral Agent will release Pledged Notes of a Like Amount from the Pledge, transfer such Pledged Notes to the Custody Account free and clear of the Depositor’s security interest therein, and confirm to the Property Trustee in writing that such release and transfer has occurred;

     (ii) the Collateral Agent shall continue to hold such Notes in the Custody Account as Custodial Agent for the Issuer Trust in connection with Capital ITS for which such Notes are Corresponding Assets; and

     (iii) the Securities Registrar, pursuant to the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 dealing with increasing and decreasing the number of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, shall cancel the number of Normal ITS transferred pursuant to Section 5.13(b)(ii) and deliver a Like Amount of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS to the Holder, all by making appropriate

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notations on the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of the appropriate Class.

     (d) Subject to the conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement, during any Exchange Period a Holder of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS may effect an Exchange of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS for Normal ITS and Pledged Treasury Securities having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of each of the Stripped ITS and Capital ITS being Exchanged, by:

     (i) transferring the Stripped ITS and the Capital ITS being Exchanged to the Securities Registrar; and

     (ii) delivering to the Securities Registrar, together with the transfer of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS pursuant to clause (i), and concurrently delivering to the Collateral Agent a duly executed and completed “Recombination Notice and Request” in the form printed on the reverse side of the form of Capital ITS Certificate and Stripped ITS Certificate, (x) stating that the Holder is transferring the related Stripped ITS and Capital ITS to the Securities Registrar in connection with the Exchange of such Stripped ITS and Capital ITS for a Like Amount of each of Normal ITS and Pledged Treasury Securities, (y) requesting the Collateral Agent to release from the Pledge and deliver to the Holder Pledged Treasury Securities in a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of each of the Stripped ITS and Capital ITS being exchanged, and (z) requesting the Securities Registrar to deliver to the Holder Normal ITS of a Like Amount.

     (e) Upon the transfer pursuant to Section 5.13(d) and receipt of the notice and request referred to in Section 5.13(d):

     (i) the Collateral Agent will release Pledged Treasury Securities of a Like Amount from the Pledge and deliver such formerly Pledged Treasury Securities to the Holder free and clear of the Depositor’s security interest therein, and confirm in writing to the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees that such release and transfer has occurred;

     (ii) the Collateral Agent will transfer a Like Amount of Notes from the Custody Account to the Collateral Account, re-subjecting such Notes to the Pledge; and

     (iii) the Securities Registrar, pursuant to the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 dealing with increasing and decreasing the number of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, shall cancel the number of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS delivered pursuant to Section 5.13(d) and deliver a Like Amount of Normal ITS to the Holder, all by making appropriate notations on the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of the appropriate Class.

     Section 5.14 Remarketing Elections.

     (a) This Section 5.14 provides for the procedures pursuant to which a Holder:

     (i) of Normal ITS may elect (a “Contingent Exchange Election”) to cause the Pledged Notes that are Corresponding Assets for such Holder’s Normal ITS not to be offered in a Remarketing, with the consequence that such Holder will receive in exchange Stripped ITS and Capital ITS in a Like Amount if the Remarketing is Successful; and

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     (ii) of Capital ITS may elect (a “Contingent Disposition Election”) to cause the Notes that are Corresponding Assets for such Holder’s Capital ITS to be offered in the Remarketing, with the consequence that such Holder will receive the cash proceeds, net of the allocable portion of the Remarketing Agent’s fee, of the Remarketing of such Notes.

     (b) Upon the written instruction of the Depositor, the Property Trustee shall give appropriate instructions to the Collateral Agent and the Remarketing Agent in accordance with the Remarketing Agreement to offer for sale in each Remarketing, and if the Remarketing is Successful sell as part of such Remarketing, a principal amount of Notes equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes included in the Trust Property minus the sum of (i) the Liquidation Amount of Normal ITS as to which a Contingent Exchange Election has been made and (ii) the Liquidation Amount of Capital ITS other than Capital ITS as to which a Contingent Disposition Election has been made.

     (c) All deposits, deliveries or transfers by a Holder pursuant to this Section 5.14 of Normal ITS, Capital ITS and treasury securities (including Qualifying Treasury Securities) shall be made by Book-Entry Transfer unless the recipient of such deposit, delivery or transfer expressly agrees otherwise in writing.

     (d) Subject to the conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement, a Holder of Normal ITS may make a Contingent Exchange Election by:

     (i) during the period that commences with the Collateral Agent’s and the Securities Registrar’s opening of normal business hours on the tenth Business Day immediately preceding a Remarketing Date and ending at 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding such Remarketing Date, transferring the Normal ITS that are the subject of such Contingent Exchange Election to the Securities Registrar, accompanied by a duly executed and completed “Notice of Contingent Exchange Election” in the form printed on the reverse side of the form of Normal ITS Certificate; and

     (ii) by not later than 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Remarketing Date, depositing with the Collateral Agent, the treasury security that is the Qualifying Treasury Security on the date of deposit, in the amount of $1,000 for each Normal ITS that is subject to the Contingent Exchange Election.

     (e) If a Holder has made an effective Contingent Exchange Election in accordance with the foregoing provisions:

     (i) if the related Remarketing is Successful:

     (x) the Collateral Agent will release Pledged Notes of a Like Amount from the Pledge, transfer such Notes to the Custody Account free and clear of the Depositor’s security interest therein, deposit in the Collateral Account as Pledged Treasury Securities the Qualifying Treasury Securities deposited with the Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 5.14(d)(ii) and confirm to the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees in writing that such release of transfers has occurred;

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     (y) the Collateral Agent shall continue to hold such Notes in the Custody Account as Custodial Agent for the Issuer Trust in connection with Capital ITS for which such Notes are Corresponding Assets; and

     (z) the Securities Registrar, pursuant to the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 dealing with increasing and decreasing the number of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, shall cancel the number of Normal ITS transferred pursuant to Section 5.14(d)(i) and deliver a Like Amount of Capital ITS and Stripped ITS to the Holder, all by making appropriate notations on the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates of the appropriate Class; and

(ii) if the related Remarketing is not Successful:

     (x) promptly after the Remarketing, the Collateral Agent will deliver back to such Holder the Qualifying Treasury Securities delivered by such Holder to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Section 5.14(d)(ii); and

     (y) the Securities Registrar will disregard the delivery by such Holder of Normal ITS pursuant to Section 5.14(d)(i), with the consequence that such Holder shall be deemed continued to hold such Normal ITS.

     (f) Subject to the conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement, a Holder of Capital ITS may make a Contingent Disposition Election by, during the period that commences with the Securities Registrar’s opening of normal business hours on the tenth Business Day immediately preceding a Remarketing Date and ending at 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding such Remarketing Date, transferring the Capital ITS that are the subject of such Contingent Disposition Election to the Securities Registrar, accompanied by a duly completed “Notice of Contingent Disposition Election” in the form printed on the reverse side of the form of Capital ITS Certificate.

     (g) If a Holder has made an effective Contingent Disposition Election in accordance with the foregoing provisions:

     (i) if the related Remarketing is Successful:

     (x) the Securities Registrar, pursuant to the procedures provided for in Section 5.11 dealing with increasing and decreasing the number of Trust Preferred Securities evidenced by Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, shall cancel the number of Capital ITS transferred pursuant to Section 5.14(f); and

     (y) on or promptly after the Remarketing Settlement Date, the Collateral Agent will pay to the Property Trustee or its designee, and the Property Trustee through the Paying Agent will pay to such Holder, an amount in cash for each Capital ITS subject to such Contingent Disposition Election equal to the proceeds of sale of $1,000 principal amount of Notes, net of a pro rata portion of the Remarketing Agent’s fee, in the Remarketing; and

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     (ii) if the Remarketing is not Successful, the Securities Registrar will disregard the delivery by such Holder of Capital ITS pursuant to Section 5.14(f), with the consequence that such Holder shall continue to hold such Capital ITS.

     Section 5.15 Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates.

     The Trust Preferred Securities Certificates issued at the Time of Delivery shall be issued as Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates in accordance with Section 2.4. Additionally, if (a) the Depositor advises the Issuer Trustees in writing that the Clearing Agency (i) has notified the Depositor that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Clearing Agency for such Trust Preferred Securities Certificates and no successor Clearing Agency has been appointed within 90 days of this notice or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act at a time when the Clearing Agency is required to be so registered to act as a depositary and no successor Clearing Agency has been appointed within 90 days after the Depositor has learned that the Clearing Agency has ceased to be so registered, (b) a Note Event of Default or a Preferred Stock Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (c) the Depositor at its option advises the Issuer Trustees in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency, or (d) Owners of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates representing beneficial interests aggregating at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of all Classes, considered together as a single Class, advise the Administrative Trustees in writing that the continuation of a book-entry system through the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interest of the Owners of Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, then the Administrative Trustees shall notify the other Issuer Trustees and the Clearing Agency, and the Clearing Agency, in accordance with its customary rules and procedures, shall notify all Clearing Agency Participants for whom it holds Trust Preferred Securities of the occurrence of any such event and of the availability of the Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates to Owners of such class or classes, as applicable, requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Administrative Trustees of the typewritten Trust Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates representing the Book-Entry Trust Preferred Securities Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, shall execute the Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. Neither the Securities Registrar nor the Issuer Trustees shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates, the Issuer Trustees shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates as holders of Trust Securities. The Definitive Trust Preferred Securities Certificates shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Trustees that meets the requirements of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which the Trust Preferred Securities are then listed or approved for trading, as evidenced by the execution thereof by the Administrative Trustees or any one of them.

     Section 5.16 Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults.

     (a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in accordance with Section 2.9, and the Holders shall not have any right or title therein other than the beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust conferred by their Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for any partition or division of property, profits or rights of the Issuer Trust except as described below. The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only the rights specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement. The Trust Preferred Securities shall have no preemptive or similar rights and when issued and

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delivered to Holders against payment of the purchase price therefor will be fully paid and nonassessable beneficial interests in the Issuer Trust. The Holders of the Trust Securities, in their capacities as such, shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

     (b) For so long as any Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes remain Outstanding, if, upon a Note Event of Default, the Note Trustee fails or the holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes fail to declare the principal of all of the Notes to be immediately due and payable, the Property Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes then Outstanding, considered together as a single Class, shall have the right to make such declaration by a notice in writing to the Depositor, the Note Trustee and the Property Trustee, in the case of notice by the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes, or to the Depositor, the Note Trustee and the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes, in the case of notice by the Property Trustee, and upon any such declaration such principal amount of and the accrued interest on all of the Notes shall become immediately due and payable as provided in the Indenture, provided that the payment of principal and interest on such Notes shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in the Indenture.

     At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Notes has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Note Trustee as in the Indenture provided, the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes, considered together as a single Class, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the Note Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:

     (i) the Depositor has paid or deposited with the Note Trustee a sum sufficient to pay

     (A) all overdue installments of interest on all of the Notes,

     (B) any accrued Additional Interest (as defined in the Indenture) on all of the Notes,

     (C) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Notes that have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest and Additional Interest (as defined in the Indenture) thereon at the rate borne by the Notes, and

     (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Note Trustee under the Indenture and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Note Trustee and the Property Trustee, their agents and counsel; and

     (ii) all Events of Default with respect to the Notes, other than the non payment of the principal of the Notes that has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13 of the Base Indenture.

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     The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes, considered together as a single Class, may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes, waive any past default under the Indenture, except a default in the payment of principal or interest (unless such default has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the Note Trustee) or a default in respect of a covenant or provision that under the Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding Note. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.

     Upon receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice declaring such an acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of any part of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes a record date shall be established for determining Holders of Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes entitled to join in such notice, which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Property Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that unless such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having joined in such notice prior to the day that is 90 days after such record date, such notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new written notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a written notice that has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.16(b).

     (c) For so long as any Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the Indenture, upon a Note Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(1) or 5.1(2) of the Base Indenture, any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor, pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Base Indenture, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of any amounts payable in respect of a Like Amount of Notes (a “Direct Action”). Except as set forth in Section 5.16(b) and this Section 5.16(c), the Holders of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes shall have no right to exercise directly any right or remedy available to the holders of, or in respect of, the Notes.

     (d) For so long as any Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, if the Depositor fails to pay when due any Contract Payments under the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement (after giving effect to the Depositor’s deferral right under Section 2.7 of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement), any Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor, pursuant to Section 3.1 of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of any amounts payable in respect of a Like Amount of Stock Purchase Contracts (also a “Direct Action”). Except as set forth in this Section 5.16(d), the Holders of Trust Preferred Securities of the Affected Classes shall have no right to exercise directly any right or remedy under the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement available to the Issuer Trust (acting through the Property Trustee) as a party thereto.

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     (e) Except as otherwise provided in Sections 5.16(a), (b), (c) and (d), the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Trust Preferred Securities, waive any past default or Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any default or Event of Default arising there from shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Trust Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

     Section 5.17 CUSIP Numbers.

     The Administrative Trustees in issuing the Trust Preferred Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Property Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Trust Preferred Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Trust Preferred Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Administrative Trustees will promptly notify the Property Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers.

     Section 5.18 Remarketing Procedures.

     (a) The Depositor will give notice to the Property Trustee of a Remarketing at least 28 days prior to the related Remarketing Date. Upon written instruction of the Depositor, the Property Trustee will give holders of Normal ITS and Capital ITS, and will request that the Clearing Agency give to its participants holding Normal ITS or Capital ITS, notice of a Remarketing at least 21 days prior to the related Remarketing Date. Such notices will set forth:

     (i) for interest periods for the Notes commencing on or after the Remarketing Settlement Date, the applicable interest payment dates and related record dates;

     (ii) any change in the stated maturity date of the Notes and, if applicable, the date on and after which the Depositor will have the right to redeem the Notes (which is subject to Section 3.2 of the Indenture Supplement);

     (iii) whether in connection with an Early Remarketing that is not the first scheduled Remarketing, the Depositor’s obligations under the Notes will remain subordinated to Senior Debt (as defined in the Indenture) after the Remarketing Settlement Date;

     (iv) any other changes in the terms of the Notes notified by the Depositor in connection with such Remarketing pursuant to Section 3.2 of the Indenture Supplement (including on a Final Remarketing that is a Failed Remarketing, any change in the Stated Maturity Date (as defined in the Indenture) and, if applicable, the date on or after which the Trust will have the right to redeem the Notes (which is subject to Section 3.2 of the Indenture Supplement));

     (v) the procedures a Holder of Normal ITS must follow to elect to exchange its Normal ITS for Stripped ITS and Capital ITS if the Remarketing is Successful, and the date by which such election must be made; and

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     (vi) the procedures a Holder of Capital ITS must follow to elect to dispose of its Capital ITS in connection with a Remarketing and the date by which such election must be made.

ARTICLE VI

Acts of Holders; Meetings; Voting

     Section 6.1 Limitations on Voting Rights.

     (a) Except as expressly provided in this Trust Agreement and in the Indenture and as otherwise required by law, no Holder of Trust Preferred Securities shall have any right to vote or in any manner otherwise control the administration, operation and management of the Issuer Trust or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth, or contained in the terms of the Trust Securities Certificates, be construed so as to constitute the Holders from time to time as partners or members of an association.

     (b) So long as any Notes are held by the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the Issuer Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Note Trustee, or execute any trust or power conferred on the Note Trustee with respect to the Notes, (ii) waive any past default that may be waived under Section 5.13 of the Base Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration that the principal of all the Notes shall be due and payable, or (iv) consent to any amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Notes, where such consent shall be required by the Holders of the Notes pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Normal ITS and the Capital ITS then Outstanding, considered together as a single Class; provided, however, that where a consent under the Indenture would require the consent of each holder of Notes affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the Property Trustee without the prior written consent of each Holder of Normal ITS and Capital ITS. The Property Trustee shall not revoke any action previously authorized or approved by a vote of the Holders of the Normal ITS and the Capital ITS, except by a subsequent vote of the Holders of the Normal ITS and the Capital ITS. The Property Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Normal ITS and the Capital ITS of any notice of default received with respect to the Notes. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Normal ITS and the Capital ITS, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Issuer Trustees shall, at the expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such action shall not cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

     (c) For so long as any Stock Purchase Contracts are outstanding, the Issuer Trustees may consent to any amendment to or modification of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement, without having obtained the prior approval of the Holders of any Trust Preferred Securities to such amendment or modification, for the purposes of (i) evidencing the succession of another person to the Issuer Trust’s or the Property Trustee’s obligations thereunder, (ii) adding to the covenants therein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust or the Property Trustee or to surrender any of the Depositor’s rights or powers thereunder, (iii) evidencing and providing for the acceptance of appointment of a successor Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent or Securities Intermediary under the Collateral Agreement, (iv) curing any ambiguity, or correcting or supplementing any provisions that may be inconsistent, (v) conforming the terms of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement, to the descriptions thereof in the

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Prospectus, or (vi) making any other provisions with respect to such matters or questions, provided that such action pursuant to this clause (vi) shall not adversely affect the interest of the Holders of Trust Preferred Securities of any Class in any material respect. The Issuer Trustees may, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Normal ITS and Stripped ITS then Outstanding, considered together as a single Class, agree to any other amendment to or modification of the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement, except that, without obtaining the prior written consent of each Holder of Normal ITS and Capital ITS then Outstanding, the Issuer Trustees may not agree to any amendment or modification that would (A) change any payment dates for Contract Payments, (B) change the amount or type of Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities required to be pledged under the Collateral Agreement, impair the right of the Property Trustee (on behalf of the Issuer Trust) to receive distributions on Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities or otherwise adversely affect the Issuer Trust’s rights in or to the Pledged Notes or Pledged Treasury Securities, (C) change the place or currency or reduce any Contract Payments, (D) impair the Property Trustee’s right (or any Holder’s right pursuant to Section 5.16(d)) to institute suit for the enforcement of the Stock Purchase Contracts or payment of any Contract Payments, or (E) reduce the number of shares of Preferred Stock purchasable under the Stock Purchase Contracts, increase the price to purchase Preferred Stock upon settlement of the Stock Purchase Contracts, change the Stock Purchase Date or otherwise adversely affect the Issuer Trust’s rights under the Stock Purchase Contracts.

     (d) So long as any shares of Preferred Stock are held by the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the Issuer Trustees shall not waive any Preferred Stock Default without obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Normal ITS and the Stripped ITS then Outstanding, considered together as a single Class. Additionally, in addition to and notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuer Trustees shall not consent to any amendment to the Certificate of Designation or the Depositor’s certificate of incorporation that would change the dates on which dividends are payable on the Preferred Stock or the amount of such dividends, without the prior written consent of each Holder of Normal ITS and Stripped ITS. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of Normal ITS and Stripped ITS, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Issuer Trustee shall, at the expense of Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such action shall not cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

     (e) If any proposed amendment to or modification of the Trust Agreement, the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement provides for, or the Issuer Trustees otherwise propose to effect, any action that would adversely affect in any material respect the powers, preferences or special rights of the Trust Preferred Securities of any Class in a manner that is different from the manner in which it would affect the Trust Preferred Securities of other Classes, whether by way of amendment to or modification of the Trust Agreement, the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement or the Collateral Agreement or otherwise, then the Holders of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of such Class will be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective except with the approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of such Class.

     (f) No amendment to or modification of any Transaction Document that adversely affects the rights, duties or immunities of the Securities Registrar, the Paying Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Intermediary or the Custodial Agent shall be effective as against any such affected party without its consent.

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     Section 6.2 Notice of Meetings.

     Notice of all meetings of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of any one or more Classes, stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 12.8 to each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of each Class entitled to attend such meeting, at such Holder’s registered address, at least 15 days and not more than 90 days before the meeting. At any such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so considered whether or not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice.

     Section 6.3 Meetings of Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

     No annual meeting of Holders is required to be held. However, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall call a meeting of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of a Class to vote on any matter upon the written request of the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of such Class; the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall call a meeting of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of all Classes to vote on any matter upon the written request of the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of all Classes, considered together; and the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee may, at any time in their discretion, call a meeting of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of any Class or Classes to vote on any matters as to which such Holders are entitled to vote.

     The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Class or Classes (as applicable) entitled to attend a meeting, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

     If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Holders present, in person or by proxy, holding Trust Preferred Securities representing at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Class or Classes (as applicable) entitled to attend such meeting held by the Holders present, either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the action of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of the Class or Classes (as applicable) invited to attend such meeting, unless this Trust Agreement requires a greater number of affirmative votes.

     Section 6.4 Voting Rights.

     Holders shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 of Liquidation Amount represented by their Outstanding Trust Securities in respect of any matter as to which such Holders are entitled to vote.

     Section 6.5 All Votes Must Be Made by a United States Person.

     Voting and consensual rights available to or in favor of Holders or Owners under this Trust Agreement may be exercised only by a United States Person that is a beneficial owner of a Trust Security or by a United States Person acting as irrevocable agent with discretionary powers for the beneficial owner of a Trust Security that is not a United States Person. Holders that are not United States Persons must irrevocably appoint a United States Person with discretionary powers to act as their agent with respect to such voting and consensual rights.

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     Section 6.6 Proxies, Etc.

     At any meeting of Holders, any Holder entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided that no proxy shall be voted at any meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the Property Trustee, or with such other officer or agent of the Issuer Trust as the Property Trustee may direct, for verification prior to the time at which such vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a resolution of the Property Trustee, proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or one or more officers of the Property Trustee. Only Holders of record shall be entitled to vote. When Trust Securities are held jointly by several Persons, any one of them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in respect of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a Holder shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the burden of proving invalidity shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years after its date of execution.

     Section 6.7 Holder Action by Written Consent.

     Any action that may be taken by Holders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting and without prior notice if Holders holding at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of all Trust Preferred Securities entitled to vote in respect of such action (or such larger proportion thereof as shall be required by any other provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to the action in writing.

     Section 6.8 Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.

     For the purposes of determining the Holders who are entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting or by written consent, or to participate in any distribution on the Trust Securities in respect of which a record date is not otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the purpose of any other action, the Administrative Trustees may from time to time fix a date, not more than 90 days prior to the date of any meeting of Holders or the payment of a Distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the determination of the identity of the Holders of record for such purposes. The Administrative Trustees shall cause a notice of any such date fixed in respect of any such distribution to be forwarded to each Paying Agent.

     Section 6.9 Acts of Holders.

     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and (subject to Section 8.1) conclusive in favor of the Issuer Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

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     The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner that any Issuer Trustee receiving the same deems sufficient.

     The ownership of Trust Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.

     Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Trust Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Trust Security and the Holder of every Trust Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Issuer Trustees, or the Issuer Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.

     Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Trust Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such Liquidation Amount.

     If any dispute shall arise between the Holders and the Issuer Trustees or among the Holders or the Issuer Trustees with respect to the authenticity, validity or binding nature of any request, demand, authorization, direction, consent, waiver or other Act of such Holder or Issuer Trustee under this Article VI, then the determination of such matter by the Property Trustee shall be conclusive with respect to such matter.

     Section 6.10 Inspection of Records.

     Upon reasonable notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee, the records of the Issuer Trust shall be open to inspection by Holders during normal business hours for any purpose reasonably related to such Holder’s interest as a Holder.

ARTICLE VII

Representations and Warranties

     Section 7.1 Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee.

     The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on behalf of and as to itself, hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Depositor and the Holders that:

     (a) the Property Trustee is a banking corporation, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware;

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necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;

     (c) the Delaware Trustee is a banking corporation, duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware;

     (d) the Delaware Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;

     (e) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and constitutes the valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee enforceable against each of them in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles;

     (f) the execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action on the part of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and do not require any approval of stockholders of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and such execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate the charter or by-laws of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, (ii) violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of, any Lien on any properties included in the Trust Property pursuant to the provisions of, any indenture, mortgage, credit agreement, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee is a party or by which it is bound, or (iii) violate any law, governmental rule or regulation of the State of Delaware, governing the banking or trust powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as appropriate in context) or any order, judgment or decree applicable to the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee;

     (g) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as the case may be) contemplated herein requires the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the taking of any other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency under any existing law of the State of Delaware, governing the banking, trust or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as appropriate in context), other than the filing of the Certificate of Trust with the Delaware Secretary of State; and

     (h) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of each of the Property Trustee’s and the Delaware Trustee’s knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee in any court or before any governmental authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal that, individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the Issuer Trust or would question the right, power and authority of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, to enter into or perform its obligations as one of the Issuer Trustees under this Trust Agreement.

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     Section 7.2 Representations and Warranties of Depositor.

     The Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Holders that:

     (a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued at the Time of Delivery on behalf of the Issuer Trust have been duly authorized and will have been duly and validly executed, issued and delivered by the Issuer Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in accordance with the requirements of, this Trust Agreement, and the Holders will be, as of such date, entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement; and

     (b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable by the Issuer Trust (or the Issuer Trustees on behalf of the Issuer Trust) under the laws of the State of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by any Issuer Trustee of this Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

The Issuer Trustees

     Section 8.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.

     (a) The duties and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees shall be as provided by this Trust Agreement, subject to Section 12.10. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Trust Agreement shall require any of the Issuer Trustees to expend or risk its or their own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its or their duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its or their rights or powers, if it or they shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Trust Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Issuer Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 8.1. To the extent that, at law or in equity, an Issuer Trustee has duties and liabilities relating to the Issuer Trust or to the Holders, such Issuer Trustee shall not be liable to the Issuer Trust or to any Holder for such Issuer Trustee’s good faith reliance on the provisions of this Trust Agreement. Except as otherwise required by the Trust Indenture Act and the Commission’s rules thereunder applicable to indentures qualified under such Act, the provisions of this Trust Agreement, to the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Depositor and the Holders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees.

     (b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be sufficient revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each Holder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it will look solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally available for distribution to it as herein provided and that the Issuer Trustees are not personally liable to such Holder for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security or for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This Section 8.1(b) does not limit the liability of the Issuer Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Trust Agreement or, in the case of the Property Trustee, in the Trust Indenture Act.

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     (c) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall enforce this Trust Agreement and the Transaction Agreements for the benefit of the Holders.

     (d) The Property Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 12.10), and no implied covenants shall be read into this Trust Agreement against the Property Trustee. If an Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 5.13 of the Base Indenture), the Property Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

     (e) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Property Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:

     (i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have occurred:

     (A) the duties and obligations of the Property Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 12.10), and the Property Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 12.10); and

     (B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Property Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Trust Agreement; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof or of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically required to be furnished to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Trust Agreement;

     (ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by an authorized officer of the Property Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Property Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;

     (iii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of all Affected Classes considered together as a single Class, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement;

     (iv) the Property Trustee’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safekeeping and physical preservation of the Notes and the Payment Account shall be to deal with such property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee deals with similar property for

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its own account, subject to the protections and limitations on liability afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement and the Trust Indenture Act;

     (v) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any money received by it except as it may otherwise agree with the Depositor; and money held by the Property Trustee need not be segregated from other funds held by it except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1 and except to the extent otherwise required by law;

     (vi) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the Administrative Trustees, the Depositor, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Registrar, the Custodial Agent, the Paying Agent, the Remarketing Agent or any other Person, with their respective duties under this Trust Agreement or any Transaction Document, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Issuer Trustee, the Administrative Trustees, the Depositor, the Collateral Agent, the Securities Registrar, the Custodial Agent, the Paying Agent, the Remarketing Agent or any other Person; and

     (vii) subject to Section 8.1(c), no provision of this Trust Agreement shall require the Property Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Property Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such funds or liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Trust Agreement or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

     (f) The Administrative Trustees shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the other Issuer Trustees or the Depositor with their respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall either Administrative Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Issuer Trustee or the Depositor.

     Section 8.2 Certain Notices.

     Within thirty days after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known to the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 12.8, notice of such Event of Default to the Holders of each Affected Class, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.

     For so long as Notes are included within the Trust Property, within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Depositor’s exercise of its right to defer the payment of interest on the Notes pursuant to the Indenture, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 12.8, notice of such exercise to the Holders of the Normal ITS and the Capital ITS, unless such exercise shall have been revoked.

     If during any calendar year any original issue discount shall have accrued on the Notes, the Depositor shall file with each Paying Agent (including the Trustee if it is a Paying Agent) promptly at the end of such calendar year (i) a written notice specifying the amount of original issue discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on outstanding Notes as of the end of such year and (ii) such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

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     For so long as Stock Purchase Contracts are included within the Trust Property, within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Depositor’s exercise of its right to defer Contract Payments, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 12.8, notice of such exercise to the Holders of the Normal ITS and the Stripped ITS, unless such exercise shall have been revoked.

     For so long as shares of Preferred Stock are included within the Trust Property, within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Depositor’s determination not to pay dividends on a dividend payment date, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 12.8, notice of such decision to the Holders of the Normal ITS and Stripped ITS, unless such notice shall have been revoked.

     The Property Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default unless the Property Trustee shall have received written notice or a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee charged with the administration of this Trust Agreement shall have obtained actual knowledge of such Event of Default.

     Section 8.3 Certain Rights of Property Trustee.

     Subject to the provisions of Section 8.1:

     (a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written representation of a Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

     (b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action, (ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions contained herein, or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the application of any provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any matter as to which the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities are entitled to vote under the terms of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Depositor requesting the Depositor’s opinion as to the course of action to be taken; provided, however, that if the Depositor fails to deliver such opinion, the Property Trustee may take such action, or refrain from taking such action, as the Property Trustee shall deem advisable and in the interests of the Holders, in which event the Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad faith, negligence or willful misconduct;

     (c) any direction or act of the Depositor contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate;

     (d) any direction or act of an Administrative Trustee contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by a certificate executed by such Administrative Trustee and setting forth such direction or act;

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     (e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording, filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing or continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) or any rerecording, refiling or re-registration thereof;

     (f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its own selection (which counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees) and the advice of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and in accordance with such advice; the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Trust Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction;

     (g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Property Trustee reasonable security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction; provided that nothing contained in this Section 8.3(g) shall be taken to relieve the Property Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement;

     (h) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Holders, but the Property Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit at the expense of the Depositor and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;

     (i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, provided that the Property Trustee shall be responsible for its own negligence or willful misconduct with respect to selection of any agent or attorney appointed by it hereunder;

     (j) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders (which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust Securities in respect of such remedy, right or action), (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall be protected in acting in accordance with such instructions; and

     (k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement. No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on any Issuer Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which such Person shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts, or to

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exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available to any Issuer Trustee shall be construed to be a duty.

     Section 8.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.

     The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer Trust and the Depositor, and the Issuer Trustees do not assume any responsibility for their correctness. The Issuer Trustees shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of the proceeds of the Notes.

     Section 8.5 May Hold Securities.

     Any Issuer Trustee or any other agent of any Issuer Trustee or the Issuer Trust, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and, subject to Sections 8.8 and 8.13, may otherwise deal with the Issuer Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not Issuer Trustee or such other agent.

     Section 8.6 Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.

     The Depositor agrees:

     (a) to pay to the Issuer Trustees from time to time such reasonable compensation for all services rendered by them hereunder as may be separately agreed by the Depositor and the Issuer Trustees from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

     (b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Issuer Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Issuer Trustees in accordance with any provision of this Trust Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of their agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall be determined to have been caused by their own negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct; and

     (c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and hold harmless (i) each Issuer Trustee, (ii) any Affiliate of any Issuer Trustee, (iii) any officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative or agent of any Issuer Trustee, and (iv) any employee or agent of the Issuer Trust (referred to herein as an “Indemnified Person”) from and against any loss, damage, liability, action, suit, tax, penalty, expense or claim of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of the creation, operation or dissolution of the Issuer Trust or any act or omission performed or omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith on behalf of the Issuer Trust and in a manner such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within the scope of authority conferred on such Indemnified Person by this Trust Agreement, except that no Indemnified Person shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of any loss, damage or claim incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions.

     The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement and the removal or resignation of any Issuer Trustee. No Issuer Trustee may claim any Lien on any Trust Property as a result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 8.6.

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     Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, the Depositor and any Issuer Trustee may engage in or possess an interest in other business ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others, similar or dissimilar to the business of the Issuer Trust, and the Issuer Trust and the Holders of Trust Securities shall have no rights by virtue of this Trust Agreement in and to such independent ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit of any such venture, even if competitive with the business of the Issuer Trust, shall not be deemed wrongful or improper. Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, neither the Depositor nor any Issuer Trustee shall be obligated to present any particular investment or other opportunity to the Issuer Trust even if such opportunity is of a character that, if presented to the Issuer Trust, could be taken by the Issuer Trust, and the Depositor and any Issuer Trustee shall have the right to take for its own account (individually or as a partner or fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such particular investment or other opportunity. Notwithstanding any provision of law or equity, any Issuer Trustee may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor, or may act as depository for, trustee or agent for, or act on any committee or body of holders of, securities or other obligations of the Depositor or its Affiliates.

     Section 8.7 Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Issuer Trustees and Administrative Trustees.

     (a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that is a national or state chartered bank and eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 8.7 and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Property Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 8.7, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VIII. At the time of appointment, the Property Trustee must have securities rated in one of the three highest rating categories by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.

     (b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that entity.

     (c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of Delaware, or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware and that otherwise meets the requirements of applicable Delaware law and that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity.

     Section 8.8 Conflicting Interests.

     (a) If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Trust Agreement.

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     (b) The Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture shall be deemed to be specifically described in this Trust Agreement for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

     Section 8.9 Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.

     Unless and until a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, at any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the Trust Indenture Act or of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Property may at the time be located, the Holder of Common Securities and the Administrative Trustees shall have the power to appoint one or more Persons either to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any part of such Trust Property, or to the extent required by law to act as separate trustee of any such property, in either case with such powers as may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right or power deemed necessary or desirable, subject to the other provisions of this Section. If a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee shall have the sole power to so appoint such a co-trustee or separate trustee, and upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor, and the Administrative Trustees shall for such purpose join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery, and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint, such co-trustee or separate trustee. Any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the United States, or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the United States that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity.

     Should any written instrument from the Depositor be required by any co-trustee or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to such co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right, or power, any and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the Depositor.

     Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following terms, namely:

     (a) The Trust Securities shall be executed by one or more Administrative Trustees, and the Trust Securities shall be delivered by the Property Trustee or an Administrative Trustee on behalf of the Property Trustee, and all rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereunder in respect of the custody of securities, cash and other personal property held by, or required to be deposited or pledged with, the Property Trustee specified hereunder shall be exercised solely by the Property Trustee and not by such co-trustee or separate trustee.

     (b) The rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereby conferred or imposed upon the Property Trustee in respect of any property covered by such appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Property Trustee or by the Property Trustee and such co-trustee or separate trustee jointly, as shall be provided in the instrument appointing such co-trustee or separate trustee, except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be performed, the Property Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and performed by such co-trustee or separate trustee.

     (c) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing executed by it, with the written concurrence of the Depositor, may accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed under this Section 8.9, and, in case a Note Event of Default has

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occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall have power to accept the resignation of, or remove, any such co-trustee or separate trustee without the concurrence of the Depositor. Upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor shall join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to effectuate such resignation or removal. A successor to any co-trustee or separate trustee so resigning or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section 8.9.

No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of the Property Trustee or any other trustee hereunder.

     (d) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act of a co-trustee or separate trustee.

     (e) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee shall be deemed to have been delivered to each such co-trustee and separate trustee.

     Section 8.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.

     No resignation or removal of any Issuer Trustee (the “Relevant Trustee”) and no appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Issuer Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11.

     Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Holders and by appointing a successor Relevant Trustee. The Relevant Trustee shall appoint a successor by requesting from at least three Persons meeting the eligibility requirements its expenses and charges to serve as the Relevant Trustee on a form provided by the Administrative Trustees, and selecting the Person who agrees to the lowest expenses and charges. If the instrument of acceptance by the successor Issuer Trustee required by Section 8.11 shall not have been delivered to the Relevant Trustee within 60 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Depositor, in the case of the Property Trustee, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.

     The Administrative Trustees, or any of them, may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of Common Securities delivered to the Relevant Trustee.

     The Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed by Act of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities, delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its individual capacity and, in the case of the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust) (i) for cause (including upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in subparagraph (d) of the definition thereof with respect to the Relevant Trustee), or (ii) at any time if a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Unless and until a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of the Common Securities.

     If a resigning Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee shall fail to appoint a successor, or if the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall be removed or become incapable of acting as Issuer Trustee, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee for any cause, the Holders of the Common Securities by Act of such Holders delivered to

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the Relevant Trustee or, if a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, by Act of the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities then Outstanding delivered to such Relevant Trustee, may appoint a successor Relevant Trustee or Trustees, and such successor Issuer Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor Relevant Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Holders of the Common Securities or Trust Preferred Securities, as the case may be, and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.11, any Holder, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly situated, or any other Issuer Trustee, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.

     The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of an Issuer Trustee and each appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in Section 12.8 and shall give notice to the Depositor and to the Administrative Trustees. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Relevant Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the Property Trustee.

     Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust Agreement, if any Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Holders of the Common Securities, incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be filled by the Property Trustee following the procedures regarding expenses and charges set forth above (with the successor being a Person who satisfies the eligibility requirement for the Delaware Trustee set forth in Section 8.7).

     Section 8.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

     In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant Trustee, the retiring Relevant Trustee (if requested by the Depositor) and each successor Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall execute and deliver an amendment hereto wherein each successor Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (a) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust, and (b) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the Issuer Trust by more than one Relevant Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such amendment shall constitute such Relevant Trustees co-trustees and upon the execution and delivery of such amendment the resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Relevant Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee, other than the filing of an amendment to the Certificate of Trust to the extent required under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act; but, on request of the Issuer Trust or any successor Relevant Trustee such retiring Relevant Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Relevant Trustee all Trust Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust.

     Upon request of any such successor Relevant Trustee, the Issuer Trust shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Relevant Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the preceding paragraph.

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     No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article VIII.

     Section 8.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.

     Any Person into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or any Person, succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of such Relevant Trustee hereunder, provided that such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VIII, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, other than the filing of an amendment to the Certificate of Trust to the extent required under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

     Section 8.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Issuer Trust.

     If and when the Property Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Depositor or the Issuer Trust (or any other obligor upon the Trust Preferred Securities), the Property Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Depositor or the Issuer Trust (or any such other obligor).

     Section 8.14 Property Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

     In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other similar judicial proceeding relative to the Issuer Trust or any other obligor upon the Trust Securities or the property of the Issuer Trust or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions on the Trust Securities shall then be due and payable and irrespective of whether the Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the Issuer Trust for the payment of any past due Distributions) shall be entitled and empowered, to the fullest extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

     (a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any Distributions owing and unpaid in respect of the Trust Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Property Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

     (b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Property Trustee and, in the event the Property Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Property Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Property Trustee.

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adjustment or compensation affecting the Trust Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Property Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

     Section 8.15 Reports by Property Trustee.

     (a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year commencing with May 15, 2006, the Property Trustee shall transmit to all Holders in accordance with Section 12.8, and to the Depositor, a brief report dated as of the immediately preceding May 15 with respect to:

     (i) its eligibility under Section 8.7 or, in lieu thereof, if to the best of its knowledge it has continued to be eligible under said Section, a written statement to such effect;

     (ii) a statement that the Property Trustee has complied with all of its obligations under this Trust Agreement during the twelve-month period (or, in the case of the initial report, the period since the Closing Date) ending with such May 15 or, if the Property Trustee has not complied in any material respect with such obligations, a description of such noncompliance; and

     (iii) any change in the property and funds in its possession as Property Trustee since the date of its last report and any action taken by the Property Trustee in the performance of its duties hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its opinion materially affects the Trust Securities.

     (b) In addition, the Property Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Property Trustee and its actions under this Trust Agreement as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.

     (c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Property Trustee with each national stock exchange, the Nasdaq National Market or such other interdealer quotation system or self-regulatory organization upon which the Trust Preferred Securities are listed or quoted, if any, and with the Commission, the Depositor and the relevant stock exchange or self-regulatory organization.

     Section 8.16 Reports to the Property Trustee.

     Each of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees shall provide to the Property Trustee such documents, reports and information as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act (if any) and the compliance certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Depositor and the Administrative Trustees shall annually file with the Property Trustee a certificate specifying whether such Person is in compliance with all of the terms and covenants (if any) applicable to such Person hereunder.

     Section 8.17 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.

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Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate.

     Section 8.18 Number of Issuer Trustees.

     (a) The number of Issuer Trustees shall be five, unless the Property Trustee also acts as the Delaware Trustee, in which case the number of Issuer Trustees may be four.

     (b) If an Issuer Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason, a vacancy shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with an Issuer Trustee appointed in accordance with Section 8.10.

     (c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of an Issuer Trustee shall not operate to annul, terminate or dissolve the Issuer Trust.

     Section 8.19 Delegation of Power.

     (a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent with applicable law, delegate to any other natural person over the age of 21 his or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section 2.7(a) or making any governmental filing.

     (b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from time to time to such of their number the doing of such things and the execution of such instruments either in the name of the Issuer Trust or the names of the Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the Administrative Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the provisions of this Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE IX

Dissolution, Liquidation and Merger

     Section 9.1 Perpetual Existence.

     The Issuer Trust shall have perpetual existence and shall be dissolved only in accordance with this Article IX.

     Section 9.2 Early Dissolution.

     The first to occur of any of the following events is an “Early Dissolution Event”:

     (a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the dissolution or liquidation of, the Depositor, unless the Common Securities shall be transferred as provided by Section 5.10, in which case this provision shall refer instead to any such successor Holder of the Common Securities;

     (b) the redemption of all of the Trust Preferred Securities in accordance with the provisions of this Trust Agreement; and

     (c) the entry of an order for dissolution of the Issuer Trust by a court of competent jurisdiction.

     If an Early Dissolution Event occurs, Section 9.4 shall apply.

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     Section 9.3 Dissolution.

     The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees, the Administrative Trustees and the Issuer Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee to Holders of all amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the liquidation of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the Issuer Trust; and (c) the discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrative Trustees, including the performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the Issuer Trust or the Holders.

     Section 9.4 Liquidation.

     (a) If an Early Dissolution Event specified in clause (a) of Section 9.2 occurs, the Issuer Trust shall be liquidated by the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees as expeditiously as the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees determine to be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, to each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of each Class a Like Amount of Corresponding Assets as of the date of such distribution, subject to Section 9.4(d). If an Early Dissolution Event specified in clause (c) of Section 9.2 occurs, because such Early Dissolution Event is also an Early Settlement Event, unless otherwise required by applicable law the Issuer Trust will not be liquidated until after the Stock Purchase Date but, commencing promptly after the Stock Purchase Date, the Issuer Trust shall be liquidated by the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees as expeditiously as the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees determine to be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, to each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of each Class a Like Amount of Corresponding Assets as of the date of such distribution, subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities of each Class at such Holder’s address appearing in the Securities Register. All such notices of liquidation shall:

     (i) state the CUSIP Number of the Trust Securities of each Class;

     (ii) state the Liquidation Date;

     (iii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust Securities of such Class will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Trust Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Corresponding Assets as of the date of such distribution, or if Section 9.4(d) applies, a right to receive a Liquidation Distribution; and

     (iv) provide such information with respect to the mechanics by which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates of such Class for Corresponding Assets, or if Section 9.4(d) applies, receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the Property Trustee (after consultation with the Administrative Trustees) shall deem appropriate.

     (b) Except where Section 9.2(b) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect the liquidation of the Issuer Trust and distribution of the Corresponding Assets to Holders, the Property Trustee, either itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish a record date for such distribution (which shall be not more than 30 days prior to

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the Liquidation Date) and, establish such procedures as it shall deem appropriate to effect the distribution of Corresponding Assets in exchange for the Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates of the related Classes.

     (c) Except where Section 9.2(b) or 9.4(d) applies, after the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding, (ii) if the Corresponding Assets for a Class of Trust Preferred Securities are Notes or shares of Preferred Stock, certificates representing a Like Amount of Notes or Preferred Stock (or fractional interests in or depositary shares for Preferred Stock) will be issued to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates of the relevant Classes, upon surrender of such certificates to the exchange agent for exchange, and where Pledged Treasury Securities are Corresponding Assets, Pledged Treasury Securities will be delivered by Book-Entry Transfer to Holders upon surrender of such certificates, (iii) any Trust Securities Certificates not so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Corresponding Assets of the applicable Class until such certificates are so surrendered (and until such certificates are so surrendered, no payments of interest, principal, dividends, redemption price or otherwise will be made to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates with respect to such Corresponding Assets) and (iv) all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive Corresponding Assets upon surrender of Trust Securities Certificates.

     (d) If, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 9.4, whether because of an order for dissolution entered by a court of competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Corresponding Assets in the manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees not to be practical, or if an Early Dissolution Event specified in clause (b) of Section 9.2 occurs, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Issuer Trust’s affairs wound-up, by the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees in such manner as the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees determine. In such event, upon the winding-up of the Issuer Trust except with respect to an Early Dissolution Event specified in clause (b) of Section 9.2, Holders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Issuer Trust available for distribution to Holders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount being the "Liquidation Distribution”). If, upon any such winding-up, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because the Issuer Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the amounts payable by the Issuer Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts), except that the right of Holders of the Common Securities to receive Liquidation Distributions will be subordinated to the right of Holders of Trust Preferred Securities to receive Liquidation Distributions as provided in Section 4.3(c).

     Section 9.5 Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of Issuer Trust.

     The Issuer Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any corporation or other body, except pursuant to Section 9.4 or this Section 9.5. At the request of the Holders of the Common Securities, with the consent of the Administrative Trustees, but without the consent of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of any Class, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, the Issuer Trust may merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such under the laws of any state; provided that (i) such successor entity either

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(a) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Issuer Trust with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities, or (b) substitutes for the Trust Preferred Securities other securities having substantially the same terms as the Trust Preferred Securities (the “Successor Securities”) so long as the Successor Securities have the same priority as the Trust Preferred Securities with respect to distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise, (ii) the Successor Securities are listed, or any Successor Securities will be listed upon notification of issuance, on any national securities exchange or other organization on which the Trust Preferred Securities are listed, (iii) a trustee of such successor entity possessing the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Trust Property, (iv) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not cause the Trust Preferred Securities of any Class (including any Successor Securities) to be downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, (v) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of any Class (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect, (vi) such successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the Issuer Trust, (vii) prior to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Property Trustee has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (a) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities of any Class (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect, and (b) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Issuer Trust nor such successor entity will be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act, (viii) the Issuer Trust has received an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters that such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, conveyance, transfer or lease will not cause the Issuer Trust or the successor entity to be classified as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ix) the Depositor or its permitted transferee owns all of the Common Securities of such successor entity and the Depositor guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor Securities at least to the extent provided by the Guarantee Agreement. The Issuer Trust may with the consent of Holders of all of the Trust Preferred Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any other entity or permit any other entity to consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it even if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would otherwise not be permitted under (viii) of the preceding sentence.

ARTICLE X

Qualifying Treasury Securities

     Section 10.1 Qualifying Treasury Securities.

     (a) The Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall, for each January 15, April 15, July 15 and October 15, commencing on April 15, 2006 and ending on the Stock Purchase Date or the earlier termination of the Stock Purchase Contracts, or if any such day is not a Business Day, the immediately succeeding Business Day (each, a “Reference Date”) identify:

     (i) the 13-week treasury bill that matures at least one and not more than six Business Days prior to that Reference Date, or

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     (ii) if no 13-week treasury bill that matures at least one and not more than six Business Days prior to that Reference Date is or is scheduled to be outstanding on the immediately preceding Reference Date, the 26-week treasury bill that matures at least one and not more than six Business Days prior to that Reference Date, or

     (iii) if neither of such treasury bills is or is scheduled to be outstanding on the immediately preceding Reference Date, any other treasury security (which may be a zero coupon treasury security) that is outstanding on the immediately preceding Reference Date, is highly liquid and matures at least one Business Day prior to such Reference Date; provided that any treasury security identified pursuant to this clause (iii) shall be selected in a manner intended to minimize the cash value of the security selected.

     (b) The Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall use commercially reasonable efforts to identify the security meeting the foregoing criteria for each Reference Date promptly after the Department of the Treasury makes the schedule for upcoming auctions of treasury securities publicly available and shall, to the extent that a security previously identified with respect to any Reference Date is no longer expected to be outstanding on the immediately preceding Reference Date, identify another security meeting the foregoing criteria for such Reference Date. The security most recently identified by the Administrative Trustees or any one of them with respect to any Reference Date shall be the “Qualifying Treasury Security” with respect to the period from and including its date of issuance (or if later, the date of maturity of the Qualifying Treasury Security with respect to the immediately preceding Reference Date) to but excluding its date of maturity, and the Administrative Trustees’ identification of a security as a Qualifying Treasury Security for such period shall be final and binding for all purposes absent manifest error. The Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall give (or cause to be given) prompt written notice to the Company, the Collateral Agent, the Custodial Agent and the Property Trustee of each determination made pursuant to this Section 10.1.

ARTICLE XI

Other ITS Related Provisions

     Section 11.1 Tax Treatment.

     Each Holder of Trust Preferred Securities agrees, by acceptance of Trust Preferred Securities, and each Owner agrees, by acceptance of a beneficial interest in Trust Preferred Securities, to treat for all U.S. federal income tax purposes (i) the Trust as one or more grantor trusts and/or agency arrangements, (ii) itself as the owner of the Corresponding Assets for the related Class of Trust Preferred Securities, (iii) in the case of Normal ITS the fair market value of the $1,000 principal amount of Notes corresponding to one Normal ITS as $1,000 and the fair market value of 1/100^th fractional interest in a Stock Purchase Contract corresponding to one Normal ITS as $0 at the time of initial purchase, (iv) the Notes as indebtedness of the Depositor, and (v) the stated interest on the Notes as ordinary interest income that is includible in the Holder’s or Owner’s gross income at the time the interest is paid or accrued in accordance with the Holder’s or Owner’s regular method of tax accounting, and otherwise to treat the Notes as described in the Prospectus.

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ARTICLE XII

Miscellaneous Provisions

     Section 12.1 Limitation of Rights of Holders.

     Except as set forth in Section 9.2, the death, dissolution, bankruptcy or incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not operate to terminate this Trust Agreement nor dissolve, terminate or annul the Issuer Trust, nor entitle the legal representatives or heirs of such person or any Holder for such Person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of the arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.

     Section 12.2 Amendment.

     (a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Administrative Trustees and the Holders of all of the Common Securities, without the consent of any Holder of the Trust Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (i) to cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein that may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement, which shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement, (ii) to modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be taxable as a corporation or classified as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes at all times that any Trust Securities are outstanding, to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act or to ensure the treatment of the Trust Preferred Securities as Tier 1 regulatory capital under the prevailing Federal Reserve Board rules and regulations, (iii) to provide that Trust Preferred Securities Certificates may be executed by an Administrative Trustee by facsimile signature instead of manual signature, in which case such amendment(s) shall also provide for the appointment by the Depositor of an authentication agent, the fees and expenses of which will be paid by the Depositor, a form of authentication certificate, and provisions to the effect that Trust Preferred Securities Certificates that have been executed by an Administrative Trustee by facsimile signature shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Trust Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless the certificate of authentication thereon has been executed by the authentication agent by manual signature, or (iv) to conform the terms of this Trust Agreement to the description of this Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities in the Prospectus; provided, however, that in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holder, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee; provided, further, that in the case of clause (iv), the Depositor shall deliver to the Property Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel (who may be counsel to the Depositor or the Issuer Trust), in each case confirming that such amendment has the effect of conforming the terms of this Trust Agreement to the descriptions of this Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities in the Prospectus. Any such amendment shall become effective when notice is given to the Property Trustee and the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities.

     (b) Except as provided in Section 12.2(c), any provision of this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Administrative Trustees and the Holders of all of the Common Securities and with (i) the consent of Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Trust Preferred Securities of each Affected Class, and (ii) receipt by the Issuer Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such amendment

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or the exercise of any power granted to the Issuer Trustees or the Administrative Trustees in accordance with such amendment will not affect the Issuer Trust’s status as a grantor trust or cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes or affect the Issuer Trust’s exemption from status as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act.

     (c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust Agreement, without the consent of each affected Holder, this Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a specified date, or (ii) restrict the right of a Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date; and notwithstanding any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of the Holders, this Section 12.2(c) may not be amended.

     (d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, no Issuer Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement that would cause the Issuer Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the exemption from status as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act or to be taxable as a corporation or to be classified as other than as one or more grantor trusts and/or agency arrangements for U.S. federal income tax purposes. In particular, no Issuer Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement that would cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

     (e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, without the consent of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Depositor or the Administrative Trustees.

     (f) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, without the consent of the Property Trustee, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Property Trustee or that adversely affects the Property Trustee.

     (g) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, without the consent of the Delaware Trustee, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Delaware Trustee or that adversely affects the Delaware Trustee.

     (h) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, without the consent of the Securities Registrar and the Paying Agent, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional obligation on the Securities Registrar or the Paying Agent or that adversely affects the Securities Registrar or the Paying Agent.

     (i) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made, the Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the Depositor, the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee a copy of such amendment.

     (j) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be required to enter into any amendment to this Trust Agreement that affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement. The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee shall be entitled to

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receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in compliance with this Trust Agreement.

     Section 12.3 Separability Clause.

     In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

     Section 12.4 Governing Law.

     This Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware (without regard to conflicts of laws principles).

     Section 12.5 Payments Due on Non-Business Day.

     If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a day that is not a Business Day, then such payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, with the same force and effect as though made on the date fixed for such payment, and no Distributions shall accumulate on such unpaid amount for the period after such date.

     Section 12.6 Successors and Assigns.

     All covenants and agreements in this Trust Agreement by each party hereto shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. Except in connection with a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Depositor that is permitted under Article VIII of the Base Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Depositor’s obligations hereunder, the Depositor shall not assign its obligations hereunder.

     Section 12.7 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

     The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

     Section 12.8 Reports, Notices and Demands.

     Any report, notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon any Holder, the Depositor or the Administrative Trustees may be given or served in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United States mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the case of a Holder of Trust Preferred Securities, to such Holder as such Holder’s name and address may appear on the Securities Register and (b) in the case of the Holder of the Common Securities or the Depositor, to U.S. Bancorp, 800 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, facsimile (612) 303-1338, Attention: Treasury Department, or to such other address as may be specified in a written notice by the Depositor to the Property Trustee. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon a Holder shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand delivery, mailing or transmission. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the Depositor or the Holder of the Common Securities shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the Depositor or the Holder of the Common Securities, as

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the case may be. Any notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees or the Issuer Trust shall be given in writing addressed to such Person as follows: (a) with respect to the Property Trustee, to Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1600, Fax: 302-636-4140, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration; (b) with respect to the Delaware Trustee, to Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1600, Fax: 302-636-4140, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration; (c) with respect to the Administrative Trustees, to them at c/o U.S. Bancorp, 800 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, facsimile (612) 303-1338; and (d) with respect to the Issuer Trust, to its principal office specified in Section 2.2, with a copy to the Property Trustee. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee or such Administrative Trustee.

     Section 12.9 Agreement Not to Petition.

     Each of the Issuer Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the Holders that, until at least one year and one day after the Issuer Trust has been dissolved in accordance with Article IX, they shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Issuer Trust under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law (including the United States Bankruptcy Code) (collectively, “Bankruptcy Laws”) or otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against the Issuer Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. If the Depositor takes action in violation of this Section 12.9, the Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Holders, that at the expense of the Depositor, it shall file an answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the Depositor against the Issuer Trust or the commencement of such action and raise the defense that the Depositor has agreed in writing not to take such action and should be stopped and precluded therefrom and such other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Issuer Trustee or the Issuer Trust may assert.

     Section 12.10 Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

     (a) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Trust Agreement, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Trust Agreement modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Trust Agreement as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.

     (b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Issuer Trustee that is a trustee for the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.

     (c) The application of the Trust Indenture Act to this Trust Agreement shall not affect the nature of the Trust Securities as equity securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust.

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     Section 12.11 Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee Agreement and Indenture.

     THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY OR ON BEHALF OF A HOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE BY THE HOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT, THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT AND THE INDENTURE, AND AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT AND THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT OF THE ISSUER TRUST, SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE ISSUER TRUST AND SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.

* * * *

     This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

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     In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto have executed this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

U.S. BANCORP, as Depositor
By:
	Name:
	Title:
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as
	Property Trustee
By:
	Name:
	Title:
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as
	Delaware Trustee
By:
	Name:
	Title:
	David M. Moffett,
	as Administrative Trustee
	Daryl N. Bible,
	as Administrative Trustee
	Lee R. Mitau,
	as Administrative Trustee

EXHIBIT A

[ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE OF TRUST]

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EXHIBIT B

[Restated Certificate of Trust]

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EXHIBIT C

(FORM OF FACE OF CAPITAL ITS CERTIFICATE)

     {For inclusion in Global Certificates only — THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (THE “DEPOSITARY”) OR ITS NOMINEE. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

     UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.}

No.	Number of Capital ITS:
	CUSIP No.

USB Capital IX

Capital ITS

     This Capital ITS Certificate certifies that {                               } is the registered Holder of the number of Capital ITS set forth above {for inclusion in Global Certificates only — or such other number of Capital ITS reflected in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Certificate attached hereto}. Each Capital ITS represents a beneficial interest in USB Capital IX (the “Trust”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The Capital ITS are transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Capital ITS are set forth in, and this certificate and the Capital ITS represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated as of •, 2006, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), including the designation of the terms of the Capital ITS as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by the Depositor and Wilmington Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee, dated as of •, 2006 (the “Guarantee Agreement”). All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.

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     Section 5.13(d) of the Trust Agreement provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Capital ITS and Stripped ITS may exchange them for Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities and Section 5.14(f) of the Trust Agreement provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Capital ITS may elect to dispose of Capital ITS in the event a Remarketing is Successful. The forms of Recombination Notice and Request and Notice of Contingent Disposition Election required to be delivered in connection therewith are printed on the reverse hereof.

     A copy of each of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Property Trustee.

     Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Capital ITS Certificate.

	USB CAPITAL IX, acting through one of its
	Administrative Trustees
	By:
		Name:
Date:

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ABBREVIATIONS

     The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM:	as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT:	Custodian                      (cust)(minor) Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of
TENANT:	as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN:	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

     Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D.
or other Identifying Number of Assignee)

(Please print or type name and address including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)

the within Capital ITS Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney                                         , to transfer said Capital ITS Certificates on the books of U.S. Bancorp, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:	Signature
	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Capital ITS Certificates in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.

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FORM OF RECOMBINATION NOTICE AND REQUEST

U.S. Bank National Association

     as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

100 Wall Street, 16th Floor

New York, New York 10005

     Re:      Stripped ITS and Capital ITS USB Capital IX

     The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.13(d) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of •, 2006, of USB Capital IX (the “Trust Agreement”), among U.S. Bancorp, as Depositor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 6.03(a) of the Collateral Agreement that the Holder:

     (i) is transferring $                     Liquidation Amount of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS in connection with an Exchange of such Stripped ITS and Capital ITS for a Like Amount of Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities,

     (ii) hereby requests the Collateral Agent to release from the Pledge and deliver to the Holder Pledged Treasury Securities in a principal amount equal to such Liquidation Amount, and

     (iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Normal ITS of a Like Amount.

     All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Exchange.

Date:
	Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
Name	Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address

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FORM OF NOTICE OF CONTINGENT DISPOSITION ELECTION

U.S. Bank National Association

     as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar

100 Wall Street, 16th Floor

New York, New York 10005

     Re:      Normal ITS of USB Capital IX

     The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.14(f) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of •, 2006, of USB Capital IX (the “Trust Agreement”), among U.S. Bancorp, as Depositor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 8.03 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

     (i) is transferring                      Capital ITS to the Securities Registrar, and

     (ii) hereby requests the payment to the Holder, if the upcoming Remarketing is Successful, of an amount in cash for each such Capital ITS equal to the proceeds of the sale of $1,000 principal amount of Notes, it being understood that if such Remarketing is not Successful, this Notice shall be disregarded.

     All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Contingent Exchange Election.

Date:
	Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
Name	Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address

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{TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES}

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:

Amount of increase in	Amount of decrease in	Number of Capital ITS
Number of Capital ITS	Number of Capital ITS	evidenced by this Global	Signature of authorized
evidenced by this	evidenced by this Global	Certificate following such	signatory of Securities
Global Certificate	Certificate	decrease or increase	Registrar

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EXHIBIT D

[Form of Common Securities Certificate]

     TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OTHER THAN A TRANSFER IN CONNECTION WITH A CONSOLIDATION OR MERGER OF U.S. BANCORP INTO ANOTHER PERSON, OR ANY CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE BY U.S. BANCORP OF ITS PROPERTIES AND ASSETS SUBSTANTIALLY AS AN ENTIRETY TO ANY PERSON PURSUANT TO SECTION 8.1 OF THE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, DATED AS OF APRIL 28, 2005, BETWEEN U.S. BANCORP AND DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED BY THE FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, DATED AS OF AUGUST 3, 2005, BETWEEN U.S. BANCORP AND DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS FURTHER AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED BY THE SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, DATED AS OF DECEMBER 29, 2005, AMONG U.S. BANCORP, DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AND WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS FURTHER AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED BY THE THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, DATED AS OF •, 2006, BETWEEN U.S. BANCORP AND WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, AS AMENDED OR SUPPLEMENTED FROM TIME TO TIME, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THE COMMON TRUST SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY OTHER THAN TO A DIRECT OR INDIRECT SUBSIDIARY OF U.S. BANCORP SHALL BE VOID.

USB Capital IX

1,000 Common Trust Securities

     This Common Trust Securities Certificate certifies that {                                } is the registered Holder of 1,000 Common Trust Securities. Each Common Trust Security represents a beneficial interest in USB Capital IX (the “Trust”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Common Trust Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Common Trust Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated as of •, 2006, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), including the designation of the terms of the Common Trust Securities as set forth therein. All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Common Trust Securities Certificate.

	USB CAPITAL IX, acting through one of its Administrative Trustees
	By:
		Name:
Date:

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EXHIBIT E

(FORM OF FACE OF NORMAL ITS CERTIFICATE)

     {For inclusion in Global Certificates only — THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (THE “DEPOSITARY”) OR ITS NOMINEE. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

     UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.}

No.	Number of Normal ITS:
	CUSIP No.

USB Capital IX

Normal ITS

     This Normal ITS Certificate certifies that {                                } is the registered Holder of the number of Normal ITS set forth above {for inclusion in Global Certificates only - or such other number of Normal ITS reflected in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Certificate attached hereto}. Each Normal ITS represents a beneficial interest in USB Capital IX (the “Trust”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The Normal ITS are transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Normal ITS are set forth in, and this certificate and the Normal ITS represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated as of •, 2006, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), including the designation of the terms of the Normal ITS as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by the Depositor and Wilmington Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee, dated as of •, 2006 (the “Guarantee Agreement”). All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.

     Section 5.13(b) of the Trust Agreement provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Normal ITS may exchange Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped ITS and Capital ITS and Section 5.14(d) of the Trust Agreement provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Normal ITS may elect to exchange Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for Stripped ITS and

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Capital ITS in the event a Remarketing is Successful. The forms of Stripping Notice and Request and Notice of Contingent Exchange Election required to be delivered in connection therewith are printed on the reverse hereof.

     A copy of each of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Property Trustee.

     Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Normal ITS Certificate.

	USB CAPITAL IX, acting through one of its Administrative Trustees
	By:
		Name:
Date:

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ABBREVIATIONS

     The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM:	as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT:	Custodian                      (cust)(minor) Under
	Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of
TENANT:	as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN:	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

     Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D.
or other Identifying Number of Assignee)

(Please print or type name and address including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)

the within Normal ITS Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney                                         , to transfer said Normal ITS Certificates on the books of U.S. Bancorp, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:	Signature
	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Normal ITS Certificates in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.
Signature Guarantee:

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FORM OF STRIPPING NOTICE AND REQUEST

U.S. Bank National Association,
  as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar
100 Wall Street, 16th Floor
New York, New York 10005

     Re:    Normal ITS of USB Capital IX

     The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.13(b) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of •, 2006, of USB Capital IX (the “Trust Agreement”), among U.S. Bancorp, as Depositor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 6.02 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

     (i) is depositing the appropriate Qualifying Treasury Securities with U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent, for deposit in the Collateral Account,

     (ii) is transferring the related Normal ITS to the Securities Registrar in connection with an Exchange of such Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for a Like Amount of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS, and

     (iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Stripped ITS and Capital ITS.

     All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Exchange.

Date:
	Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
Name	Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address

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FORM OF NOTICE OF CONTINGENT EXCHANGE ELECTION

U.S. Bank National Association,
  as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar
100 Wall Street, 16th Floor
New York, New York 10005

     Re:    Normal ITS of USB Capital IX

     The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.14(d) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of •, 2006, of USB Capital IX (the “Trust Agreement”), among U.S. Bancorp, as Depositor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 8.02 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

     (i) is depositing the appropriate Qualifying Treasury Securities with U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent, for deposit in the Collateral Account,

     (ii) is transferring the related Normal ITS to the Securities Registrar in connection with a Contingent Exchange Election of such Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities for a Like Amount of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS, and

     (iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Stripped ITS and Capital ITS if the upcoming Remarketing is Successful, it being understood that if such Remarketing is not Successful, this Notice shall be disregarded and the Collateral Agent shall return such Qualifying Treasury Securities to the Holder promptly after the Remarketing.

     All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Contingent Exchange Election.

Date:
	Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
Name	Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address

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{TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES}

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:

Amount of increase in	Amount of decrease in	Number of Stripped ITS
Number of Stripped ITS	Number of Stripped ITS	evidenced by this Global	Signature of authorized
evidenced by this	evidenced by this Global	Certificate following	signatory of Securities
Global Certificate	Certificate	such decrease or increase	Registrar

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EXHIBIT F

(FORM OF FACE OF STRIPPED ITS CERTIFICATE)

     {For inclusion in Global Certificates only — THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (THE “DEPOSITARY”) OR ITS NOMINEE. THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR CERTIFICATES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

     UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITARY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.}

No.	Number of Stripped ITS:
	CUSIP No.

USB Capital IX

Stripped ITS

     This Stripped ITS Certificate certifies that {                     } is the registered Holder of the number of Stripped ITS set forth above {for inclusion in Global Certificates only — or such other number of Stripped ITS reflected in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Certificate attached hereto}. Each Stripped ITS represents a beneficial interest in USB Capital IX (the “Trust”), having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000. The Stripped ITS are transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Stripped ITS are set forth in, and this certificate and the Stripped ITS represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated as of •, 2006, as the same may be amended and restated from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), including the designation of the terms of the Stripped ITS as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by the Depositor and Wilmington Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee, dated as of •, 2006 (the “Guarantee Agreement”). All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.

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     Section 5.13(d) of the Trust Agreement provides for the procedures pursuant to which Holders of Capital ITS and Stripped ITS may exchange them for Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities. The form of Recombination Notice required to be delivered in connection therewith is printed on the reverse hereof.

     A copy of each of the Trust Agreement and the Guarantee Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Property Trustee.

     Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Trust acting through one of its Administrative Trustees has executed this Stripped ITS Certificate.

	USB CAPITAL IX, acting through one of its Administrative Trustees
	By:
	Name:
Date:

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ABBREVIATIONS

     The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:

TEN COM:	as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT:	Custodian                      (cust)(minor) Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act of
TENANT:	as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN:	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

     FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

(Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D.
or other Identifying Number of Assignee)

(Please print or type name and address including Postal Zip Code of Assignee)

the within Stripped ITS Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney                                         , to transfer said Stripped ITS Certificates on the books of U.S. Bancorp, with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:	Signature
	NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Stripped ITS Certificates in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.
Signature Guarantee:

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FORM OF RECOMBINATION NOTICE AND REQUEST

U.S. Bank National Association,
  as Collateral Agent and Securities Registrar
100 Wall Street, 16th Floor
New York, New York 10005

     Re:    Stripped ITS and Capital ITS of USB Capital IX

     The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you pursuant to Section 5.13(d) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of •, 2006, of USB Capital IX (the “Trust Agreement”), among U.S. Bancorp, as Depositor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees (as named therein) and the several Holders of the Trust Securities, and Section 6.03 of the Collateral Agreement, that the Holder:

     (i) is transferring $                                         Liquidation Amount of Stripped ITS and Capital ITS in connection with an Exchange of such Stripped ITS and Capital ITS for a Like Amount of Normal ITS and Qualifying Treasury Securities,

     (ii) hereby requests the Collateral Agent to release from the Pledge and deliver to the Holder Pledged Treasury Securities in a principal amount equal to such Liquidation Amount, and

     (iii) hereby requests the delivery to the Holder of such Normal ITS of a Like Amount.

     All capitalized terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Agreement have the meaning set forth therein. The undersigned Holder has paid all applicable fees and expenses relating to such Exchange.

Date:
	Signature Guarantee:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
Name	Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number, if any
Address

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{TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES}

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE

The following increases or decreases in this Global Certificate have been made:

Amount of increase in	Amount of decrease in	Number of Stripped ITS
Number of Stripped ITS	Number of Stripped ITS	evidenced by this Global	Signature of authorized
evidenced by this	evidenced by this Global	Certificate following	signatory of Securities
Global Certificate	Certificate	such decrease or increase	Registrar

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EX-4.18

Exhibit 4.18

Guarantee Agreement

by and between

U.S. BANCORP,
as Guarantor

and

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Guarantee Trustee

relating to

USB CAPITAL IX

Dated as of •, 2006

U.S. BANCORP
Certain Sections of this Guarantee Agreement relating to Sections 310 through 318, inclusive, of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939:

Trust Indenture
Act Section		Guarantee Section
§ 310	(a)	4.1(a)
	(b)	2.8, 4.1(c)
	(c)	Not applicable
§ 311	(a)	2.2(b)
	(b)	2.2(b)
§ 312	(a)	2.2(a)
	(b)	2.2(b)
§ 313		2.3
§ 314	(a)	2.4
	(b)	Not applicable
	(c)	2.5
	(d)	Not applicable
	(e)	1.1, 2.4
	(f)	2.1, 3.2
§ 315	(a)	3.1(d)
	(b)	2.7
	(c)	3.1(c)
	(d)	3.1(d)
	(e)	Not applicable
§ 316	(a)	1.1, 2.6, 5.4
	(b)	5.3
	(c)	Not applicable
§ 317	(a)	Not applicable
	(b)	Not applicable
§ 318	(a)	2.1
	(b)	2.1

Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose be deemed to be part of the Guarantee Agreement.

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Table of Contents

		Page
	ARTICLE I
	Definitions
Section 1.1	Definitions		1
	ARTICLE II
	Trust Indenture Act
Section 2.1	Trust Indenture Act; Application		4
Section 2.2	List of Holders		5
Section 2.3	Reports by the Guarantee Trustee		5
Section 2.4	Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee		5
Section 2.5	Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent		5
Section 2.6	Events of Default; Waiver		5
Section 2.7	Events of Default; Notice		6
Section 2.8	Conflicting Interests		6
	ARTICLE III
	Powers, Duties and Rights of the Guarantee Trustee
Section 3.1	Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee		6
Section 3.2	Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee		7
Section 3.3	Compensation; Indemnity; Fees		9
	ARTICLE IV
	Guarantee Trustee
Section 4.1	Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility		9
Section 4.2	Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee Trustee		10
	ARTICLE V
	Guarantee
Section 5.1	Guarantee		11
Section 5.2	Waiver of Notice and Demand		11
Section 5.3	Obligations Not Affected		11
Section 5.4	Rights of Holders		12
Section 5.5	Guarantee of Payment		12
Section 5.6	Subrogation		12
Section 5.7	Independent Obligations		12

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		Page
	ARTICLE VI
	Covenants and Subordination
Section 6.1	Subordination		13
Section 6.2	Pari Passu Guarantees		13
	ARTICLE VII
	Termination
Section 7.1	Termination		13
	ARTICLE VIII
	Miscellaneous
Section 8.1	Successors and Assigns		13
Section 8.2	Amendments		14
Section 8.3	Notices		14
Section 8.4	Benefit		15
Section 8.5	Governing Law		15

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          Guarantee Agreement, dated as of •, 2006, between U.S. Bancorp, a Delaware corporation (the “Guarantor”), having its principal office at 800 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, and Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee (the “Guarantee Trustee”), for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Trust Preferred Securities of USB Capital IX, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Issuer Trust”).

Recitals of the Guarantor

          Pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, dated as of •, 2006, among the Guarantor, the Issuer Trust and the underwriters named therein, the Issuer Trust is issuing $•,000,000 aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of Trust Preferred Securities having the terms set forth in an Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, of even date herewith (the “Trust Agreement”), among U.S. Bancorp, as Depositor, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees (each as named therein) and the holders from time to time of the Trust Securities.

          The Trust Preferred Securities will be issued by the Issuer Trust, and the proceeds thereof, together with the proceeds from the issuance of the Issuer Trust’s Common Securities, will be used to purchase the Notes, which initially will be pledged by the Issuer Trust, acting through Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee for the Issuer Trust (the “Property Trustee”), to U.S. Bank National Association, as collateral agent for the Guarantor, pursuant to the Collateral Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Guarantor, U.S. Bank National Association, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent, Securities Intermediary and Securities Registrar, and the Issuer Trust.

          As an incentive for the Holders to purchase the Trust Preferred Securities, the Guarantor desires irrevocably and unconditionally to agree, to the extent set forth herein, to pay to the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities the Guarantee Payments and to make certain other payments on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

          Now, therefore, this Guarantee Agreement Witnesseth: For and in consideration of the purchase of Trust Preferred Securities by each Holder, which purchase the Guarantor hereby acknowledges shall benefit the Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the Holders from time to time.

ARTICLE I

Definitions

Section 1.1 Definitions.

          For all purposes of this Guarantee Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

          (a) The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular.

          (b) All other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein.

          (c) All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term “generally accepted

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accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles that are generally accepted at the date or time of such computation; provided that when two or more principles are so generally accepted, it shall mean that set of principles consistent with those in use by the Guarantor.

          (d) The words “hereby,” “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Guarantee Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.

          (e) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article”, a “Section” or another subdivision refers to an Article, a Section or another subdivisions, as the case may be, of this Guarantee Agreement.

          “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

          “Authorized Officer” of any Person means any executive officer of such Person or any person authorized by or pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors (or equivalent body) of such Person.

          “Base Indenture” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Guarantor or any committee of that board duly authorized to act hereunder.

          “Capital ITS” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Class” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Common Securities” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Distributions” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Event of Default” means (i) a default by the Guarantor in any of its payment obligations under this Guarantee Agreement or (ii) a default by the Guarantor in any other obligation hereunder that remains unremedied for 30 days.

          “Guarantee Agreement” means this Guarantee Agreement, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time.

          “Guarantee Payments” means the following payments or distributions, without duplication, with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities of any Class, to the extent not paid or made by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust: (i) any accumulated and unpaid Distributions required to be paid on the Trust Preferred Securities of such Class, to the extent the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time; (ii) the Redemption Price with respect to any Trust Preferred Securities called for redemption by the Issuer Trust (other than in connection with the redemption of Capital ITS in exchange for Notes), to the extent the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time; and (iii)

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upon a voluntary or involuntary dissolution, winding-up or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, other than in connection with the distribution of a Like Amount of Corresponding Assets (as defined in the Trust Agreement) to the Holders of Trust Preferred Securities and Trust Common Securities, the lesser of (a) the Liquidation Distribution with respect to each Class of the Trust Preferred Securities, to the extent that the Issuer Trust shall have funds on hand available therefor at such time and (b) the amount of assets of the Issuer Trust has remaining available for distribution to Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities on liquidation of the Issuer Trust.

          “Guarantee Trustee” means Wilmington Trust Company, solely in its capacity as Guarantee Trustee and not in its individual capacity, until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement, and thereafter means each such Successor Guarantee Trustee.

          “Guarantor” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Guarantee Agreement.

          “Holder” means any Holder (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of any Trust Preferred Securities; provided, however, that in determining whether the holders of the requisite percentage of Trust Preferred Securities of any Class or Classes have given any request, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, “Holder” shall not include the Guarantor, the Guarantee Trustee, or any Affiliate of the Guarantor or the Guarantee Trustee.

          “Indenture” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Indenture Supplement” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Indemnified Person” has the meaning specified in Section 3.3(c).

          “Issuer Trust” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Guarantee Agreement.

          “Liquidation Distribution” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “List of Holders” has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(a).

          “Majority in Liquidation Amount” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Normal ITS” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Notes” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by any two Authorized Officers of such person. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Guarantee Agreement shall include:

     (i) a statement by each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate that such officer has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;

     (ii) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken by such officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate;

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     (iii) a statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in such officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

     (iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

          “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

          “Redemption Price” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Responsible Officer” means, with respect to the Guarantee Trustee, any Senior Vice President, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, any Trust Officer, any Assistant Trust Officer, any Financial Services Officer or any other officer of the Corporate Trust Department of the Guarantee Trustee and also means, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of that officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

          “Senior and Subordinated Debt” has the meaning specified in the Indenture.

          “Stock Purchase Date” has the meaning specified in the Stock Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between the Guarantor and the Issuer Trust.

          “Successor Guarantee Trustee” means a successor Guarantee Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1.

          “Trust Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Issuer Trust referred to in the recitals to this Guarantee Agreement, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to time.

          “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbb), as amended and as in effect on the date of this Guarantee Agreement, except as provided in Section 9.5 of the Indenture.

          “Trust Preferred Securities” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.

          “Vice President” when used with respect to the Guarantor means any duly appointed vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president.”

ARTICLE II

Trust Indenture Act

Section 2.1 Trust Indenture Act; Application.

          Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the Trust Indenture Act shall apply as a matter of contract to this Guarantee Agreement for purposes of interpretation, construction and defining the rights and obligations hereunder, and this Guarantee Agreement, the Guarantor and the Guarantee Trustee shall be deemed for all purposes hereof to be subject to and governed by the Trust Indenture Act

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to the same extent as would be the case if this Guarantee Agreement were qualified under the Trust Indenture Act on the date hereof. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, if and to the extent that any provision of this Guarantee Agreement limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall control.

Section 2.2 List of Holders.

          (a) The Guarantor shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee (a) semiannually, on or before May 15 of each year, a list, in such form as the Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders (a “List of Holders”) as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the delivery thereof, and (b) at such other times as the Guarantee Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Guarantor of any such request, a List of Holders as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished, in each case to the extent such information is in the possession or control of the Guarantor and has not otherwise been received by the Guarantee Trustee in its capacity as such. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Guarantor shall not be obligated to provide such List of Holders at any time the List of Holders does not differ from the most recent List of Holders given to the Guarantee Trustee by the Guarantor. The Guarantee Trustee may destroy any List of Holders previously given to it on receipt of a new List of Holders.

          (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall comply with the requirements of Section 311(a), Section 311(b) and Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 2.3 Reports by the Guarantee Trustee.

          Within 60 days after May 15 each year (commencing with the year of the first anniversary of the issuance of the Trust Preferred Securities), the Guarantee Trustee shall provide to the Holders such reports as are required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if any, in the form and in the manner provided by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act. If this Guarantee Agreement shall have been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, the Guarantee Trustee shall also comply with the requirements of Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 2.4 Periodic Reports to the Guarantee Trustee.

          The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee and the Holders such documents, reports and information, if any, as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and the compliance certificate required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act, in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act, provided that such documents, reports and information shall be required to be provided to the Securities and Exchange Commission only if this Guarantee Agreement shall have been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 2.5 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.

          The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such evidence of compliance with such conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Guarantee Agreement that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer of the Guarantor pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) may be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate.

Section 2.6 Events of Default; Waiver.

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Securities may, by vote, on behalf of the Holders of all the Trust Preferred Securities, waive any past default or Event of Default and its consequences; provided that each Class of Trust Preferred Securities shall be entitled, in the case of any default or Event of Default that affects such Class differently from the other Class or Classes, to vote separately as a Class with respect thereto. Upon such waiver, any such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any default or Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Guarantee Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

Section 2.7 Events of Default; Notice.

          (a) The Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default known to the Guarantee Trustee, transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the Holders, notice of any such Event of Default known to the Guarantee Trustee, unless such Event of Default has been cured before the giving of such notice, provided that, except in the case of a default in the payment of a Guarantee Payment, the Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the Board of Directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Guarantee Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders.

          (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default unless the Guarantee Trustee shall have received written notice, or a Responsible Officer charged with the administration of this Guarantee Agreement shall have obtained written notice, of such Event of Default.

Section 2.8 Conflicting Interests.

          The Trust Agreement and the Indenture shall be deemed to be specifically described in this Guarantee Agreement for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

ARTICLE III

Powers, Duties and Rights of the Guarantee Trustee

Section 3.1 Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee.

          (a) This Guarantee Agreement shall be held by the Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the Holders, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not transfer this Guarantee Agreement to any Person except to a Successor Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment to act as Guarantee Trustee hereunder. The right, title and interest of the Guarantee Trustee, as such, hereunder shall automatically vest in any Successor Guarantee Trustee, upon acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment hereunder, and such vesting and cessation of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the appointment of such Successor Guarantee Trustee.

          (b) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Guarantee Trustee shall enforce this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the Holders.

          (c) The Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Guarantee Agreement (including pursuant to Section 2.1), and no implied

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covenants shall be read into this Guarantee Agreement against the Guarantee Trustee. If an Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 2.6), the Guarantee Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

          (d) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Guarantee Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

     (i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have occurred:

     (A) the duties and obligations of the Guarantee Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Guarantee Agreement (including pursuant to Section 2.1), and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Guarantee Agreement (including pursuant to Section 2.1); and

     (B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Guarantee Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Guarantee Agreement (but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof or of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically required to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Guarantee Agreement);

     (ii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Guarantee Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts upon which such judgment was made;

     (iii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the relevant Class or Classes of Trust Preferred Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement; and

     (iv) subject to Section 3.1(b), no provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall require the Guarantee Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Guarantee Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such funds or liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Guarantee Agreement or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

Section 3.2 Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee.

          (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1:

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     (i) The Guarantee Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented by the proper party or parties.

     (ii) Any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by this Guarantee Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate unless otherwise prescribed herein.

     (iii) Whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement, the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established before taking, suffering or omitting to take any action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and rely upon an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such request from the Guarantee Trustee, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor.

     (iv) The Guarantee Trustee may consult with legal counsel, and the written advice or opinion of such legal counsel with respect to legal matters shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or opinion. Such legal counsel may be legal counsel to the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may be one of its employees. The Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Guarantee Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction.

     (v) The Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement at the request or direction of any Holder unless such Holder shall have provided to the Guarantee Trustee such adequate security and indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with such request or direction, including such reasonable advances as may be requested by the Guarantee Trustee.

     (vi) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Guarantee Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit at the expense of the Guarantor and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.

     (vii) The Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney appointed by it with due care hereunder.

     (viii) Whenever in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (A) may request instructions from the Holders, (B) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (C) shall be protected in acting in accordance with such instructions.

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          (b) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Guarantee Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Guarantee Trustee shall be construed to be a duty to act in accordance with such power and authority.

Section 3.3 Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.

          The Guarantor agrees:

          (a) to pay to the Guarantee Trustee from time to time such reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder as may be agreed by the Guarantor and the Guarantee Trustee from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);

          (b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Guarantee Trustee upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Guarantee Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Guarantee Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall be determined to have been caused by its own negligence or bad faith; and

          (c) to indemnify the Guarantee Trustee, any Affiliate of the Guarantee Trustee and any officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative or agent of the Guarantee Trustee (each, an “Indemnified Person”) for, and to hold each Indemnified Person harmless against, any loss, liability, claim, action, suit, cost, damage or expense of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Indemnified Person, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Guarantee Agreement, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

          The Guarantee Trustee will not claim or exact any lien or charge on any Guarantee Payments as a result of any amount due to it under this Guarantee Agreement.

          The provisions of this Section 3.3 shall survive the termination of this Guarantee Agreement or the resignation or removal of the Guarantee Trustee.

ARTICLE IV

Guarantee Trustee

Section 4.1 Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility.

     (a) There shall at all times be a Guarantee Trustee that shall:

     (i) not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and

     (ii) be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and shall be a corporation meeting the

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requirements of Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then, for the purposes of this Section 4.1 and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.

          (b) If at any time the Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be eligible to so act under Section 4.1(a), the Guarantee Trustee shall immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.2.

          (c) If the Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any “conflicting interest” within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in all respects comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.

Section 4.2 Appointment, Removal and Resignation of the Guarantee Trustee.

          (a) Subject to Section 4.2(c), the Guarantee Trustee may be appointed or removed at any time by the action of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities delivered to the Guarantee Trustee and the Guarantor (i) for cause or (ii) if a Note Event of Default (as defined in the Trust Agreement) shall have occurred and be continuing at any time.

          (b) Subject to Section 4.2(c), the Guarantee Trustee may resign from office (without need for prior or subsequent accounting) by giving written notice thereof to the Holders and the Guarantor and by appointing a successor Guarantee Trustee. The Guarantee Trustee shall appoint a successor by requesting from at least three Persons meeting the requirements of Section 4.1(a) their expenses and charges to serve as the Guarantee Trustee, and selecting the Person who agrees to the lowest expenses and charges.

          (c) The Guarantee Trustee appointed hereunder shall hold office until a Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed and shall have accepted such appointment. No removal or resignation of a Guarantee Trustee shall be effective until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by such Successor Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor and, in the case of any resignation, the resigning Guarantee Trustee.

          (d) If no Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed and accepted appointment as provided in this Section 4.2 within 60 days after delivery to the Holders and the Guarantor of a notice of resignation, the resigning Guarantee Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Guarantor, any court of competent jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor Guarantee Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, appoint a Successor Guarantee Trustee.

          (e) If a resigning Guarantee Trustee shall fail to appoint a successor, or if a Guarantee Trustee shall be removed or become incapable of acting as Guarantee Trustee and a replacement shall not be appointed prior to such resignation or removal, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Guarantee Trustee for any cause, the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities, by the action of the Holders of record of not less than 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the Trust Preferred Securities then Outstanding (as defined in the Trust Agreement) delivered to such Guarantee Trustee, may appoint a Successor Guarantee Trustee or Trustees. If no successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities and accepted appointment, any Holder, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly situated, or any

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other Guarantee Trustee, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Guarantee Trustee.

ARTICLE V

Guarantee

Section 5.1 Guarantee.

          The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to pay in full to the Holders the Guarantee Payments (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust), as and when due, regardless of any defense, right of set-off or counterclaim that the Issuer Trust may have or assert, except the defense of payment. The Guarantor’s obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by direct payment of the required amounts by the Guarantor to the Holders or by causing the Issuer Trust to pay such amounts to the Holders.

Section 5.2 Waiver of Notice and Demand.

          The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Guarantee Agreement and of any liability to which it applies or may apply, presentment, demand for payment, any right to require a proceeding first against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer Trust or any other Person before proceeding against the Guarantor, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and all other notices and demands.

Section 5.3 Obligations Not Affected.

          The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of any of the following:

          (a) the release or waiver, by operation of law or otherwise, of the performance or observance by the Issuer Trust of any express or implied agreement, covenant, term or condition relating to the Trust Preferred Securities to be performed or observed by the Issuer Trust;

          (b) the extension of time for the payment by the Issuer Trust of any portion of the Distributions (other than an extension of time for payment of Distributions that results from the extension of any interest payment period on the Notes as provided in the Indenture), Redemption Price, Liquidation Distribution or any other sums payable under the terms of the Trust Preferred Securities or the extension of time for the performance of any other obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Trust Preferred Securities;

          (c) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of the Holders to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Holders pursuant to the terms of the Trust Preferred Securities, or any action on the part of the Issuer Trust granting indulgence or extension of any kind;

          (d) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the Issuer Trust or any of the assets of the Issuer Trust;

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          (e) any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in, the Trust Preferred Securities;

          (f) the settlement or compromise of any obligation guaranteed hereby or hereby incurred; or

          (g) any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor (other than payment of the underlying obligation), it being the intent of this Section 5.3 that the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances.

          There shall be no obligation of the Holders to give notice to, or obtain the consent of, the Guarantor with respect to the happening of any of the foregoing.

Section 5.4 Rights of Holders.

          The Guarantor expressly acknowledges that: (i) this Guarantee Agreement will be deposited with the Guarantee Trustee to be held for the benefit of the Holders; (ii) the Guarantee Trustee has the right to enforce this Guarantee Agreement on behalf of the Holders; (iii) the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Preferred Securities of the affected Class or Classes have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this Guarantee Agreement or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement; and (iv) any Holder may institute a legal proceeding directly against the Guarantor to enforce its rights under this Guarantee Agreement without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer Trust or any other Person.

Section 5.5 Guarantee of Payment.

          This Guarantee Agreement creates a guarantee of payment and not of collection. This Guarantee Agreement will not be discharged except by payment of the Guarantee Payments in full (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by the Issuer Trust) or upon the distribution of Notes to Holders as provided in the Trust Agreement.

Section 5.6 Subrogation.

          The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights (if any) of the Holders against the Issuer Trust in respect of any amounts paid to the Holders by the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement; provided that the Guarantor shall not (except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any rights that it may acquire by way of subrogation or any indemnity, reimbursement or other agreement, in all cases as a result of payment under this Guarantee Agreement, if, at the time of any such payment, any amounts are due and unpaid under this Guarantee Agreement. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence, the Guarantor agrees to hold such amount in trust for the Holders and to pay over such amount to the Holders.

Section 5.7 Independent Obligations.

          The Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder are independent of the obligations of the Issuer Trust with respect to the Trust Preferred Securities and that the Guarantor shall be liable as principal and as debtor hereunder to make Guarantee Payments pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement notwithstanding the occurrence of any event referred to in subsections (a) through (g), inclusive, of Section 5.3.

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ARTICLE VI

Covenants and Subordination

Section 6.1 Subordination.

          The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement will constitute unsecured obligations of the Guarantor and will rank subordinate and junior in right of payment and upon liquidation to all Senior and Subordinated Debt of the Guarantor to the extent and in the manner set forth in the Indenture with respect to the Notes (as defined therein), and the provisions of Article XIII of the Base Indenture will apply, mutatis mutandis, to the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder. The obligations of the Guarantor hereunder do not constitute Senior and Subordinated Debt of the Guarantor.

Section 6.2 Pari Passu Guarantees.

          The obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement shall rank pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under (i) any similar guarantee agreements issued by the Guarantor on behalf of the holders of preferred or capital securities issued by any statutory trust the assets of which consist of debt securities that are pari passu to the Notes and the proceeds thereof, (ii) the Indenture and the Debt Securities (as defined therein) issued thereunder, (iii) any expense agreements entered into by the Guarantor in connection with the offering of preferred or capital securities by any statutory trust the assets of which consists of debt securities that are pari passu to the Notes and the proceeds thereof, and (iv) any other security, guarantee or other agreement or obligation that is expressly stated to rank pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement or with any obligation that ranks pari passu with the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement.

ARTICLE VII

Termination

Section 7.1 Termination.

          This Guarantee Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect upon (i) full payment of the Redemption Price of all Trust Preferred Securities or (ii) full payment of the amounts payable in accordance with Article IX of the Trust Agreement upon liquidation of the Issuer Trust. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Guarantee Agreement will continue to be effective or will be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any Holder is required to repay any sums paid with respect to Trust Preferred Securities or this Guarantee Agreement. Section 3.3 shall survive any termination of this Guarantee Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

Miscellaneous

Section 8.1 Successors and Assigns.

     All guarantees and agreements contained in this Guarantee Agreement shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of the Guarantor whether so expressed or not and will be for the benefit of the Holders of the Trust Preferred Securities then outstanding. Except in connection with a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Guarantor that is permitted under Article VIII of the Indenture and pursuant to which the successor or assignee agrees in writing to perform

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the Guarantor’s obligations hereunder, the Guarantor shall not assign its obligations hereunder, and any purported assignment other than in accordance with this provision shall be void.

Section 8.2 Amendments.

          Except with respect to any changes that do not adversely affect the rights of the Holders in any material respect (in which case no consent of the Holders will be required), this Guarantee Agreement may only be amended with the prior approval of the Holders of not less than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the outstanding Trust Preferred Securities. The holders of each Class of Trust Preferred Securities will also be entitled to vote separately as a class to the extent that any proposed amendment would not affect them in the same or substantially the same manner. The provisions of Article VI of the Trust Agreement concerning meetings of the Holders shall apply to the giving of such approval.

Section 8.3 Notices.

          Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing, duly signed by the party giving such notice, and delivered, telecopied or mailed by first class mail as follows:

          (a) if given to the Guarantor, to the address or telecopy number set forth below or such other address or facsimile number as the Guarantor may give notice to the Guarantee Trustee and the Holders:

U.S. Bancorp

800 Nicollet Mall

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

Attention: Treasury Department

Facsimile: (612) 303-1338

          (b) if given to the Guarantee Trustee, to the address or telecopy number set forth below or such other address or facsimile number as the Guarantee Trustee may give notice to the Guarantor and Holders:

Wilmington Trust Company

Rodney Square North

1100 North Market Street

Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

Facsimile: (302) 636-4140

with a copy to:

USB Capital IX

c/o U.S. Bancorp

800 Nicollet Mall

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

Attention: Treasury Department

Facsimile: (612) 303-1338

          (c) if given to any Holder, at the address set forth on the books and records of the Issuer Trust.

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          All notices hereunder shall be deemed to have been given when received in person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, except that if a notice or other document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date of such refusal or inability to deliver.

Section 8.4 Benefit.

          This Guarantee Agreement is solely for the benefit of the Holders and is not separately transferable from the Trust Preferred Securities.

Section 8.5 Governing Law.

          This Guarantee Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

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          This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

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          In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto have executed this Guarantee Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

U.S. Bancorp, as Guarantor
By:
	Name:
	Title:
Wilmington Trust Company, individually and as Guarantee Trustee
By:
	Name:
	Title:

Guarantee Agreement

EX-5.2

Exhibit 5.2

[Letterhead of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.]

March 10, 2006

USB Capital IX
c/o U.S. Bancorp
800 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402

          Re: USB Capital IX

Ladies and Gentlemen:

          We have acted as special Delaware counsel for USB Capital IX, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), in connection with the matters set forth herein. At your request, this opinion is being furnished to you.

          For purposes of giving the opinions hereinafter set forth, our examination of documents has been limited to the examination of originals or copies of the following:

          (a) The Certificate of Trust of the Trust, as filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the “Secretary of State”) on April 27, 2005, as amended and restated by the Restated Certificate of Trust of the Trust, as filed in the office of the Secretary of State on January 18, 2006 (as amended and restated, the “Certificate”);

          (b) The Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated as of April 27, 2005, among U.S. Bancorp, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), as depositor, and Delaware Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee, and David M. Moffett, Daryl N. Bible and Lee R. Mitau, as administrative trustees;

          (c) The Omnibus Appointment and Resignation Agreement, dated as of January 18, 2006, among the Company, Delaware Trust Company, National Association, Wachovia Bank of Delaware, National Association and Wilmington Trust Company;

          (d) The Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”), including the prospectus, dated March 9, 2006, as supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, dated March 10, 2006 (as so supplemented, the “Prospectus”), relating to the Trust’s Normal Income Trust Securities (liquidation amount $1,000 per security);

          (e) A form of Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust (the “Trust Agreement”), to be entered into among the Company, as depositor, the trustees of the

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Trust named therein on the date hereof (the “Trustees”), and the Holders (as defined therein), attached as an exhibit to the Registration Statement; and

          (f) A Certificate of Good Standing for the Trust, dated March 10, 2006, obtained from the Secretary of State.

          Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined are used as defined in the Trust Agreement.

          For purposes of this opinion, we have not reviewed any documents other than the documents listed in paragraphs (a) through (f) above. In particular, we have not reviewed any document (other than the documents listed in paragraphs (a) through (f) above) that is referred to in or incorporated by reference into the documents reviewed by us. We have assumed that there exists no provision in any document that we have not reviewed that is inconsistent with the opinions stated herein. We have conducted no independent factual investigation of our own but rather have relied solely upon the foregoing documents, the statements and information set forth therein and the additional matters recited or assumed herein, all of which we have assumed to be true, complete and accurate in all material respects.

          With respect to all documents examined by us, we have assumed (i) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as authentic originals, (ii) the conformity with the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies or forms, and (iii) the genuineness of all signatures.

          For purposes of this opinion, we have assumed (i) that the Trust Agreement constitutes the entire agreement among the parties thereto with respect to the subject matter thereof, including with respect to the creation, operation and termination of the Trust, and that the Trust Agreement and the Certificate are in full force and effect and have not been amended, (ii) except to the extent provided in paragraph 1 below, that each of the parties to the documents examined by us has been duly created, formed or organized, as the case may be, and is validly existing in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction governing its creation, formation or organization, (iii) that each natural person who is a signatory to the documents examined by us has the legal capacity to sign such documents, (iv) that each of the parties to the documents examined by us has the power and authority to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, such documents, (v) that each of the parties to the documents examined by us has duly authorized, executed and delivered such documents, (vi) that each Person to whom a Normal Income Trust Security (“Normal ITS”), Stripped Income Trust Security (“Stripped ITS”) or Capital Income Trust Security (“Capital ITS” and collectively with the Normal ITS and the Stripped ITS, the “Trust Preferred Securities”) is to be issued by the Trust (the “Preferred Security Holders”) has received an appropriate Trust Preferred Securities Certificate evidencing ownership of such Trust Preferred Securities and has paid for the Trust Preferred Securities acquired by it, in accordance with the Trust Agreement, (vii) that the Trust Preferred Securities are issued and sold to the Preferred Security Holders in accordance with the Trust Agreement, and (viii) that the Capital ITS and the Stripped ITS, will be issued upon an Exchange in accordance with the terms of the Trust Agreement. We have not participated in the preparation of the Registration Statement and assume no responsibility for its contents.

USB Capital IX
March 10, 2006
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          This opinion is limited to the laws of the State of Delaware (excluding the securities laws of the State of Delaware), and we have not considered and express no opinion on the laws of any other jurisdiction, including federal laws and rules and regulations relating thereto. Our opinions are rendered only with respect to Delaware laws and rules, regulations and orders thereunder that are currently in effect.

          Based upon the foregoing, and upon our examination of such questions of law and statutes of the State of Delaware as we have considered necessary or appropriate, and subject to the assumptions, qualifications, limitations and exceptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:

          1. The Trust has been duly created and is validly existing in good standing as a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

          2. The Trust Preferred Securities will represent valid and, subject to the qualifications set forth in paragraph 3 below, fully paid and nonassessable undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.

          3. The Preferred Security Holders, as beneficial owners of the Trust, will be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. We note that the Preferred Security Holders may be obligated to make payments as set forth in the Trust Agreement.

          We consent to the filing of this opinion with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. In addition, we hereby consent to the use of our name under the heading “Validity of Securities” in the Prospectus. In giving the foregoing consents, we do not thereby admit that we come within the category of Persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder. Except as stated above, without our prior written consent, this opinion may not be furnished or quoted to, or relied upon by, any other Person for any purpose.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” in the Registration Statement (Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3 No. 333-132297) and related Prospectus of U.S. Bancorp for the registration of securities of USB Capital IX dated March 10, 2006, and to the incorporation by reference therein of our reports dated February 17, 2006, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of U.S. Bancorp, U.S. Bancorp management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of U.S. Bancorp, included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2005, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

Minneapolis, Minnesota
March 10, 2006

EX-25.4

Exhibit 25.4

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM T-1

STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
OF A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

Check if an Application to Determine Eligibility of a Trustee Pursuant to Section 305(b)(2) __

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

(Exact name of Trustee as specified in its charter)

Delaware
(Jurisdiction of incorporation of
organization if not a U.S. national
bank) 51-0055023
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
(302) 651-1000
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Cynthia L. Corliss
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
Wilmington Trust Company
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
(302) 651-8516
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent of service)

USB Capital IX

(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction or incorporation or organization) 20-6524064
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

c/o Wilmington Trust Company
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Fixed-to-Floating Rate Normal Income Trust Securities
(Title of the indenture securities)

ITEM 1. GENERAL INFORMATION.

Furnish the following information as to the trustee:

(a) Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
20 Exchange Place, Room 6014
New York, New York 10005 State Bank Commissioner
555 East Loockerman Street, Suite 210
Dover, Delaware 19901

(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

The trustee is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

ITEM 2. AFFILIATIONS WITH THE OBLIGOR.

If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each affiliation:

Based upon an examination of the books and records of the trustee and information available to the trustee, the obligor is not an affiliate of the trustee.

ITEM 16. LIST OF EXHIBITS.

List below all exhibits filed as part of this Statement of Eligibility and Qualification.

• A copy of the Charter of Wilmington Trust Company (Exhibit 1), which includes the certificate of authority of Wilmington Trust Company to commence business (Exhibit 2) and the authorization of Wilmington Trust Company to exercise corporate trust powers (Exhibit 3).

• A copy of the existing By-Laws of Wilmington Trust Company (Exhibit 4).

• Consent of Wilmington Trust Company required by Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act (Exhibit 6).

• A copy of the latest Report of Condition of Wilmington Trust Company (Exhibit 7).

Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, the trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Delaware, has duly caused this Statement of Eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of Wilmington and State of Delaware on the 10^th day of March, 2006.

[SEAL]		WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Attest:	/s/ Christopher J. Monigle	By:	/s/ Patricia A. Evans
	Assistant Secretary	Name: Patricia A. Evans
		Title: Vice President

EXHIBIT 1

AMENDED CHARTER

Wilmington Trust Company

Wilmington, Delaware

As existing on May 9, 1987

Amended Charter
or
Act of Incorporation
of
Wilmington Trust Company

     Wilmington Trust Company, originally incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Delaware, entitled “An Act to Incorporate the Delaware Guarantee and Trust Company”, approved March 2, A.D. 1901, and the name of which company was changed to “Wilmington Trust Company” by an amendment filed in the Office of the Secretary of State on March 18, A.D. 1903, and the Charter or Act of Incorporation of which company has been from time to time amended and changed by merger agreements pursuant to the corporation law for state banks and trust companies of the State of Delaware, does hereby alter and amend its Charter or Act of Incorporation so that the same as so altered and amended shall in its entirety read as follows:

First: - The name of this corporation is Wilmington Trust Company.

Second: - The location of its principal office in the State of Delaware is at Rodney Square North, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle; the name of its resident agent is Wilmington Trust Company whose address is Rodney Square North, in said City. In addition to such principal office, the said corporation maintains and operates branch offices in the City of Newark, New Castle County, Delaware, the Town of Newport, New Castle County, Delaware, at Claymont, New Castle County, Delaware, at Greenville, New Castle County Delaware, and at Milford Cross Roads, New Castle County, Delaware, and shall be empowered to open, maintain and operate branch offices at Ninth and Shipley Streets, 418 Delaware Avenue, 2120 Market Street, and 3605 Market Street, all in the City of Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, and such other branch offices or places of business as may be authorized from time to time by the agency or agencies of the government of the State of Delaware empowered to confer such authority.

Third: - (a) The nature of the business and the objects and purposes proposed to be transacted, promoted or carried on by this Corporation are to do any or all of the things herein mentioned as fully and to the same extent as natural persons might or could do and in any part of the world, viz.:

(1) To sue and be sued, complain and defend in any Court of law or equity and to make and use a common seal, and alter the seal at pleasure, to hold, purchase, convey, mortgage or otherwise deal in real and personal estate and property, and to appoint such officers and agents as the business of the Corporation shall require, to make by-laws not inconsistent with the Constitution or laws of the United States or of this State, to discount bills, notes or other evidences of debt, to receive deposits of money, or securities for money, to buy gold and silver bullion and foreign coins, to buy and sell bills of exchange, and generally to use, exercise and enjoy all the powers, rights, privileges and franchises incident to a corporation which are proper or necessary for the transaction of the business of the Corporation hereby created.

(2) To insure titles to real and personal property, or any estate or interests therein, and to guarantee the holder of such property, real or personal, against any claim or claims, adverse to his interest therein, and to prepare and give certificates of title for any lands or premises in the State of Delaware, or elsewhere.

(3) To act as factor, agent, broker or attorney in the receipt, collection, custody, investment and management of funds, and the purchase, sale, management and disposal of property of all descriptions, and to prepare and execute all papers which may be necessary or proper in such business.

(4) To prepare and draw agreements, contracts, deeds, leases, conveyances, mortgages, bonds

and legal papers of every description, and to carry on the business of conveyancing in all its branches.

(5) To receive upon deposit for safekeeping money, jewelry, plate, deeds, bonds and any and all other personal property of every sort and kind, from executors, administrators, guardians, public officers, courts, receivers, assignees, trustees, and from all fiduciaries, and from all other persons and individuals, and from all corporations whether state, municipal, corporate or private, and to rent boxes, safes, vaults and other receptacles for such property.

(6) To act as agent or otherwise for the purpose of registering, issuing, certificating, countersigning, transferring or underwriting the stock, bonds or other obligations of any corporation, association, state or municipality, and may receive and manage any sinking fund therefor on such terms as may be agreed upon between the two parties, and in like manner may act as Treasurer of any corporation or municipality.

(7) To act as Trustee under any deed of trust, mortgage, bond or other instrument issued by any state, municipality, body politic, corporation, association or person, either alone or in conjunction with any other person or persons, corporation or corporations.

(8) To guarantee the validity, performance or effect of any contract or agreement, and the fidelity of persons holding places of responsibility or trust; to become surety for any person, or persons, for the faithful performance of any trust, office, duty, contract or agreement, either by itself or in conjunction with any other person, or persons, corporation, or corporations, or in like manner become surety upon any bond, recognizance, obligation, judgment, suit, order, or decree to be entered in any court of record within the State of Delaware or elsewhere, or which may now or hereafter be required by any law, judge, officer or court in the State of Delaware or elsewhere.

(9) To act by any and every method of appointment as trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee, assignee in bankruptcy, executor, administrator, guardian, bailee, or in any other trust capacity in the receiving, holding, managing, and disposing of any and all estates and property, real, personal or mixed, and to be appointed as such trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee, assignee in bankruptcy, executor, administrator, guardian or bailee by any persons, corporations, court, officer, or authority, in the State of Delaware or elsewhere; and whenever this Corporation is so appointed by any person, corporation, court, officer or authority such trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee, assignee in bankruptcy, executor, administrator, guardian, bailee, or in any other trust capacity, it shall not be required to give bond with surety, but its capital stock shall be taken and held as security for the performance of the duties devolving upon it by such appointment.

(10) And for its care, management and trouble, and the exercise of any of its powers hereby given, or for the performance of any of the duties which it may undertake or be called upon to perform, or for the assumption of any responsibility the said Corporation may be entitled to receive a proper compensation.

(11) To purchase, receive, hold and own bonds, mortgages, debentures, shares of capital stock, and other securities, obligations, contracts and evidences of indebtedness, of any private, public or municipal corporation within and without the State of Delaware, or of the Government of the United States, or of any state, territory, colony, or possession thereof, or of any foreign government or country; to receive, collect, receipt for, and dispose of interest, dividends and income upon and from any of the bonds, mortgages, debentures, notes, shares of capital

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stock, securities, obligations, contracts, evidences of indebtedness and other property held and owned by it, and to exercise in respect of all such bonds, mortgages, debentures, notes, shares of capital stock, securities, obligations, contracts, evidences of indebtedness and other property, any and all the rights, powers and privileges of individual owners thereof, including the right to vote thereon; to invest and deal in and with any of the moneys of the Corporation upon such securities and in such manner as it may think fit and proper, and from time to time to vary or realize such investments; to issue bonds and secure the same by pledges or deeds of trust or mortgages of or upon the whole or any part of the property held or owned by the Corporation, and to sell and pledge such bonds, as and when the Board of Directors shall determine, and in the promotion of its said corporate business of investment and to the extent authorized by law, to lease, purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey real and personal property of any name and nature and any estate or interest therein.

(b) In furtherance of, and not in limitation, of the powers conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware, it is hereby expressly provided that the said Corporation shall also have the following powers:

(1) To do any or all of the things herein set forth, to the same extent as natural persons might or could do, and in any part of the world.

(2) To acquire the good will, rights, property and franchises and to undertake the whole or any part of the assets and liabilities of any person, firm, association or corporation, and to pay for the same in cash, stock of this Corporation, bonds or otherwise; to hold or in any manner to dispose of the whole or any part of the property so purchased; to conduct in any lawful manner the whole or any part of any business so acquired, and to exercise all the powers necessary or convenient in and about the conduct and management of such business.

(3) To take, hold, own, deal in, mortgage or otherwise lien, and to lease, sell, exchange, transfer, or in any manner whatever dispose of property, real, personal or mixed, wherever situated.

(4) To enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts of every kind with any person, firm, association or corporation, and, without limit as to amount, to draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures, and other negotiable or transferable instruments.

(5) To have one or more offices, to carry on all or any of its operations and businesses, without restriction to the same extent as natural persons might or could do, to purchase or otherwise acquire, to hold, own, to mortgage, sell, convey or otherwise dispose of, real and personal property, of every class and description, in any State, District, Territory or Colony of the United States, and in any foreign country or place.

(6) It is the intention that the objects, purposes and powers specified and clauses contained in this paragraph shall (except where otherwise expressed in said paragraph) be nowise limited or restricted by reference to or inference from the terms of any other clause of this or any other paragraph in this charter, but that the objects, purposes and powers specified in each of the clauses of this paragraph shall be regarded as independent objects, purposes and powers.

Fourth: - (a) The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is forty-one million (41,000,000) shares, consisting of:

(1) One million (1,000,000) shares of Preferred stock, par value $10.00 per share (hereinafter referred to as “Preferred Stock”); and

(2) Forty million (40,000,000) shares of Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share (hereinafter referred to as “Common Stock”).

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(b) Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series as may from time to time be determined by the Board of Directors each of said series to be distinctly designated. All shares of any one series of Preferred Stock shall be alike in every particular, except that there may be different dates from which dividends, if any, thereon shall be cumulative, if made cumulative. The voting powers and the preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of each such series, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, if any, may differ from those of any and all other series at any time outstanding; and, subject to the provisions of subparagraph 1 of Paragraph (c) of this Article Fourth, the Board of Directors of the Corporation is hereby expressly granted authority to fix by resolution or resolutions adopted prior to the issuance of any shares of a particular series of Preferred Stock, the voting powers and the designations, preferences and relative, optional and other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions of such series, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following:

(1) The distinctive designation of, and the number of shares of Preferred Stock which shall constitute such series, which number may be increased (except where otherwise provided by the Board of Directors) or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) from time to time by like action of the Board of Directors;

(2) The rate and times at which, and the terms and conditions on which, dividends, if any, on Preferred Stock of such series shall be paid, the extent of the preference or relation, if any, of such dividends to the dividends payable on any other class or classes, or series of the same or other class of stock and whether such dividends shall be cumulative or non-cumulative;

(3) The right, if any, of the holders of Preferred Stock of such series to convert the same into or exchange the same for, shares of any other class or classes or of any series of the same or any other class or classes of stock of the Corporation and the terms and conditions of such conversion or exchange;

(4) Whether or not Preferred Stock of such series shall be subject to redemption, and the redemption price or prices and the time or times at which, and the terms and conditions on which, Preferred Stock of such series may be redeemed.

(5) The rights, if any, of the holders of Preferred Stock of such series upon the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, merger, consolidation, distribution or sale of assets, dissolution or winding-up, of the Corporation.

(6) The terms of the sinking fund or redemption or purchase account, if any, to be provided for the Preferred Stock of such series; and

(7) The voting powers, if any, of the holders of such series of Preferred Stock which may, without limiting the generality of the foregoing include the right, voting as a series or by itself or together with other series of Preferred Stock or all series of Preferred Stock as a class, to elect one or more directors of the Corporation if there shall have been a default in the payment of dividends on any one or more series of Preferred Stock or under such circumstances and on such conditions as the Board of Directors may determine.

(c) (1) After the requirements with respect to preferential dividends on the Preferred Stock (fixed in accordance with the provisions of section (b) of this Article Fourth), if any, shall have been met and after the Corporation shall have complied with all the requirements, if any, with respect to the setting aside of sums as sinking funds or redemption or purchase accounts (fixed in accordance with the provisions of section (b) of this Article Fourth), and subject further to any conditions which may be fixed in accordance with the provisions of section (b) of this Article Fourth, then and not otherwise the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive such dividends as may be declared from time to

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time by the Board of Directors.

(2) After distribution in full of the preferential amount, if any, (fixed in accordance with the provisions of section (b) of this Article Fourth), to be distributed to the holders of Preferred Stock in the event of voluntary or involuntary liquidation, distribution or sale of assets, dissolution or winding-up, of the Corporation, the holders of the Common Stock shall be entitled to receive all of the remaining assets of the Corporation, tangible and intangible, of whatever kind available for distribution to stockholders ratably in proportion to the number of shares of Common Stock held by them respectively.

(3) Except as may otherwise be required by law or by the provisions of such resolution or resolutions as may be adopted by the Board of Directors pursuant to section (b) of this Article Fourth, each holder of Common Stock shall have one vote in respect of each share of Common Stock held on all matters voted upon by the stockholders.

(d) No holder of any of the shares of any class or series of stock or of options, warrants or other rights to purchase shares of any class or series of stock or of other securities of the Corporation shall have any preemptive right to purchase or subscribe for any unissued stock of any class or series or any additional shares of any class or series to be issued by reason of any increase of the authorized capital stock of the Corporation of any class or series, or bonds, certificates of indebtedness, debentures or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for stock of the Corporation of any class or series, or carrying any right to purchase stock of any class or series, but any such unissued stock, additional authorized issue of shares of any class or series of stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for stock, or carrying any right to purchase stock, may be issued and disposed of pursuant to resolution of the Board of Directors to such persons, firms, corporations or associations, whether such holders or others, and upon such terms as may be deemed advisable by the Board of Directors in the exercise of its sole discretion.

(e) The relative powers, preferences and rights of each series of Preferred Stock in relation to the relative powers, preferences and rights of each other series of Preferred Stock shall, in each case, be as fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors in the resolution or resolutions adopted pursuant to authority granted in section (b) of this Article Fourth and the consent, by class or series vote or otherwise, of the holders of such of the series of Preferred Stock as are from time to time outstanding shall not be required for the issuance by the Board of Directors of any other series of Preferred Stock whether or not the powers, preferences and rights of such other series shall be fixed by the Board of Directors as senior to, or on a parity with, the powers, preferences and rights of such outstanding series, or any of them; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may provide in the resolution or resolutions as to any series of Preferred Stock adopted pursuant to section (b) of this Article Fourth that the consent of the holders of a majority (or such greater proportion as shall be therein fixed) of the outstanding shares of such series voting thereon shall be required for the issuance of any or all other series of Preferred Stock.

(f) Subject to the provisions of section (e), shares of any series of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time as the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall determine and on such terms and for such consideration as shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.

(g) Shares of Common Stock may be issued from time to time as the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall determine and on such terms and for such consideration as shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.

(h) The authorized amount of shares of Common Stock and of Preferred Stock may, without a class or series vote, be increased or decreased from time to time by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon.

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Fifth: - (a) The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be conducted and managed by a Board of Directors. The number of directors constituting the entire Board shall be not less than five nor more than twenty-five as fixed from time to time by vote of a majority of the whole Board, provided, however, that the number of directors shall not be reduced so as to shorten the term of any director at the time in office, and provided further, that the number of directors constituting the whole Board shall be twenty-four until otherwise fixed by a majority of the whole Board.

(b) The Board of Directors shall be divided into three classes, as nearly equal in number as the then total number of directors constituting the whole Board permits, with the term of office of one class expiring each year. At the annual meeting of stockholders in 1982, directors of the first class shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the next succeeding annual meeting, directors of the second class shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the second succeeding annual meeting and directors of the third class shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the third succeeding annual meeting. Any vacancies in the Board of Directors for any reason, and any newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the directors, may be filled by the Board of Directors, acting by a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, and any directors so chosen shall hold office until the next annual election of directors. At such election, the stockholders shall elect a successor to such director to hold office until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been chosen and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. No decrease in the number of directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Charter or Act of Incorporation or the By-Laws of the Corporation (and notwithstanding the fact that some lesser percentage may be specified by law, this Charter or Act of Incorporation or the By-Laws of the Corporation), any director or the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation may be removed at any time without cause, but only by the affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds or more of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (considered for this purpose as one class) cast at a meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose.

(d) Nominations for the election of directors may be made by the Board of Directors or by any stockholder entitled to vote for the election of directors. Such nominations shall be made by notice in writing, delivered or mailed by first class United States mail, postage prepaid, to the Secretary of the Corporation not less than 14 days nor more than 50 days prior to any meeting of the stockholders called for the election of directors; provided, however, that if less than 21 days’ notice of the meeting is given to stockholders, such written notice shall be delivered or mailed, as prescribed, to the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of the seventh day following the day on which notice of the meeting was mailed to stockholders. Notice of nominations which are proposed by the Board of Directors shall be given by the Chairman on behalf of the Board.

(e) Each notice under subsection (d) shall set forth (i) the name, age, business address and, if known, residence address of each nominee proposed in such notice, (ii) the principal occupation or employment of such nominee and (iii) the number of shares of stock of the Corporation which are beneficially owned by each such nominee.

(f) The Chairman of the meeting may, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a nomination was not made in accordance with the foregoing procedure, and if he should so determine, he shall so declare to the meeting and the defective nomination shall be disregarded.

(g) No action required to be taken or which may be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation may be taken without a meeting, and the power of stockholders to consent in writing, without a meeting, to the taking of any action is specifically denied.

Sixth: - The Directors shall choose such officers, agents and servants as may be provided in the By-

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Laws as they may from time to time find necessary or proper.

Seventh: - The Corporation hereby created is hereby given the same powers, rights and privileges as may be conferred upon corporations organized under the Act entitled “An Act Providing a General Corporation Law”, approved March 10, 1899, as from time to time amended.

Eighth: - This Act shall be deemed and taken to be a private Act.

Ninth: - This Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

Tenth: - The Board of Directors, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board, may designate any of their number to constitute an Executive Committee, which Committee, to the extent provided in said resolution, or in the By-Laws of the Company, shall have and may exercise all of the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and shall have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it.

Eleventh: - The private property of the stockholders shall not be liable for the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.

Twelfth: - The Corporation may transact business in any part of the world.

Thirteenth: - The Board of Directors of the Corporation is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation by a vote of the majority of the entire Board. The stockholders may make, alter or repeal any By-Law whether or not adopted by them, provided however, that any such additional By-Laws, alterations or repeal may be adopted only by the affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds or more of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (considered for this purpose as one class).

Fourteenth: - Meetings of the Directors may be held outside of the State of Delaware at such places as may be from time to time designated by the Board, and the Directors may keep the books of the Company outside of the State of Delaware at such places as may be from time to time designated by them.

Fifteenth: - (a) (1) In addition to any affirmative vote required by law, and except as otherwise expressly provided in sections (b) and (c) of this Article Fifteenth:

(A) any merger or consolidation of the Corporation or any Subsidiary (as hereinafter defined) with or into (i) any Interested Stockholder (as hereinafter defined) or (ii) any other corporation (whether or not itself an Interested Stockholder), which, after such merger or consolidation, would be an Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) of an Interested Stockholder, or

(B) any sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer or other disposition (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) to or with any Interested Stockholder or any Affiliate of any Interested Stockholder of any assets of the Corporation or any Subsidiary having an aggregate fair market value of $1,000,000 or more, or

(C) the issuance or transfer by the Corporation or any Subsidiary (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) of any securities of the Corporation or any Subsidiary to any Interested Stockholder or any Affiliate of any Interested Stockholder in exchange for cash, securities or other property (or a combination thereof) having an aggregate fair market value of $1,000,000 or more, or

(D) the adoption of any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation, or

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(E) any reclassification of securities (including any reverse stock split), or recapitalization of the Corporation, or any merger or consolidation of the Corporation with any of its Subsidiaries or any similar transaction (whether or not with or into or otherwise involving an Interested Stockholder) which has the effect, directly or indirectly, of increasing the proportionate share of the outstanding shares of any class of equity or convertible securities of the Corporation or any Subsidiary which is directly or indirectly owned by any Interested Stockholder, or any Affiliate of any Interested Stockholder,

shall require the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, considered for the purpose of this Article Fifteenth as one class (“Voting Shares”). Such affirmative vote shall be required notwithstanding the fact that no vote may be required, or that some lesser percentage may be specified, by law or in any agreement with any national securities exchange or otherwise.

(2) The term “business combination” as used in this Article Fifteenth shall mean any transaction which is referred to in any one or more of clauses (A) through (E) of paragraph 1 of the section (a).

(b) The provisions of section (a) of this Article Fifteenth shall not be applicable to any particular business combination and such business combination shall require only such affirmative vote as is required by law and any other provisions of the Charter or Act of Incorporation or By-Laws if such business combination has been approved by a majority of the whole Board.

(c) For the purposes of this Article Fifteenth:

(1) A “person” shall mean any individual, firm, corporation or other entity.

(2) “Interested Stockholder” shall mean, in respect of any business combination, any person (other than the Corporation or any Subsidiary) who or which as of the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote on such business combination, or immediately prior to the consummation of any such transaction:

(A) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 10% of the Voting Shares, or

(B) is an Affiliate of the Corporation and at any time within two years prior thereto was the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of not less than 10% of the then outstanding voting Shares, or

(C) is an assignee of or has otherwise succeeded in any share of capital stock of the Corporation which were at any time within two years prior thereto beneficially owned by any Interested Stockholder, and such assignment or succession shall have occurred in the course of a transaction or series of transactions not involving a public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933.

(3) A person shall be the “beneficial owner” of any Voting Shares:

(A) which such person or any of its Affiliates and Associates (as hereafter defined) beneficially own, directly or indirectly, or

(B) which such person or any of its Affiliates or Associates has (i) the right to acquire (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), pursuant to any

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agreement, arrangement or understanding or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, warrants or options, or otherwise, or (ii) the right to vote pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, or

(C) which are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any other person with which such first mentioned person or any of its Affiliates or Associates has any agreement, arrangement or understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of any shares of capital stock of the Corporation.

(4) The outstanding Voting Shares shall include shares deemed owned through application of paragraph (3) above but shall not include any other Voting Shares which may be issuable pursuant to any agreement, or upon exercise of conversion rights, warrants or options or otherwise.

(5) “Affiliate” and “Associate” shall have the respective meanings given those terms in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as in effect on December 31, 1981.

(6) “Subsidiary” shall mean any corporation of which a majority of any class of equity security (as defined in Rule 3a11-1 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as in effect on December 31, 1981) is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation; provided, however, that for the purposes of the definition of Investment Stockholder set forth in paragraph (2) of this section (c), the term “Subsidiary” shall mean only a corporation of which a majority of each class of equity security is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation.

(d) majority of the directors shall have the power and duty to determine for the purposes of this Article Fifteenth on the basis of information known to them, (1) the number of Voting Shares beneficially owned by any person (2) whether a person is an Affiliate or Associate of another, (3) whether a person has an agreement, arrangement or understanding with another as to the matters referred to in paragraph (3) of section (c), or (4) whether the assets subject to any business combination or the consideration received for the issuance or transfer of securities by the Corporation, or any Subsidiary has an aggregate fair market value of $1,000,000 or more.

(e) Nothing contained in this Article Fifteenth shall be construed to relieve any Interested Stockholder from any fiduciary obligation imposed by law.

Sixteenth: Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter or Act of Incorporation or the By-Laws of the Corporation (and in addition to any other vote that may be required by law, this Charter or Act of Incorporation by the By-Laws), the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (considered for this purpose as one class) shall be required to amend, alter or repeal any provision of Articles Fifth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth or Sixteenth of this Charter or Act of Incorporation.

Seventeenth: (a) a Director of this Corporation shall not be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a Director, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Laws as the same exists or may hereafter be amended.

(b) Any repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a Director of the Corporation existing hereunder with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such repeal or modification.”

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EXHIBIT 4

BY-LAWS

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE

As existing on December 16, 2004

BY-LAWS OF WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

ARTICLE 1
Stockholders’ Meetings

     Section 1. Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held on the third Thursday in April each year at the principal office at the Company or at such other date, time or place as may be designated by resolution by the Board of Directors.

     Section 2. Special Meetings. Special meetings of stockholders may be called at any time by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

     Section 3. Notice. Notice of all meetings of the stockholders shall be given by mailing to each stockholder at least ten (10) days before said meeting, at his last known address, a written or printed notice fixing the time and place of such meeting.

     Section 4. Quorum. A majority in the amount of the capital stock of the Company issued and outstanding on the record date, as herein determined, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of stockholders for the transaction of any business, but the holders of a smaller number of shares may adjourn from time to time, without further notice, until a quorum is secured. At each annual or special meeting of stockholders, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote, either in person or by proxy, for each share of stock registered in the stockholder’s name on the books of the Company on the record date for any such meeting as determined herein.

ARTICLE 2
Directors

     Section 1. Management. The affairs and business of the Company shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.

     Section 2. Number. The authorized number of directors that shall constitute the Board of Directors shall be fixed from time to time by or pursuant to a resolution passed by a majority of the Board of Directors within the parameters set by the Charter of the Company. No more than two directors may also be employees of the Company or any affiliate thereof.

     Section 3. Qualification. In addition to any other provisions of these Bylaws, to be qualified for nomination for election or appointment to the Board of Directors, a person must have not attained the age of sixty-nine years at the time of such election or appointment, provided however, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee may waive such qualification as to a particular candidate otherwise qualified to serve as a director upon a good faith determination by such committee that such a waiver is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. The Chairman of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer shall not be qualified to continue to serve as directors upon the termination of their service in those offices for any reason.

     Section 4. Meetings. The Board of Directors shall meet at the principal office of the Company or elsewhere in its discretion at such times to be determined by a majority of its members, or at the call of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

     Section 5. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, and shall be called upon the written request of a majority of the directors.

     Section 6. Quorum. A majority of the directors elected and qualified shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board of Directors.

     Section 7. Notice. Written notice shall be sent by mail to each director of any special meeting of the Board of Directors, and of any change in the time or place of any regular meeting, stating the time and place of such meeting, which shall be mailed not less than two days before the time of holding such meeting.

     Section 8. Vacancies. In the event of the death, resignation, removal, inability to act or disqualification of any director, the Board of Directors, although less than a quorum, shall have the right to elect the successor who shall hold office for the remainder of the full term of the class of directors in which the vacancy occurred, and until such director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified.

     Section 9. Organization Meeting. The Board of Directors at its first meeting after its election by the stockholders shall appoint an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and shall elect from its own members a Chairman of the Board, a Chief Executive Officer and a President, who may be the same person. The Board of Directors shall also elect at such meeting a Secretary and a Chief Financial Officer, who may be the same person, and may appoint at any time such committees as it may deem advisable. The Board of Directors may also elect at such meeting one or more Associate Directors. The Board of Directors, or a committee designated by the Board of Directors may elect or appoint such other officers as they may deem advisable.

     Section 10. Removal. The Board of Directors may at any time remove, with or without cause, any member of any committee appointed by it or any associate director or officer elected by it and may appoint or elect his successor.

     Section 11. Responsibility of Officers. The Board of Directors may designate an officer to be in charge of such departments or divisions of the Company as it may deem advisable.

     Section 12. Participation in Meetings. The Board of Directors or any committee of the Board of Directors may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or such committee, as the case may be, by conference telephone, video facilities or other communications equipment. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all of the members of the Board of Directors or the committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of the Board of Directors or such committee.

ARTICLE 3
Committees of the Board of Directors

     Section 1. Audit Committee.

          (A) The Audit Committee shall be composed of not more than five (5) members, who shall be selected by the Board of Directors from its own members, none of whom shall be an officer or employee of the Company, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Board.

          (B) The Audit Committee shall have general supervision over the Audit Services Division in all matters however subject to the approval of the Board of Directors; it shall consider all matters brought to its attention by the officer in charge of the Audit Services Division, review all reports of examination of the Company made by any governmental agency or such independent auditor employed for that purpose, and make such recommendations to the Board of Directors with respect thereto or with respect to any other matters pertaining to auditing the Company as it shall deem desirable.

          (C) The Audit Committee shall meet whenever and wherever its Chairperson, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a majority of the Committee’s members shall deem it to be proper for the transaction of its business. A majority of the Committee’s members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The acts of the majority at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall constitute action by the Committee.

     Section 2. Compensation Committee.

          (A) The Compensation Committee shall be composed of not more than five (5) members, who shall be selected by the Board of Directors from its own members, none of whom shall be an officer or employee of the Company, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Board of Directors.

          (B) The Compensation Committee shall in general advise upon all matters of policy concerning compensation, including salaries and employee benefits.

          (C) The Compensation Committee shall meet whenever and wherever its Chairperson, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a majority of the Committee’s members shall deem it to be proper for the transaction of its business. A majority of the Committee’s members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The acts of the majority at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall constitute action by the Committee.

     Section 3. Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

          (A) The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee shall be composed of not more than five members, who shall be selected by the Board of Directors from its own members, none of whom shall be an officer or employee of the Company, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Board of Directors.

          (B) The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee shall provide counsel and make recommendations to the Chairman of the Board and the full Board with respect to the performance of the Chairman

of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer, candidates for membership on the Board of Directors and its committees, matters of corporate governance, succession planning for the Company’s executive management and significant shareholder relations issues.

          (C) The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee shall meet whenever and wherever its Chairperson, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or a majority of the Committee’s members shall deem it to be proper for the transaction of its business. A majority of the Committee’s members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The acts of the majority at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall constitute action by the Committee.

     Section 4. Other Committees. The Company may have such other committees with such powers as the Board may designate from time to time by resolution or by an amendment to these Bylaws.

     Section 5. Associate Directors.

          (A) Any person who has served as a director may be elected by the Board of Directors as an associate director, to serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors.

          (B) Associate directors shall be entitled to attend all meetings of directors and participate in the discussion of all matters brought to the Board of Directors, but will not have a right to vote.

     Section 6. Absence or Disqualification of Any Member of a Committee. In the absence or disqualification of any member of any committee created under Article III of these Bylaws, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.

ARTICLE 4
Officers

     Section 1. Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and shall have such further authority and powers and shall perform such duties the Board of Directors may assign to him from time to time.

     Section 2. Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer shall have the powers and duties pertaining to the office of Chief Executive Officer conferred or imposed upon him by statute, incident to his office or as the Board of Directors may assign to him from time to time. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer shall have the powers and duties of the Chairman of the Board.

     Section 3. President. The President shall have the powers and duties pertaining to the office of the President conferred or imposed upon him by statute, incident to his office or as the Board of Directors may assign to him from time to time. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer, the President shall have the powers and duties of the Chairman of the Board.

     Section 4. Duties. The Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, as designated by the Board of Directors, shall carry into effect all legal directions of

the Board of Directors and shall at all times exercise general supervision over the interest, affairs and operations of the Company and perform all duties incident to his office.

     Section 5. Vice Presidents. There may be one or more Vice Presidents, however denominated by the Board of Directors, who may at any time perform all of the duties of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and/or the President and such other powers and duties incident to their respective offices or as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President or the officer in charge of the department or division to which they are assigned may assign to them from time to time.

     Section 6. Secretary. The Secretary shall attend to the giving of notice of meetings of the stockholders and the Board of Directors, as well as the committees thereof, to the keeping of accurate minutes of all such meetings, recording the same in the minute books of the Company and in general notifying the Board of Directors of material matters affecting the Company on a timely basis. In addition to the other notice requirements of these Bylaws and as may be practicable under the circumstances, all such notices shall be in writing and mailed well in advance of the scheduled date of any such meeting. He shall have custody of the corporate seal, affix the same to any documents requiring such corporate seal, attest the same and perform other duties incident to his office.

     Section 7. Chief Financial Officer. The Chief Financial Officer shall have general supervision over all assets and liabilities of the Company. He shall be custodian of and responsible for all monies, funds and valuables of the Company and for the keeping of proper records of the evidence of property or indebtedness and of all transactions of the Company. He shall have general supervision of the expenditures of the Company and periodically shall report to the Board of Directors the condition of the Company, and perform such other duties incident to his office or as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may assign to him from time to time.

     Section 8. Controller. There may be a Controller who shall exercise general supervision over the internal operations of the Company, including accounting, and shall render to the Board of Directors or the Audit Committee at appropriate times a report relating to the general condition and internal operations of the Company and perform other duties incident to his office.

     There may be one or more subordinate accounting or controller officers however denominated, who may perform the duties of the Controller and such duties as may be prescribed by the Controller.

     Section 9. Audit Officers. The officer designated by the Board of Directors to be in charge of the Audit Services Division of the Company, with such title as the Board of Directors shall prescribe, shall report to and be directly responsible to the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors.

     There shall be an Auditor and there may be one or more Audit Officers, however denominated, who may perform all the duties of the Auditor and such duties as may be prescribed by the officer in charge of the Audit Services Division.

     Section 10. Other Officers. There may be one or more officers, subordinate in rank to all Vice Presidents with such functional titles as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors, who shall ex officio hold the office of Assistant Secretary of the Company and who may perform such duties as may be prescribed by the officer in charge of the department or division to which they are assigned.

     Section 11. Powers and Duties of Other Officers. The powers and duties of all other officers of the Company shall be those usually pertaining to their respective offices, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President and the officer in charge of the department or division to which they are assigned.

     Section 12. Number of Offices. Any one or more offices of the Company may be held by the same person, except that (A) no individual may hold more than one of the offices of Chief Financial Officer, Controller or Audit Officer and (B) none of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may hold any office mentioned in Section 12(A).

ARTICLE 5
Stock and Stock Certificates

     Section 1. Transfer. Shares of stock shall be transferable on the books of the Company and a transfer book shall be kept in which all transfers of stock shall be recorded.

     Section 2. Certificates. Every holder of stock shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by or in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, certifying the number of shares owned by him in the Company. The corporate seal affixed thereto, and any of or all the signatures on the certificate, may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Company with the same effect as if he were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue. Duplicate certificates of stock shall be issued only upon giving such security as may be satisfactory to the Board of Directors.

     Section 3. Record Date. The Board of Directors is authorized to fix in advance a record date for the determination of the stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, any meeting of stockholders and any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or to any allotment of rights, or to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of capital stock, or in connection with obtaining the consent of stockholders for any purpose, which record date shall not be more than 60 nor less than 10 days preceding the date of any meeting of stockholders or the date for the payment of any dividend, or the date for the allotment of rights, or the date when any change or conversion or exchange of capital stock shall go into effect, or a date in connection with obtaining such consent.

ARTICLE 6
Seal

     The corporate seal of the Company shall be in the following form:

Between two concentric circles the words “Wilmington Trust Company” within the inner circle the words “Wilmington, Delaware.”

ARTICLE 7
Fiscal Year

The fiscal year of the Company shall be the calendar year.

ARTICLE 8
Execution of Instruments of the Company

     The Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Vice President, however denominated by the Board of Directors, shall have full power and authority to enter into, make, sign, execute, acknowledge and/or deliver and the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary shall have full power and authority to attest and affix the corporate seal of the Company to any and all deeds, conveyances, assignments, releases, contracts, agreements, bonds, notes, mortgages and all other instruments incident to the business of this Company or in acting as executor, administrator, guardian, trustee, agent or in any other fiduciary or representative capacity by any and every method of appointment or by whatever person, corporation, court officer or authority in the State of Delaware, or elsewhere, without any specific authority, ratification, approval or confirmation by the Board of Directors, and any and all such instruments shall have the same force and validity as though expressly authorized by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE 9
Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees

     Directors and associate directors of the Company, other than salaried officers of the Company, shall be paid such reasonable honoraria or fees for attending meetings of the Board of Directors as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine. Directors and associate directors who serve as members of committees, other than salaried employees of the Company, shall be paid such reasonable honoraria or fees for services as members of committees as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine and directors and associate directors may be authorized by the Company to perform such special services as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine in accordance with any guidelines the Board of Directors may adopt for such services, and shall be paid for such special services so performed reasonable compensation as may be determined by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE 10

Indemnification

     Section 1. Persons Covered. The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any person who was or is made or is threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “proceeding”) by reason of the fact that he, or a person for whom he is the legal representative, is or was a director or associate director of the Company, a member of an advisory board the Board of Directors of the Company or any of its subsidiaries may appoint from time to time or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, enterprise or non-profit entity that is not a subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses reasonably incurred by such person. The Company shall be required to indemnify such a person in connection with a proceeding initiated by such person only if the proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors.

     The Company may indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any person who was or is made or threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any proceeding by reason of the fact that he, or a person for whom he is the legal representative, is or was an officer, employee or agent of the Company or a director, officer, employee or agent of a subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses reasonably incurred by such person. The Company may indemnify any such person in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors.

     Section 2. Advance of Expenses. The Company shall pay the expenses incurred in defending any proceeding involving a person who is or may be indemnified pursuant to Section 1 in advance of its final disposition, provided, however, that the payment of expenses incurred by such a person in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by that person to repay all amounts advanced if it should be ultimately determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article 10 or otherwise.

     Section 3. Certain Rights. If a claim under this Article 10 for (A) payment of expenses or (B) indemnification by a director, associate director, member of an advisory board the Board of Directors of the Company or any of its subsidiaries may appoint from time to time or a person who is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity that is not a subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, is not paid in full within sixty days after a written claim therefor has been received by the Company, the claimant may file suit to recover the unpaid amount of such claim and, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such claim. In any such action, the Company shall have the burden of proving that the claimant was not entitled to the requested indemnification or payment of expenses under applicable law.

     Section 4. Non-Exclusive. The rights conferred on any person by this Article 10 shall not be exclusive of any other rights which such person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Charter or Act of Incorporation, these Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

     Section 5. Reduction of Amount. The Company’s obligation, if any, to indemnify any person who was or is serving at its request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity shall be reduced by any amount such person may collect as indemnification from such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity.

     Section 6. Effect of Modification. Any amendment, repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of this Article 10 shall not adversely affect any right or protection hereunder of any person in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such amendment, repeal or modification.

ARTICLE 11
Amendments to the Bylaws

     These Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed, in whole or in part, and any new Bylaw or Bylaws adopted at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by a vote of a majority of all the members of the Board of Directors then in office.

ARTICLE 12
Miscellaneous

     Whenever used in these Bylaws, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular unless the context requires otherwise and the use of either gender shall include both genders.

EXHIBIT 6

Section 321(b) Consent

     Pursuant to Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, Wilmington Trust Company hereby consents that reports of examinations by Federal, State, Territorial or District authorities may be furnished by such authorities to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request therefor.

	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Dated: March 10, 2006	By:	/s/ Patricia A. Evans
	Name:	Patricia A. Evans
	Title:	Vice President

EXHIBIT 7

NOTICE

     This form is intended to assist state nonmember banks and savings banks with state publication requirements. It has not been approved by any state banking authorities. Refer to your appropriate state banking authorities for your state publication requirements.

R E P O R T  O F  C O N D I T I O N

Consolidating domestic subsidiaries of the

     WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY of WILMINGTON

               Name of Bank                                                       City

in the State of DELAWARE , at the close of business on December 31, 2005.

	Thousands of dollars
ASSETS
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coins		242,974
Interest-bearing balances		0
Held-to-maturity securities		2,263
Available-for-sale securities		1,544,051
Federal funds sold in domestic offices		310,739
Securities purchased under agreements to resell		14,128
Loans and lease financing receivables:
Loans and leases held for sale	0
Loans and leases, net of unearned income	6,799,976
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses	82,655
Loans and leases, net of unearned income, allowance, and reserve		6,717,321
Assets held in trading accounts		0
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)		135,853
Other real estate owned		199
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies		2,545
Customers’ liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding		0
Intangible assets:
a. Goodwill		1,923
b. Other intangible assets		6,600
Other assets		207,442
Total assets		9,186,038

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	Thousands of dollars
LIABILITIES
Deposits:
In domestic offices		7,081,644
Noninterest-bearing	988,301
Interest-bearing	6,093,343
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices		454,938
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase		364,013
Trading liabilities (from Schedule RC-D)		0
Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases:		396,467
Bank’s liability on acceptances executed and outstanding		0
Subordinated notes and debentures		0
Other liabilities (from Schedule RC-G)		125,938
Total liabilities		8,423,000
EQUITY CAPITAL
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus		0
Common Stock		500
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)		112,358
a. Retained earnings		668,545
b. Accumulated other comprehensive income		(18,365	)
Total equity capital		763,038
Total liabilities, limited-life preferred stock, and equity capital		9,186,038

EX-25.5

Exhibit 25.5

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM T-1

STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY
UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
OF A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

Check if an Application to Determine Eligibility of a Trustee Pursuant to Section 305(b)(2) ___

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

(Exact name of Trustee as specified in its charter)

Delaware	51-0055023
(Jurisdiction of incorporation of organization if not a U.S.	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
national bank)

1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
(302) 651-1000
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Cynthia L. Corliss
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
Wilmington Trust Company
1100 North Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware 19890-0001
(302) 651-8516
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent of service)

U.S. Bancorp
(Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction or incorporation or organization) 41-025590
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

800 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Guarantee

(Title of the indenture securities)

ITEM 1. GENERAL INFORMATION.

Furnish the following information as to the trustee:

(a)Name and address of each examining or supervising authority to which it is subject.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.	State Bank Commissioner
20 Exchange Place, Room 6014	555 East Loockerman Street, Suite 210
New York, New York 10005	Dover, Delaware 19901

(b) Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

The trustee is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

ITEM 2. AFFILIATIONS WITH THE OBLIGOR.

If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each affiliation:

Based upon an examination of the books and records of the trustee and information available to the trustee, the obligor is not an affiliate of the trustee.

ITEM 16. LIST OF EXHIBITS.

List below all exhibits filed as part of this Statement of Eligibility and Qualification.

• A copy of the Charter of Wilmington Trust Company (Exhibit 1), which includes the certificate of authority of Wilmington Trust Company to commence business (Exhibit 2) and the authorization of Wilmington Trust Company to exercise corporate trust powers (Exhibit 3).

• A copy of the existing By-Laws of Wilmington Trust Company (Exhibit 4).

• Consent of Wilmington Trust Company required by Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act (Exhibit 6).

• A copy of the latest Report of Condition of Wilmington Trust Company (Exhibit 7).

Pursuant to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, the trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Delaware, has duly caused this Statement of Eligibility to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, all in the City of Wilmington and State of Delaware on the 10^th day of March, 2006.

[SEAL]		WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Attest:	/s/ Christopher J. Monigle	By:	/s/ Patricia A. Evans
	Assistant Secretary	Name: Patricia A. Evans
		Title:   Vice President

EXHIBIT 1

AMENDED CHARTER

Wilmington Trust Company

Wilmington, Delaware

As existing on May 9, 1987

Amended Charter
or
Act of Incorporation
of
Wilmington Trust Company

     Wilmington Trust Company, originally incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Delaware, entitled “An Act to Incorporate the Delaware Guarantee and Trust Company”, approved March 2, A.D. 1901, and the name of which company was changed to “Wilmington Trust Company” by an amendment filed in the Office of the Secretary of State on March 18, A.D. 1903, and the Charter or Act of Incorporation of which company has been from time to time amended and changed by merger agreements pursuant to the corporation law for state banks and trust companies of the State of Delaware, does hereby alter and amend its Charter or Act of Incorporation so that the same as so altered and amended shall in its entirety read as follows:

First: — The name of this corporation is Wilmington Trust Company.

Second: — The location of its principal office in the State of Delaware is at Rodney Square North, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle; the name of its resident agent is Wilmington Trust Company whose address is Rodney Square North, in said City. In addition to such principal office, the said corporation maintains and operates branch offices in the City of Newark, New Castle County, Delaware, the Town of Newport, New Castle County, Delaware, at Claymont, New Castle County, Delaware, at Greenville, New Castle County Delaware, and at Milford Cross Roads, New Castle County, Delaware, and shall be empowered to open, maintain and operate branch offices at Ninth and Shipley Streets, 418 Delaware Avenue, 2120 Market Street, and 3605 Market Street, all in the City of Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, and such other branch offices or places of business as may be authorized from time to time by the agency or agencies of the government of the State of Delaware empowered to confer such authority.

Third: — (a) The nature of the business and the objects and purposes proposed to be transacted, promoted or carried on by this Corporation are to do any or all of the things herein mentioned as fully and to the same extent as natural persons might or could do and in any part of the world, viz.:

(1) To sue and be sued, complain and defend in any Court of law or equity and to make and use a common seal, and alter the seal at pleasure, to hold, purchase, convey, mortgage or otherwise deal in real and personal estate and property, and to appoint such officers and agents as the business of the Corporation shall require, to make by-laws not inconsistent with the Constitution or laws of the United States or of this State, to discount bills, notes or other evidences of debt, to receive deposits of money, or securities for money, to buy gold and silver bullion and foreign coins, to buy and sell bills of exchange, and generally to use, exercise and enjoy all the powers, rights, privileges and franchises incident to a corporation which are proper or necessary for the transaction of the business of the Corporation hereby created.

(2) To insure titles to real and personal property, or any estate or interests therein, and to guarantee the holder of such property, real or personal, against any claim or claims, adverse to his interest therein, and to prepare and give certificates of title for any lands or premises in the State of Delaware, or elsewhere.

(3) To act as factor, agent, broker or attorney in the receipt, collection, custody, investment and management of funds, and the purchase, sale, management and disposal of property of all descriptions, and to prepare and execute all papers which may be necessary or proper in such business.

(4) To prepare and draw agreements, contracts, deeds, leases, conveyances, mortgages, bonds

and legal papers of every description, and to carry on the business of conveyancing in all its branches.

(5) To receive upon deposit for safekeeping money, jewelry, plate, deeds, bonds and any and all other personal property of every sort and kind, from executors, administrators, guardians, public officers, courts, receivers, assignees, trustees, and from all fiduciaries, and from all other persons and individuals, and from all corporations whether state, municipal, corporate or private, and to rent boxes, safes, vaults and other receptacles for such property.

(6) To act as agent or otherwise for the purpose of registering, issuing, certificating, countersigning, transferring or underwriting the stock, bonds or other obligations of any corporation, association, state or municipality, and may receive and manage any sinking fund therefor on such terms as may be agreed upon between the two parties, and in like manner may act as Treasurer of any corporation or municipality.

(7) To act as Trustee under any deed of trust, mortgage, bond or other instrument issued by any state, municipality, body politic, corporation, association or person, either alone or in conjunction with any other person or persons, corporation or corporations.

(8) To guarantee the validity, performance or effect of any contract or agreement, and the fidelity of persons holding places of responsibility or trust; to become surety for any person, or persons, for the faithful performance of any trust, office, duty, contract or agreement, either by itself or in conjunction with any other person, or persons, corporation, or corporations, or in like manner become surety upon any bond, recognizance, obligation, judgment, suit, order, or decree to be entered in any court of record within the State of Delaware or elsewhere, or which may now or hereafter be required by any law, judge, officer or court in the State of Delaware or elsewhere.

(9) To act by any and every method of appointment as trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee, assignee in bankruptcy, executor, administrator, guardian, bailee, or in any other trust capacity in the receiving, holding, managing, and disposing of any and all estates and property, real, personal or mixed, and to be appointed as such trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee, assignee in bankruptcy, executor, administrator, guardian or bailee by any persons, corporations, court, officer, or authority, in the State of Delaware or elsewhere; and whenever this Corporation is so appointed by any person, corporation, court, officer or authority such trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee, assignee in bankruptcy, executor, administrator, guardian, bailee, or in any other trust capacity, it shall not be required to give bond with surety, but its capital stock shall be taken and held as security for the performance of the duties devolving upon it by such appointment.

(10) And for its care, management and trouble, and the exercise of any of its powers hereby given, or for the performance of any of the duties which it may undertake or be called upon to perform, or for the assumption of any responsibility the said Corporation may be entitled to receive a proper compensation.

(11) To purchase, receive, hold and own bonds, mortgages, debentures, shares of capital stock, and other securities, obligations, contracts and evidences of indebtedness, of any private, public or municipal corporation within and without the State of Delaware, or of the Government of the United States, or of any state, territory, colony, or possession thereof, or of any foreign government or country; to receive, collect, receipt for, and dispose of interest, dividends and income upon and from any of the bonds, mortgages, debentures, notes, shares of capital stock, securities, obligations, contracts, evidences of indebtedness and other property held and owned by it, and to exercise in respect of all such bonds, mortgages, debentures, notes, shares of capital

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stock, securities, obligations, contracts, evidences of indebtedness and other property, any and all the rights, powers and privileges of individual owners thereof, including the right to vote thereon; to invest and deal in and with any of the moneys of the Corporation upon such securities and in such manner as it may think fit and proper, and from time to time to vary or realize such investments; to issue bonds and secure the same by pledges or deeds of trust or mortgages of or upon the whole or any part of the property held or owned by the Corporation, and to sell and pledge such bonds, as and when the Board of Directors shall determine, and in the promotion of its said corporate business of investment and to the extent authorized by law, to lease, purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey real and personal property of any name and nature and any estate or interest therein.

(b) In furtherance of, and not in limitation, of the powers conferred by the laws of the State of Delaware, it is hereby expressly provided that the said Corporation shall also have the following powers:

(1) To do any or all of the things herein set forth, to the same extent as natural persons might or could do, and in any part of the world.

(2) To acquire the good will, rights, property and franchises and to undertake the whole or any part of the assets and liabilities of any person, firm, association or corporation, and to pay for the same in cash, stock of this Corporation, bonds or otherwise; to hold or in any manner to dispose of the whole or any part of the property so purchased; to conduct in any lawful manner the whole or any part of any business so acquired, and to exercise all the powers necessary or convenient in and about the conduct and management of such business.

(3) To take, hold, own, deal in, mortgage or otherwise lien, and to lease, sell, exchange, transfer, or in any manner whatever dispose of property, real, personal or mixed, wherever situated.

(4) To enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts of every kind with any person, firm, association or corporation, and, without limit as to amount, to draw, make, accept, endorse, discount, execute and issue promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures, and other negotiable or transferable instruments.

(5) To have one or more offices, to carry on all or any of its operations and businesses, without restriction to the same extent as natural persons might or could do, to purchase or otherwise acquire, to hold, own, to mortgage, sell, convey or otherwise dispose of, real and personal property, of every class and description, in any State, District, Territory or Colony of the United States, and in any foreign country or place.

(6) It is the intention that the objects, purposes and powers specified and clauses contained in this paragraph shall (except where otherwise expressed in said paragraph) be nowise limited or restricted by reference to or inference from the terms of any other clause of this or any other paragraph in this charter, but that the objects, purposes and powers specified in each of the clauses of this paragraph shall be regarded as independent objects, purposes and powers.

Fourth: — (a) The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is forty-one million (41,000,000) shares, consisting of:

(1) One million (1,000,000) shares of Preferred stock, par value $10.00 per share (hereinafter referred to as “Preferred Stock”); and

(2) Forty million (40,000,000) shares of Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share (hereinafter referred to as “Common Stock”).

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(b) Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series as may from time to time be determined by the Board of Directors each of said series to be distinctly designated. All shares of any one series of Preferred Stock shall be alike in every particular, except that there may be different dates from which dividends, if any, thereon shall be cumulative, if made cumulative. The voting powers and the preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of each such series, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, if any, may differ from those of any and all other series at any time outstanding; and, subject to the provisions of subparagraph 1 of Paragraph (c) of this Article Fourth, the Board of Directors of the Corporation is hereby expressly granted authority to fix by resolution or resolutions adopted prior to the issuance of any shares of a particular series of Preferred Stock, the voting powers and the designations, preferences and relative, optional and other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions of such series, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following:

(1) The distinctive designation of, and the number of shares of Preferred Stock which shall constitute such series, which number may be increased (except where otherwise provided by the Board of Directors) or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) from time to time by like action of the Board of Directors;

(2) The rate and times at which, and the terms and conditions on which, dividends, if any, on Preferred Stock of such series shall be paid, the extent of the preference or relation, if any, of such dividends to the dividends payable on any other class or classes, or series of the same or other class of stock and whether such dividends shall be cumulative or non-cumulative;

(3) The right, if any, of the holders of Preferred Stock of such series to convert the same into or exchange the same for, shares of any other class or classes or of any series of the same or any other class or classes of stock of the Corporation and the terms and conditions of such conversion or exchange;

(4) Whether or not Preferred Stock of such series shall be subject to redemption, and the redemption price or prices and the time or times at which, and the terms and conditions on which, Preferred Stock of such series may be redeemed.

(5) The rights, if any, of the holders of Preferred Stock of such series upon the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, merger, consolidation, distribution or sale of assets, dissolution or winding-up, of the Corporation.

(6) The terms of the sinking fund or redemption or purchase account, if any, to be provided for the Preferred Stock of such series; and

(7) The voting powers, if any, of the holders of such series of Preferred Stock which may, without limiting the generality of the foregoing include the right, voting as a series or by itself or together with other series of Preferred Stock or all series of Preferred Stock as a class, to elect one or more directors of the Corporation if there shall have been a default in the payment of dividends on any one or more series of Preferred Stock or under such circumstances and on such conditions as the Board of Directors may determine.

(c) (1) After the requirements with respect to preferential dividends on the Preferred Stock (fixed in accordance with the provisions of section (b) of this Article Fourth), if any, shall have been met and after the Corporation shall have complied with all the requirements, if any, with respect to the setting aside of sums as sinking funds or redemption or purchase accounts (fixed in accordance with the provisions of section (b) of this Article Fourth), and subject further to any conditions which may be fixed in accordance with the provisions of section (b) of this Article Fourth, then and not otherwise the holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive such dividends as may be declared from time to

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time by the Board of Directors.

(2) After distribution in full of the preferential amount, if any, (fixed in accordance with the provisions of section (b) of this Article Fourth), to be distributed to the holders of Preferred Stock in the event of voluntary or involuntary liquidation, distribution or sale of assets, dissolution or winding-up, of the Corporation, the holders of the Common Stock shall be entitled to receive all of the remaining assets of the Corporation, tangible and intangible, of whatever kind available for distribution to stockholders ratably in proportion to the number of shares of Common Stock held by them respectively.

(3) Except as may otherwise be required by law or by the provisions of such resolution or resolutions as may be adopted by the Board of Directors pursuant to section (b) of this Article Fourth, each holder of Common Stock shall have one vote in respect of each share of Common Stock held on all matters voted upon by the stockholders.

(d) No holder of any of the shares of any class or series of stock or of options, warrants or other rights to purchase shares of any class or series of stock or of other securities of the Corporation shall have any preemptive right to purchase or subscribe for any unissued stock of any class or series or any additional shares of any class or series to be issued by reason of any increase of the authorized capital stock of the Corporation of any class or series, or bonds, certificates of indebtedness, debentures or other securities convertible into or exchangeable for stock of the Corporation of any class or series, or carrying any right to purchase stock of any class or series, but any such unissued stock, additional authorized issue of shares of any class or series of stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for stock, or carrying any right to purchase stock, may be issued and disposed of pursuant to resolution of the Board of Directors to such persons, firms, corporations or associations, whether such holders or others, and upon such terms as may be deemed advisable by the Board of Directors in the exercise of its sole discretion.

(e) The relative powers, preferences and rights of each series of Preferred Stock in relation to the relative powers, preferences and rights of each other series of Preferred Stock shall, in each case, be as fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors in the resolution or resolutions adopted pursuant to authority granted in section (b) of this Article Fourth and the consent, by class or series vote or otherwise, of the holders of such of the series of Preferred Stock as are from time to time outstanding shall not be required for the issuance by the Board of Directors of any other series of Preferred Stock whether or not the powers, preferences and rights of such other series shall be fixed by the Board of Directors as senior to, or on a parity with, the powers, preferences and rights of such outstanding series, or any of them; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may provide in the resolution or resolutions as to any series of Preferred Stock adopted pursuant to section (b) of this Article Fourth that the consent of the holders of a majority (or such greater proportion as shall be therein fixed) of the outstanding shares of such series voting thereon shall be required for the issuance of any or all other series of Preferred Stock.

(f) Subject to the provisions of section (e), shares of any series of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time as the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall determine and on such terms and for such consideration as shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.

(g) Shares of Common Stock may be issued from time to time as the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall determine and on such terms and for such consideration as shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.

(h) The authorized amount of shares of Common Stock and of Preferred Stock may, without a class or series vote, be increased or decreased from time to time by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon.

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Fifth: — (a) The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be conducted and managed by a Board of Directors. The number of directors constituting the entire Board shall be not less than five nor more than twenty-five as fixed from time to time by vote of a majority of the whole Board, provided, however, that the number of directors shall not be reduced so as to shorten the term of any director at the time in office, and provided further, that the number of directors constituting the whole Board shall be twenty-four until otherwise fixed by a majority of the whole Board.

(b) The Board of Directors shall be divided into three classes, as nearly equal in number as the then total number of directors constituting the whole Board permits, with the term of office of one class expiring each year. At the annual meeting of stockholders in 1982, directors of the first class shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the next succeeding annual meeting, directors of the second class shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the second succeeding annual meeting and directors of the third class shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the third succeeding annual meeting. Any vacancies in the Board of Directors for any reason, and any newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the directors, may be filled by the Board of Directors, acting by a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, and any directors so chosen shall hold office until the next annual election of directors. At such election, the stockholders shall elect a successor to such director to hold office until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been chosen and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. No decrease in the number of directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Charter or Act of Incorporation or the By-Laws of the Corporation (and notwithstanding the fact that some lesser percentage may be specified by law, this Charter or Act of Incorporation or the By-Laws of the Corporation), any director or the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation may be removed at any time without cause, but only by the affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds or more of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (considered for this purpose as one class) cast at a meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose.

(d) Nominations for the election of directors may be made by the Board of Directors or by any stockholder entitled to vote for the election of directors. Such nominations shall be made by notice in writing, delivered or mailed by first class United States mail, postage prepaid, to the Secretary of the Corporation not less than 14 days nor more than 50 days prior to any meeting of the stockholders called for the election of directors; provided, however, that if less than 21 days’ notice of the meeting is given to stockholders, such written notice shall be delivered or mailed, as prescribed, to the Secretary of the Corporation not later than the close of the seventh day following the day on which notice of the meeting was mailed to stockholders. Notice of nominations which are proposed by the Board of Directors shall be given by the Chairman on behalf of the Board.

(e) Each notice under subsection (d) shall set forth (i) the name, age, business address and, if known, residence address of each nominee proposed in such notice, (ii) the principal occupation or employment of such nominee and (iii) the number of shares of stock of the Corporation which are beneficially owned by each such nominee.

(f) The Chairman of the meeting may, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a nomination was not made in accordance with the foregoing procedure, and if he should so determine, he shall so declare to the meeting and the defective nomination shall be disregarded.

(g) No action required to be taken or which may be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation may be taken without a meeting, and the power of stockholders to consent in writing, without a meeting, to the taking of any action is specifically denied.

Sixth: — The Directors shall choose such officers, agents and servants as may be provided in the By-

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Laws as they may from time to time find necessary or proper.

Seventh: — The Corporation hereby created is hereby given the same powers, rights and privileges as may be conferred upon corporations organized under the Act entitled “An Act Providing a General Corporation Law”, approved March 10, 1899, as from time to time amended.

Eighth: — This Act shall be deemed and taken to be a private Act.

Ninth: — This Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

Tenth: — The Board of Directors, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board, may designate any of their number to constitute an Executive Committee, which Committee, to the extent provided in said resolution, or in the By-Laws of the Company, shall have and may exercise all of the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and shall have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it.

Eleventh: — The private property of the stockholders shall not be liable for the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.

Twelfth: — The Corporation may transact business in any part of the world.

Thirteenth: — The Board of Directors of the Corporation is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation by a vote of the majority of the entire Board. The stockholders may make, alter or repeal any By-Law whether or not adopted by them, provided however, that any such additional By-Laws, alterations or repeal may be adopted only by the affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds or more of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (considered for this purpose as one class).

Fourteenth: — Meetings of the Directors may be held outside of the State of Delaware at such places as may be from time to time designated by the Board, and the Directors may keep the books of the Company outside of the State of Delaware at such places as may be from time to time designated by them.

Fifteenth: — (a) (1) In addition to any affirmative vote required by law, and except as otherwise expressly provided in sections (b) and (c) of this Article Fifteenth:

(A) any merger or consolidation of the Corporation or any Subsidiary (as hereinafter defined) with or into (i) any Interested Stockholder (as hereinafter defined) or (ii) any other corporation (whether or not itself an Interested Stockholder), which, after such merger or consolidation, would be an Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) of an Interested Stockholder, or

(B) any sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge, transfer or other disposition (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) to or with any Interested Stockholder or any Affiliate of any Interested Stockholder of any assets of the Corporation or any Subsidiary having an aggregate fair market value of $1,000,000 or more, or

(C) the issuance or transfer by the Corporation or any Subsidiary (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) of any securities of the Corporation or any Subsidiary to any Interested Stockholder or any Affiliate of any Interested Stockholder in exchange for cash, securities or other property (or a combination thereof) having an aggregate fair market value of $1,000,000 or more, or

(D) the adoption of any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation, or

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(E) any reclassification of securities (including any reverse stock split), or recapitalization of the Corporation, or any merger or consolidation of the Corporation with any of its Subsidiaries or any similar transaction (whether or not with or into or otherwise involving an Interested Stockholder) which has the effect, directly or indirectly, of increasing the proportionate share of the outstanding shares of any class of equity or convertible securities of the Corporation or any Subsidiary which is directly or indirectly owned by any Interested Stockholder, or any Affiliate of any Interested Stockholder,

shall require the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, considered for the purpose of this Article Fifteenth as one class (“Voting Shares”). Such affirmative vote shall be required notwithstanding the fact that no vote may be required, or that some lesser percentage may be specified, by law or in any agreement with any national securities exchange or otherwise.

(2) The term “business combination” as used in this Article Fifteenth shall mean any transaction which is referred to in any one or more of clauses (A) through (E) of paragraph 1 of the section (a).

(b) The provisions of section (a) of this Article Fifteenth shall not be applicable to any particular business combination and such business combination shall require only such affirmative vote as is required by law and any other provisions of the Charter or Act of Incorporation or By-Laws if such business combination has been approved by a majority of the whole Board.

(c) For the purposes of this Article Fifteenth:

(1) A “person” shall mean any individual, firm, corporation or other entity.

(2) “Interested Stockholder” shall mean, in respect of any business combination, any person (other than the Corporation or any Subsidiary) who or which as of the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote on such business combination, or immediately prior to the consummation of any such transaction:

(A) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 10% of the Voting Shares, or

(B) is an Affiliate of the Corporation and at any time within two years prior thereto was the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of not less than 10% of the then outstanding voting Shares, or

(C) is an assignee of or has otherwise succeeded in any share of capital stock of the Corporation which were at any time within two years prior thereto beneficially owned by any Interested Stockholder, and such assignment or succession shall have occurred in the course of a transaction or series of transactions not involving a public offering within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933.

(3) A person shall be the “beneficial owner” of any Voting Shares:

(A) which such person or any of its Affiliates and Associates (as hereafter defined) beneficially own, directly or indirectly, or

(B) which such person or any of its Affiliates or Associates has (i) the right to acquire (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), pursuant to any

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agreement, arrangement or understanding or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, warrants or options, or otherwise, or (ii) the right to vote pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, or

(C) which are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any other person with which such first mentioned person or any of its Affiliates or Associates has any agreement, arrangement or understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of any shares of capital stock of the Corporation.

(4) The outstanding Voting Shares shall include shares deemed owned through application of paragraph (3) above but shall not include any other Voting Shares which may be issuable pursuant to any agreement, or upon exercise of conversion rights, warrants or options or otherwise.

(5) “Affiliate” and “Associate” shall have the respective meanings given those terms in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as in effect on December 31, 1981.

(6) “Subsidiary” shall mean any corporation of which a majority of any class of equity security (as defined in Rule 3a11-1 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as in effect on December 31, 1981) is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation; provided, however, that for the purposes of the definition of Investment Stockholder set forth in paragraph (2) of this section (c), the term “Subsidiary” shall mean only a corporation of which a majority of each class of equity security is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation.

(d) majority of the directors shall have the power and duty to determine for the purposes of this Article Fifteenth on the basis of information known to them, (1) the number of Voting Shares beneficially owned by any person (2) whether a person is an Affiliate or Associate of another, (3) whether a person has an agreement, arrangement or understanding with another as to the matters referred to in paragraph (3) of section (c), or (4) whether the assets subject to any business combination or the consideration received for the issuance or transfer of securities by the Corporation, or any Subsidiary has an aggregate fair market value of $1,000,000 or more.

(e) Nothing contained in this Article Fifteenth shall be construed to relieve any Interested Stockholder from any fiduciary obligation imposed by law.

Sixteenth: Notwithstanding any other provision of this Charter or Act of Incorporation or the By-Laws of the Corporation (and in addition to any other vote that may be required by law, this Charter or Act of Incorporation by the By-Laws), the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (considered for this purpose as one class) shall be required to amend, alter or repeal any provision of Articles Fifth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth or Sixteenth of this Charter or Act of Incorporation.

Seventeenth: (a) a Director of this Corporation shall not be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a Director, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Laws as the same exists or may hereafter be amended.

(b) Any repeal or modification of the foregoing paragraph shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a Director of the Corporation existing hereunder with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such repeal or modification.”

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EXHIBIT 4

BY-LAWS

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE

As existing on December 16, 2004

BY-LAWS OF WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

ARTICLE 1
Stockholders’ Meetings

     Section 1. Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held on the third Thursday in April each year at the principal office at the Company or at such other date, time or place as may be designated by resolution by the Board of Directors.

     Section 2. Special Meetings. Special meetings of stockholders may be called at any time by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

     Section 3. Notice. Notice of all meetings of the stockholders shall be given by mailing to each stockholder at least ten (10) days before said meeting, at his last known address, a written or printed notice fixing the time and place of such meeting.

     Section 4. Quorum. A majority in the amount of the capital stock of the Company issued and outstanding on the record date, as herein determined, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of stockholders for the transaction of any business, but the holders of a smaller number of shares may adjourn from time to time, without further notice, until a quorum is secured. At each annual or special meeting of stockholders, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote, either in person or by proxy, for each share of stock registered in the stockholder’s name on the books of the Company on the record date for any such meeting as determined herein.

ARTICLE 2
Directors

     Section 1. Management. The affairs and business of the Company shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.

     Section 2. Number. The authorized number of directors that shall constitute the Board of Directors shall be fixed from time to time by or pursuant to a resolution passed by a majority of the Board of Directors within the parameters set by the Charter of the Company. No more than two directors may also be employees of the Company or any affiliate thereof.

     Section 3. Qualification. In addition to any other provisions of these Bylaws, to be qualified for nomination for election or appointment to the Board of Directors, a person must have not attained the age of sixty-nine years at the time of such election or appointment, provided however, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee may waive such qualification as to a particular candidate otherwise qualified to serve as a director upon a good faith determination by such committee that such a waiver is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. The Chairman of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer shall not be qualified to continue to serve as directors upon the termination of their service in those offices for any reason.

     Section 4. Meetings. The Board of Directors shall meet at the principal office of the Company or elsewhere in its discretion at such times to be determined by a majority of its members, or at the call of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or the President.

     Section 5. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, and shall be called upon the written request of a majority of the directors.

     Section 6. Quorum. A majority of the directors elected and qualified shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board of Directors.

     Section 7. Notice. Written notice shall be sent by mail to each director of any special meeting of the Board of Directors, and of any change in the time or place of any regular meeting, stating the time and place of such meeting, which shall be mailed not less than two days before the time of holding such meeting.

     Section 8. Vacancies. In the event of the death, resignation, removal, inability to act or disqualification of any director, the Board of Directors, although less than a quorum, shall have the right to elect the successor who shall hold office for the remainder of the full term of the class of directors in which the vacancy occurred, and until such director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified.

     Section 9. Organization Meeting. The Board of Directors at its first meeting after its election by the stockholders shall appoint an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and shall elect from its own members a Chairman of the Board, a Chief Executive Officer and a President, who may be the same person. The Board of Directors shall also elect at such meeting a Secretary and a Chief Financial Officer, who may be the same person, and may appoint at any time such committees as it may deem advisable. The Board of Directors may also elect at such meeting one or more Associate Directors. The Board of Directors, or a committee designated by the Board of Directors may elect or appoint such other officers as they may deem advisable.

     Section 10. Removal. The Board of Directors may at any time remove, with or without cause, any member of any committee appointed by it or any associate director or officer elected by it and may appoint or elect his successor.

     Section 11. Responsibility of Officers. The Board of Directors may designate an officer to be in charge of such departments or divisions of the Company as it may deem advisable.

     Section 12. Participation in Meetings. The Board of Directors or any committee of the Board of Directors may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or such committee, as the case may be, by conference telephone, video facilities or other communications equipment. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all of the members of the Board of Directors or the committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of the Board of Directors or such committee.

ARTICLE 3
Committees of the Board of Directors

     Section 1. Audit Committee.

          (A) The Audit Committee shall be composed of not more than five (5) members, who shall be selected by the Board of Directors from its own members, none of whom shall be an officer or employee of the Company, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Board.

          (B) The Audit Committee shall have general supervision over the Audit Services Division in all matters however subject to the approval of the Board of Directors; it shall consider all matters brought to its attention by the officer in charge of the Audit Services Division, review all reports of examination of the Company made by any governmental agency or such independent auditor employed for that purpose, and make such recommendations to the Board of Directors with respect thereto or with respect to any other matters pertaining to auditing the Company as it shall deem desirable.

          (C) The Audit Committee shall meet whenever and wherever its Chairperson, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a majority of the Committee’s members shall deem it to be proper for the transaction of its business. A majority of the Committee’s members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The acts of the majority at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall constitute action by the Committee.

     Section 2. Compensation Committee.

          (A) The Compensation Committee shall be composed of not more than five (5) members, who shall be selected by the Board of Directors from its own members, none of whom shall be an officer or employee of the Company, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Board of Directors.

          (B) The Compensation Committee shall in general advise upon all matters of policy concerning compensation, including salaries and employee benefits.

          (C) The Compensation Committee shall meet whenever and wherever its Chairperson, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a majority of the Committee’s members shall deem it to be proper for the transaction of its business. A majority of the Committee’s members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The acts of the majority at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall constitute action by the Committee.

     Section 3. Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

          (A) The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee shall be composed of not more than five members, who shall be selected by the Board of Directors from its own members, none of whom shall be an officer or employee of the Company, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Board of Directors.

          (B) The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee shall provide counsel and make recommendations to the Chairman of the Board and the full Board with respect to the performance of the Chairman

of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer, candidates for membership on the Board of Directors and its committees, matters of corporate governance, succession planning for the Company’s executive management and significant shareholder relations issues.

          (C) The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee shall meet whenever and wherever its Chairperson, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or a majority of the Committee’s members shall deem it to be proper for the transaction of its business. A majority of the Committee’s members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The acts of the majority at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall constitute action by the Committee.

     Section 4. Other Committees. The Company may have such other committees with such powers as the Board may designate from time to time by resolution or by an amendment to these Bylaws.

     Section 5. Associate Directors.

          (A) Any person who has served as a director may be elected by the Board of Directors as an associate director, to serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors.

          (B) Associate directors shall be entitled to attend all meetings of directors and participate in the discussion of all matters brought to the Board of Directors, but will not have a right to vote.

     Section 6. Absence or Disqualification of Any Member of a Committee. In the absence or disqualification of any member of any committee created under Article III of these Bylaws, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.

ARTICLE 4
Officers

     Section 1. Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and shall have such further authority and powers and shall perform such duties the Board of Directors may assign to him from time to time.

     Section 2. Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer shall have the powers and duties pertaining to the office of Chief Executive Officer conferred or imposed upon him by statute, incident to his office or as the Board of Directors may assign to him from time to time. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer shall have the powers and duties of the Chairman of the Board.

     Section 3. President. The President shall have the powers and duties pertaining to the office of the President conferred or imposed upon him by statute, incident to his office or as the Board of Directors may assign to him from time to time. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer, the President shall have the powers and duties of the Chairman of the Board.

     Section 4. Duties. The Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President, as designated by the Board of Directors, shall carry into effect all legal directions of

the Board of Directors and shall at all times exercise general supervision over the interest, affairs and operations of the Company and perform all duties incident to his office.

     Section 5. Vice Presidents. There may be one or more Vice Presidents, however denominated by the Board of Directors, who may at any time perform all of the duties of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and/or the President and such other powers and duties incident to their respective offices or as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President or the officer in charge of the department or division to which they are assigned may assign to them from time to time.

     Section 6. Secretary. The Secretary shall attend to the giving of notice of meetings of the stockholders and the Board of Directors, as well as the committees thereof, to the keeping of accurate minutes of all such meetings, recording the same in the minute books of the Company and in general notifying the Board of Directors of material matters affecting the Company on a timely basis. In addition to the other notice requirements of these Bylaws and as may be practicable under the circumstances, all such notices shall be in writing and mailed well in advance of the scheduled date of any such meeting. He shall have custody of the corporate seal, affix the same to any documents requiring such corporate seal, attest the same and perform other duties incident to his office.

     Section 7. Chief Financial Officer. The Chief Financial Officer shall have general supervision over all assets and liabilities of the Company. He shall be custodian of and responsible for all monies, funds and valuables of the Company and for the keeping of proper records of the evidence of property or indebtedness and of all transactions of the Company. He shall have general supervision of the expenditures of the Company and periodically shall report to the Board of Directors the condition of the Company, and perform such other duties incident to his office or as the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may assign to him from time to time.

     Section 8. Controller. There may be a Controller who shall exercise general supervision over the internal operations of the Company, including accounting, and shall render to the Board of Directors or the Audit Committee at appropriate times a report relating to the general condition and internal operations of the Company and perform other duties incident to his office.

     There may be one or more subordinate accounting or controller officers however denominated, who may perform the duties of the Controller and such duties as may be prescribed by the Controller.

     Section 9. Audit Officers. The officer designated by the Board of Directors to be in charge of the Audit Services Division of the Company, with such title as the Board of Directors shall prescribe, shall report to and be directly responsible to the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors.

     There shall be an Auditor and there may be one or more Audit Officers, however denominated, who may perform all the duties of the Auditor and such duties as may be prescribed by the officer in charge of the Audit Services Division.

     Section 10. Other Officers. There may be one or more officers, subordinate in rank to all Vice Presidents with such functional titles as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors, who shall ex officio hold the office of Assistant Secretary of the Company and who may perform such duties as may be prescribed by the officer in charge of the department or division to which they are assigned.

     Section 11. Powers and Duties of Other Officers. The powers and duties of all other officers of the Company shall be those usually pertaining to their respective offices, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President and the officer in charge of the department or division to which they are assigned.

     Section 12. Number of Offices. Any one or more offices of the Company may be held by the same person, except that (A) no individual may hold more than one of the offices of Chief Financial Officer, Controller or Audit Officer and (B) none of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President may hold any office mentioned in Section 12(A).

ARTICLE 5
Stock and Stock Certificates

     Section 1. Transfer. Shares of stock shall be transferable on the books of the Company and a transfer book shall be kept in which all transfers of stock shall be recorded.

     Section 2. Certificates. Every holder of stock shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by or in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or the President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company, certifying the number of shares owned by him in the Company. The corporate seal affixed thereto, and any of or all the signatures on the certificate, may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Company with the same effect as if he were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue. Duplicate certificates of stock shall be issued only upon giving such security as may be satisfactory to the Board of Directors.

     Section 3. Record Date. The Board of Directors is authorized to fix in advance a record date for the determination of the stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, any meeting of stockholders and any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or to any allotment of rights, or to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of capital stock, or in connection with obtaining the consent of stockholders for any purpose, which record date shall not be more than 60 nor less than 10 days preceding the date of any meeting of stockholders or the date for the payment of any dividend, or the date for the allotment of rights, or the date when any change or conversion or exchange of capital stock shall go into effect, or a date in connection with obtaining such consent.

ARTICLE 6
Seal

     The corporate seal of the Company shall be in the following form:

Between two concentric circles the words “Wilmington Trust Company” within the inner circle the words “Wilmington, Delaware.”

ARTICLE 7
Fiscal Year

     The fiscal year of the Company shall be the calendar year.

ARTICLE 8
Execution of Instruments of the Company

     The Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Vice President, however denominated by the Board of Directors, shall have full power and authority to enter into, make, sign, execute, acknowledge and/or deliver and the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary shall have full power and authority to attest and affix the corporate seal of the Company to any and all deeds, conveyances, assignments, releases, contracts, agreements, bonds, notes, mortgages and all other instruments incident to the business of this Company or in acting as executor, administrator, guardian, trustee, agent or in any other fiduciary or representative capacity by any and every method of appointment or by whatever person, corporation, court officer or authority in the State of Delaware, or elsewhere, without any specific authority, ratification, approval or confirmation by the Board of Directors, and any and all such instruments shall have the same force and validity as though expressly authorized by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE 9
Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees

     Directors and associate directors of the Company, other than salaried officers of the Company, shall be paid such reasonable honoraria or fees for attending meetings of the Board of Directors as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine. Directors and associate directors who serve as members of committees, other than salaried employees of the Company, shall be paid such reasonable honoraria or fees for services as members of committees as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine and directors and associate directors may be authorized by the Company to perform such special services as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine in accordance with any guidelines the Board of Directors may adopt for such services, and shall be paid for such special services so performed reasonable compensation as may be determined by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE 10
Indemnification

     Section 1. Persons Covered. The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any person who was or is made or is threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “proceeding”) by reason of the fact that he, or a person for whom he is the legal representative, is or was a director or associate director of the Company, a member of an advisory board the Board of Directors of the Company or any of its subsidiaries may appoint from time to time or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, enterprise or non-profit entity that is not a subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses reasonably incurred by such person. The Company shall be required to indemnify such a person in connection with a proceeding initiated by such person only if the proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors.

     The Company may indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any person who was or is made or threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any proceeding by reason of the fact that he, or a person for whom he is the legal representative, is or was an officer, employee or agent of the Company or a director, officer, employee or agent of a subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses reasonably incurred by such person. The Company may indemnify any such person in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors.

     Section 2. Advance of Expenses. The Company shall pay the expenses incurred in defending any proceeding involving a person who is or may be indemnified pursuant to Section 1 in advance of its final disposition, provided, however, that the payment of expenses incurred by such a person in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by that person to repay all amounts advanced if it should be ultimately determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article 10 or otherwise.

     Section 3. Certain Rights. If a claim under this Article 10 for (A) payment of expenses or (B) indemnification by a director, associate director, member of an advisory board the Board of Directors of the Company or any of its subsidiaries may appoint from time to time or a person who is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity that is not a subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, is not paid in full within sixty days after a written claim therefor has been received by the Company, the claimant may file suit to recover the unpaid amount of such claim and, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such claim. In any such action, the Company shall have the burden of proving that the claimant was not entitled to the requested indemnification or payment of expenses under applicable law.

     Section 4. Non-Exclusive. The rights conferred on any person by this Article 10 shall not be exclusive of any other rights which such person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Charter or Act of Incorporation, these Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

     Section 5. Reduction of Amount. The Company’s obligation, if any, to indemnify any person who was or is serving at its request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity shall be reduced by any amount such person may collect as indemnification from such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity.

     Section 6. Effect of Modification. Any amendment, repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of this Article 10 shall not adversely affect any right or protection hereunder of any person in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such amendment, repeal or modification.

ARTICLE 11
Amendments to the Bylaws

     These Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed, in whole or in part, and any new Bylaw or Bylaws adopted at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors by a vote of a majority of all the members of the Board of Directors then in office.

ARTICLE 12
Miscellaneous

     Whenever used in these Bylaws, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular unless the context requires otherwise and the use of either gender shall include both genders.

EXHIBIT 6

Section 321(b) Consent

     Pursuant to Section 321(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, Wilmington Trust Company hereby consents that reports of examinations by Federal, State, Territorial or District authorities may be furnished by such authorities to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon request therefor.

	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Dated: March 10, 2006	By: Name:	/s/ Patricia A. Evans Patricia A. Evans
	Title:	Vice President

EXHIBIT 7

NOTICE

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R E P O R T  O F  C O N D I T I O N

Consolidating domestic subsidiaries of the

     WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY of WILMINGTON

               Name of Bank                                                       City

in the State of DELAWARE , at the close of business on December 31, 2005.

	Thousands of dollars
ASSETS
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coins		242,974
Interest-bearing balances		0
Held-to-maturity securities		2,263
Available-for-sale securities		1,544,051
Federal funds sold in domestic offices		310,739
Securities purchased under agreements to resell		14,128
Loans and lease financing receivables:
Loans and leases held for sale	0
Loans and leases, net of unearned income	6,799,976
LESS: Allowance for loan and lease losses	82,655
Loans and leases, net of unearned income, allowance, and reserve		6,717,321
Assets held in trading accounts		0
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)		135,853
Other real estate owned		199
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies		2,545
Customers’ liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding		0
Intangible assets:
a. Goodwill		1,923
b. Other intangible assets		6,600
Other assets		207,442
Total assets		9,186,038

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	Thousands of dollars
LIABILITIES
Deposits:
In domestic offices		7,081,644
Noninterest-bearing	988,301
Interest-bearing	6,093,343
Federal funds purchased in domestic offices		454,938
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase		364,013
Trading liabilities (from Schedule RC-D)		0
Other borrowed money (includes mortgage indebtedness and obligations under capitalized leases:		396,467
Bank’s liability on acceptances executed and outstanding		0
Subordinated notes and debentures		0
Other liabilities (from Schedule RC-G)		125,938
Total liabilities		8,423,000
EQUITY CAPITAL
Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus		0
Common Stock		500
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock)		112,358
a. Retained earnings		668,545
b. Accumulated other comprehensive income		(18,365	)
Total equity capital		763,038
Total liabilities, limited-life preferred stock, and equity capital		9,186,038