EXHIBIT 3(a)

                   RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                   OF AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC.

     American Water Works Company, Inc., a Corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby certifies as
follows:

A.  The name of the Corporation is American Water Works Company, Inc. The
Corporation was originally incorporated under the name American Communities
Company, and the original Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation
was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on August
28, 1936.

B.  Pursuant to Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware, this Restated Certificate of Incorporation restates and
integrates and further amends the provisions of the Certificate of
Incorporation of this Corporation.

C.  The text of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation as heretofore
amended or supplemented is hereby restated and further amended to read in
its entirety as follows:

     First. The name of the Corporation is

                    AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC.

     Second. The registered office the Corporation in the State of Delaware
is to be located at No. 1209 Orange Street, in the City of Wilmington,
County of New Castle; and the name and address of its registered agent is
The Corporation Trust Company, No. 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware
19801.

     Third. The nature of the business, or objects or purposes to be
transacted, promoted or carried on by the Corporation are as follows:

          1. To invest in, purchase, acquire, hold, pledge, hypothecate,
     exchange, sell, deal in, and dispose of, alone or in conjunction with
     others, stocks, bonds and other evidences of indebtedness and
     obligations, and evidences of any interest in respect thereof, of any
     other corporation or corporations, including particularly (without
     limitation of the generality of the foregoing) any corporation or
     corporations engaged in the collection, purification, supply and sale
     of water or controlling corporations so engaged, and while the owner
     or holder of any such, to exercise all the rights, powers and 
     privileges of ownership in respect thereof; to issue in exchange for
     any such stocks, bonds and other evidences of indebtedness and
     obligations, and evidences of any interest in respect thereof, the
     Corporation's own stocks, bonds or other obligations; to aid by loan,
     subsidy, guaranty, or otherwise and to cause to be formed, merged or
     reorganized or liquidated, those issuing or creating any such stocks,
     bonds or other evidences of indebtedness or obligations, or evidences
     of any interest in respect thereof, to the extent now or hereafter 
     permitted by law; to do and perform all such acts and things, to the
     extent now or hereafter permitted by law, as may be necessary or
     proper to protect, preserve, aid, enhance or improve the investment of
     the Corporation in any such stocks, bonds or other evidences of
     indebtedness or obligations, or evidences of any interest in respect
     thereof, or those issuing or creating the same; and generally to do
     all things incidental to such business.

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          2. To purchase, acquire, hold, operate, mortgage, pledge,
     hypothecate, exchange, sell, deal in and dispose of commodities and
     other personal property and real property, plants, buildings and 
     equipment of every kind, character and description whatsoever and 
     wheresoever situated, and any interest therein, and to render 
     services to, or act as agent for, any other person or corporation.

          3. To engage in any industrial, manufacturing, mercantile or
     trading business of any kind or character.

          4. To enter into, make, perform and carry out or cancel and
     rescind contracts or arrangements of any kind or character for any
     lawful purposes pertaining to its business with any person, entity,
     partnership, association, corporation or governmental, municipal or
     public authority, domestic or foreign.

          5. To acquire all or any part of the good will, rights, property
     and business of any person, entity, partnership, association or
     corporation heretofore or hereafter engaged in any business similar
     to any business which the Corporation is authorized to conduct, to 
     pay for the same in cash or in stock, bonds, or other obligations of
     the Corporation or otherwise, to hold, utilize and in any manner
     dispose of the whole or any part of the rights and property so
     acquired, and to assume in connection therewith any liabilities of 
     any such person, entity, partnership, association or corporation and 
     conduct in any lawful manner the whole or any part of the business
     thus acquired.

          6. To make any guaranty respecting stocks, dividends, securities,
     indebtedness, interest, contracts or other obligations for any lawful
     purposes pertaining to its business, to the extent permitted to be
     done by a corporation organized under the laws of the State of
     Delaware.

          7. To borrow or raise moneys for any of the purposes of the
     Corporation and from time to time  without limit as to amount, to
     draw, make, accept, endorse, execute and issue promissory notes,
     drafts, bills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures and other 
     negotiable or non-negotiable instruments and evidences of
     indebtedness, and to secure the payment thereof and of the interest
     thereon by mortgage on, or pledge, conveyance or assignment in trust
     of, the whole or any part of the assets of the Corporation, real,
     personal or mixed, including contract rights, whether at the time
     owned or thereafter acquired, and to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose
     of such securities or other obligations of the Corporation for its
     corporate purposes.

          8. To purchase, hold, sell, transfer, reissue or cancel the
     shares of its own capital stock and/or any securities or other
     obligations of the Corporation, in the manner and to the extent now or
     hereafter permitted by the laws of the State of Delaware; provided
     that shares of its own capital stock belonging to the Corporation
     shall not be voted upon directly or indirectly.

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          9. In general for any lawful purposes pertaining to its business,
     to have and exercise all the powers conferred by the laws of the State
     of Delaware upon corporations formed thereunder; and to do any and all
     of the acts and things herein set forth to the same extent as natural
     persons could do, and in any part of the world, as principal, factor,
     agent, contractor, trustee or otherwise, either alone or in company
     with others; to establish and maintain offices and agencies within,
     and anywhere outside of, the State of Delaware; and to exercise all or
     any of its corporate powers and rights in the State of Delaware and in
     any and all other states, territories, districts, colonies,
     possessions or dependencies of the United States of America and in any
     foreign countries.

         10. To do everything necessary, proper, advisable or convenient
     for the accomplishment of any of the purposes or the attainment of any
     of the objects or the furtherance of any of the powers herein set
     forth and to do every other act and thing incidental thereto or
     connected therewith, provided the same be not forbidden by the laws of
     the State of Delaware.

     The foregoing clauses shall be construed as powers as well as objects
and purposes, and the matters expressed in each clause shall, except as
otherwise expressly provided, be in no wise limited by reference to or
inference from the terms of any other clause; and the expression of one
thing shall not be deemed to exclude another not expressed, although it be
of like nature.

     The Corporation shall be authorized to exercise and enjoy all other
powers, rights and privileges granted by an Act of the General Assembly of
the State of Delaware entitled "An Act providing a General Corporation
Law," approved March 10, 1899, to corporations of this character and all
the powers conferred upon such corporations by the laws of the State of
Delaware, as in force from time to time, so far as not in conflict
herewith, or which may be conferred by all acts heretofore or hereafter
amendatory of or supplemental to said Act or said laws; provided, however,
that the Corporation shall not in any state, territory, district,
possession or country carry on any business, or exercise any powers, which
a corporation organized under the laws thereof could not carry on or
exercise.

     Fourth. The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the
Corporation shall have authority to issue shall be 80,704,400, of which (a)
1,954,400 shares shall be Cumulative Preferred Stock, of the par value of
$25 per share, issuable in series, (b) 750,000 shares shall be Cumulative
Preference Stock, of the par value of $25 per share, issuable in series,
(c) 3,000,000 shares shall be Cumulative Preferential Stock, of the par
value of $35 per share, issuable in series, and (d) 75,000,000 shares shall
be Common Stock, of the par value of $1.25 per share.

     The minimum amount of capital with which the Corporation will commence
business is $1,000.

     The designations and the voting powers, preferences and relative,
participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications,
limitations or restrictions thereof, of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, the
Cumulative Preference Stock and the Cumulative Preferential Stock, and of
certain series thereof, and of the Common Stock, which are fixed by this
Certificate of Incorporation, and the express grant of authority to the
Board of Directors of

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the Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the Board of Directors) to fix
by resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of other series of the
Cumulative Preferred Stock, the Cumulative Preference Stock and the
Cumulative Preferential Stock the designations and the voting powers,
preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights,
and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of such other
series which are not fixed by this Certificate of Incorporation, shall be
as follows:

                  DIVISION A - CUMULATIVE PREFERRED STOCK

1.  Issue in Series.

     The Cumulative Preferred Stock may be issued at any time or from time
to time in any amount, not exceeding in the aggregate (including all shares
of any and all series thereof theretofore issued) the total number of
shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock hereinabove authorized, as Cumulative
Preferred Stock of one or more series, as hereinafter provided. All shares
of any one series of Cumulative Preferred Stock shall be alike in every
particular, each series thereof shall be distinctly designated by letter or
descriptive words, and all series of Cumulative Preferred Stock shall rank
equally and be identical in all respects except as permitted by the
provisions of Section 2 of this Division A.

2.  Creation of Series.

     Authority is hereby expressly granted to and vested in the Board of
Directors at any time or from time to time to issue the Cumulative
Preferred Stock as Cumulative Preferred Stock of any series, and in
connection with the creation of each such series to fix by the resolution
or resolutions providing for the issue of shares thereof the voting powers,
designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other
special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of
such series, to the full extent now or hereafter permitted by the laws of
the State of Delaware, in respect of the matters set forth in the following
paragraphs (a) to (i), inclusive:

          (a) The distinctive designation of such series and the number of
     shares which shall constitute such series, which number may be
     increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof
     then outstanding) from time to time by action of the Board of
     Directors;

          (b) The dividend rate per annum of such series, and the date
     from which dividends on shares of such series shall be cumulative
     (hereinafter sometimes called the date of cumulation), which date of
     cumulation shall be identical for all shares of such series;

          (c) The price or prices at which, and the terms, times and
     conditions on which, the shares of such series may be redeemed at
     the option of the Corporation (hereinafter called the optional
     redemption price);

          (d) The amount or amounts payable upon the shares of such series
     in the event of voluntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of
     the Corporation; 

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          (e) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be entitled
     to the benefit of a sinking fund or a purchase fund to be applied to
     the purchase or redemption of shares of such series, and if so
     entitled, the amount of such fund and the manner of its application,
     including the price or prices at which the shares of such series may
     be redeemed or purchased through the application of such fund;

          (f) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be made
     convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or
     classes or of any other series of the same or any other class or
     classes of stock of the Corporation, and if made so convertible or
     exchangeable, the conversion price or prices, or the rates of
     exchange, and the adjustments thereof, if any, at which such
     conversion or exchange may be made, and any other terms and
     conditions of such conversion or exchange;

          (g) Whether or not the issue of any additional shares of such
     series, or any future series in addition to such series, shall be
     subject to restrictions in addition to the restrictions on the issue
     of future series imposed by paragraph (c) of Section 7 of this
     Division A or in the resolution or resolutions fixing the terms of
     any series of Cumulative Preferred Stock theretofore issued pursuant
     to this Article Fourth, and the terms of any such additional
     restrictions;

          (h) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be entitled
     to the benefit of limitations restricting the purchase of, the payment
     of dividends on, or the making of other distributions in respect of
     stock of any class of the Corporation ranking junior to the Cumulative
     Preferred Stock as to dividends or assets, and the terms of any such
     restrictions; and

          (i) With respect to any series of Cumulative Preferred Stock
     created after October 1, 1961, whether or not the shares of such
     series shall have the general power to vote in the election of
     directors and for all other purposes, and if such power shall be
     given, the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, but
     in no event shall the vote per share of such series be greater than
     the vote per share of the Common Stock.

     The three series of Cumulative Preferred Stock of the Corporation,
respectively designated as Cumulative Preferred Stock, 5 1/2% Series of
1961; Cumulative Preferred Stock, 5% Series; and Cumulative Preferred
Stock, 4.90% Series, heretofore created by resolutions of the Board of
Directors, shall have the voting powers, preferences and relative,
participating, optional or other special rights, and the qualifications,
limitations and restrictions thereof, which are applicable to the
Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series as set forth in this Article
Fourth, and shall also have the terms and provisions set forth in Sections
1 through 3, inclusive, of Division F of this Article Fourth which are
applicable to the respective series of such stock referred to therein,
being the same terms and provisions as were fixed in each case by
resolutions of the Board of Directors creating each of said series.

     The voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional
or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations and
restrictions thereof, applicable to the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all
series shall be as set forth in the following Sections 3 through 8,
inclusive, of this Division A and in Division D of this Article Fourth.


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3.  Dividends.

     (a) Out of the net profits or net assets of the Corporation legally
available therefor the holders of Cumulative Preferred Stock of each series
shall be entitled to receive, when and as declared by the Board of
Directors, dividends in cash at the rate per annum for such series fixed in
accordance with this Article Fourth, and no more, payable on the first days
of March, June, September and December in each year (the quarterly periods
ending on the first days of such months, respectively, being herein
designated as dividend periods), in each case from the date of cumulation
of such series, provided, that the initial dividend with respect to any
particular series shall be payable on such of said dates as shall be fixed
by the Board of Directors; and such dividends shall be cumulative (whether
or not in any dividend period or periods there shall be net profits or net
assets of the Corporation legally available for the payment of such
dividends), so that if at any time full cumulative dividends upon the
outstanding Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series to the end of the then
current dividend period shall not have been paid or declared and a sum
sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such payment, the amount
of the deficiency shall be fully paid, but without interest, or dividends
in such amount declared on each such series and a sum sufficient for the
payment thereof set apart for such payment, before any sum or sums shall be
set aside for or applied to the purchase, redemption or other acquisition
of Cumulative Preferred Stock of any series and before any dividend shall
be declared or paid upon or set apart for, or any other distribution shall
be ordered or made in respect of, the Junior Stock and before any shares of
Junior Stock shall be purchased, redeemed, or otherwise acquired by the
Corporation.

     (b) No dividends shall be declared or paid on any particular series of
the Cumulative Preferred Stock to the exclusion of any other series thereof
and all dividends declared on the Cumulative Preferred Stock of the
respective series outstanding shall be declared pro rata, so that the
amount of the dividend declared on any particular series of the Cumulative
Preferred Stock shall be in the proportion that the annual dividend
requirements of the shares of such series bear to the total annual dividend
requirements of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series at the time
outstanding.

     (c) The holders of the Junior Stock shall not be entitled to receive
any dividends until full cumulative dividends to the end of the then
current dividend period upon the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series
then outstanding shall have been paid or declared and a sum sufficient for
the payment thereof set apart for such payment and until the Corporation
shall have complied with the provisions of Section 5 of this Division A in
respect of any and all amounts then or theretofore required to be set aside
or applied in respect of any sinking fund or purchase fund referred to in
said Section 5.

     (d) In the event of the issue of additional shares of Cumulative
Preferred Stock of any then existing series, all dividends paid on the
shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock of such series prior to the date of
issue of such additional shares thereof, and all dividends declared and
payable to holders of record of shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock of
such series on any date prior to the date of issue of such additional
shares thereof, shall be deemed to have been paid on the additional shares
of Cumulative Preferred Stock of such series so issued. 


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4.  Preference on Liquidation, etc.

     In the event of any liquidation or dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation the holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of each series
shall be entitled to receive, out of the assets of the Corporation
available for distribution to its stockholders, before any distribution of
assets shall be made to the holders of the Junior Stock, (i) if such
liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall be involuntary, the sum of $25
per share plus full cumulative dividends thereon to the date of final
distribution to the holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, and (ii) 
if such liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall be voluntary, the
amount per share fixed in accordance with Divisions A and F of this 
Article Fourth plus full cumulative dividends thereon to the date of final
distribution to the holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock; and the
holders of the Junior Stock shall be entitled, to the exclusion of the
holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of any and all series, to share
in all the assets of the Corporation then remaining as hereinafter
provided. If upon any liquidation or dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation the net assets of the Corporation shall be insufficient to pay
the holders of all outstanding shares of the Cumulative Preferred Stock the
full amounts to which they respectively shall be entitled, the holders of
shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series shall share ratably in
any distribution of assets according to the respective amounts which would
be payable in respect of the shares held by them upon such distribution if
all amounts payable on or with respect to the Cumulative Preferred Stock of
all series were paid in full. Neither the merger nor consolidation of the
Corporation into or with any other corporation, nor the merger or
consolidation of any other corporation into or with the Corporation, nor a
sale, transfer or lease of all or any part of the assets of the
Corporation, shall be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up
of the Corporation.

5. Sinking and Purchase Fund.

     Out of any net profits or net assets of the Corporation legally
available therefor remaining after full cumulative dividends to the end of
the then current dividend period upon the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all
series then outstanding shall have been paid or declared and a sum
sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such payment, and before
any dividends shall be declared or paid upon or set apart for, or any other
distribution shall be ordered or made in respect of, the Junior Stock and
before any shares of Junior Stock shall be purchased, redeemed, or
otherwise acquired by the Corporation, the Corporation shall set aside, in
respect of each series of Cumulative Preferred Stock any shares of which
shall at the time be outstanding and in respect of which a sinking fund or
purchase fund for the purchase or redemption thereof has been provided in
accordance with Divisions A and F of this Article Fourth, the sum or sums
then or theretofore required to be set aside by the terms of such
resolution or resolutions as a sinking fund or purchase fund, to be applied
in the manner specified in the provisions creating such fund. All shares of
Cumulative Preferred Stock redeemed or purchased through the application of
any such sinking fund or purchase fund shall be cancelled and shall not be
reissued. 

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6.  Redemption and Retirement.


     (a) The Cumulative Preferred Stock of all or any series, or any part
thereof, at any time outstanding may be redeemed by the Corporation, at its
election expressed by resolution of the Board of Directors, at any time or
from time to time (which time, when fixed in each case and specified in the
notice of redemption, is hereinafter called the redemption date), upon not
less than thirty days previous notice to the holders of record of the
Cumulative Preferred Stock to be redeemed, given by mail in such manner as
may be prescribed by resolution of the Board of Directors, at the optional
redemption price or prices fixed in accordance with Divisions A and F of
this Article Fourth then applicable to the Cumulative Preferred Stock to be
redeemed, plus an amount equal to full cumulative dividends thereon to the
redemption date (the aggregate of which amounts is hereinafter in this
Section 6 called the redemption price); provided, however, that less than
all the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series then outstanding may be
redeemed only after full cumulative dividends to the end of the then
current dividend period upon the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series
then outstanding (other than the shares to be redeemed) shall have been
paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for
such payment. If less than all the outstanding Cumulative Preferred Stock
of any series is to be redeemed, the selection of shares for redemption may
be made either by lot or pro rata in such manner as may be prescribed by
resolution of the Board of Directors. The Corporation may, if it shall so
elect, deposit the amount of the redemption price for the account of the
holders of Cumulative Preferred Stock entitled thereto with a bank or trust
company doing business in the State of New York, or in the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania, and having capital and surplus of at least $5,000,000, at any
time prior to the redemption date (the date of such deposit being
hereinafter in this Section 6 referred to as the date of deposit).

     (b) Notice of the Corporation's election to make such deposit,
including the date of deposit and the name and address of the bank or trust
company with which the deposit has been or will be made, shall be included
in the notice of redemption. On and after the redemption date (unless
default shall be made by the Corporation in providing moneys for the
payment of the redemption price pursuant to the notice of redemption), or,
if the Corporation shall make such deposit on or before the date specified
therefor in the notice of redemption, then on and after the date of
deposit, all dividends on the Cumulative Preferred Stock so called for
redemption shall cease to accrue, and, notwithstanding that any certificate
for shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock so called for redemption shall not
have been surrendered for cancellation, the shares represented thereby
shall no longer be deemed outstanding and all rights of the holders thereof
as stockholders of the Corporation shall cease and terminate, except the
right to receive the redemption price as hereinafter provided and except
any conversion or exchange rights not theretofore expired. Such conversion
or exchange rights, however, in any event shall cease and terminate upon
the redemption date or upon any earlier date fixed in accordance with this 
Article Fourth for the termination of such rights. At any time on or after
the redemption date, or, if the Corporation shall elect to deposit the
moneys for such redemption as herein provided, then at any time on or after
the date of deposit, which time shall be specified by the Corporation in
the notice of redemption but shall not be later than the redemption date,
the respective holders of record of the Cumulative Preferred Stock to be
redeemed shall be entitled to receive the redemption price upon actual
delivery to the Corporation

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or, in the event of such deposit, to the bank or trust company with which
such deposit shall be made, of certificates for the shares to be redeemed,
such certificates, if required, to be properly stamped for transfer and
duly endorsed in blank or accompanied by proper instruments of assignment
and transfer thereof duly endorsed in blank. Any moneys so deposited which
shall remain unclaimed by the holders of such Cumulative Preferred Stock at
the end of five years after the redemption date shall be paid by such bank
or trust company to the Corporation; provided, however, that all moneys so
deposited which shall not be required for such redemption because of the
exercise of any right of conversion or exchange shall be returned to the
Corporation forthwith. Any interest accrued on moneys so deposited shall be
paid to the Corporation from time to time.

     (c) All shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock redeemed pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 6 shall be cancelled and shall not be reissued.

7.  Restrictions on Certain Corporate Action.

     (a) So long as any shares of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of any
series shall be outstanding, the Corporation shall not, without the
consent, given in writing or by resolution adopted at a meeting duly called
for that purpose, of the holders of record of at least two-thirds of the
number of shares of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series then
outstanding, considered as a class without regard to series,

          (1) alter or change the designations or the voting powers,
     preferences or rights, or the qualifications, limitations or
     restrictions thereof, of the Cumulative Preferred Stock or of any
     series thereof in any material respect prejudicial to the holders
     thereof; provided, however, that any such alteration or change of
     the designations or of the voting powers, preferences or rights, or
     the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of any
     particular series of the Cumulative Preferred Stock which is not in
     any material respect prejudicial to the holders of the Cumulative
     Preferred Stock of any other series may be effected with the consent,
     given as aforesaid, of the holders of record of at least two-thirds of
     the number of shares of the particular series of Cumulative Preferred
     Stock affected by such alteration or change; and provided, further,
     that nothing in this subparagraph (1) shall require the vote or
     consent of the holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock for or in
     respect of any increase in the authorized number of shares of Common
     Stock or the creation or increase in the authorized number of shares
     of any other class of stock which shall rank junior to the Cumulative
     Preferred Stock as to both dividends and assets;

          (2) create any new class of stock having preference over the
     Cumulative Preferred Stock as to dividends or assets, or create any
     obligation or security of the Corporation convertible into or
     exchangeable for shares of stock of any class having such preference
     over the Cumulative Preferred Stock;

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          (3) sell, transfer or lease all, or substantially all, the assets
     of the Corporation, unless as a part of such transaction or prior
     thereto the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series shall be retired
     or called for redemption and the necessary funds therefor deposited as
     provided in Section 6 of this Division A; provided, however, that
     nothing in this subparagraph (3) shall require the vote or consent of
     the holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock for or in respect of the
     creation of any mortgage or pledge of or other lien upon all or any
     part of the assets of the Corporation; or

          (4) effect a statutory merger or consolidation of or with any
     other corporation or corporations; provided, however, that such
     consent shall not be necessary if as a result of such merger or
     consolidation: (i) the Corporation shall be the surviving corporation
     and the Cumulative Preferred Stock then outstanding shall continue to
     be outstanding; there shall be no alteration or change in the
     designations or the voting powers, preferences or rights, or the
     qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the Cumulative
     Preferred Stock or any series thereof, in any material respect
     prejudicial to the holders thereof and the number of authorized shares
     of Cumulative Preferred Stock or shares being on a parity therewith as
     to dividends or assets shall not exceed the number of such shares
     which the Corporation shall have been authorized to issue immediately
     preceding the date of such merger or consolidation (except with the
     consent, given in writing or by resolution adopted at a meeting duly
     called for that purpose, of the holders of record of at least a
     majority of the number of shares of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of
     all series then outstanding, considered as a class without regard to
     series) and there shall not be created any new class of stock having
     preference over the Cumulative Preferred Stock as to dividends or
     assets; or (ii) if the Corporation shall not be the surviving
     corporation, the shares of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of each
     series then outstanding shall be converted into, or be exchangeable
     for, a like number of shares of preferred stock of the surviving or
     resulting corporation which preferred stock shall have substantially
     the same designations, voting powers, preferences and rights, and
     qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, as the Cumulative
     Preferred Stock of such series, the number of authorized shares of
     such preferred stock shall not exceed the number or shares of the 
     Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series which the Corporation shall
     have been authorized to issue immediately preceding the date of such
     merger or consolidation (except with the consent, given in writing
     or by resolution adopted at a meeting duly called for that purpose,
     of the holders of record of at least a majority of the number of
     shares of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series then
     outstanding, considered as a class without regard to series) and
     there shall not be outstanding or created any class of stock of the
     surviving or resulting corporation having preference over or being
     on a parity with such preferred stock as to dividends or assets.

     (b) So long as any shares of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of any
series shall be outstanding, the Corporation shall not, without the
consent, given in writing or by resolution adopted at a meeting duly called
for that purpose, of the holders of record of at least a majority of the
number of shares of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series then
outstanding, considered as a class

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without regard to series, increase the authorized number of shares of the
Cumulative Preferred Stock, or create any new class of stock which shall be
on a parity with the Cumulative Preferred Stock as to dividends or assets.

     (c) (1) So long as any shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock of any
series shall be outstanding, the Corporation shall not, without the
consent, given in writing or by resolution adopted at a meeting duly called
for that purpose, of the holders of record of at least a majority of the
number of shares of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series then
outstanding, considered as a class without regard to series, issue any
shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock, in addition to the shares of the
first series thereof initially issued by the Corporation, or issue any
shares of any new class of stock which shall be on a parity with the
Cumulative Preferred Stock as to dividends or assets, unless the
consolidated net income of the Corporation and its subsidiaries (as
hereinafter defined) for any period of twelve consecutive calendar months
during the preceding 18 calendar months preceding a date not more than 60
days prior to the issue of such additional shares of Cumulative Preferred
Stock or of such other stock shall have been at least 1.35 times the sum of
(i) the annual interest charges on all indebtedness of the Corporation and
its subsidiaries to be outstanding immediately after the proposed issue of
such additional shares, (ii) the annual dividend requirements on all shares
of stock of any class ranking prior to or on a parity with the Cumulative
Preferred Stock as to dividends or assets to be outstanding immediately
after the proposed issue of such additional shares, (iii) the annual
dividend requirements on all shares of preferred stock of subsidiaries to
be outstanding immediately after the proposed issuance of such additional
shares, and (iv) the annual dividend requirements on all shares of
Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series to be outstanding immediately
after the proposed issue of such additional shares, provided, however, that
any interest and dividends payable to the Corporation or any subsidiary
shall be excluded from the foregoing calculation. If all or any part of the
proceeds of the additional shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock or such
other stock so proposed to be issued are to be coincidentally applied by
the Corporation, through subsidiaries, to the acquisition of plants or
other properties with a previous record of earnings, or to the acquisition
of subsidiaries with a previous record of earnings, there may be added to
such consolidated net income of the Corporation and its subsidiaries for
such period of twelve months, at the option of the Corporation, an amount
equal to the net income of such plants or properties or subsidiaries, for
the same twelve months' period, determined by the Board of Directors in a
manner consistent with the determination of consolidated net income of the
Corporation and its subsidiaries.

     (2) Before issuing any shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock other than
the initial series or before issuing such other stock, there shall be
prepared and filed among the permanent records of the Corporation a
certificate of an independent public accountant of recognized standing,
selected in good faith by the Board of Directors, setting forth the
consolidated net income of the Corporation and its subsidiaries, as
hereinafter defined, for the twelve months' period selected by the
Corporation as the basis for compliance with the requirements of this
paragraph (c), setting forth such other financial information as may be
necessary to show compliance with the requirements of this paragraph (c),
and stating whether, in the opinion of such accountant, such requirements
are being complied with. 

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     (3) For the purposes of this paragraph (c) the following shall be
applicable:

          (i) The term "consolidated net income of the Corporation and
     its subsidiaries" shall be deemed to mean the total income (except
     amortization of premium on debt), whether credited to surplus or
     otherwise, of the Corporation and its subsidiaries and/or predecessor
     company or companies from all sources for the period in question,
     after deducting therefrom all operating and non-operating expenses and
     charges, including maintenance expenses, such provisions for reserves
     for retirements, renewals and replacements and for depreciation,
     obsolescence and depletion as determined by the Board of Directors in
     accordance with established practice of the Corporation and its
     subsidiaries, taxes and rentals paid or accrued in respect of the
     properties, license fees and franchise taxes paid or accrued, and
     Federal and State taxes based on income paid or accrued, but excluding
     interest charges on indebtedness of the Corporation and its
     subsidiaries, dividends on preferred stocks of subsidiaries,
     amortization of debt discount and expense, and profits or losses on
     sales of capital assets, amortization of intangibles or property
     adjustments, write-downs of property, or other adjustments, and
     similar items.

          (ii) The term "predecessor company or companies" shall be deemed
     to mean any company substantially all the property of which shall have
     been acquired by the Corporation or any subsidiary by purchase, merger
     or otherwise during the period for which the consolidated net income
     of the Corporation and its subsidiaries is to be determined and for
     the purposes hereof shall be deemed to have been owned for the full
     period considered.

          (iii) The term "subsidiary" shall mean (A) any corporation of
     which at least a majority of the voting stock is at the time directly
     or indirectly owned or controlled by the Corporation, and (B) any
     corporation of which at least a majority of the voting stock shall at
     the time be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the
     Corporation and any subsidiary or subsidiaries as defined in the
     foregoing clause (A) or by one or more such subsidiaries; provided,
     however, that in no event shall there be included within the term
     "subsidiary" any corporation substantially all of the physical
     properties of which are located outside of the United States of
     America.

          (iv) The term "voting stock" shall mean stock entitled under
     ordinary circumstances to vote for the election of directors and
     does not mean or include stock so entitled to vote only upon failure
     to pay dividends thereon or upon some other contingency or for some
     special purpose or purposes.

8.  Definitions.

     (a) The term "Junior Stock" as used in this Article Fourth shall be
deemed to mean all stock of any class of the Corporation ranking junior to
the Cumulative Preferred Stock as to dividends or assets.

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     (b) The term "full cumulative dividends" whenever used in this Article
Fourth with reference to any share of any series of the Cumulative
Preferred Stock shall be deemed to mean (whether or not in any dividend
period or any part thereof in respect of which such term is used there
shall have been net profits or net assets of the Corporation legally
available for the payment of such dividends) that amount which shall be
equal to dividends at the rate per share fixed for such series in
accordance with Divisions A and F of this Article Fourth, for the period of
time elapsed from the date of cumulation of such series to the date as of
which full cumulative dividends are to be computed (including the elapsed
portion of the current dividend period), less the amount of all dividends
paid or deemed paid upon such share.

                 DIVISION B - CUMULATIVE PREFERENCE STOCK

1.  Series and Limitations of Variations between Series.

     The shares of Cumulative Preference Stock may be divided into and
issued in series from time to time, as herein provided. All shares of
Cumulative Preference Stock of all series shall be of equal rank and all
shares of any particular series of Cumulative Preference Stock shall be
identical except as to the date or dates from which dividends on such 
shares shall be cumulative, as permitted by Section 2 of this Division B.
The shares of Cumulative Preference Stock of different series, subject to
any applicable provisions of law, may vary as to the following terms and
provisions, which shall be determined and fixed in the case of each such
series at any time prior to the issuance of any shares thereof, in the
manner hereinafter in this Section 1 provided:

          (a) The distinctive designation of such series and the number
     of shares which shall constitute such series, which number may be
     increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof
     then outstanding) from time to time by action of the Board of
     Directors;

          (b) The dividend rate per annum of such series, and the date
     from which dividends on shares of such series shall be cumulative
     (hereinafter sometimes called the date of cumulation);

          (c) The price or prices at which, and the terms, times and
     conditions on which, the shares of such series may be redeemed at
     the option of the Corporation;

          (d) The amount or amounts payable upon the shares of such series
     in the event of voluntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of
     the Corporation (hereinafter sometimes called the voluntary
     liquidation price);

          (e) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be entitled
     to the benefit of a sinking fund or a purchase fund to be applied to
     the purchase or redemption of shares of such series, and if so
     entitled, the amount of such fund and the manner of its application,
     including the price or prices at which the shares of such series may
     be redeemed or purchased through the application of such fund;

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          (f) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be made
     convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or
     classes or of any other series of the same or any other class or
     classes of stock of the Corporation, and if made so convertible or
     exchangeable, the conversion price or prices, or the rates of
     exchange, and the adjustments thereof, if any, at which such
     conversion or exchange may be made, and any other terms and conditions
     of such conversion or exchange;

          (g) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be entitled
     to (1) any rights to vote or consent in connection with any particular
     corporate acts (including, without limiting the generality of the
     foregoing, the issuance of any additional shares of such series, or
     any future series in addition to such series) in addition to the
     rights set forth in Section 6 of this Division B or in any certificate
     fixing the terms of any series of Cumulative Preference Stock
     theretofore issued pursuant to this Article Fourth, and the terms of
     any such rights, or (2) the right to elect directors in the event of
     "six quarters' default in preference stock dividends" as provided in
     Section 1 of Division D of this Article Fourth;

          (h) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be entitled
     to the benefit of limitations restricting the purchase of, the payment
     of dividends on, or the making of other distributions in respect of
     stock of any class of the Corporation ranking junior to the Cumulative
     Preference Stock as to dividends or assets, and the terms of any such
     restrictions; and

          (i) Whether or not the shares of such series shall have the
     general power to vote in the election of directors and for all other
     purposes, and if such power shall be given, the qualifications,
     limitations and restrictions thereof, but in no event shall the vote
     per share of such series be greater than the vote per share of the
     Common Stock.

     The series of Cumulative Preference Stock of the Corporation
designated as 5% Cumulative Preference Stock shall have the terms and
provisions set forth in this Certificate of Incorporation which are
applicable generally to all series of Cumulative Preference Stock, and
shall also have the terms and provisions hereinafter set forth in Section 4
of Division F of this Article Fourth. In addition, authority is hereby
expressly granted to and vested in the Board of Directors at any time or
from time to time, within the then authorized number of shares of
Cumulative Preference Stock of all series, to establish or re-establish any
unissued shares of Cumulative Preference Stock as shares of Cumulative
Preference Stock of any series, to create one or more additional series of
Cumulative Preference Stock and to fix the terms and provisions of any such
series of Cumulative Preference Stock in the respects in which the shares
of any series may vary from the shares of other series of Cumulative
Preference Stock as hereinbefore in this Section 1 provided.

2.  Dividends.

     (a) Out of any net profits or net assets of the Corporation legally
available therefor remaining after full cumulative dividends to the end of
the then current dividend period upon the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all
series then outstanding shall have been paid or declared and a sum
sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such payment, and after
the Corporation shall have complied with the provisions of the foregoing
Section 5 of Division A of this

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Article Fourth in respect of any and all amounts then or theretofore
required to be set aside or applied in respect of any sinking fund or
purchase fund referred to in said Section 5, then and not otherwise the
holders of Cumulative Preference Stock of each series shall, subject to the
provisions of this Article Fourth and of any certificate fixing the terms
of any series of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, be entitled to receive,
when and as declared by the Board of Directors, dividends in cash at the
rate per annum for such series fixed in accordance with this Article
Fourth, and no more, payable on the first days of March, June, September
and December in each year (the quarterly periods ending on the first days
of such months, respectively, being herein designated as dividend periods),
in each case from the date of cumulation of such series; provided that the
initial dividend with respect to any particular series shall be payable on
such of such dates as next succeeds the date of issue of the first shares
of such series to be issued, unless otherwise determined by the Board of
Directors; and such dividends shall be cumulative (whether or not in any
dividend period or periods there shall be net profits or net assets of the
Corporation legally available for the payment of such dividends), so that
if at any time full cumulative dividends upon the outstanding Cumulative
Preference Stock of all series to the end of the then current dividend
period shall not have been paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the
payment thereof set apart for such payment, the amount of the deficiency
shall be fully paid, but without interest, or dividends in such amount
declared on each such series and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof
set apart for such payment, before any sum or sums shall be set aside for
or applied to the purchase, redemption or other acquisition of Cumulative
Preference Stock of any series and before any dividend shall be declared or
paid upon or set apart for, or any other distribution shall be ordered or
made in respect of, Subordinate Stock and before any shares of Subordinate
Stock shall be purchased, redeemed, or otherwise acquired by the
Corporation.

     (b) No dividends shall be declared or paid on any particular series of
the Cumulative Preference Stock to the exclusion of any other series
thereof and all dividends declared on the Cumulative Preference Stock of
the respective series outstanding shall be declared pro rata, so that the
amount of the dividend declared on any particular series of the Cumulative
Preference Stock shall be in the proportion that the annual dividend
requirements of the shares of such series bear to the total annual dividend
requirements of the Cumulative Preference Stock of all series at the time
outstanding.

     (c) The holders of the Subordinate Stock shall not be entitled to
receive any dividends until full cumulative dividends to the end of the
then current dividend period upon the Cumulative Preference Stock of all
series then outstanding shall have been paid or declared and a sum
sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such payment and until the
Corporation shall have complied with the provisions of Section 4 of this
Division B in respect of any and all amounts then or theretofore required
to be set aside or applied in respect of any sinking fund or purchase fund
referred to in said Section 4.

     (d) Except as otherwise provided in Section 4 of Division F of this
Article Fourth with respect to the 5% Cumulative Preference Stock, the date
of cumulation of dividends on all shares of all series of Cumulative
Preference Stock shall be the quarterly dividend payment date next
preceding the date of their issue or, if issued on a quarterly dividend
payment date, then such date; provided that the certificate creating any
such series may specify that the date of cumulation of dividends on shares
of such series shall be the aforesaid date

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unless the Board of Directors shall determine when authorizing the issuance
of particular shares of such series that the date of cumulation of
dividends on such shares shall be the date of issue of each share thereof,
said date of issue for this purpose to be such date as the Board of
Directors shall authorize or fix; and provided further that if shares of
any such series, irrespective of the date of cumulation of dividends
thereon under the foregoing provisions, be issued after the record date for
the payment of a dividend on such Stock in respect of the then current
dividend period and prior to the payment date for such dividend, then said
Board, when declaring such dividend, may determine that said shares shall
not be entitled to participate in said dividend and the date of cumulation
of dividends thereon shall be such payment date, anything hereinabove to
the contrary notwithstanding; otherwise said dividend or the applicable
portion thereof shall be payable on said shares to the registered holder
thereof on said payment date from the commencement of said current dividend
period or, as the case may be, from the date of issue of said shares, as if
such shares had been registered in said holder's name on the record date
for said dividend.

3.  Preference on Liquidation, etc.

     In the event of any liquidation or dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation, after there shall have been paid or set aside in cash for the
holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock of all series then outstanding
the full preferential amounts to which they are entitled under the
provisions of this Article Fourth, the holders of the Cumulative Preference
Stock of each series shall be entitled to receive, out of the assets of the
Corporation available for distribution to its stockholders, before any
distribution of assets shall be made to the holders of Subordinate Stock,
(i) if such liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall be involuntary,
the sum of $25 per share plus full cumulative dividends thereon to the date
of final distribution to the holders of the Cumulative Preference Stock,
and (ii) if such liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall be voluntary,
the voluntary liquidation price plus full cumulative dividends thereon to
the date of final distribution to the holders of the Cumulative Preference
Stock; and the holders of the Subordinate Stock shall be entitled, to the
exclusion of the holders of the Cumulative Preference Stock of any and all
series, to share in all the assets of the Corporation then remaining as
hereinafter provided. If upon any liquidation or dissolution or winding up
of the Corporation the net assets of the Corporation shall be insufficient
to pay the holders of all outstanding shares of the Cumulative Preference
Stock the full amounts to which they respectively shall be entitled, the
holders of shares of Cumulative Preference Stock of all series shall share
ratably in any distribution of assets according to the respective amounts
which would be payable in respect of the shares held by them upon such
distribution if all amounts payable on or with respect to the Cumulative
Preference Stock of all series were paid in full. Neither the merger nor
consolidation of the Corporation into or with any other corporation, nor
the merger or consolidation of any other corporation into or with the
Corporation, nor a sale, transfer or lease of all or any part of the assets
of the Corporation, shall be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Corporation. 

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4.  Sinking and Purchase Funds.

     Out of any net profits or net assets of the Corporation legally
available therefor remaining after full cumulative dividends to the end of
the then current dividend period upon the Cumulative Preference Stock of
all series then outstanding shall have been paid or declared and a sum
sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such payment, and before
any dividends shall be declared or paid upon or set apart for, or any other
distribution shall be ordered or made in respect of, Subordinate Stock and
before any shares of Subordinate Stock shall be purchased, redeemed, or
otherwise acquired by the Corporation, the Corporation shall set aside, in
respect of each series of Cumulative Preference Stock any shares of which
shall at the time be outstanding and in respect of which a sinking fund or
purchase fund for the purchase or redemption thereof has been provided in
accordance with this Article Fourth, the sum or sums then or theretofore
required to be set aside as a sinking fund or purchase fund, to be applied
in the manner specified in the provisions creating such fund.

5.  Redemption and Retirement.

     (a) The Cumulative Preference Stock of all or any series, or any part
thereof, at any time outstanding may, subject to any applicable
restrictions with respect to the redemption of shares ranking junior to the
Cumulative Preferred Stock as to dividends or assets, be redeemed by the
Corporation, at its election expressed by resolution of the Board of 
Directors, at any time or from time to time (which time, when fixed in each
case and specified in the notice of redemption, is hereinafter called the
redemption date), upon not less than 30 days previous notice to the holders
of record of the Cumulative Preference Stock to be redeemed, given by mail
in such manner as may be prescribed by resolution of the Board of
Directors, at the optional redemption price or prices then applicable to
the Cumulative Preference Stock to be redeemed, plus an amount equal to
full cumulative dividends thereon to the redemption date (the aggregate of
which amounts is hereinafter in this Section 5 called the redemption
price); provided, however, that less than all the Cumulative Preference
Stock of all series then outstanding may be redeemed only after full
cumulative dividends to the end of the then current dividend period upon
the Cumulative Preference Stock of all series then outstanding (other than
the shares to be redeemed) shall have been paid or declared and a sum
sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such payment. If less than
all the outstanding Cumulative Preference Stock of any series is to be
redeemed, the selection of shares for redemption may be made either by lot
or pro rata in such manner as may be prescribed by resolution of the Board
of Directors. The Corporation may, if it shall so elect, deposit the amount
of the redemption price for the account of the holders of Cumulative
Preference Stock entitled thereto with a bank or trust company doing
business in the State of New York, or in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
and having capital and surplus of at least $5,000,000, at any time prior to
the redemption date (the date of such deposit being hereinafter in this 
Section 5 referred to as the date of deposit).

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     (b) Notice of the Corporation's election to make such deposit,
including the date of deposit and the name and address of the bank or trust
company with which the deposit has been or will be made, shall be included
in the notice of redemption. On and after the redemption date (unless
default shall be made by the Corporation in providing moneys for the
payment of the redemption price pursuant to the notice of redemption), or,
if the Corporation shall make such deposit on or before the date specified
therefor in the notice of redemption, then on and after the date of
deposit, all dividends on the Cumulative Preference Stock so called for
redemption shall cease to accrue, and, notwithstanding that any certificate
for shares of Cumulative Preference Stock so called for redemption shall
not have been surrendered for cancellation, the shares represented thereby
shall no longer be deemed outstanding and all rights of the holders thereof
as stockholders of the Corporation shall cease and terminate, except the
right to receive the redemption price as hereinafter provided and except
any conversion or exchange rights not theretofore expired. Such conversion
or exchange rights, however, in any event shall cease and terminate upon
the redemption date or upon any earlier date duly fixed for the termination 
of such rights. At any time on or after the redemption date, or, if the
Corporation shall elect to deposit the moneys for such redemption as herein
provided, then at any time on or after the date of deposit, which time
shall be specified by the Corporation in the notice of redemption but shall
not be later than the redemption date, the respective holders of record of
the Cumulative Preference Stock to be redeemed shall be entitled to receive
the redemption price upon actual delivery to the Corporation or, in the
event of such deposit, to the bank or trust company with which such deposit
shall be made, of certificates for the shares to be redeemed, such
certificates, if required, to be properly stamped for transfer and duly
endorsed in blank or accompanied by proper instruments of assignment and
transfer thereof duly endorsed in blank. Any moneys so deposited which
shall remain unclaimed  by the holders of such Cumulative Preference Stock
at the end of five years after the redemption date shall be paid by such
bank or trust company to the Corporation; provided, however, that all
moneys so deposited which shall not be required for such redemption because
of the exercise of any right of conversion or exchange shall be returned to
the Corporation forthwith. Any interest accrued on moneys so deposited
shall be paid to the Corporation from time to time.

6.  Restrictions on Certain Corporate Action.

     (a) So long as any shares of the Cumulative Preference Stock of any
series shall be outstanding, the Corporation shall not, without the
consent, given in writing or by resolution adopted at a meeting duly called
for that purpose, of the holders of record of at least two-thirds of the
number of shares of the Cumulative Preference Stock of all series then
outstanding, considered as a class without regard to series,

          (1) alter or change the designations or the voting powers,
     preferences or rights, or the qualifications, limitations or
     restrictions thereof, of the Cumulative Preference Stock or of any
     series thereof in any material respect prejudicial to the holders
     thereof; provided, however, that any such alteration or change of the
     designations or of the voting powers, preferences or rights, or the
     qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of any particular
     series of the Cumulative Preference Stock which is not in any material
     respect prejudicial to the holders of the Cumulative Preference Stock
     of any other series may be effected with

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     the consent, given as aforesaid, of the holders of record of at least
     two-thirds of the number of shares of the particular series of
     Cumulative Preference Stock affected by such alteration or change; and
     provided, further, that nothing in this subparagraph (1) shall require
     the vote or consent of the holders of the Cumulative Preference Stock
     for or in respect of any increase in the authorized number of shares
     of Common Stock or the creation or increase in the authorized number
     of shares of any other class of stock which shall rank junior to the
     Cumulative Preference Stock as to both dividends and assets;

          (2) create any new class of stock having preference over the
     Cumulative Preference Stock as to dividends or assets, or create
     any obligation or security of the Corporation convertible into or
     exchangeable for shares of stock of any class having such preference
     over the Cumulative Preference Stock;

          (3) sell, transfer or lease all, or substantially all, the assets
     of the Corporation, unless as a part of such transaction or prior
     thereto the Cumulative Preference Stock of all series shall be retired
     or called for redemption and the necessary funds therefor deposited as
     provided in Section 5 of this Division B; provided, however, that
     nothing in this subparagraph (3) shall require the vote or consent of
     the holders of the Cumulative Preference Stock for or in respect of
     the creation of any mortgage or pledge of or other lien upon all or
     any part of the assets of the Corporation; or

          (4) effect a statutory merger or consolidation of or with any
     other corporation or corporations; provided, however, that such
     consent shall not be necessary if as a result of such merger or
     consolidation: (i) the Corporation shall be the surviving corporation
     and the Cumulative Preference Stock then outstanding shall continue to
     be outstanding; there shall be no alteration or change in the
     designations or the voting powers, preferences or rights, or the
     qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the Cumulative
     Preference Stock or any series thereof, in any material respect
     prejudicial to the holders thereof and the number of authorized shares
     of Cumulative Preference Stock or shares being on a parity therewith
     as to dividends or assets shall not exceed the number of such shares
     which the Corporation shall have been authorized to issue immediately
     preceding the date of such merger or consolidation (except with the
     consent, given in writing or by resolution adopted at a meeting duly
     called for that purpose, of the holders of record of at least a
     majority of the number of shares of the Cumulative Preference Stock of
     all series then outstanding, considered as a class without regard to
     series) and there shall not be created any new class of stock having
     preference over the Cumulative Preference Stock as to dividends or
     assets; or (ii) if the Corporation shall not be the surviving
     corporation, the shares of the Cumulative Preference Stock of each
     series then outstanding shall be converted into, or be exchangeable
     for, a like number of shares of preference stock of the surviving or
     resulting corporation which preference stock shall have substantially
     the same designations, voting powers, preferences and rights, and 
     qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, as the Cumulative
     Preference Stock of such series, the number of authorized shares of
     such preference stock shall not exceed the number of shares of the
     Cumulative Preference Stock of all series which the Corporation shall
     have been

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     authorized to issue immediately preceding the date of such
     merger or consolidation (except with the consent, given in writing or
     by resolution adopted at a meeting duly called for that purpose, of
     the holders of record of at least a majority of the number of shares
     of the Cumulative Preference Stock of all series then outstanding,
     considered as a class without regard to series) and there shall not be
     outstanding or created any class of stock of the surviving or
     resulting corporation having preference over or being on a parity with
     such preference stock as to dividends or assets.

     (b) So long as any shares of Cumulative Preference Stock of any series
shall be outstanding, the Corporation shall not, without the consent, given
in writing or by resolution adopted at a meeting duly called for that
purpose, of the holders of record of at least a majority of the number of
shares of Cumulative Preference Stock of all series then outstanding,
considered as a class without regard to series,

          (1) increase the authorized number of shares of Cumulative
     Preferred Stock or increase the authorized number of shares of
     Cumulative Preference Stock;

          (2) create any new class of stock ranking on a parity with the
     Cumulative Preference Stock as to dividends or assets; or

          (3) issue any shares of Cumulative Preference Stock, in addition
     to the shares of 5% Cumulative Preference Stock issued by the
     Corporation upon the merger of Northeastern Water Company into
     the Corporation, or issue any shares of any new class of stock which
     shall be on a parity with the Cumulative Preference Stock as to
     dividends or assets, unless the consolidated net income of the
     Corporation and its subsidiaries (as hereinafter defined) for any
     period of twelve consecutive calendar months during the preceding 18
     calendar months preceding a date not more than 60 days prior to the
     issue of such additional shares of Cumulative Preference Stock or of
     such other stock shall have been at least 1.25 times the sum of (w)
     the annual interest charges on all indebtedness of the Corporation
     and its subsidiaries to be outstanding immediately after the proposed
     issue of such additional shares, (x) the annual dividend requirements
     on all shares of stock of any class ranking prior to or on a parity
     with the Cumulative Preference Stock as to dividends or assets to be
     outstanding immediately after the proposed issue of such additional
     shares, (y) the annual dividend requirements on all shares of
     preferred stock of subsidiaries to be outstanding immediately after
     the proposed issuance of such additional shares, and (z) the annual
     dividend requirements on all shares of Cumulative Preference Stock of
     all series to be outstanding immediately after the proposed issuance
     of such additional shares; provided, however, that any interest and
     dividends payable to the Corporation or any subsidiary shall be
     excluded from the foregoing calculation. Before issuing any shares of
     Cumulative Preference Stock other than the shares thereof issued upon
     such merger or before issuing such other stock, there shall be
     prepared and filed among the permanent records of the Corporation a 
     certificate of an independent public accountant of recognized
     standing, selected in good faith by the Board of Directors, setting
     forth such information as may be necessary to show compliance with
     the requirements of this subparagraph (3), and stating whether, in
     the opinion of such accountant,

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     such requirements are being complied with. For purposes of this
     subparagraph (3) the following shall be applicable:

               (i) The term "consolidated net income of the Corporation and
          its subsidiaries" shall be deemed to mean the total income
          (except amortization of premium on debt), whether credited to
          surplus or otherwise, of the Corporation and its subsidiaries
          from all sources for the period in question, after deducting
          therefrom all operating and non-operating expenses and charges,
          including maintenance expenses, such provisions for reserves for
          retirements, renewals and replacements and for depreciation,
          obsolescence and depletion as is determined by the Board of
          Directors in accordance with established practice of the
          Corporation and its subsidiaries, taxes and rentals paid or
          accrued in respect of the properties, license fees and franchise
          taxes paid or accrued, and Federal and State taxes based on
          income paid or accrued, but excluding interest charges on
          indebtedness of the Corporation and its subsidiaries, dividends
          on preferred stocks of subsidiaries, amortization of debt
          discount and expense, and profits or losses on sales of capital
          assets, amortization of intangibles or property adjustments,
          write-downs of property, or other adjustments, and similar items.
          In case, within or after the period for which the computation of
          consolidated net income of the Corporation and its subsidiaries
          is made pursuant to this subparagraph (3), the Corporation or any
          subsidiary shall have acquired any property (either directly or
          through the acquisition of a subsidiary or by merger of any
          entity into or with the Corporation), such acquired property may
          be treated as having been owned by the Corporation for the whole
          of such period of computation and the net income thereof for such
          period may, at the option of the Corporation, be included in the
          consolidated net income of the Corporation and its subsidiaries,
          and there shall be excluded, in computing such consolidated net
          income, an amount equal to the net income estimated to be
          applicable to any property sold or disposed of by the Corporation
          or any of its subsidiaries after the beginning of such period of
          computation.

               (ii) The term "subsidiary" shall mean (A) any corporation of
          which at least a majority of the voting stock is at the time
          directly or indirectly owned or controlled by the Corporation,
          and (B) any corporation of which at least a majority of the
          voting stock shall at the time be owned or controlled, directly
          or indirectly, by the Corporation and any subsidiary or
          subsidiaries as defined in the foregoing clause (A) or by one or
          more such subsidiaries; provided, however, that in no event shall
          there be included within the term "subsidiary" any corporation
          substantially all of the physical properties of which are located
          outside of the United States of America.
     
               (iii) The term "voting stock" shall mean stock entitled
          under ordinary circumstances to vote for the election of
          directors and does not mean or include stock so entitled to vote
          only upon failure to pay dividends thereon or upon some other
          contingency or for some special purpose or purposes.

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7.  Definitions.

     (a) The term "Subordinate Stock" as used in this Article Fourth shall
be deemed to mean all stock of any class of the Corporation ranking junior
to the Cumulative Preference Stock as to dividends or assets.

     (b) The term "full cumulative dividends" whenever used in this Article
Fourth with reference to any share of any series of the Cumulative
Preference Stock shall be deemed to mean (whether or not in any dividend
period or any part thereof in respect of which such term is used there
shall have been net profits or net assets of the Corporation legally
available for the payment of such dividends) that amount which shall be
equal to dividends at the rate per share fixed for such series in
accordance with this Article Fourth for the period of time elapsed from the
date of cumulation of such series to the date as of which full cumulative
dividends are to be computed (including the elapsed portion of the current
dividend period), less the amount of all dividends paid upon such share

               DIVISION B-1 - CUMULATIVE PREFERENTIAL STOCK

1. Series and Limitations of Variations between Series.

     The shares of Cumulative Preferential Stock may be divided into and
issued in series from time to time, as herein provided. All shares of
Cumulative Preferential Stock of all series shall be of equal rank and all
shares of any particular series of Cumulative Preferential Stock shall be
identical except as to the date or dates from which dividends on such
shares shall be cumulative, as permitted by Section 2 of this Division B-1.
The shares of Cumulative Preferential Stock of different series, subject to
any applicable provisions of law, may vary as to the following terms and
provisions, which shall be determined and fixed in the case of each such
series at any time prior to the issuance of any shares thereof, in the
manner hereinafter in this Section 1 provided:

          (a) The distinctive designation of such series and the number
     of shares which shall constitute such series, which number may be
     increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof
     then outstanding) from time to time by action of the Board of
     Directors;

          (b) The dividend rate per annum of such series, and the date
     from which dividends on shares of such series shall be cumulative
     (hereinafter sometimes called the date of cumulation);

          (c) The price or prices at which, and the terms, times and
     conditions on which, the shares of such series may be redeemed at
     the option of the Corporation;

          (d) The amount or amounts payable upon the shares of such series
     in the event of involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of
     the Corporation (hereinafter sometimes called the involuntary
     liquidation price), and the amount or amounts payable upon the shares
     of such series in the event of voluntary liquidation, dissolution or
     winding up of the Corporation (hereinafter sometimes called the
     voluntary liquidation price);

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          (e) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be entitled
     to the benefit of a sinking fund or a purchase fund to be applied
     to the purchase or redemption of shares of such series, and if so
     entitled, the amount of such fund and the manner of its application,
     including the price or prices at which the shares of such series may
     be redeemed or purchased through the application of such fund;

          (f) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be made
     convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or
     classes or of any other series of the same or any other class or
     classes of stock of the Corporation, and if made so convertible or
     exchangeable, the conversion price or prices, or the rates of
     exchange, and the adjustments thereof, if any, at which such
     conversion or exchange may be made, and any other terms and conditions
     of such conversion or exchange;

          (g) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be entitled
     to (1) any rights not theretofore granted to shares of Cumulative
     Preferential Stock to vote or consent in connection with any
     particular corporate acts and the terms of any such rights, or
     (2) the right to elect directors in the event of "six quarters'
     default in preferential stock dividends" as provided in Section 1 of
     Division D of this Article Fourth;

          (h) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be entitled
     to the benefit of limitations restricting the purchase of, the payment
     of dividends on, or the making of other distributions in respect of
     stock of any class of the Corporation ranking junior to the Cumulative
     Preferential Stock as to dividends or assets, and the terms of any
     such restrictions;

           (i) Whether or not the shares of such series shall have the
     general power to vote in the election of directors and for all other
     purposes, and if such power shall be given, the qualifications,
     limitations and restrictions thereof, but in no event shall the vote
     per share of such series be greater than the vote per share of the
     Common Stock; and

           (j) Whether or not the shares of such series shall have any
     rights to subscribe to shares of any class of stock of the
     Corporation, and the terms of any such rights.

     Authority is hereby expressly granted to and vested in the Board of
Directors at any time or from time to time, within the then authorized
number of shares of Cumulative Preferential Stock of all series, to
establish or re-establish any unissued shares of Cumulative Preferential
Stock as shares of Cumulative Preferential Stock of any series, to create
one or more additional series of Cumulative Preferential Stock and to fix
the terms and provisions of any such series of Cumulative Preferential
Stock in the respects in which the shares of any series may vary from the
shares of other series of Cumulative Preferential Stock as hereinbefore in
this Section 1 provided.

2.  Dividends.

     (a) Out of any net profits or net assets of the Corporation legally
available therefor remaining after full cumulative dividends to the end of
the then current dividend period upon the Cumulative Preferred Stock and
the Cumulative Preference Stock of all series then outstanding shall have
been paid

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or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such
payment, and after the Corporation shall have complied with the provisions
of the foregoing Section 5 of Division A and Section 4 of Division B of
this Article Fourth in respect of any and all amounts then or theretofore
required to be set aside or applied in respect of any sinking fund or
purchase fund referred to in said Section 5 and said Section 4, then and
not otherwise the holders of Cumulative Preferential Stock of each series
shall, subject to the provisions of this Article Fourth and of any
certificate fixing the terms of any series of the Cumulative Preferred
Stock or the Cumulative Preference Stock, be entitled to receive, when and
as declared by the Board of Directors, dividends in cash at the rate per
annum for such series fixed in accordance with this Article Fourth, and no
more, payable on the first days of March, June, September and December in
each year (the quarterly periods ending on the first days of such months,
respectively, being herein designated as dividend periods), in each case
from the date of cumulation of such series; provided that the initial
dividend with respect to any particular series shall be payable on such of
such dates as next succeeds the date of issue of the first shares of such
series to be issued, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors;
and such dividends shall be cumulative (whether or not in any dividend
period or periods there shall be net profits or net assets of the
Corporation legally available for the payment of such dividends), so that
if at any time full cumulative dividends upon the outstanding Cumulative 
Preferential Stock of all series to the end of the then current dividend
period shall not have been paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the
payment thereof set apart for such payment, the amount of the deficiency
shall be fully paid, but without interest, or dividends in such amount
declared on each such series and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof
set apart for such payment, before any sum or sums shall be set aside for
or applied to the purchase, redemption or other acquisition of Cumulative
Preferential Stock of any series and before any dividend shall be declared
or paid upon or set apart for, or any other distribution shall be ordered
or made in respect of, Sub-Preferential Stock and before any shares of
Sub-Preferential Stock shall be purchased, redeemed, or otherwise acquired
by the Corporation.

     (b) No dividends shall be declared or paid on any particular series of
the Cumulative Preferential Stock to the exclusion of any other series
thereof and all dividends declared on the Cumulative Preferential Stock of
the respective series outstanding shall be declared pro rata, so that the
amount of the dividend declared on any particular series of the Cumulative
Preferential Stock shall be in the proportion that the annual dividend
requirements of the shares of such series bear to the total annual dividend
requirements of the Cumulative Preferential Stock of all series at the time
outstanding.

     (c) The holders of the Sub-Preferential Stock shall not be entitled to
receive any dividends until full cumulative dividends to the end of the
then current dividend period upon the Cumulative Preferential Stock of all
series then outstanding shall have been paid or declared and a sum
sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such payment and until the
Corporation shall have complied with the provisions of Section 4 of this
Division B-1 in respect of any and all amounts then or theretofore required
to be set aside or applied in respect of any sinking fund or purchase fund
referred to in said Section 4.

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     (d) The date of cumulation of dividends on all shares of all series of
Cumulative Preferential Stock shall be the quarterly dividend payment date
next preceding the date of their issue or, if issued on a quarterly
dividend payment date, then such date; provided that the certificate
creating any such series may specify that the date of cumulation of
dividends on shares of such series shall be the aforesaid date unless the
Board of Directors when authorizing the issuance of particular shares of
such series shall provide for a different date of cumulation of dividends;
and provided further that if shares of any such series, irrespective of the
date of cumulation of dividends thereon under the foregoing provisions, be
issued after the record date for the payment of a dividend on such Stock in
respect of the then current dividend period and prior to the payment date
for such dividend, then said Board, when declaring such dividend, may
determine that said shares shall not be entitled to participate in said
dividend and the date of cumulation of dividends thereon shall be such
payment date, anything hereinabove to the contrary notwithstanding;
otherwise said dividend or the applicable portion thereof shall be payable
on said shares to the registered holder thereof on said payment from the
commencement of said current dividend period or, as the case may be, from
the date of issue of said shares, as if such shares had been registered in
said holder's name on the record date for said dividend.

3.  Preference on Liquidation, etc.

     In the event of any liquidation or dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation, after there shall have been paid or set aside in cash for the
holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock and the Cumulative Preference
Stock of all series then outstanding the full preferential amounts to which
they are entitled under the provisions of this Article Fourth, the holders
of the Cumulative Preferential Stock of each series shall be entitled to
receive, out of the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to
its stockholders, before any distribution of assets shall be made to the
holders of Sub-Preferential Stock, (i) if such liquidation, dissolution or
winding up shall be involuntary, the applicable involuntary liquidation
price plus full cumulative dividends thereon to the date of final
distribution to the holders of the Cumulative Preferential Stock, and (ii)
if such liquidation, dissolution or winding up shall be voluntary, the
applicable voluntary liquidation price plus full cumulative dividends
thereon to the date of final distribution to the holders of the Cumulative
Preferential Stock; and the holders of the Sub-Preferential Stock shall be
entitled, to the exclusion of the holders of the Cumulative Preferential
Stock of any and all series, to share in all the assets of the Corporation
then remaining as hereinafter provided. If upon any liquidation or
dissolution or winding up of the Corporation the net assets of the
Corporation shall be insufficient to pay the holders of all outstanding
shares of the Cumulative Preferential Stock the full amounts to which they
respectively shall be entitled, the holders of shares of Cumulative
Preferential Stock of all series shall share ratably in any distribution of
assets according to the respective amounts which would be payable in
respect of the shares held by them upon such distribution if all amounts
payable on or with respect to the Cumulative Preferential Stock of all
series were paid in full. Neither the merger nor consolidation of the
Corporation into or with any other corporation, nor the merger or
consolidation of any other corporation into or with the Corporation, nor a
sale, transfer or lease of all or any part of the assets of the
Corporation, shall be deemed to be a liquidation, dissolution or winding up
of the Corporation. 

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4.  Sinking and Purchase Funds.

     Out of any net profits or net assets of the Corporation legally
available therefor remaining after full cumulative dividends to the end of
the then current dividend period upon the Cumulative Preferential Stock of
all series then outstanding shall have been paid or declared and a sum
sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such payment, and before
any dividends shall be declared or paid upon or set apart for, or any other
distribution shall be ordered or made in respect of, Sub-Preferential Stock
and before any shares of Sub-Preferential Stock shall be purchased,
redeemed, or otherwise acquired by the Corporation, the Corporation shall
set aside, in respect of each series of Cumulative Preferential Stock any
shares of which shall at the time be outstanding and in respect of which a
sinking fund or purchase fund for the purchase or redemption thereof has
been provided in accordance with this Article Fourth, the sum or sums then
or theretofore required to be set aside as a sinking fund or purchase fund,
to be applied in the manner specified in the provisions creating such fund.

5.  Redemption.

     (a) The Cumulative Preferential Stock of all or any series, or any
part thereof, at any time outstanding may, subject to any applicable
restrictions with respect to the redemption of shares ranking junior to the
Cumulative Preferred Stock or the Cumulative Preference Stock as to
dividends or assets, be redeemed by the Corporation, at its election
expressed by resolution of the Board of Directors, at any time or from time
to time (which time, when fixed in each case and specified in the notice of
redemption, is hereinafter called the redemption date), upon not less than
30 days previous notice to the holders of record of the Cumulative
Preferential Stock to be redeemed, given by mail in such manner as may be
prescribed by resolution of the Board of Directors, at the optional
redemption price or prices then applicable to the Cumulative Preferential
Stock to be redeemed, plus an amount equal to full cumulative dividends
thereon to the redemption date (the aggregate of which amounts is
hereinafter in this Section 5 called the redemption price); provided,
however, that less than all the Cumulative Preferential Stock of all series
then outstanding may be redeemed only after full cumulative dividends to
the end of the then current dividend period upon the Cumulative
Preferential Stock of all series then outstanding (other than the shares to
be redeemed) shall have been paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the
payment thereof set apart for such payment. If less than all the
outstanding Cumulative Preferential Stock of any series is to be redeemed,
the selection of shares for redemption may be made either by lot or pro
rata in such manner as may be prescribed by resolution of the Board of
Directors. The Corporation may, if it shall so elect, deposit the amount of
the redemption price for the account of the holders of Cumulative
Preferential Stock entitled thereto with a bank or trust company doing
business in the State of New York, or in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
and having capital and surplus of at least $5,000,000, at any time prior to
the redemption date (the date of such deposit being hereinafter in this
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     (b) Notice of the Corporation's election to make such deposit,
including the date of deposit and the name and address of the bank or trust
company with which the deposit has been or will be made, shall be included
in the notice of redemption. On and after the redemption date (unless
default shall be made by the Corporation in providing moneys for the
payment of the redemption price pursuant to the notice of redemption), or,
if the Corporation shall make such deposit on or before the date specified
therefor in the notice of redemption, then on and after the date of
deposit, all dividends on the Cumulative Preferential Stock so called for
redemption shall cease to accrue, and, notwithstanding that any certificate
for shares of Cumulative Preferential Stock so called for redemption shall
not have been surrendered for cancellation, the shares represented thereby
shall no longer be deemed outstanding and all rights of the holders thereof
as stockholders of the Corporation shall cease and terminate, except the 
right to receive the redemption price as hereinafter provided and except
any conversion, exchange or subscription rights not theretofore expired. 
Such conversion or exchange rights, however, in any event shall cease and
terminate upon the redemption date or upon any earlier date duly fixed for
the termination of such rights. At any time on or after the redemption
date, or, if the Corporation shall elect to deposit the moneys for such
redemption as herein provided, then at any time on or after the date of
deposit, which time shall be specified by the Corporation in the notice of
redemption but shall not be later than the redemption date, the respective
holders of record of the Cumulative Preferential Stock to be redeemed shall
be entitled to receive the redemption price upon actual delivery to the
Corporation or, in the event of such deposit, to the bank or trust company
with which such deposit shall be made, of certificates for the shares to be
redeemed, such certificates, if required, to be properly stamped for
transfer and duly endorsed in blank or accompanied by proper instruments of
assignment and transfer thereof duly endorsed in blank. Any moneys so
deposited which shall remain unclaimed by the holders of such Cumulative
Preferential Stock at the end of five years after the redemption date shall
be paid by such bank or trust company to the Corporation; provided,
however, that all moneys so deposited which shall not be required for such
redemption because of the exercise of any right of conversion or exchange
shall be returned to the Corporation forthwith. Any interest accrued on
moneys so deposited shall be paid to the Corporation from time to time.

6.  Definitions.

     (a) The term "Sub-Preferential Stock" as used in this Article Fourth
shall be deemed to mean all stock of any class of the Corporation ranking
junior to the Cumulative Preferential Stock as to dividends or assets.

     (b) The term "full cumulative dividends" whenever used in this Article
Fourth with reference to any share of any series of the Cumulative
Preferential Stock shall be deemed to mean (whether or not in any dividend
period or any part thereof in respect of which such term is used there
shall have been net profits or net assets of the Corporation legally
available for the payment of such dividends) that amount which shall be
equal to dividends at the rate per share fixed for such series in
accordance with this Article Fourth for the period of time elapsed from the
date or dates of cumulation of shares of such series to the date as of
which full cumulative dividends are to be computed (including the elapsed
portion of the current dividend period), less the amount of all dividends
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                         DIVISION C - COMMON STOCK

1.  Dividends.

     Out of any net profits or net assets of the Corporation legally
available therefor remaining after full cumulative dividends to the end of
the then current dividend period upon the Cumulative Preferred Stock, the
Cumulative Preference Stock and the Cumulative Preferential Stock of all
series of each class of stock then outstanding shall have been paid or
declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set apart for such
payment, and after setting aside the sum or sums then or theretofore
required to be set aside as a sinking fund or purchase fund provided for
any one or more series of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, the Cumulative
Preference Stock and the Cumulative Preferential Stock, then and not
otherwise the holders of the Common Stock shall, subject to the provisions
of this Article Fourth and of any certificate fixing the terms of any
series of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, the Cumulative Preference Stock
or the Cumulative Preferential Stock, be entitled to receive such dividends
as may from time to time be declared by the Board of Directors.

2.  Distribution of Assets.

     In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation, after there shall have been paid or set aside in cash for the
holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, the holders of the Cumulative
Preference Stock and the holders of the Cumulative Preferential Stock the
full preferential amounts to which they are entitled under the provisions
of this Article Fourth, the holders of the Common Stock shall be entitled
to receive pro rata all of the remaining assets of the Corporation
available for distribution to its stockholders.

                        DIVISION D - VOTING RIGHTS

     1. (a) Except as otherwise required by the laws of the State of
Delaware and as otherwise provided in this Division D or elsewhere in this
Article Fourth or in any certificate creating any series of any class of
stock of the Corporation, and subject to the provisions of the by-laws of
the Corporation, as from time to time amended, with respect to the closing
of the transfer books and the fixing of a record date for the determination
of stockholders entitled to vote, the holders of the Common Stock and the
holders of such of the series of Cumulative Preferred Stock, Cumulative
Preference Stock and Cumulative Preferential Stock, if any, as shall have
been granted such power pursuant to this Article Fourth or to any
certificate creating any series of any class of stock of the Corporation
shall exclusively possess voting power in the election of directors and for
all other purposes, and the holders of the other series of Cumulative
Preferred Stock, Cumulative Preference Stock and Cumulative Preferential
Stock shall have no voting power and shall not be entitled to any notice of
any meeting of stockholders.

     (b) If at the time of any annual meeting of stockholders for the
election of directors a "year's default in preferred dividends", as
hereinafter defined, shall exist, the holders of the Cumulative Preferred
Stock, voting separately as a class and without regard to series, shall
have the right to elect two members of the Board of Directors; provided
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stockholders for the election of directors a "two years' default in
preferred dividends", as hereinafter defined, shall exist, the holders of
the Cumulative Preferred Stock, voting separately as a class and without
regard to series, shall have the right to elect the smallest number of
directors necessary to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors. In
either such event the holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, as such,
voting separately as a class, shall not be entitled to vote in the election
of any of the other directors of the Corporation, and the holders of the
other classes of stock shall be entitled to elect the remaining members of
the Board of Directors as provided in this Division D, but the holders of
such other classes of stock shall not, as such, be entitled to vote in the
election of the directors of the Corporation to be elected by the holders
of the Cumulative Preferred Stock; and any other provision of this
Certificate of Incorporation or of any certificate creating any series of
Cumulative Preferred Stock to the contrary notwithstanding, if and so long
as a "default in preferred dividends", as hereinafter defined, shall exist,
the holders of such series of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, if any, as
shall have been granted the general power to vote in the election of
directors pursuant to this Article Fourth shall be entitled to vote as
holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock and shall not be entitled to vote
with the holders of the Common Stock in the election of directors or for
any other purposes pertinent to the provisions of this Division D.

     (c) If at the time of any annual meeting of stockholders for the
election of directors a "six quarters' default in preference stock
dividends," as hereinafter defined, shall exist, the holders, if any, of
the "special voting series", as hereinafter defined, of Cumulative
Preference Stock shall have the right, voting separately as a class and
without regard to series, to elect two members of the Board of Directors.
In such event the holders of the "special voting series" of Cumulative
Preference Stock shall not be entitled to vote, as such, in the election of
any other directors of the Corporation, and the holders of the other
classes of stock shall be entitled to elect the remaining members of the
Board of Directors as provided in this Division D; but the holders of such
other classes of stock shall not, as such, be entitled to vote in the
election of directors of the Corporation to be elected by the holders of
the "special voting series" of Cumulative Preference Stock; and any other
provision of this Certificate of Incorporation or of any certificate
creating any series of Cumulative Preference Stock to the contrary
notwithstanding, if and so long as a "default in preference stock
dividends," as hereinafter defined, shall exist, the holders of such
"special voting series" of Cumulative Preference Stock, if any, as shall
have been granted the general power to vote in the election of directors
pursuant to this Article Fourth shall be entitled to vote as the holders of
the Cumulative Preference Stock and shall not be entitled to vote with the
holders of the Common Stock in the election of directors or for any other
purposes pertinent to the provisions of this Division D.

     (d) If at the time of any annual meeting of stockholders for the
election of directors a "six quarters' default in preferential stock
dividends," as hereinafter defined, shall exist, the holders, if any, of
the "special voting series", as hereinafter defined, of Cumulative
Preferential Stock shall have the right, voting separately as a class and
without regard to series, to elect two members of the Board of Directors.
In such event the holders of the "special voting series" of Cumulative
Preferential Stock shall not be entitled to vote, as such, in the election
of any other directors of the Corporation, and the holders of the other
classes of stock shall be entitled to elect the remaining

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members of the Board of Directors as provided in this Division D; but the
holders of such other classes of stock shall not, as such, be entitled to
vote in the election of directors of the Corporation to be elected by the
holders of the "special voting series" of Cumulative Preferential Stock;
and any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation or of any
certificate creating any series of Cumulative Preferential Stock to the
contrary notwithstanding, if and so long as a "default in preferential
stock dividends," as hereinafter defined, shall exist, the holders of such
"special voting series" of Cumulative Preferential Stock, if any, as shall
have been granted the general power to vote in the election of directors
pursuant to this Article Fourth shall be entitled to vote as the holders of
the Cumulative Preferential Stock and shall not be entitled to vote with
the holders of the Common Stock in the election of directors or for any
other purposes pertinent to the provisions of this Division D.

     (e) Any Preferred Director shall continue to serve as such director
until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his successor shall
be elected and qualified, unless prior to the end of such term a default in
preferred dividends shall cease to exist, in which event the term of all
Preferred Directors shall terminate and the resulting vacancies, if any, in
the Board of Directors shall be filled by the Common Directors. So long as
a default in preferred dividends shall exist, any vacancy in the office of
a Preferred Director shall be filled for the unexpired term by a majority
of the remaining Preferred Directors (or, if there is only one remaining
Preferred Director, by that Director) or, if there shall at the time be no
Preferred Director in office, by the remaining members of the Board of
Directors. Any Preference Stock Director shall continue to serve as such
director until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his
successor shall be elected and qualified, unless prior to the end of such
term a default in preference stock dividends shall cease to exist, in which
event the term of all Preference Stock Directors shall terminate, and the
resulting vacancies, if any, in the Board of Directors shall be filled by
the Common Directors. So long as a default in preference stock dividends
shall exist, any vacancy in the office of a Preference Stock Director shall
be filled for the unexpired term by the remaining Preference Stock Director 
or, if there shall at the time be no Preference Stock Director in office,
by the remaining members of the Board of Directors. Any Preferential Stock
Director shall continue to serve as such director until the next annual
meeting of stockholders and until his successor shall be elected and
qualified, unless prior to the end of such term a default in preferential
stock dividends shall cease to exist, in which event the term of all
Preferential Stock Directors shall terminate, and the resulting vacancies,
if any, in the Board of Directors shall be filled by the Common Directors.
So long as a default in preferential stock dividends shall exist, any
vacancy in the office of a Preferential Stock Director shall be filled for
the unexpired term by the remaining Preferential Stock Director or, if
there shall at the time be no Preferential Stock Director in office, by the
remaining members of the Board of Directors. Any vacancy in the office of a
Common Director shall be filled for the unexpired term by a majority of the
remaining Common Directors or, if at the time there shall be no Common
Director in office or if there are an even number of Common Directors in
office and it is not possible within 30 days after the vacancy occurred to
fill the vacancy by a majority vote of the remaining Common Directors, then
any such vacancy or vacancies shall be filled at a special meeting of the 
holders of the Common Stock which shall promptly be called by the
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     (f) For the purposes of this Section 1, a "year's default in preferred
dividends" shall be deemed to exist whenever at the time of any annual
meeting of stockholders for the election of directors the amount of full
cumulative dividends upon the shares of any series of the Cumulative
Preferred Stock shall be equivalent to four quarterly dividends or more, up
to and including seven quarterly dividends, and a "two-years' default in
preferred dividends" shall be deemed to exist whenever at the time of any
annual meeting for the election of directors the amount of full cumulative
dividends upon the shares of any series of the Cumulative Preferred Stock
shall be equivalent to eight quarterly dividends or more. If a "year's
default in preferred dividends" shall exist, such default in preferred
dividends shall be deemed to exist thereafter until, but only until, full
cumulative dividends on all shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock of all
series then outstanding shall have been paid to the end of the last
preceding quarterly dividend period. If a "two years' default in preferred
dividends" shall exist, such default shall be deemed to exist thereafter
until either (i) full cumulative dividends on all shares of Cumulative
Preferred Stock of all series then outstanding shall have been paid to the
end of the last preceding dividend period, or (ii) until the date when the
aggregate of the "available dividend income of the Corporation", as
hereinafter defined (calculated from the first date when the amount of full 
cumulative dividends on all shares of Cumulative Preferred Stock of all 
series then outstanding was equivalent to eight quarterly dividends)
exceeds the amount of full cumulative dividends on all shares of Cumulative
Preferred Stock of all series then outstanding (calculated to the end of
the last preceding quarterly dividend period), whichever shall first occur.

     For the purposes of this Section 1, the term "available dividend
income" of the Corporation for the period under consideration shall be
deemed to mean the sum of:

          (i) the lesser of (A) 75% of the net income (but not losses) for
     such period which would be available for dividends on the common stock
     of each operating subsidiary owned by the Corporation or any
     subsidiary, or (B) the amount which would be available under
     applicable state law, indenture, charter or other dividend
     restrictions for payment to the Corporation or any subsidiary during
     such period in the form of dividends on the common stock of each
     operating subsidiary owned by the Corporation or any subsidiary,
     excluding, in each case, any cash dividends received by the
     Corporation or a subsidiary on common stock of an operating
     subsidiary; plus

          (ii) all income of the Corporation during such period from all
     sources other than dividends on common stock of subsidiaries; plus
  
          (iii) all income of each non-operating subsidiary of the
     Corporation during such period from all sources other than dividends
     on common stock of operating subsidiaries;

after deducting from such sum the total of: 

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          (x) all expenses and charges of the Corporation and all expenses
     and charges of its non-operating subsidiaries (but only to the extent
     of the income available to each such non-operating subsidiary for the
     payment of such expenses and charges) for such period, including fixed
     charges and income and franchise taxes paid or accrued; plus

          (y) all dividends paid on the Cumulative Preferred Stock during
     such period;

all as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting
practices followed by the Corporation in reports required to be filed by
the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission or other
similar governmental body with which the Corporation is required to file
periodic reports, or, if there is no such governmental body, with the New
York Stock Exchange; provided, that in making such determination, there
shall be included all items of income whether credited to surplus or
otherwise, but there shall be excluded any profits or losses on sales of
investments (after reflecting applicable expenses and taxes), any charges
arising in connection with or resulting from amortization of intangibles or
property adjustments, any write-downs of property or similar adjustments,
and any write-downs or other adjustments of the carrying value of
investments in subsidiaries.

     For the purposes of this Section 1, the term "common stock" of any
subsidiary (including an operating subsidiary) shall mean stock (including
capital stock if only one class of stock be outstanding), whether or not
voting stock, not limited as to the amount payable thereon upon any
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the issuing corporation, and the
term "operating subsidiary" shall mean any subsidiary, as defined in
Section 7 of Division A of this Article Fourth, principally engaged in the
ownership and operation of water supply and distribution systems.

     (g) For the purposes of this Article Fourth, the following terms shall
have the following meanings:

          (i) "special voting series" as applied to the Cumulative
     Preference Stock shall mean all series of the Cumulative Preference
     Stock which have been granted in Division F of this Article Fourth
     or in any certificate creating any series of Cumulative Preference
     Stock the right to vote for directors in the event of a "six quarters'
     default in preference stock dividends" as provided in this Section 1;

          (ii) "special voting series" as applied to the Cumulative
     Preferential Stock shall mean all series of the Cumulative Preference
     Stock which have been granted in Division F of this Article Fourth or
     in any certificate creating any series of Cumulative Preferential
     Stock the right to vote for directors in the event of a "six quarters'
     default in preferential stock dividends" as provided in this Section
     1;

          (iii) "Common Director" shall mean a director elected by the
     holders of the Common Stock and the holders of any series of
     Cumulative Preferred Stock, Cumulative Preference Stock or Cumulative
     Preferential Stock which shall have been granted and then possess the
     general power to vote in the election of directors pursuant to this
     Article Fourth or to any certificate creating any series of such
     Stocks, all voting together as a class;

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          (iv) "Preferred Director" shall mean a director elected by the
     holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, voting separately as a
     class;

          (v) "Preference Stock Director" shall mean a director elected
     by the holders of the "special voting series" of Cumulative Preference
     Stock, voting separately as a class;

          (vi) "Preferential Stock Director" shall mean a director elected
     by the holders of the "special voting series" of Cumulative
     Preferential Stock, voting separately as a class;

          (vii) "default in preferred dividends," otherwise unqualified,
     shall mean the failure to pay full cumulative dividends on all shares
     of all Cumulative Preferred Stock then outstanding to the end of the
     last preceding quarterly dividend period;

          (viii) "default in preference stock dividends," otherwise
     unqualified, shall mean the failure to pay full cumulative dividends
     on all shares of all "special voting series" of Cumulative Preference
     Stock then outstanding to the end of the last preceding quarterly
     dividend period;

          (ix) "default in preferential stock dividends," otherwise
     unqualified, shall mean the failure to pay full cumulative dividends
     on all shares of all "special voting series" of Cumulative 
     Preferential Stock then outstanding to the end of the last preceding
     quarterly dividend period;

          (x) "six quarters' default in preference stock dividends" shall
     be deemed to exist whenever at the time of any annual meeting of
     stockholders for the election of directors the amount of full
     cumulative dividends upon the shares of any "special voting series"
     of Cumulative Preference Stock shall be equivalent to six quarterly
     dividends or more. If a "six quarters' default in preference stock
     dividends" shall exist, such default shall be deemed to exist
     thereafter until, but only until, full cumulative dividends on all
     shares of Cumulative Preference Stock of all series then outstanding
     shall have been paid to the end of the last preceding quarterly
     dividend period; and

          (xi) "six quarters' default in preferential stock dividends"
     shall be deemed to exist whenever at the time of any annual meeting
     of stockholders for the election of directors the amount of full
     cumulative dividends upon the shares of any "special voting series"
     of Cumulative Preferential Stock shall be equivalent to six quarterly
     dividends or more. If a "six quarters' default in preferential stock
     dividends" shall exist, such default shall be deemed to exist
     thereafter until, but only until, full cumulative dividends on all
     shares of Cumulative Preferential Stock of all series then outstanding
     shall have been paid to the end of the last preceding quarterly
     dividend period.

     (h) If and so long as a "two years' default in preferred dividends",
as defined in this Section 1, shall exist, (i) a majority of the Board of
Directors of the Corporation shall constitute a quorum for all purposes,
unless the by-laws shall specify a lesser number, and (ii) no amendment of
the by-laws of the Corporation shall be effected by the Board of Directors
which would (x) change the number of directors necessary to constitute a
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Directors without the consent, given in writing or by resolution adopted at
a meeting of stockholders (of which at least ten days' written notice of
the proposed amendment of the by-laws was given), of the holders of at
least a majority of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, or (y)
change the date of the annual meeting for the election of directors.

     (i) Nothing in this Section 1 shall be deemed to prevent an amendment
of the by-laws of the Corporation, in the manner therein provided, which
shall increase the number of directors of the Corporation so as to provide
additional places on the Board of Directors for either one or both of the
two directors so to be elected by the holders of the Cumulative Preferred
Stock or either one or both of the two directors to be elected by the
holders of the "special voting series" of Cumulative Preference Stock or
either one or both of the two directors to be elected by the holders of the
"special voting series" of Cumulative Preferential Stock, or so as to
increase the number of directors to be elected by the holders of the Common
Stock, nor shall anything in this Section 1 be deemed to prevent any other
change in the number of the directors of the Corporation, in case a "year's
default in preferred dividends," or a "two years' default in preferred
dividends", or a "six quarters' default in preference stock dividends", or
a "six quarters' default in preferential stock dividends", shall occur.

     (j) So long as a default in preferred dividends shall exist, the
presence in person or by proxy of the holders of 25% of the outstanding
shares of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, considered as a class without
regard to series, shall be required to constitute a quorum of such class at
any meeting of stockholders or at any meeting of the holders of shares of
Cumulative Preferred Stock called for the purpose of electing a Preferred
Director; provided, however, that a majority of the holders of the
Cumulative Preferred Stock who are present in person or represented by
proxy at any such meeting at which there shall be no quorum of such class
shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice
other than announcement at the meeting, solely for the purpose of electing
a Preferred Director at an adjourned session of such meeting at which there
shall be a quorum of such class.

     So long as a default in preference stock dividends shall exist, the
presence in person or by proxy of the holders of 25% of the outstanding
shares of the "special voting series" of Cumulative Preference Stock,
considered as a class and without regard to series, shall be required to
constitute a quorum of such "special voting series" at any meeting of
stockholders or at any meeting of the holders of the shares of such
"special voting series" called for the purpose of electing a Preference
Stock Director; provided, however, that a majority of the holders of such
"special voting series" who are present in person or represented by proxy
at any such meeting at which there shall be no quorum of such "special
voting series" shall have the power to adjourn the meeting from time to
time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, solely for the
purpose of electing a Preference Stock Director at an adjourned session of
such meeting at which there shall be a quorum of such "special voting
series".

     So long as a default in preferential stock dividends shall exist, the
presence in person or by proxy of the holders of 25% of the outstanding
shares of the "special voting series" of Cumulative Preferential Stock,
considered as a class and without regard to series, shall be required to
constitute a quorum of such "special voting series" at any meeting of
stockholders or at any meeting of

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the holders of the shares of such "special voting series" called for the
purpose of electing a Preferential Stock Director; provided, however, that
a majority of the holders of such "special voting series" who are present
in person or represented by proxy at any such meeting at which there shall
be no quorum of such "special voting series" shall have the power to
adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than
announcement at the meeting, solely for the purpose of electing a
Preferential Stock Director at an adjourned session of such meeting at
which there shall be a quorum of such "special voting series".

     So long as a default in preferred dividends or a default in preference
stock dividends or a default in preferential stock dividends shall exist,
the presence in person or by proxy of the holders of shares entitled to
cast a majority of the votes in the election of a Common Director shall be
required to constitute a quorum of such shares at any meeting of
stockholders at which the holders of such shares shall be entitled to vote
for the election of directors of the Corporation.

     No delay or failure by the holders of any class of stock to elect one
or more of the directors they shall be entitled as a class to elect shall
invalidate the election of the members of the Board of Directors elected by
the holders of any other class of stock of the Corporation. Holders of
Cumulative Preferred Stock shall be entitled to notice of each meeting of
stockholders at which they shall have the right to elect a Preferred
Director. The holders of the "special voting series" of Cumulative
Preference Stock shall be entitled to notice of each meeting of
stockholders at which they shall have the right to elect a Preference Stock
Director. The holders of the "special voting series" of Cumulative
Preferential Stock shall be entitled to notice of each meeting of
stockholders at which they shall have the right to elect a Preferential
Stock Director.

     (k) So long as a default in preferred dividends shall exist, the
provisions of this Section 1 with respect to the election of directors by
the holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock, voting as a class as
aforesaid, shall be controlling, notwithstanding any other provisions of
this Certificate of Incorporation inconsistent with such provisions of this
Section 1. So long as a default in preference stock dividends shall exist,
except as otherwise required by reason of the preceding sentence, the
provisions of this Section l with respect to the election of directors by
the holders of the "special voting series" of the Cumulative Preference
Stock, voting as a class as aforesaid, shall be controlling at all times,
notwithstanding any other provision of this Certificate of Incorporation
(except the preceding sentence) inconsistent with such provisions of this
Section 1. So long as a default in preferential stock dividends shall
exist, except as otherwise required by reason of the two preceding
sentences, the provisions of this Section l with respect to the election of
directors by the holders of the "special voting series" of the Cumulative
Preferential Stock, voting as a class as aforesaid, shall be controlling at
all times, notwithstanding any other provision of this Certificate of
Incorporation (except the two preceding sentences) inconsistent with such
provisions of this Section 1. 

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     2. At all elections of directors by the stockholders of the
Corporation, each holder of any class of stock of the Corporation, as such,
shall be entitled to as many votes as shall equal the number of his shares
of such class entitled to vote for directors multiplied by the number of
directors to be elected by the holders of such class, as such, and he may
cast all of such votes for a single director or may distribute them among
the number of directors to be elected as aforesaid, or any two or more of
them as he may see fit; provided that if in Division F of this Article
Fourth or in any certificate creating any series of the Cumulative
Preferred Stock or Cumulative Preference Stock or Cumulative Preferential
Stock, the shares of any such series are given less than one vote per share
in the election of directors, each holder of the stock of any such series
of Cumulative Preferred Stock when voting with the Common Stock in any
election of directors during the absence of a "default in preferred
dividends" and each holder of the stock of any such series of Cumulative
Preference Stock when voting with the Common Stock in any election of
directors during the absence of a "default in preference stock dividends"
and each holder of the stock of any such series of Cumulative Preferential
Stock when voting with the Common Stock in any election of directors during
the absence of a "default in preferential stock dividends" shall, in each
case, be entitled to as many votes as the number of his shares of any such
series shall entitle him to vote in the election of directors multiplied by
the number of directors to be elected by the holders of the Common Stock
and the holders of such series, and he may cast all of such votes for a
single director of may distribute them among the number of directors to be
elected as aforesaid, or any two or more of them as he may see fit; and
provided further, that any provision of this Section 2 to the contrary
notwithstanding, the rights of the holders of any series of Cumulative
Preferred Stock in respect of any election of directors at a time when the
holders of such series vote with the Common Stock in the election of
directors during the absence of such a "default in preferred dividends",
and the rights of the holders of any series of Cumulative Preference Stock
in respect of any election of directors at a time when the holders of such
series vote with the Common Stock in the election of directors during the
absence of a "default in preference stock dividends", and the rights of the
holders of any series of Cumulative Preferential Stock in respect of any
election of directors at a time when the holders of such series vote with
the Common Stock in the election of directors during the absence of a
"default in preferential stock dividends", shall always be subject to such 
qualifications, limitations and restrictions as are prescribed in the
certificate creating such series.

     3. Unless otherwise mandatorily required by law, or by this
Certificate of Incorporation, or by a certificate creating any series of
Cumulative Preferred Stock or Cumulative Preference Stock or Cumulative
Preferential Stock, the vote or consent of the holders of shares
constituting a majority of the total vote of all shares having voting power
for the election of directors and for all other purposes at the time issued
and outstanding shall be sufficient in all respects to authorize, effect,
or validate any action required to be authorized, effected or validated by
vote or consent of the stockholders of the Corporation. The authorized
number of shares of Cumulative Preferential Stock may be increased or
decreased by the affirmative vote of the holders of record of not less than
a majority of the shares of stock of the Corporation having the general
power to vote for the election of directors and for all other purposes.
Except to the extent that any series of the Cumulative Preferential Stock
shall have been granted the general power to vote in the election of
directors and for all other purposes, no holders of shares of any series of
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Stock shall have any right to vote or consent for or in respect of any
increase or decrease in the authorized number of shares of any class of
stock (whether ranking senior to, on a parity with, or junior to the
Cumulative Preferential Stock as to dividends or assets or whether now
existing or hereafter created) or for or in respect of the creation of any
new class of stock ranking junior to the Cumulative Preferential Stock as
to dividends or assets.

                           DIVISION E - GENERAL

     1. Anything contained herein or in any certificate creating any series
of Cumulative Preferred Stock, Cumulative Preference Stock or Cumulative
Preferential Stock to the contrary notwithstanding, the rights of the
holders of all classes of stock of the Corporation in respect of dividends
shall at all times be subject to the power of the Board of Directors from
time to time to set aside such reserves and to make such other provisions,
if any, as said Board shall deem to be necessary or advisable for working
capital, for advances to and investments in subsidiaries, for expansion of
the Corporation's business (including the acquisition of real and personal
property for that purpose) and for any other purpose of the Corporation.

     2. The net consideration received by the Corporation upon the issuance
of shares of its capital stock in excess of the par value of said shares
shall be credited to a capital surplus account. Capital surplus so created
shall not be available for the payment of cash dividends on the Common
Stock of the Corporation.

     3. (a) Except as otherwise provided in Division F of this Article
Fourth or in any certificate creating any series of Cumulative Preferential
Stock, no holder of Cumulative Preferred Stock, Cumulative Preference Stock
or Cumulative Preferential Stock of the Corporation shall, as such holder,
have any right to purchase or subscribe for (i) any stock of any class, or
any warrant or warrants, option or options or other instrument or
instruments that shall confer upon the holder or holders thereof the right
to subscribe for or purchase or receive from the Corporation any stock of
any class or classes which the Corporation may issue or sell, whether or
not such stock shall be convertible into or exchangeable for any other
stock of the Corporation of any class or classes and whether or not such
stock shall be unissued shares authorized by the Certificate of
Incorporation or by any amendment thereto or shares of stock of the
Corporation acquired by it after the issue thereof, or (ii) any obligation
which the Corporation may issue or sell that shall be convertible into or
exchangeable for any shares of stock of the Corporation of any class or
classes, or to which shall be attached or appurtenant any warrant or
warrants, option or options or other instrument or instruments that shall
confer upon the holder or holders of such obligation the right to subscribe
for or purchase or receive from the Corporation any shares of its stock of
any class or classes.

     (b) Upon any issue for money or other consideration of any stock of
the Corporation that may be authorized from time to time, no holder of
stock, irrespective of the kind of such stock, shall (except as otherwise
provided in Division F of this Article Fourth or in any certificate
creating any series of Cumulative Preferential Stock) have any preemptive
or other right to subscribe for, purchase or receive any proportionate or
other share of the stock so issued, but the Board of Directors may dispose
of all or any portion of such stock as and when it may determine free of
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the same to stockholders or by sale or other disposition as said Board may
deem advisable; provided, however, that if the Board of Directors shall
determine to offer any new or additional shares of Common Stock, or any
security convertible into Common Stock, for money, other than by a public
offering of all of such shares or an offering of all of such shares to or
through underwriters or investment bankers who shall have agreed promptly
to make a public offering of such shares, the same shall first be offered
pro rata to the holders of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock, and
to the holders of the then outstanding shares of any other class (or series
thereof) of capital stock that has expressly been granted subscription
rights, upon terms not less favorable to the purchaser (without deduction
of such reasonable compensation, allowance or discount for the sale,
underwriting or purchase as may be fixed by the Board of Directors) than
those on which the Board of Directors issues and disposes of such stock or
securities to other than such holders of Common Stock and such holders of
any such other class (or series); and provided further, that the time
within which such preemptive rights shall be exercised may be limited by
the Board of Directors to such time as to said Board may seem proper, not
less, however, than twenty days after mailing of notice that such stock
rights are available and may be exercised.

   DIVISION F - TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF OUTSTANDING SERIES OF CUMULATIVE
           PREFERRED STOCK, 5% CUMULATIVE PREFERENCE STOCK AND
             4.10% CONVERTIBLE CUMULATIVE PREFERENTIAL STOCK

1. Cumulative Preferred Stock, 5 1/2% Series of 1961.

     In addition to the terms and provisions set forth in this Certificate
of Incorporation which are applicable to all series of Cumulative Preferred
Stock, the Cumulative Preferred Stock, 5 1/2% Series of 1961 shall have the
following terms and provisions:

          (a) The designation of such series of Cumulative Preferred Stock
     of the par value of $25 per share shall be Cumulative Preferred Stock,
     5 1/2% Series of 1961 (hereinafter called the 1961 Series Stock), and
     the number of shares which shall constitute such series shall be
     50,000 shares.

          (b) The dividend rate of the 1961 Series Stock shall be 5 1/2%
     per annum upon the par value thereof, the date from which dividends on
     shares of the 1961 Series Stock shall be cumulative shall be the date
     of issue of said 250,000 shares, and the initial dividend shall be
     payable December 1, 1961.

          (c) (1) The shares of the 1961 Series Stock shall be subject to
     redemption at the option of the Corporation, on the terms and
     conditions specified in Section 6 of Division A of this Article
     Fourth, at any time or from time to time, at the applicable redemption
     prices set forth below plus, as provided in said Section 6, an amount
     equal to full cumulative dividends thereon to the redemption date,
     except that shares of the 1961 Series Stock shall not be redeemable at
     the option of the Corporation prior to September 1, 1966 by the use of
     the proceeds from, or in anticipation of the receipt of the proceeds
     from, borrowings or the sale of securities by the Corporation at a
     cost of less than 5 1/2% per annum.

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          (2) The prices at which the shares of the 1961 Series Stock may
     be redeemed at the option of the Corporation except as hereinbelow
     provided, shall be as follows:

                           Period                      Redemption Price
                    (both dates inclusive)                 Per Share
          -----------------------------------------    ----------------

          Date of issue to August 31, 1964 ........         $26.375
          September 1, 1964 to August 31, 1967.....          26.00
          September 1, 1967 to August 31, 1970.....          25.625
          September 1, 1970 to August 31, 1980.....          25.25
          September 1, 1980 and thereafter ........          25.00

          (3) If shares of the 1961 Series Stock shall be redeemed at the
     option of the Corporation by the use of the proceeds from, or in
     anticipation of the receipt of the proceeds from, (A) the sale or
     other disposition by the Corporation of any of its fixed assets or of
     securities of any of its subsidiaries [as defined in subparagraph
     (3)(iii) of paragraph (c) of Section 7 of Division A of this Article
     Fourth], or (B) a distribution paid or payable to the Corporation by a
     subsidiary upon its dissolution or partial or total liquidation or in
     connection with a reduction of its capital following a sale of assets
     of such subsidiary, the redemption price shall be as follows:

                           Period                      Redemption Price
                    (both dates inclusive)                Per Share
          -----------------------------------------    ----------------

          Date of issue to August 31, 1964 ........        $25.6875
          September 1, 1964 to August 31, 1967 ....         25.50
          September l, 1967 to August 31, 1970 ....         25.3125
          September 1, 1970 to August 31, 1980 ....         25.125
          September 1, 1980 and thereafter ........         25.00

          (d) The amounts payable upon the shares of the 1961 Series Stock
     in the event of any voluntary liquidation or dissolution or winding up
     of the Corporation shall be an amount equal to the redemption price
     (exclusive of dividends) specified in subparagraph (2) of paragraph
     (c) of this Section 1 then in effect, plus, as provided in Section 4
     of Division A of this Article Fourth, an amount equal to full
     cumulative dividends thereon to the date of final distribution to the
     holders of the Cumulative Preferred Stock.

          (e) As a sinking fund for the 1961 Series Stock, the Corporation
     shall, so long as any shares of the 1961 Series Stock shall be
     outstanding, set aside, out of any funds legally available therefor,
     on or before July 25 of each of the years beginning with the year 1966
     to and including the year 1991, sums sufficient to redeem on the next
     September 1 at the par value thereof, plus full cumulative dividends
     thereon to the redemption date, shares of the 1961 Series Stock having
     the following aggregate par values:

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                   1966..................... $208,300
                   1967.....................  208,300
                   1968.....................  208,400
                   1969.....................  208,300
                   1970.....................  208,300
                   1971.....................  208,400
                   1972 and thereafter......  250,000

          In the event the number of shares constituting the 1961 Series
     Stock shall be increased at any time by action of the Board of
     Directors pursuant to paragraph (a) of Section 2 of Division A of
     this Article Fourth, the number of shares of the 1961 Series Stock
     to be redeemed annually by operation of the sinking fund on each
     September 1 after the July 25 next following the date of such increase
     shall be equal to 3-1/3% of the increased number of shares to and
     including September 1, 1971 and 4% of the increased number of shares
     on each September 1 thereafter (subject to adjustment in each case to
     the nearest whole share).

          The Corporation shall be entitled to receive a credit against
     the foregoing obligation to redeem on any date when such redemption
     is required to be made, for the aggregate par value of the number of
     shares of the 1961 Series Stock which shall have theretofore been
     purchased by it at a cost not exceeding the redemption price for
     sinking fund purposes and which shall not have been previously so
     credited.

          Sums so set aside for the sinking fund for the 1961 Series Stock
     shall be applied to the redemption of shares of 1961 Series Stock on
     the applicable September 1 in the same manner and with the same effect
     as set forth in Section 6 of Division A of this Article Fourth.

          All shares of the 1961 Series Stock so redeemed or purchased and
     credited against the foregoing obligation to redeem shall be cancelled
     by the Corporation and shall not be reissued.

          (f) So long as any shares of the 1961 Series Stock shall be
     outstanding, the Corporation shall not declare or pay or set apart any
     dividend (other than dividends payable in Junior Stock) on its Junior
     Stock, nor order or make any other distribution in respect of its
     Junior Stock, nor purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of
     its Junior Stock, unless, after giving effect thereto, the aggregate
     of (1) the total net income of the Corporation earned after December
     31, 1960, computed as hereinafter stated (provided that, if such
     computation shall result in an accumulated net loss for any particular
     period, such net loss shall be deducted from the amounts referred to
     in clauses (2) and (3) following), plus (2) $4,250,000, plus (3) the
     net amount received by the Corporation after December 31, 1960 on the
     issue or sale of any shares of its Junior Stock, shall exceed the
     aggregate of (i) all dividends (other than dividends payable in Junior
     Stock) and other distributions declared, paid or made by the
     Corporation after December 31, 1960 on its shares of Junior Stock of
     all classes, and (ii) an amount equal to the cost to the Corporation
     of any shares of its Junior Stock purchased, redeemed or otherwise
     acquired by it after December 31, 1960. As used in this paragraph (f),
     the term "net income of the Corporation" shall be deemed to mean the
     total income of the Corporation from all sources for the period in

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     question, whether recorded in the accounts as income or surplus
     transactions, including all gains on the sale or other disposition
     of assets, after deducting therefrom all expenses and charges,
     including all losses on the sale or other disposition of assets, all
     franchise taxes paid or accrued and all Federal and State taxes based
     on income paid or accrued, but excluding any dividends declared or
     paid on the stock of the Corporation of any class, any amortization of
     capital stock expense, any write-downs, write-ups, or other
     adjustments of the carrying value of its investments in subsidiaries,
     and similar items, all as determined by the Board of Directors in
     accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently
     applied.

          (g) The 1961 Series Stock shall not be convertible into any other
     shares of the Corporation.

2. Cumulative Preferred Stock, 5% Series.

     In addition to the terms and provisions set forth in this Certificate
of Incorporation which are applicable to all series of Cumulative Preferred
Stock, the Cumulative Preferred Stock, 5% Series shall have the following
terms and provisions:

          (a) The designation of such series of Cumulative Preferred Stock
     of the par value of $25 per share shall be Cumulative Preferred Stock,
     5% Series (hereinafter called the 5% Series Stock), and the number of
     shares which shall constitute such series shall be 101,777 shares.

          (b) The dividend rate of the 5% Series Stock shall be 5% per
     annum upon the par value thereof, the date from which dividends on
     each share of the 5% Series Stock shall be cumulative shall be 
     January 1, 1962, and the initial dividend on each of said shares
     shall be payable on the first day of March, June, September or
     December next following the date of its issue.

          (c) (1) The shares of the 5% Series Stock shall be subject to
     redemption at the option of the Corporation, on the terms and
     conditions specified in Section 6 of Division A of this Article
     Fourth, at any time or from time to time, at the applicable redemption
     prices set forth below plus, as provided in said Section 6, an amount
     equal to full cumulative dividends thereon to the redemption date,
     except that shares of the 5% Series Stock shall not be redeemable at
     the option of the Corporation prior to January 1, 1967.
     
          (2) The prices at which the shares of the 5% Series Stock may be
     redeemed at the option of the Corporation shall be as follows:

                           Period                      Redemption Price
                    (both dates inclusive)                Per Share
          -----------------------------------------    ----------------

          January 1, 1967 to December 31, 1969.....        $25.75
          January 1, 1970 to December 31, 1972.....         25.50
          January 1, 1973 and thereafter...........         25.25

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          (d) The amounts payable upon the shares of the 5% Series Stock in
     the event of any voluntary liquidation or dissolution or winding up of
     the Corporation shall be:

               (1) $26 per share if the date of final distribution to the
          holders of Cumulative Preferred Stock pursuant to such
          liquidation, dissolution or winding up is prior to January 1,
          1967, and

               (2) if the date of final distribution to the holders of
          Cumulative Preferred Stock pursuant to such liquidation,
          dissolution or winding up is after December 31, 1966, an amount
          equal to the redemption price specified in subparagraph (2) of
          paragraph (c) of this Section 2 in effect on such date,

     plus, in each case, as provided in Section 4 of Division A of this
     Article Fourth, an amount equal to full cumulative dividends thereon
     to the date of such final distribution.

          (e) In addition to the voting rights to which the shares of
     Cumulative Preferred Stock are entitled as otherwise provided in this
     Article Fourth and subject to the qualifications, limitations and
     restrictions thereof as therein set forth, the shares of 5% Series
     Stock shall have the general power to vote in the election of
     directors and for all other purposes on the basis of one-tenth of a
     vote per share.

          (f) The 5% Series Stock shall not be convertible into any other
     shares of the Corporation. No sinking fund shall be established for
     the purchase or redemption of shares of the 5% Series Stock.

3.  Cumulative Preferred Stock, 4.90% Series.

     In addition to the terms and provisions set forth in this Certificate
of Incorporation which are applicable to all series of Cumulative Preferred
Stock, the Cumulative Preferred Stock, 4.90% Series shall have the
following terms and provisions:

          (a) The designation of such series of Cumulative Preferred Stock
     of the par value of $25 per share shall be Cumulative Preferred Stock,
     4.90% Series (hereinafter called the 4.90% Series Stock), and the
     number of shares which shall constitute such series shall be 134,400
     shares.

          (b) The dividend rate of the 4.90% Series Stock shall be 4.90%
     per annum upon the par value thereof, the date from which dividends on
     shares of the 4.90% Series Stock shall be cumulative shall be the date
     of issue of the first of said shares to be issued, and the initial
     dividend shall be payable on September l, 1963.

          (c) (l) The shares of the 4.90% Series Stock shall be subject to
     redemption at the option of the Corporation, on the terms and
     conditions specified in Section 6 of Division A of this Article Fourth
     at any time or from time to time, at the applicable redemption prices
     set forth below plus, as provided in said Section 6, an amount equal
     to full cumulative dividends thereon to the redemption date, except
     that shares of the 4.90%

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     Series Stock shall not be redeemable at the option of the Corporation
     prior to June 1, 1968 by the use of the proceeds from, or in
     anticipation of the receipt of the proceeds from, borrowings or the
     sale of securities by the Corporation at a cost of less than 4.90% per
     annum.

          (2) The prices at which the shares of the 4.90% Series Stock may
     be redeemed at the option of the Corporation, except as hereinbelow
     provided, shall be as follows:

                           Period                      Redemption Price
                    (both dates inclusive)                Per Share
          -----------------------------------------    ----------------

          Date of issue to May 31, 1966............        $26.225
          June 1, 1966 to May 31, 1969.............         25.90
          June 1, 1969 to May 31, 1972.............         25.40
          June 1, 1972 to May 31, 1975.............         25.25
          June 1, 1975 to May 31, 1978.............         25.15
          June 1, 1978 and thereafter..............         25.00

          (3) If shares of the 4.90% Series Stock shall be redeemed at the
     option of the Corporation by the use of the proceeds from, or in
     anticipation of the receipt of the proceeds from (A) the sale or other
     disposition by the Corporation of any of its fixed assets or of
     securities of any of its subsidiaries [as defined in subparagraph (3)
     (iii) of paragraph (c) of Section 7 of Division A of this Article
     Fourth] or (B) a distribution paid or payable to the Corporation by a
     subsidiary upon its dissolution or partial or total liquidation or in
     connection with a reduction of its capital following a sale of assets
     with a reduction of its capital following a sale of assets of such
     subsidiary, the redemption price shall be as follows:

                           Period                      Redemption Price
                    (both dates inclusive)                Per Share
          -----------------------------------------    ----------------

          Date of issue to May 31, 1966............        $25.6125
          June 1, 1966 to May 31, 1969.............         25.45
          June 1, 1969 to May 31, 1972.............         25.20
          June 1, 1972 to May 31, 1975.............         25.125
          June 1, 1975 to May 31, 1978.............         25.075
          June 1, 1978 and thereafter..............         25.00

          (d) The amounts payable upon the shares of the 4.90% Series Stock
     in the event of any voluntary liquidation or dissolution or winding up
     of the Corporation shall be an amount equal to the redemption price
     (exclusive of dividends) specified in subparagraph (c)(2) hereof then
     in effect, plus, as provided in Section 4 of Division A of this
     Article Fourth, an amount equal to full cumulative dividends thereon
     to the date of final distribution to the holders of the Cumulative
     Preferred Stock. 

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          (e) As a sinking fund for the 4.90% Series Stock, the Corporation
     shall, so long as any shares of the 4.90% Series Stock shall be
     outstanding, set aside, out of any funds legally available therefor,
     on or before April 25 of each of the years beginning with the year
     1968 to and including the year 1993, sums sufficient to redeem on the
     next June 1 at the par value thereof, plus full cumulative dividends
     thereon to the redemption date, the following numbers of such shares:
     commencing on June 1, 1968 and continuing thereafter to and including
     June 1, 1973, 3-1/3% of the largest number of such shares at any one
     time theretofore outstanding; and on each June 1 thereafter, 4% of the
     largest number of such shares at any one time theretofore outstanding
     (subject to adjustment in each case to the nearest whole share).

          The Corporation shall be entitled to receive a credit against the
     foregoing obligation to redeem on any date when such redemption is
     required to be made, for the aggregate par value of the number of
     shares of the 4.90% Series Stock which shall have theretofore been
     purchased by it at a cost not exceeding the redemption price for
     sinking fund purposes and which shall not have been previously so
     credited.

          Sums so set aside for the sinking fund for the 4.90% Series Stock
     shall be applied to the redemption of shares of 4.90% Series Stock on
     the applicable June 1 in the same manner and with the same effect as
     set forth in Section 6 of Division A of this Article Fourth.

          All shares of the 4.90% Series Stock so redeemed or purchased and
     credited against the foregoing obligation to redeem shall be cancelled
     by the Corporation and shall not be reissued.

          (f) So long as any shares of the 4.90% Series Stock shall be
     outstanding, the Corporation shall not declare or pay or set apart any
     dividend (other than dividends payable in stock) on its Common Stock,
     nor order or make any other distribution in respect of its Common
     Stock, nor purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire any shares of its
     Common Stock, if, after giving effect thereto, the sum of the Common
     Stock and surplus of the Company shall be less than $27,000,000. As
     used in this paragraph (f), the term "Common Stock and surplus of the
     Company" shall mean the sum of the par or stated value of all
     outstanding Common Stock of the Company, all paid-in premiums on stock
     and all paid-in surplus, capital surplus, earned surplus and other
     surplus accounts of the Company, all as would be shown in a balance
     sheet of the Company prepared in accordance with generally accepted
     accounting practice consistently maintained; provided that in
     determining surplus for this purpose, no additions or deductions shall
     be made for any charges or credits to surplus made after December 31,
     1962 and representing any write up, write down or other adjustment of
     the carrying value of the Company's assets including investment in
     subsidiaries, and all such surplus shall be calculated as of the end
     of a monthly period ended not more than 120 days prior to the date of
     the transaction in respect of which such determination is made.

          (g) The 4.90% Series Stock shall not be convertible into any
     other shares of the Corporation. 

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4.  5% Cumulative Preference Stock.

     In addition to the terms and provisions set forth in this Certificate
of Incorporation which are applicable to all series of Cumulative
Preference Stock, the 5% Cumulative Preference Stock shall have the
following terms and provisions:

          (a) The designation of such series of Cumulative Preference Stock
     of the par value of $25 per share shall be 5% Cumulative Preference
     Stock (hereinafter referred to as this Series) and the number of
     shares which shall constitute this Series shall be 365,158 shares.

          (b) The dividend rate of this Series shall be 5% per annum upon
     the par value thereof; and the date from which dividends shall be
     cumulative shall be the effective date of the merger of Northeastern
     Water Company into the Corporation; provided that dividends on any
     shares of this Series issued in addition to the shares thereof issued
     upon the effectiveness of said merger shall commence to accrue from
     the date of issue of said additional shares, said date of issue for
     this purpose to be such date as the Board of Directors shall authorize
     or fix.

          (c) (i) The shares of this Series shall be subject to redemption
     at the option of the Corporation, on the terms and conditions
     specified in Section 5 of Division B of Article Fourth of this
     Certificate of Incorporation, at any time or from time to time, at the
     applicable redemption prices set forth below plus, as provided in said
     Section 4, an amount equal to full cumulative dividends thereon to the
     redemption date.

          (ii) The prices at which the shares of this Series may be
     redeemed at the option of the Corporation shall be as follows:

                           Period                      Redemption Price
                    (both dates inclusive)                Per Share
          -----------------------------------------    ----------------

          Date of issue to December 31, 1962.......        $26.25
          January 1, 1963 to December 31, 1963.....         26.00
          January 1, 1964 to December 31, 1964.....         25.75
          January 1, 1965 to December 31, 1965.....         25.50
          January 1, 1966 to December 31, 1966.....         25.25
          January 1, 1967 and thereafter...........         25.00

          (d) The amounts payable upon the shares of this Series in the
     event of any voluntary liquidation or dissolution or winding up of
     the Corporation shall be an amount equal to the redemption price
     (exclusive of dividends) specified in paragraph (c)(ii) of this
     Section 4 then in effect, plus, as provided in Section 3 of Division
     B of Article Fourth of this Certificate of Incorporation, an amount
     equal to full cumulative dividends thereon to date of final
     distribution to the holders of the Cumulative Preference Stock.

          (e) Holders of the shares of this Series shall have the right to
     vote for directors in the event of "six quarters' default in
     preference stock dividends" as provided in Section 1 of Division D of
     this Article Fourth.

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          (f) Shares of this Series shall not be convertible into any other
     shares of the Corporation. No sinking fund or purchase fund shall be
     established for the redemption or purchase of shares of this Series.

5.  4.10% Convertible Cumulative Preferential Stock.

     In addition to the terms and provisions set forth in this Certificate
of Incorporation which are applicable to all series of Cumulative
Preferential Stock, the 4.10% Convertible Cumulative Preferential Stock
shall have the following terms and provisions:

          (a) The designation of such series of Cumulative Preferential
     Stock of the par value of $35 per share shall prior to March 1, 1970
     be 4.10% Cumulative Preferential Stock and on and after March 1, 1970
     be 4.10% Convertible Cumulative Preferential Stock. Such series is
     hereinafter called the 4.10% Preferential Stock and the number of
     shares which shall constitute such series shall be 656,218 shares.

          (b) The dividend rate of the 4.10% Preferential Stock shall be
     4.10% per annum upon the par value thereof, and no more; and the date
     from which dividends shall be cumulative on shares of such series
     shall be the quarterly dividend payment date next preceding the date
     of issue of such shares or, if issued on a quarterly dividend payment
     date, then such date; provided that the Board of Directors may
     determine when authorizing the issuance of particular shares of such
     series that the date of cumulation of dividends on such shares shall
     be the date of issue of each of such shares, said date of issue for
     this purpose to be such date as the Board of Directors shall authorize
     and fix; and provided further that January 15, 1965 shall be the date
     of cumulation of dividends on all shares of such series which are
     issued prior to the record date for the determination of stockholders
     entitled to the first dividend on shares of such series.

          (c) No shares of the 4.10% Preferential Stock shall be subject to
     redemption prior to March 1, 1975. On and after March 1, 1975, the
     shares of 4.10% Preferential Stock may be redeemed at the option of
     the Corporation, at any time or from time to time, on the terms and
     conditions specified in Section 5 of Division B-1 of this Article
     Fourth. If redeemed on or after March 1, 1975 and before March 1, 1980
     the redemption price shall be $40.00 per share, and if redeemed on or
     after March 1, 1980 the redemption price shall be $37.50 per share,
     plus in each case, as provided in said Section 5, an amount equal to
     full cumulative dividends thereon to the redemption date.
  
          (d) The amounts payable upon the shares of 4.10% Preferential
     Stock in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or
     dissolution or winding up of the Corporation shall be $30 per share
     plus, as provided in Section 3 of Division B-1 of this Article Fourth,
     an amount equal to full cumulative dividends thereon to the date of
     final distribution to the holders of the Cumulative Preferential
     Stock, and no more.

          (e) The 4.10% Preferential Stock shall not be entitled to the
     benefit of any sinking fund or purchase fund.

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          (f) (1) On and after March 1, 1970, the shares of 4.10%
     Preferential Stock shall be convertible, at the option of the
     respective holders thereof, into fully paid and nonassessable shares
     of the Common Stock of the Corporation, in accordance with the
     provisions of this paragraph (f). The rate of such conversion shall
     be one and three-tenths shares of Common Stock for each one share of
     4.10% Preferential Stock, subject to the further provisions of this
     paragraph(f).

          (2) Any holder of shares of 4.10% Preferential Stock
     electing to exercise the conversion privilege with respect to any of
     such shares shall surrender the certificate therefor at the principal
     office of any Transfer Agent for said Stock, with the form of written
     notice to the Corporation endorsed on such certificate of his election
     to convert such shares of 4.10% Preferential Stock into Common Stock
     duly filled out and executed, and, if necessary under the
     circumstances of such conversion, with such certificate properly
     endorsed for, or accompanied by duly executed instruments of, transfer
     (and such other transfer papers as said Transfer Agent may reasonably
     require). The Corporation or such Transfer Agent may require, as a
     condition to the exercise of such conversion privilege, the payment of
     a sum equal to any transfer tax or other governmental charge (but not
     including any tax payable upon the issue of stock deliverable upon
     such conversion) that may be imposed or required by law upon any
     transfer incidental or prior thereto, or the submission of proper
     proof that the same has been paid. The conversion privilege shall be
     deemed to have been exercised, and the shares of Common Stock issuable
     upon such conversion shall, subject to the provisions of subparagraph
     4 of this paragraph (f), be deemed to have been issued, upon the date
     of receipt by such Transfer Agent for conversion of the certificate
     representing such shares of 4.10% Preferential Stock with the
     requirements for conversion satisfied, except that if the conversion
     privilege may not be exercised at the time of such receipt, it shall
     be deemed to have been exercised on the first date thereafter on which
     such privilege may be exercised; and the person entitled to receive
     the Common Stock issuable upon such conversion shall on the date such
     conversion privilege is deemed to have been exercised and thereafter
     be treated for all purposes as the record holder of such Common Stock
     and shall on the same date cease to be treated for any purpose as the
     record holder of such 4.10% Preferential Stock so converted. The
     conversion privilege shall also be subject to the following terms and 
     conditions:

               (i) if any shares of 4.10% Preferential Stock shall be
          called for redemption, the conversion privilege in respect of
          such shares shall terminate at the close of business on the last
          business day next preceding the date fixed for the redemption of
          such shares;

               (ii) if the Corporation shall at any time be liquidated,
          dissolved or wound up, the conversion privilege shall terminate
          at the close of business on the last business day next preceding
          the effective date of such liquidation, dissolution or winding
          up;

               (iii) if a certificate for 4.10% Preferential Stock is
          surrendered for conversion on a date which is less than five
          business days preceding the date fixed for the determination of
          holders of Common Stock entitled to receive rights to subscribe
          for or purchase shares of Common Stock or other securities of
          the Corporation

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          convertible into its Common Stock, then the effective date of
          conversion shall be the business day next succeeding the date
          fixed for such determination; and

               (iv) no adjustment or payment will be made upon conversion
          of 4.10% Preferential Stock for dividends accrued thereon or for
          dividends upon the Common Stock issuable upon such conversion.

          (3) The Corporation shall not be required, in connection with any
     conversion of 4.10% Preferential Stock, to issue a fraction of a share
     of its Common Stock nor to deliver any stock certificate representing
     a fraction thereof, but in lieu thereof the Corporation may make a
     cash payment equal to such fraction multiplied by the market price of
     the Common Stock determined as hereinafter set forth, or the
     Corporation may issue non-dividend bearing, non-voting Common Stock
     scrip (exchangeable for Common Stock, during the life of such scrip as
     hereinbelow specified, when surrendered in amounts aggregating a full
     share) in such form, bearer or registered, in such denominations, and
     containing such other terms and provisions as the Board of Directors
     of the Corporation may from time to time determine prior to the issue
     thereof. The market price of the Common Stock for the purpose of
     computing payments to be made for fractional shares shall be the
     closing sales price (or if there were no sales, the closing bid price)
     on the principal stock exchange on which the Common Stock is listed
     or, if the Common Stock is not so listed, the closing bid price on the
     New York over-the-counter market; such price shall be determined as of
     the close of business on the last business day of each week and such
     price as so determined shall continue in effect during the next
     succeeding week. Common Stock scrip issued as aforesaid shall not
     entitle the holder thereof to any dividends or to any voting rights or
     other rights as a stockholder of the Corporation, and all rights
     represented by such scrip shall terminate six years after the date of
     the conversion of shares of 4.10% Preferential Stock in connection
     with which such scrip was issued.

          (4) As soon as practicable after the effective date of conversion
     of any 4.10% Preferential Stock into Common Stock, the Corporation
     shall deliver to the person entitled thereto, at the principal office
     of the Transfer Agent for the 4.10% Preferential Stock at which such
     Stock was surrendered for conversion as aforesaid, certificates
     representing the shares of Common Stock and the cash or Common Stock
     scrip, if any, to which such person shall be entitled on such
     conversion. Nothing herein shall be construed to give any holder of
     4.10% Preferential Stock surrendering the same for conversion the
     right to receive any additional shares of Common Stock or other
     property which results from an adjustment in conversion rights under
     the provisions of subparagraphs 5 or 6 of this paragraph (f) until
     holders of Common Stock are entitled to receive the shares or other
     property giving rise to the adjustment. The Corporation shall not be
     required to deliver certificates for shares of its Common Stock or new
     certificates for unconverted shares of its 4.10% Preferential Stock
     while the stock transfer books for such respective classes of stock
     are duly closed for any purpose; but the right of surrendering shares
     of 4.10% Preferential Stock for conversion shall not be suspended
     during any period that the stock transfer books of either of such
     classes of stock are closed.

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          (5) The conversion rate set forth hereinabove shall be subject to
     adjustment from time to time in certain instances, as follows:

               (i) if the Corporation shall at any time effect a
          subdivision of its Common Stock, by reclassification or
          otherwise, then in each such case the conversion rate then in
          effect shall be increased proportionately, and in like manner if
          the Corporation shall effect any combination of Common Stock, by
          reclassification or otherwise, then in each such case the
          conversion rate then in effect shall be decreased
          proportionately; in each such case the adjustment in the
          conversion rate shall be effective at the time that such
          subdivision or combination shall become effective; and

               (ii) if the Corporation shall at any time pay a dividend, or
          make a distribution, upon its Common Stock in Common Stock, then
          in each such case, from and after the record date for determining
          the stockholders entitled to receive such dividend, the
          conversion rate then in effect shall be increased in proportion
          to the increase in the number of outstanding shares of Common
          Stock through such dividend. For purposes of the preceding
          sentence, if the Corporation issues as a dividend a security
          which is convertible into Common Stock without the payment to the
          Corporation of any consideration other than the surrender of such
          convertible security, then the issuance of Common Stock upon the
          conversion of such convertible security shall be considered the
          payment of a dividend in Common Stock, but no adjustment in the
          conversion rate of the 4.10% Preferential Stock shall be made by
          reason of the issuance of Common Stock under the circumstances
          just referred to until the amount of such adjustment, cumulated
          since the last adjustment in the conversion rate made by reason
          of the issuance of Common Stock under such circumstances, shall
          be at least .01 of a share of Common Stock, and any such
          adjustment shall become effective at the close of business on the
          date of issuance of the Common Stock that gives rise to such
          adjustment.

          (6) In case of any reclassification or change of the Common Stock
     of the Corporation (other than a change in par value thereof, or a
     change from par value to no par value, or a case provided for in
     clauses (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (5) of this paragraph (f)), or in
     case of a merger or consolidation in which the Corporation is not the
     continuing corporation, provision shall be made so that holders of
     4.10% Preferential Stock shall thereafter have the right to convert
     each share of such Stock into the kind and amount of shares of stock
     and/or other securities or property receivable upon such
     reclassification, change, merger or consolidation by a holder of the
     number and kind of shares of capital stock of the Corporation into
     which such share of 4.10% Preferential Stock might have been converted
     immediately prior to such reclassification, change, merger or
     consolidation. In any such case, provision shall be made as and to the
     extent the Board of Directors may determine for the application of the
     adjustments provided for in subparagraphs (5) and (6) of this
     paragraph (f) after such reclassification, change, merger or
     consolidation.

          (7) Whenever the conversion rate is required to be adjusted as
     provided in this paragraph (f):

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               (i) the Corporation shall forthwith prepare a certificate
          setting forth such adjusted conversion rate and the facts upon
          which such adjustment is based, and such certificate shall
          forthwith be filed with the Transfer Agents for the 4.10%
          Preferential Stock and the Transfer Agents for the Common Stock
          and thereafter (until further adjusted) the adjusted conversion
          rate shall be as set forth in said certificate; and

               (ii) the Corporation shall mail to each holder of record of
          4.10% Preferential Stock notice of such adjusted conversion rate.

          (8) So long as any shares of the 4.10% Preferential Stock shall
     remain outstanding and the holders thereof shall have the right to
     convert said shares in accordance with the provisions of this
     paragraph (f), the Corporation shall at all times reserve from the
     authorized and unissued shares of its Common Stock a sufficient number
     of shares to provide for such conversions.

          (9) As a condition precedent to the taking of any action that
     would cause an adjustment requiring the issuance upon the conversion
     of 4.10% Preferential Stock of shares of capital stock with an
     aggregate par value in excess of the 4.10% Preferential Stock so
     converted, the Corporation will take any corporate action which the
     Board of Directors may, with the advice of counsel, determine to be
     necessary in order that the Corporation may validly and legally issue
     fully paid and nonassessable shares of such capital stock at such
     adjusted conversion price.

          (10) Whenever reference is made in this paragraph (f) to the
     Common Stock of the Corporation, such reference is to the Common Stock
     of the Corporation as such stock exists on the date of filing and
     recording pursuant to Section 151 of the Delaware General Corporation
     Law of the certificate creating the 4.10% Preferential Stock, or to
     stock into which such Common Stock may be changed from time to time.
  
          (g) (1) So long as any shares of the 4.10% Preferential Stock
     shall be outstanding, the Corporation shall not, without the consent,
     given in writing or by resolution adopted at a meeting duly called for
     that purpose, of the holders of record of at least two-thirds of the
     number of shares of the 4.10% Preferential Stock and of any other
     series of the Cumulative Preferential Stock then outstanding which
     have similar voting rights, voting separately as a class and without
     regard to series,

               (i) alter or change the preferences, special rights or
          powers given to the 4.10% Preferential Stock and such other
          series so as to affect the 4.10% Preferential Stock and such
          other series adversely; provided, however, that any such change
          of the preferences, special rights or powers of the 4.10%
          Preferential Stock which does not affect adversely any other
          series of the Cumulative Preferential Stock may be effected with
          the consent, given as aforesaid, of the holders of record of at
          least two-thirds of the number of shares of 4.10% Preferential
          Stock then outstanding;

               (ii) increase or decrease the par value of the 4.10%
          Preferential Stock; or

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               (iii) create any new class of stock having preference over
          the Cumulative Preferential Stock as to dividends or assets;

     provided, however, that no such consent by holders of 4.10%
     Preferential Stock shall be required in order for the Corporation to
     take any corporate action with respect to which such holders of 4.10%
     Preferential Stock have the right to object and, upon complying with
     procedures prescribed by the Delaware General Corporation Law, to
     become entitled to payment of the appraised value of such shares (it
     not being the intent of this provision, however, to limit in any
     manner the voting rights expressly granted to holders of shares of
     4.10% Preferential Stock by the Delaware General Corporation Law); and
     provided further, however, that, except for the general power to vote
     in the election of directors and for all other purposes granted to the
     4.10% Preferential Stock in paragraph (i) below, no holders of 4.10%
     Preferential Stock shall have any right to vote or consent for or in
     respect of any increase or decrease in the authorized number of shares
     of any class of stock (whether ranking senior to, on a parity with, or
     junior to the Cumulative Preferential Stock as to dividends or assets
     or whether now existing or hereafter created) or for or in respect of
     the creation of any new class of stock ranking on a parity with or 
     junior to the Cumulative Preferential Stock as to dividends or assets.
 
          (2) Holders of 4.10% Preferential Stock shall have the right to
     vote for directors in the event of a "six quarters' default in
     Preferential Stock dividends" as provided in Section 1 of Division D
     of Article Fourth of this Certificate of Incorporation.

          (h) Holders of the shares of 4.10% Preferential Stock shall not
     be entitled to the benefit of any additional limitations restricting
     the purchase of, the payment of dividends on, or the making of other
     distributions in respect of stock of any class of the Corporation
     ranking junior to the Cumulative Preferential Stock as to dividends
     or assets.
     
          (i) In addition to the voting rights to which the holders of
     shares of 4.10% Preferential Stock are entitled as otherwise provided
     in Article Fourth of this Certificate of Incorporation and in
     paragraph (g) above, and subject to the qualifications, limitations
     and restrictions thereof as therein set forth, the holders of shares
     of 4.10% Preferential Stock shall have the general power to vote in
     the election of directors and for all other purposes on the basis of
     one-tenth of a vote per share.

          (j) If the Corporation shall at any time offer shares of its
     Common Stock to holders of its then outstanding Common Stock at a
     price less than $27 per share, the Corporation shall grant each holder
     of the then outstanding shares of 4.10% Preferential Stock
     proportionate subscription rights (i) based on the number of full
     shares of Common Stock of the Corporation into which such holder's
     shares of 4.10% Preferential Stock are convertible at the time fixed
     for determination of holders of Common Stock to whom such offer
     shall be made, and (ii) in the manner and upon the conditions that the
     Board of Directors shall deem appropriate in order to afford all
     holders of 4.10% Preferential Stock a similar subscription privilege
     to that granted the holders of the Common Stock. For purposes only of
     determining the number of shares of Common Stock to which the holders
     of 4.10% Preferential Stock may subscribe, the 4.10% Preferential
     Stock will be deemed convertible immediately upon its issuance. 

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     Fifth: The names and places of residence of the incorporators are 
as follows:

                 Names                Places of Residence
          ----------------------      -------------------

          Oliver B. Merrill, Jr.      17 East 97th Street,
                                        New York, N. Y.
 
          J. Edward Mount             308 East 79th Street,
                                        New York, N. Y.

          Robert T. Kimberlin         1 University Place,
                                        New York, N. Y.

     Sixth: The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

     Seventh: The private property of the stockholders shall not be subject
to the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.

     Eighth: 1. All corporate powers of the Corporation shall be exercised
by the Board of Directors, except as otherwise provided by law. The Board
of Directors may, by resolution or resolutions passed by a majority of the
whole Board, designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of
two or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent
provided in said resolution or resolutions or in the by-laws of the
Corporation, shall have and may exercise the powers of the Board of
Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation,
and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed
to all papers which may require it, provided that no such committee shall
have or exercise any such power or powers if and so long as a "two years'
default in preferred dividends", as defined in Section 1 of Division D of
Article Fourth hereof, shall exist.

     2. In furtherance of and not in limitation of the powers conferred
upon the Board of Directors by law, the Board of Directors is expressly
authorized, without action by the stockholders:

          (a) To issue, from time to time, and to sell or otherwise dispose
     of any and all bonds, debentures, notes and other obligations of the
     Corporation and, subject to the provisions of Divisions A and B of
     Article Fourth hereof, to issue, from time to time, and to sell or
     otherwise dispose of any and all shares of its stock of any class, in
     such amounts, for such consideration (not less than the par value
     thereof in the case of stock having a par value) and upon such terms
     as the Board of Directors shall determine, and to mortgage or pledge
     any and all property and assets of the Corporation, then owned or
     thereafter acquired, as security for the payment of any such bonds,
     debentures, notes or other obligations.

          (b) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (a) of Section 7 of
     Division A and paragraph (a) of Section 6 of Division B of Article
     Fourth hereof, to sell, assign, convey or otherwise dispose of any
     part of the property, assets and business of the Corporation if less
     than substantially the whole thereof, on such terms and conditions
     as the Board of Directors shall determine.

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          (c) Subject to the provisions of Section 2 of Division E of
     Article Fourth hereof, to fix the amount to be reserved by the
     Corporation over and above its capital stock paid in and to fix and
     determine and vary the amount of the working capital of the
     Corporation, and to direct and determine the use and disposition of
     the working capital and any surplus or net profits over and above the
     capital stock paid in.

          (d) To determine to what extent and at what times and places and
     under what conditions and regulations the accounts and books of the
     Corporation, or any of them, shall be opened to the inspection of the
     stockholders, and no stockholder shall have any right to inspect any
     account, book, or document of the Corporation except as conferred by
     statute or as authorized by resolution of the Board of Directors.

          (e) To establish, amend, alter or repeal and put into effect and
     carry out such plan or plans, of general application, as the Board may
     determine from time to time with respect to pensions, retirement
     allowances, life, accident and other insurance and similar matters for
     officers and employees of the Corporation and its subsidiaries in
     consideration for or in recognition of the services rendered or to be
     rendered by such officers and employees.

     3. The number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed from time
to time by, or in the manner provided in, the by-laws but shall never be
less than nine. Subject to the provisions of Division D of Article Fourth
hereof, in case of any increase in the number of directors, the additional
directors shall be elected as may be provided in the by-laws.

     4. Any director of the Corporation may be removed for cause in such
manner as may be provided in the by-laws.

     5. The directors and stockholders may hold their meetings and have an
office or offices outside the State of Delaware if the by-laws so provide.

     6. None of the directors need be a stockholder of the Corporation,
except as otherwise provided in the by-laws, or a resident of the State of
Delaware. Elections of directors need not be by ballot if the by-laws so
provide.

     7. In addition to reimbursement of his reasonable expenses incurred in
attending meetings or otherwise in connection with his attention to the
affairs of the Corporation, each director as such, and as a member of the
Executive Committee or of any other committee of the Board of Directors,
shall be entitled to receive such remuneration as may be fixed from time to
time by the Board of Directors.

     8. Subject to (i) any limitations that may be imposed by the
stockholders and (ii) the provisions of Division D of Article Fourth
hereof, the Board of Directors may make by-laws and from time to time may
alter, amend or repeal any by-laws, but any by-laws made by the Board of
Directors or the stockholders may be altered, amended or repealed by the
stockholders at any annual meeting or at any special meeting, provided that
notice of such proposed alteration, amendment or repeal is included in the
notice of such special meeting.

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     9. A director of the Corporation shall not, in the absence of fraud,
be disqualified by his office from dealing or contracting with the
Corporation either as vendor, purchaser or otherwise, nor in the absence of
fraud, shall any contract or other transaction of the Corporation be
affected or invalidated in any way by the fact that any of the directors of
the Corporation are in anywise interested in or connected with any other
party to such contract or transaction or are themselves parties to such
contract or transaction; provided, however, that such interest and
connection either shall be fully disclosed to a meeting of the Board of
Directors, or of a committee thereof having authority in the premises, at
which such contract or transaction is authorized, confirmed or approved, or
shall at the time be otherwise known to the directors present at such
meeting, and provided further that there shall be present at the meeting of
the Board of Directors, or such committee, authorizing, confirming or
approving such contract or transaction, and such contract or transaction
shall be authorized, confirmed or approved by the vote of, directors not so
interested or connected constituting a majority of the directors then in
office. No director of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation
or to any stockholder or creditor thereof or to any other person, for any
loss incurred under or by reason of any contract or transaction of the 
Corporation, and no such director shall be accountable for any gains or
profits realized therefrom, provided, however, that any such contract or
transaction shall, at the time it was entered into, have been a reasonable
one to have been entered into and shall have been upon terms that at the
time were fair, and provided further that, if such director shall have been
so interested or connected as to such contract or transaction, such
contract or transaction shall have been authorized, confirmed or approved
as aforesaid after the disclosure or knowledge of such interest or
connection as aforesaid. A director of the Corporation shall not be deemed
interested in or connected with a party to a contact or transaction between
the Corporation and a parent, subsidiary or affiliated corporation by
reason of the fact that he is also a director, officer or stockholder of
such parent, subsidiary or affiliated corporation.

     10. Nothing in this Certificate of Incorporation contained shall be
deemed to restrict any power which, as a matter of law, the Board of
Directors or any committee thereof would otherwise have to act by written
consent signed by all members of the Board or of such committee, as the
case may be.

     11. No director of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation
or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a
director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of
loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions
not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing
violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director
derived an improper personal benefit. Any repeal or modification of this
Section 11 of Article Eighth by the stockholders of the Corporation shall
be prospective only, and shall not affect, to the detriment of any
director, any limitation on the personal liability of a director of the
Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification. 

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     Ninth: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this
Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this
Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of
equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application
in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder
thereof, or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for
this Corporation under the provisions of section 291 of Title 8 of the 
Delaware Code or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any
receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions
of section 279 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code order a meeting of the
creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of
stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in
such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing
three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of
the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the 
case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any
reorganization of this Corporation as consequence of such compromise or
arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization
shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been
made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all
the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this Corporation, as the case
may be, and also on this Corporation.

     Tenth: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or
repeal any provision contained in this Certificate in the manner now or
hereafter prescribed by statute, and all rights herein conferred upon the
stockholders, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, are granted
subject to this reservation.

D. The effective date of this Restated Certificate of Incorporation is
May 15, 1987. Upon the effective date, each of the issued shares of Common
Stock of the Company, par value $2.50 per share (including any shares
thereof held in the treasury of the Company), shall be changed and
reclassified into two shares of Common Stock of the Company, par value
$1.25 per share, and the aggregate amount of capital of the Company
represented by said shares of Common Stock, par value $2.50 per share,
shall be and become the capital represented by said shares of Common Stock,
par value $1.25 per share.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Restated Certificate of Incorporation has
been signed under the seal of the Company this 6th day of May, 1987.

                                     AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC.



                                     By     James V. LaFrankie
                                            President


(Seal)

Attest:


George H. Roberts
Secretary

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                                                               EXHIBIT 3(b)


                    AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC.

                         CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

                                    OF

                       CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION


     American Water Works Company, Inc., a corporation organized and

existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), does

hereby certify:

     FIRST: That the Board of Directors of the Company, at a meeting

thereof held on March 2, 1989, adopted a resolution declaring it advisable

that the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of the Company

be further amended as follows:

          1. Article Tenth of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as 
  amended, shall be amended to read in its entirety as follows:

          "TENTH: The Board of Directors of the Corporation, when
     evaluating any proposal from another party involving:

              (i)  a tender offer for any securities of the Corporation,
 
             (ii)  a merger or consolidation of the Corporation with or
                   into any other person,

            (iii)  a sale, lease, exchange or other disposition by the
                   Corporation, or any subsidiary of the Corporation,
                   whether or not in partial or complete liquidation, of
                   all or any substantial part of the assets of the
                   Corporation to or with any other person,
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             (iv)  any issuance or transfer by the Corporation or any
                   subsidiary of the Corporation of any securities of the
                   Corporation having voting power (whether generally or
                   upon the happening of any contingency), or any 
                   securities or instruments convertible into or
                   exchangeable for securities having voting power, to any
                   other person in exchange for securities, cash or other
                   property or a combination thereof, or

              (v)  any other transaction having an effect similar to any of
                   the foregoing upon the properties, operations or control
                   of the Corporation,

           shall, in connection with the exercise of its judgment in
           determining what is in the best interests of the Corporation and
           its stockholders, give due consideration to the following:

              (1)  the character, integrity, business philosophy and
                   financial status of the other party or parties to the
                   transaction;

              (2)  the consideration to be received by the Corporation or
                   its stockholders in connection with such transaction, as
                   compared to:

                   (a) the current market price or value of the
                       Corporation's properties or securities;

                   (b) the estimated future value of the Corporation, its
                       properties or securities;

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                   (c) such other measures of the value of the Corporation,
                       its properties or securities as the Board of
                       Directors may deem appropriate;

              (3)  the projected social, legal and economic effects of the
                   proposed action or transaction upon the Corporation, its
                   employees, suppliers, regulatory agencies and customers
                   and the communities in which the Corporation and its
                   subsidiaries do business;

              (4)  the general desirability of the continuance of the
                   Corporation as an independent entity; and

              (5)  such other factors as the Board of Directors may deem
                   relevant.

     In giving such consideration to the foregoing factors, the Board of
     Directors and each individual director shall be deemed to be
     performing their duly authorized duties and acting in good faith and
     in the best interests of the Corporation."

          2. Article Eighth, Paragraph 4, of the Restated Certificate of
   Incorporation, as amended, shall be amended to read in its entirety as
   follows:
     
          "4. No director of the Corporation may be removed except for
        cause, and the vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding
        shares of all classes of 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 remove a director for
        cause. Cause for removal shall be deemed to exist only if the
        director whose removal is proposed has been convicted in a court of
        competent jurisdiction of a felony or has been adjudged by a court
        of competent jurisdiction to be liable for gross negligence or
        misconduct in the performance of such director's duty to the
        Corporation, and such conviction or adjudication has become final
        and non-appealable."

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          3. A new Article Eleventh shall be added to the restated
     Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, to read in its entirety as
     follows:

          "ELEVENTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter,
        change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of
        Incorporation in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute,
        and all rights herein conferred upon the stockholders, except as
        otherwise herein expressly provided, are granted subject to this
        reservation.  Any provision in this Certificate of Incorporation or
        in the By-laws of the Corporation to the contrary notwithstanding,
        no provisions of Article Eighth, Paragraph 4, or of Articles Tenth
        or Eleventh of this Certificate of Incorporation, or Article II,
        Section l(a) or Article X of the By-laws of the Corporation, shall
        be altered, amended, supplemented or repealed by the stockholders
        of the Corporation, and no provision of this Certificate of
        Incorporation or of the By-laws of the Corporation inconsistent
        with such provisions shall be adopted by the stockholders of the
        Corporation, except by the affirmative vote of the holders of at
        least 80% of the voting power 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. This
        Article Eleventh shall not limit the right of the Board of
        Directors to amend the By-laws of the Corporation."

     SECOND: That thereafter, an annual meeting of stockholders of the

Company was duly called and held on May 4, 1989, upon notice in accordance

with Section 222 of the General Corporation law of the State of Delaware,

at which meeting the necessary number of votes as required by statute were

voted in favor of each of the amendments.

     THIRD: That said amendments were duly adopted in accordance with the

provisions of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of

Delaware.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused its corporate seal to be

hereunto affixed and this Certificate to be executed by James V. LaFrankie,

its President and by W. Timothy Pohl, its Secretary, this 4th day of May,

1989.

                                     American Water Works Company, Inc.



                                     By:   James V. LaFrankie
                                           President

[Corporate Seal]

Attest:



W. Timothy Pohl
Secretary

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                                                               EXHIBIT 3(c)


                    AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC.

                         CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

                                    OF

                       CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION


     American Water Works Company, Inc., a corporation organized and

existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), does

hereby certify:

     FIRST:  That the Board of Directors of the Company, at a meeting

thereof held on January 4, 1990, adopted resolutions declaring it advisable

that the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of the Company

be further amended as follows:

     1.  The first paragraph of Article Fourth of the Restated Certificate
of Incorporation, as amended, shall be amended to read in its entirety as
follows:

         "FOURTH:  The total number of shares of all classes of stock
     which the Corporation shall have authority to issue shall be
     105,616,800, of which (a) 1,866,800 shares shall be Cumulative
     Preferred Stock, of the par value of $25 per share, issuable in
     series, (b) 750,000 shares shall be Cumulative Preference Stock,
     of the par value of $25 per share, issuable in series,
     (c) 3,000,000 shares shall be Cumulative Preferential Stock, of
     the par value of $35 per share, issuable in series, and
     (d) 100,000,000 shares shall be Common Stock, of the par value
     of $1.25 per share."

     2.  Section 3 of Division E of Article Fourth of the Restated
Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, shall be amended to read in its
entirety as follows:

         "3.(a)  No holder of Cumulative Preferred Stock, Cumulative
     Preference Stock or Cumulative Preferential Stock of the
     Corporation shall, as such holder, have any right to purchase or
     subscribe for (i) any stock of any class, or any warrant or warrants,
     option or options, or other instrument or instruments that shall
     confer upon the holder or holders thereof the right to subscribe
     for or purchase or receive from the Corporation any stock of any
     class or classes which the Corporation may issue or sell, whether
     or not such stock shall be convertible into or exchangeable for
     any other stock of the Corporation of any class or classes and
     whether or not such stock shall be unissued shares authorized by
     the Certificate of Incorporation or by any amendment thereto or
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     shares of stock of the Corporation acquired by it after
     the issue thereof, or (ii) any obligation which the Corporation
     may issue or sell that shall be convertible into or exchangeable
     for any shares of stock of the Corporation of any class or classes,
     or to which shall be attached or appurtenant any warrant or warrants,
     option or options, or other instrument or instruments that shall
     confer upon the holder or holders of such obligation the right to
     subscribe for or purchase or receive from the Corporation any
     shares of its stock of any class or classes.

              (b) Upon any issue for money or other consideration of
     any stock of the Corporation that may be authorized from time to
     time, no holder of stock, irrespective of the kind of such stock,
     shall have any preemptive or other right to subscribe for, purchase
     or receive any proportionate or other share of the stock so issued,
     and the Board of Directors may dispose of all or any portion of
     such stock as and when it may determine free of any such rights,
     whether by offering the same to stockholders or by sale or other
     disposition as said Board may deem advisable."

     3.  Subparagraph (j) of the first paragraph of Section 1 of Division
B-1 of Article Fourth of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as
amended, shall be deleted in its entirety.

     4.  Subparagraph (h) of the first paragraph of Section 1 of Division
B-1 of Article Fourth of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as
amended, shall be amended by inserting the word "and" following the semi-
colon at the end of the subparagraph.

     5.  Subparagraph (i) of the first paragraph of Section 1 of Division
B-1 of Article Fourth of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as
amended, shall be amended by deleting the semi-colon and the following word
"and" at the end of the subparagraph and inserting a period in lieu
thereof.

     SECOND:  That thereafter, an annual meeting of stockholders of the

Company was duly called and held on May 3, 1990, upon notice in accordance

with Section 222 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,

at which meeting the necessary number of votes as required by statute were

voted in favor of each of the amendments.

     THIRD:  That said amendments were duly adopted in accordance with the

provisions of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of

Delaware.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused its corporate seal to be

hereunto affixed and this Certificate to be executed by James V. LaFrankie,

its President, and by W. Timothy Pohl, its Secretary, this 3rd day of May,

1990.

                                        American Water Works Company, Inc.



                                        By:   James V. LaFrankie
                                              President

(Corporate Seal)

Attest:



W. Timothy Pohl
Secretary
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                                                               EXHIBIT 3(d)


                    AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC.

                       CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATIONS


     American Water Works Company, Inc., a corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), does hereby certify:

     THAT the Board of Directors of the Company, at a meeting thereof held
on January 3, 1991, duly adopted the following resolution:

          RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority expressly
     granted to and vested in the Board of Directors of the
     Corporation by the provisions of the Restated Certificate of
     Incorporation, as amended, of the Company, the Board of
     Directors hereby creates a series of Cumulative Preferred
     Stock of the par value of $25 per share of the Corporation
     from the authorized but unissued Cumulative Preferred Stock
     and hereby fixes the number of shares which shall constitute
     such series and the voting powers, designations, preferences
     and relative, participating, optional or other special
     rights, qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof,
     of the shares of such series as follows:

          In addition to the terms and provisions set forth in
     the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, which
     are applicable to all series of Cumulative Preferred Stock,
     the Cumulative Preferred Stock, 8.50% Series shall have the
     following terms and provisions:

               (a) The designation of such series of
          Cumulative Preferred Stock of the par value of
          $25 per share shall be Cumulative Preferred Stock,
          8.50% Series(hereinafter called the 8.50% Preferred
          Stock), and the number of shares which shall
          constitute such series shall be 1,600,000 shares.

               (b) The dividend rate of the 8.50% Preferred
          Stock shall be 8.50% per annum upon the par value
          thereof, the date from which dividends on shares
          of the 8.50% Preferred Stock shall be cumulative
          shall be the date of issue of the first of said
          shares to be issued, and the initial dividend shall
          be payable on June 1, 1991.

               (c) The shares of the 8.50% Preferred Stock
          shall be redeemed by the Corporation on December 1,
          2000 at the par value thereof plus, as provided in
          Section 6 of Division A of Article Fourth an amount
          equal to full cumulative dividends thereon to the
          redemption date; provided, however, the shares of
          the 8.50% Preferred Stock shall not be otherwise
          subject to redemption at the option of the Corporation.
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               (d) The amounts payable upon the shares of the
          8.50% Preferred Stock in the event of any voluntary
          liquidation or dissolution or winding up of the
          Corporation shall be an amount equal to the par value
          per share (exclusive of dividends) plus, as provided
          in Section 4 of Division A of Article Fourth, an amount
          equal to full cumulative dividends thereon to the date
          of final distribution to the holders of the Cumulative
          Preferred Stock.

               (e) No sinking fund or purchase fund shall be
          established for the purchase or redemption of shares
          of the 8.50% Preferred Stock.

               (f) The shares of the 8.50% Preferred Stock shall
          not be convertible into any other shares of the
          Corporation.

               (g) The shares of the 8.50% Preferred Stock shall
          not be entitled to the benefit of any limitations
          restricting the purchase of, the payment of dividends
          on, or the making of other distributions in respect of
          stock of any class of the Corporation ranking junior
          to the Cumulative Preferred Stock as to dividends or
          assets in addition to those set forth in Division A of
          Article Fourth.

               (h) Except as otherwise provided in Division D of
          Article Fourth, the shares of the 8.50% Preferred Stock
          shall not have the general power to vote in the
          election of directors and for other purposes.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused its corporate seal to be
hereunto affixed and this Certificate of Designations to be executed by
James V. LaFrankie, its President, and by W. Timothy Pohl, its Secretary,
this 4th day of February, 1991.

                                       AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC.



                                       By:  James V. LaFrankie,President


ATTEST:



 W. Timothy Pohl, Secretary


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                                                               EXHIBIT 3(e)


                    AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC.

                         CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

                                    OF

                       CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION


     American Water Works Company, Inc., a corporation organized and

existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Company"), does

hereby certify:

     FIRST:  That the Board of Directors of the Company, at a meeting

thereof held on March 7, 1996, adopted a resolution declaring it advisable

that the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of the Company

be further amended as follows:

     The first paragraph of Article Fourth of the Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, as amended, shall be amended to read in its entirety as
follows:

     "FOURTH:  The total number of shares of all classes of stock
     which the Corporation shall have authority to issue shall be
     305,520,000 of which (a) 1,770,000 shares shall be Cumulative
     Preferred Stock, of the par value of $25 per share, issuable
     in series, (b) 750,000 shares shall be Cumulative Preference
     Stock, of the par value of $25 per share, issuable in series,
     (c) 3,000,000 shares shall be Cumulative Preferential Stock,
     of the par value of $35 per share, issuable in series, and
     (d) 300,000,000 shares shall be Common Stock, of the par value
     of $1.25 per share."

     SECOND:  That thereafter, an annual meeting of stockholders of the

Company was duly called and held on May 2, 1996, upon notice in accordance

with Section 222 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware,

at which meeting the necessary number of votes as required by statute were

voted in favor of the amendment.

     THIRD:  That said amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the

provisions of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of

Delaware.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused its corporate seal to be

hereunto affixed and this Certificate to be executed by George W.

Johnstone, its President and Chief Executive Officer, and by W. Timothy

Pohl, its General Counsel and Secretary, this 2nd day of May, 1996.

                                 AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY, INC.



                                 By:  George W. Johnstone
                                      President and Chief Executive Officer

(Corporate Seal)

Attest:



W. Timothy Pohl
General Counsel and Secretary

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