Exhibit 4(a)



     FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (the "Supplemental Indenture"), dated as of 
September 19, 1997, between Fort Howard Corporation, a Delaware corporation 
(the "Company"), and Norwest Bank Wisconsin, N.A., a Wisconsin banking 
corporation, as Trustee (the "Trustee").

                                 WITNESSETH:

     WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 8.02 of the Indenture relating to the 
9-1/4% Senior Notes due 2001 of the Company (the "Securities"), dated as of 
March 15, 1993, among the Company and the Trustee (the "Indenture"), subject 
to Sections 5.04 and 5.07 of the Indenture, the Company, when authorized by 
the Board of Directors (as evidenced by Board Resolution), and the Trustee may 
amend the Indenture and the Securities with the written consent of the holders 
of a majority in principal amount of the Securities then outstanding (the 
"Requisite Consents"); and 

     WHEREAS, the Company has obtained the Requisite Consents to amend the  
Indenture as set forth below; and

     WHEREAS the Board of Directors has, as evidenced by Board Resolution, 
authorized the amendment of the Indenture pursuant to this Supplemental 
Indenture; and 

     WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid 
supplement to the terms of the Indenture have been done.

     NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as set forth below.

     Section 1.  AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE ONE.  Section 1.01 of the Indenture is 
hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:

     SECTION 1.01.  DEFINITIONS.

     "Acquisition" is defined to mean the acquisition of the Common Stock of 
the Company by FH Acquisition Corp. pursuant to a tender offer commenced on 
July 1, 1988 and the subsequent merger of FH Acquisition Corp. with and into 
the Company.

     "Administrative Agent" is defined to mean the Bank Agent under the Bank 
Credit Agreement or the 1993 Term Loan Agreement, or any successor thereto, 
including the New Bank Credit Agreement.

     "Affiliate" is defined to mean, as applied to any Person, any other 
Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under direct or 
indirect common control with, such Person.  For purposes of this definition, 
"control" (including, with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling," 
"controlled by" and "under common control with"), as applied to any Person, is 
defined to mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct 
or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether 
through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.  For 
purposes of this definition, no Bank Agent, Administrative Agent or Bank and 
no affiliate of any of them shall be deemed to be an Affiliate of the Company.

     "Agent" is defined to mean any Registrar, Paying Agent, authenticating 
agent or co-registrar.

     "Bank Agent" is defined to mean Bankers Trust Company as agent for the 
Banks pursuant to the Bank Credit Agreement or the 1993 Term Loan Agreement, 
and any successor or successors thereto, including The Chase Manhattan Bank, 
as agent for the Banks pursuant to the New Bank Credit Agreement.

     "Bank Credit Agreement" is defined to mean the Credit Agreement, dated as 
of October 24, 1988, among the Company, the Banks party thereto and the Bank 
Agents party thereto, together with the related documents thereto (including, 
without limitation, any Guarantees and security documents), in each case, as 
such agreements may be amended (including any amendment and restatement 
thereof), supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, 
including any agreement extending the maturity of, refinancing or otherwise 
restructuring (including, but not limited to, the inclusion of additional 
borrowers or Guarantors thereunder that are Subsidiaries of the Company and 
whose obligations are Guaranteed by the Company thereunder) all or any portion 
of the Indebtedness under such agreements or any successor agreements, 
including the New Bank Credit Agreement; provided that, with respect to any 
agreement providing for the refinancing of Indebtedness under the Bank Credit 
Agreement, such agreement shall be the Bank Credit Agreement under this 
Indenture only if a notice to that effect is delivered to the Trustee; and 
provided further that there shall be at any one time only one instrument, 
together with any related documents (including, without limitation, any 
Guarantees or security documents), that is the Bank Credit Agreement under 
this Indenture.

     "Banks" is defined to mean the lenders who are from time to time parties 
to the Bank Credit Agreement or the 1993 Term Loan Agreement, including the 
lenders who are from time to time parties to the New Bank Credit Agreement.

     "Board of Directors" is defined to mean the Board of Directors of the 
Company or any committee of such Board of Directors duly authorized to act 
under this Indenture.

     "Board Resolution" is defined to mean a copy of a resolution, certified 
by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly 
adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the 
date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

     "Business Day" is defined to mean any day except a Saturday, Sunday or 
other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York, or in the city of 
the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, are authorized by law to close.

     "Capitalized Lease" is defined to mean, as applied to any Person, any 
lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed) of which the 
discounted present value of the rental obligations of such Person as lessee, 
in conformity with GAAP, is required to be capitalized on the balance sheet of 
such Person; and "Capitalized Lease Obligation" is defined to mean the rental 
obligations, as aforesaid, under such lease.

     "Capital Stock" is defined to mean, with respect to any Person, any and 
all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however 
designated, whether voting or non-voting) of such Person's capital stock, 
whether now outstanding or issued after the date of this Indenture, including, 
without limitation, all Common Stock and Preferred Stock.

     "Commission" is defined to mean the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act or, if at any 
time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing 
and performing the duties now assigned to it under the TIA, then the body 
performing such duties at such time.

     "Common Stock" is defined to mean, with respect to any Person, any and 
all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however 
designated, whether voting or non-voting) of such Person's common stock, 
whether now outstanding or issued after the date of this Indenture, including, 
without limitation, all series and classes of such common stock.

     "Company" is defined to mean the party named as such in this Indenture 
until a successor replaces it pursuant to Article Four of this Indenture and 
thereafter is defined to mean the successor.

     "Corporate Trust Office" is defined to mean the office of the Trustee at 
which the corporate trust business of the Trustee shall, at any particular 
time, be principally administered, which office is, at the date of this 
Indenture, located at 100 East Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1200, Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin 53202, Attention:  Corporate Trust Services.

     "Currency Agreement" is defined to mean any foreign exchange contract, 
currency swap agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to 
protect the Company or any of its Subsidiaries against fluctuations in 
currency values to or under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a 
party or a beneficiary on the date of this Indenture or becomes a party or a 
beneficiary thereafter.

     "Default" is defined to mean any event that is, or after notice or 
passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.

     "Event of Default" has the meaning provided in Section 5.01 of this 
Indenture.

     "Exchange Act" is defined to mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as 
amended.

     "14-1/8% Debentures" is defined to mean the 14-1/8% Junior Subordinated 
Discount Debentures Due 2004 of the Company.

     "14-5/8% Debentures" is defined to mean the 14-5/8% Junior Subordinated 
Debentures Due 2004 of the Company.

     "GAAP" is defined to mean generally accepted accounting principles in the 
United States of America as in effect as of the date of this Indenture, 
including, without limitation, those set forth in the opinions and 
pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of 
Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the 
Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other 
entity as approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession.  All 
ratios and computations based on GAAP contained in this Indenture shall be 
computed in conformity with GAAP, except that calculations made for purposes 
of determining compliance with the terms of the covenants described below and 
with other provisions of this Indenture shall be made without giving effect to 
(i) the amortization of any expenses incurred in connection with the 
Acquisition or the Refinancing and (ii) except as otherwise provided, the 
amortization of any amounts required or permitted by Accounting Principles 
Board Opinion Nos. 16 and 17.

     "Guarantee" is defined to mean any obligation, contingent or otherwise, 
of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other 
obligation of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the 
foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of 
such Person (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the 
purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation of such other 
Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreement 
to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-
pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise) or 
(ii) entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of 
such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof or to protect 
such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided 
that the term "Guarantee" shall not include endorsements for collection or 
deposit in the ordinary course of business.  The term "Guarantee" used as a 
verb has a corresponding meaning.

     "Holder" or "Securityholder" is defined to mean the registered holder of 
any Security.

     "Incur" is defined to mean, with respect to any Indebtedness, to incur, 
create, issue, assume, Guarantee or otherwise become liable for or with 
respect to or extend the maturity of, or become responsible for, the payment 
of, contingently or otherwise, such Indebtedness; provided that neither the 
accrual of interest (whether such interest is payable in cash or kind) nor the 
accretion of original issue discount shall be considered an Incurrence of 
Indebtedness.

     "Indebtedness" is defined to mean, with respect to any Person at any date 
of determination (without duplication), (i) all indebtedness of such Person 
for borrowed money, (ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, 
debentures, notes or other similar instruments, (iii) all obligations of such 
Person in respect of letters of credit or other similar instruments (including 
reimbursement obligations with respect thereto), (iv) all obligations of such 
Person to pay the deferred and unpaid purchase price of property or services, 
which purchase price is due more than six months after the date of placing 
such property in service or taking delivery and title thereto or the 
completion of such services, except Trade Payables, (v) all obligations of 
such Person as lessee under Capitalized Leases, (vi) all Indebtedness of other 
Persons secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such 
Indebtedness is assumed by such Person; provided that the amount of such 
Indebtedness shall be the lesser of (A) the fair market value of such asset at 
such date of determination and (B) the amount of such Indebtedness of such 
other Persons, (vii) all Indebtedness of other Persons Guaranteed by such 
Person to the extent such Indebtedness is Guaranteed by such Person, 
(viii) all obligations in respect of borrowed money under the Bank Credit 
Agreement, the 1993 Term Loan Agreement, the Senior Secured Notes, the 
Securities (including any agreements pursuant to which the Securities are 
issued) and any Guarantees thereof and (ix) to the extent not otherwise 
included in this definition, obligations under Currency Agreements and 
Interest Rate Agreements.  The amount of Indebtedness of any Person at any 
date shall be the outstanding balance at such date of all unconditional 
obligations as described above and the maximum liability, upon the occurrence 
of the contingency giving rise to the obligation, of any contingent 
obligations at such date; provided that the amount outstanding at any time of 
any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount is the face amount of 
such Indebtedness less the remaining unamortized portion of the original issue 
discount of such Indebtedness at such time as determined in conformity with 
GAAP.

     "Indenture" is defined to mean this Indenture as originally executed or 
as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time by one or more 
indentures supplemental to this Indenture entered into pursuant to the 
applicable provisions of this Indenture.

     "Interest Payment Date" is defined to mean each semiannual interest 
payment date on March 15 and September 15 of each year, commencing 
September 15, 1993.

     "Interest Rate Agreement" is defined to mean any interest rate protection 
agreement, interest rate future agreement, interest rate option agreement, 
interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate 
collar agreement, interest rate hedge agreement or other similar agreement or 
arrangement designed to protect the Company or any of its Subsidiaries against 
fluctuations in interest rates to or under which the Company or any of its 
Subsidiaries is a party or a beneficiary on the date of this Indenture or 
becomes a party or a beneficiary thereafter.

     "Investment" is defined to mean any direct or indirect advance, loan 
(other than advances to customers in the ordinary course of business that are 
recorded as accounts receivable on the balance sheet of any Person or its 
Subsidiaries) or other extension of credit or capital contribution to (by 
means of any transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for 
property or services for the account or use of others), or any purchase or 
acquisition of Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other similar 
instruments issued by any other Person.

     "Lien" is defined to mean any mortgage, pledge, security interest, 
encumbrance, lien or charge of any kind (including, without limitation, any 
conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in the nature 
thereof, any sale with recourse against the seller or any Affiliate of the 
seller).

     "New Bank Credit Agreement" is defined to mean the Credit Agreement, 
dated as of August 13, 1997, among Fort James Corporation, the Subsidiaries of 
Fort James Corporation party thereto, the Banks party thereto and The Chase 
Manhattan Bank, as Administrative Agent, together with the related documents 
thereto (including, without limitation, any Guarantees and security 
documents), in each case, as such agreements may be amended (including any 
amendment and restatement thereof), supplemented, replaced or otherwise 
modified from time to time, including any agreement extending the maturity of, 
refinancing or otherwise restructuring (including, but not limited to, the 
inclusion of additional borrowers or Guarantors thereunder that are 
Subsidiaries of the Company and whose obligations are Guaranteed by the 
Company thereunder) all or any portion of the Indebtedness under such 
agreements or any successor agreements.

     "1993 Term Loan Agreement" is defined to mean the Term Loan Agreement, 
dated as of March 22, 1993, among the Company, the Banks party thereto and the 
Bank Agents party thereto, together with the related documents thereto 
(including, without limitation, any Guarantees and security documents), in 
each case, as such agreements may be amended (including any amendment and 
restatement thereof), supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time 
to time, including any agreement extending the maturity of, refinancing or 
otherwise restructuring (including, but not limited to, the inclusion of 
additional borrowers or Guarantors thereunder that are Subsidiaries of the 
Company and whose obligations are Guaranteed by the Company thereunder) all or 
any portion of the Indebtedness under such agreements or any successor 
agreements; provided that, with respect to any agreement providing for the 
refinancing of Indebtedness under the 1993 Term Loan Agreement, such agreement 
shall be the 1993 Term Loan Agreement under this Indenture only if a notice to 
that effect is delivered to the Trustee; and provided further that there shall 
be at any one time only one instrument, together with any related documents 
(including, without limitation, any Guarantees or security documents), that is 
the 1993 Term Loan Agreement under this Indenture.

     "Officer" is defined to mean, with respect to the Company, the Chairman 
of the Board, the President, any Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, 
the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer, or the Secretary or any Assistant 
Secretary.

     "Officers' Certificate" is defined to mean a certificate signed by two 
Officers.  Each Officers' Certificate (other than certificates provided 
pursuant to TIA Section 314(a)(4)) shall include the statements provided for 
in TIA Section 314(e).

     "Opinion of Counsel" is defined to mean a written opinion signed by legal 
counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee.  Such counsel may be an employee of 
or counsel to the Company or the Trustee.  Each such Opinion of Counsel shall 
include the statements provided for in TIA Section 314(e).

     "Paying Agent" has the meaning provided in Section 2.03, except that, for 
the purposes of Article Seven, the Paying Agent shall not be the Company or a 
Subsidiary of the Company or an Affiliate of any of them.  The term "Paying 
Agent" includes any additional Paying Agent.

     "Person" is defined to mean an individual, a corporation, a partnership, 
an association, a trust or any other entity or organization, including a 
government or political subdivision or an agency or instrumentality thereof.

     "Preferred Stock" is defined to mean, with respect to any Person, any and 
all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however 
designated, whether voting or non-voting) of such Person's preferred or 
preference stock, whether now outstanding or issued after the date of this 
Indenture, including, without limitation, all series and classes of such 
preferred or preference stock.

     "Principal" of a debt security, including the Securities, is defined to 
mean the principal amount due on the Stated Maturity as shown on such debt 
security.

     "Refinancing" is defined to mean the offer of the Securities and the 
Subordinated Notes, the Incurrence of the 1993 Term Loans, certain additional 
borrowings under the Company's revolving credit facility, the redemption of 
the 14-5/8% Debentures and the prepayment of certain term Indebtedness under 
the Bank Credit Agreement; all as undertaken in connection with the offer of 
the Securities.

     "Registrar" has the meaning provided in Section 2.03 of this Indenture.

     "Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment 
Date is defined to mean the March 1 or September 1 (whether or not a Business 
Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.

     "Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, is defined 
to mean the chairman or any vice-chairman of the board of directors, the 
chairman or any vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of 
directors, the chairman of the trust committee, the president, any vice 
president, any assistant vice president, the secretary, any assistant 
secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant 
cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller or any 
assistant controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily 
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated 
officers and also is defined to mean, with respect to a particular corporate 
trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his 
knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

     "Securities" is defined to mean any of the securities, as defined in the 
first paragraph of the recitals hereof, that are authenticated and delivered 
under this Indenture.

     "Security Register" has the meaning provided in Section 2.03 of this 
Indenture.

     "Senior Secured Notes" is defined to mean the Company's Senior Secured 
Notes due 1997 through 2000, issued in 1991 and having an aggregate principal 
amount of $300 million.

     "Significant Subsidiary" is defined to mean, at any date of 
determination, any Subsidiary of the Company that, together with its 
Subsidiaries. (i) for the most recent fiscal year of the Company, accounted 
for more than 10% of the consolidated revenues of the Company or (ii) as of 
the end of such fiscal year, was the owner of more than 10% of the 
consolidated assets of the Company, all as set forth on the most recently 
available consolidated financial statements of the Company for such fiscal 
year.

     "Stated Maturity" is defined to mean, with respect to any debt security 
or any installment of interest thereon, the date specified in such debt 
security as the fixed date on which any principal of such debt security or any 
such installment of interest is due and payable.

     "Subordinated Notes" is defined to mean the 10% Subordinated Notes Due 
2003 of the Company.

     "Subsidiary" is defined to mean, with respect to any Person, any 
corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of 
the outstanding Voting Stock is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company 
or by one or more other Subsidiaries of the Company, or by such Person and one 
or more other Subsidiaries of such Person.

     "TIA" or "Trust Indenture Act" is defined to mean the Trust Indenture Act 
of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code Sections 77aaa-77bbb), as in effect on the
date this Indenture was executed, except as provided in Section 8.06 of this 
Indenture.

    "Trade Payables" is defined to mean, with respect to any Person, any 
accounts payable or any other indebtedness or monetary obligation to trade 
creditors created, assumed or Guaranteed by such Person or any of its 
Subsidiaries arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the 
acquisition of goods or services.

     "Trustee" is defined to mean the party named as such in the first 
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor replaces it in accordance with 
the provisions of Article Six of this Indenture and thereafter is defined to 
mean such successor.

     "12-3/8% Notes" is defined to mean the 12-3/8% Senior Subordinated Notes 
Due 1997 of the Company.

     "12-5/8% Debentures" is defined to mean the 12-5/8% Subordinated 
Debentures Due 2000 of the Company.

     "United States Bankruptcy Code" is defined to mean the Bankruptcy Act of 
Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended from time to time hereafter, or 
any successor federal bankruptcy law.

     "U.S. Government Obligations" is defined to mean securities that are 
(i) direct obligations of the United States of America for the payment of 
which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person 
controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the 
United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as 
a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in 
either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer 
thereof at any time prior to the Stated Maturity of the Securities, and shall 
also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank or trust company as 
custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific 
payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation 
held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt; 
provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to 
make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository 
receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. 
Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or principal of 
the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.

     "Voting Stock" is defined to mean Capital Stock of any class or kind 
ordinarily having the power to vote for the election of directors of the 
Company.

     "Wholly Owned Subsidiary" is defined to mean, with respect to any Person, 
any Subsidiary of such Person if all of the Common Stock or other similar 
equity ownership interests (but not including Preferred Stock) in such 
Subsidiary (other than any director's qualifying shares or Investments by 
foreign nationals mandated by applicable law) is owned directly or indirectly 
by such Person.


     Section 2.  AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE THREE.  Article Three of the Indenture 
is hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:

     SECTION 3.01.  PAYMENT OF SECURITIES  The Company shall pay the principal 
of and interest on the Securities on the dates and in the manner provided in 
the Securities and this Indenture.  An installment of principal or interest 
shall be considered paid on the date due if the Trustee or Paying Agent (other 
than the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company, or any Affiliate of any of 
them) holds on that date money designated for and sufficient to pay the 
installment.  If the Company, any Subsidiary of the Company, or any Affiliate 
of any of them, acts as Paying Agent, an installment of principal or interest 
shall be considered paid on the due date if the entity acting as Paying Agent 
complies with the last sentence of Section 2.04 of this Indenture.

     The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and interest on 
overdue installments of interest, to the extent lawful, at the rate per annum 
borne by the Securities.

     SECTION 3.02.  MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.  The Company will 
maintain in the borough of Manhattan, the city of New York an office or agency 
where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange 
or for presentation for payment and where notices and demands to or upon the 
Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served.  The 
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and 
any change in the location, of such office or agency.  If at any time the 
Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall 
fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, 
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the address of the 
Trustee set forth in Section 9.02 of this Indenture.

     The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other 
offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for 
any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; 
provided that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve 
the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough 
of Manhattan, the City of New York for such purposes.  The Company will give 
prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and 
of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.

     The Company hereby initially designates the office of the Trustee, 
located in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York as such office of 
the Company in accordance with Section 2.03 of this Indenture.

     SECTION 3.03.  Intentionally Omitted.

     SECTION 3.04.  Intentionally Omitted.

     SECTION 3.05.  Intentionally Omitted.

     SECTION 3.06.  Intentionally Omitted.

     SECTION 3.07.  Intentionally Omitted.

     SECTION 3.08.  Intentionally Omitted.

     SECTION 3.09.  Intentionally Omitted.

     SECTION 3.10.  Intentionally Omitted.

     SECTION 3.11.  CORPORATE EXISTENCE.  Subject to Articles Three and Four of 
this Indenture, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to 
preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and the 
corporate existence of each Subsidiary in accordance with the respective 
organizational documents of the Company and of each Subsidiary of the Company 
and the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company 
and its Subsidiaries; provided that the Company shall not be required to 
preserve any such right, license or franchise, or the corporate existence of 
any Subsidiary of the Company, if the preservation thereof is no longer 
desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries 
taken as a whole; and provided further that any Subsidiary of the Company may 
consolidate with, merge into, or sell, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise 
dispose of all or part of its property and assets to the Company or any Wholly 
Owned Subsidiary of the Company.

     SECTION 3.12.  Intentionally Omitted.

     SECTION 3.13.  NOTICE OF DEFAULTS AND OTHER EVENTS.  In the event that any 
Indebtedness of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company having 
an outstanding principal amount of $100,000 or more has been or could be 
declared due and payable before its maturity because of the occurrence of any 
event of default (i.e., following any required notice or passage of time or 
both) under such Indebtedness (including, without limitation, any Default or 
Event of Default under this Indenture), the Company, promptly after it becomes 
aware thereof, will give written notice thereof to the Trustee.

     SECTION 3.14.  MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES AND INSURANCE.  The Company will 
cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the 
business of any Subsidiary of the Company and material to the Company and its 
Subsidiaries taken as a whole to be maintained and kept in normal condition, 
repair and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will 
cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and 
improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Company may be necessary, 
so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and 
advantageously conducted at all times; provided that nothing in this 
Section 3.14 shall prevent the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company from 
discontinuing the use, operation or maintenance of any of such properties or 
disposing of any of them, if such discontinuance or disposal is, in the 
judgment of an officer (or other agent employed by the Company or any 
Subsidiary of the Company) of the Company or such Subsidiary of the Company 
having managerial responsibility for any such property, desirable in the 
conduct of the business of the Company or such Subsidiary of the Company.

     The Company will provide or cause to be provided, for itself and its 
Subsidiaries, insurance (including appropriate self-insurance) against loss or 
damage of the kinds customarily insured against by corporations similarly 
situated and owning like properties, including, but not limited to, products 
liability insurance and public liability insurance with reputable insurers or 
with the government of the United States of America, or an agency or 
instrumentality thereof, in such amounts, with such deductibles and by such 
methods as shall be customary for corporations similarly situated in the 
industry.

     SECTION 3.15.  COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES.  (a)  The Company shall deliver to 
the Trustee, within 45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter (90 days after 
the end of the last fiscal quarter of each year), an Officers' Certificate 
stating whether or not the signers know of any Default or Event of Default that 
occurred during such fiscal quarter.  In the case of the Officers' Certificate 
delivered within 90 days of the end of the Company's fiscal year, such 
certificate shall contain a certification from the principal executive officer, 
principal financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his or her 
knowledge of the Company's compliance with all conditions and covenants under 
this Indenture.  For purposes of this Section 3.15, such compliance shall be 
determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice 
provided under this Indenture.  If they do know of such a Default or Event of 
Default, the certificate shall describe any such Default or Event of Default 
and its status.  The first certificate to be delivered pursuant to this 
Section 3.15(a) shall be for the first fiscal quarter beginning after the 
execution of this Indenture.

     (b)  The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after the 
end of the Company's fiscal year, a certificate signed by the Company's 
independent certified public accountants stating (i) that their audit 
examination has included a review of the terms of this Indenture and the 
Securities as they relate to accounting matters, (ii) that they have read the 
most recent Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee pursuant to 
paragraph (a) of this Section 3.15 and (iii) whether, in connection with their 
audit examination, anything came to their attention that caused them to believe 
that the Company was not in compliance with any of the terms, covenants, 
provisions or conditions of Article Three and Section 4.01 of this Indenture as 
they pertain to accounting matters and, if any Default or Event of Default has 
come to their attention, specifying the nature and period of existence thereof; 
provided that such independent certified public accountants shall not be liable 
in respect of such statement by reason of any failure to obtain knowledge of 
any such Default or Event of Default that would not be disclosed in the course 
of an audit examination conducted in accordance with generally accepted 
auditing standards in effect at the date of such examination.

     SECTION 3.16.  COMMISSION REPORTS AND REPORTS TO HOLDERS.  Within 15 days 
after the Company files with the Commission copies of any annual reports and 
other information, documents and reports (or copies of such portions of any of 
the foregoing as the Commission may by rules and regulations prescribe) that it 
may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of 
the Exchange Act, the Company shall file the same with the Trustee.

     SECTION 3.17.  WAIVER OF STAY, EXTENSION OR USURY LAWS.  The Company 
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any 
time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the 
benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury law or other 
law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion 
of the principal of or interest on the Securities as contemplated herein, 
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or that may affect the 
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and (to the extent that it may 
lawfully do so) the Company hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of 
any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the 
execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and 
permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been 
enacted.

     Section 3.  AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE FOUR.  Section 4.01 of the Indenture is 
hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:

     SECTION 4.01.  WHEN COMPANY MAY MERGE, ETC.  The Company shall not 
consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer, lease or 
otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its property and assets (as an 
entirety or substantially an entirety in one transaction or a series of related 
transactions) to, any Person (other than a Subsidiary that is a Wholly Owned 
Subsidiary of the Company; provided that, in connection with any merger of the 
Company with a Subsidiary that is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company, no 
consideration (other than Common Stock in the surviving Person or the Company) 
shall be issued or distributed to the stockholders of the Company) or permit 
any Person to merge with or into the Company unless:

          (i)  the Company shall be the continuing Person, or the Person (if 
other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or into which the 
Company is merged or that acquired or leased such property and assets of 
the Company shall be a corporation organized and validly existing under 
the laws of the United States of America or any jurisdiction thereof and 
shall expressly assume, by a supplemental indenture, executed and 
delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, all of the 
obligations of the Company on all of the Securities and under this 
Indenture;

          (ii)  immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default 
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and

          (iii)  the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate 
and Opinion of Counsel, in each case stating that such consolidation, 
merger or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with this 
provision and that all conditions precedent provided for herein relating 
to such transaction have been complied with.

     Section 4.  AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE SEVEN.  Section 7.03 of the Indenture is 
hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:

     SECTION 7.03.  DEFEASANCE OF CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS.  The Company may omit to 
comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 3.03 through 
3.15 of this Indenture, and clause (c) of Section 5.01 of this Indenture with 
respect to Sections 3.03 through 3.15 of this Indenture, and clauses (d), (e) 
and (h) of Section 5.01 of this Indenture shall be deemed not to be Events of 
Default, in each case with respect to the outstanding Securities 123 days after 
the deposit referred to in clause (i) below if:

          (i)  with reference to this Section 7.03, the Company has irrevocably 
deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee (or 
another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.09 of this 
Indenture) and conveyed all right, title and interest to the Trustee for 
the benefit of the Holders, under the terms of an irrevocable trust 
agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee as trust 
funds in trust, specifically pledged to the Trustee for the benefit of 
the Holders as security for payment of the principal of, premium, if any, 
and interest, if any, on the Securities, and dedicated solely to, the 
benefit of the Holders, in and to (A) money in an amount, (B) U.S. 
Government Obligations that, through the payment of interest and 
principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will 
provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment 
referred to in this clause (i), money in an amount or (C) a combination 
thereof in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge, after payment of 
all federal, state and local taxes or other charges and assessments in 
respect thereof payable by the Trustee, the principal of, premium, if 
any, and interest on the outstanding Securities on the Stated Maturity of 
such principal or interest; provided that the Trustee shall have been 
irrevocably instructed to apply such money or the proceeds of such U.S. 
Government Obligations to the payment of such principal, premium, if any, 
and interest with respect to the Securities;

          (ii)  such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or 
constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or 
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;

          (iii)  no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be 
continuing on the date of such deposit;

          (iv)  the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel 
to the effect that the Holders will not recognize income, gain or loss 
for federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and 
defeasance of certain obligations and will be subject to federal income 
tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times as 
would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred; 
and

          (v)  the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' 
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, in each case stating that all 
conditions precedent provided for herein relating to the defeasance 
contemplated by this Section 7.03 have been complied with.

     Section 5.  AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE EIGHT.  Section 8.01 of the Indenture is 
hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:

     SECTION 8.01.  WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.  The Company, when authorized 
by a resolution of its Board of Directors, and the Trustee may amend or 
supplement this Indenture or the Securities without notice to or the consent of 
any Holder:

          (1)  to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;

          (2)  to comply with Article Four of this Indenture;

          (3)  to comply with any requirements of the Commission in connection 
with the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA;

          (4)  to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in 
place of certificated Securities; or

          (5)  to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of 
any Holder.

     Section 6.  EFFECTIVENESS.  This Supplemental Indenture shall be 
effective in accordance herewith upon its execution but shall become operative 
and shall supersede the Indenture to the extent provided herein only if, and 
on the date that, the Company consummates the purchase of  Securities pursuant 
to and in accordance with the terms of the Offer to Purchase and Consent 
Solicitation Statement of the Company, dated September 8, 1997.  From and 
after such date, the Indenture shall apply only to the extent not amended and 
superseded hereby.

     Section 7.  GOVERNING LAW.  The laws of the State of New York shall 
govern this Supplemental Indenture without regard to principles relating to 
conflicts of laws. 

     Section 8.  SUCCESSORS.  All agreements of the Company in this 
Supplemental Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successors.  All 
agreements of the Trustee in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind its 
successors.

     Section 9.  DUPLICATE ORIGINALS.  The parties may sign any number of 
copies of this Supplemental Indenture.  Each signed copy shall be an original, 
but all of them together represent the same agreement.

     Section 10.  COUNTERPARTS.  This Supplemental Indenture may be signed in 
any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same 
effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument. 

     Section 11.  DEFINED TERMS.  All capitalized terms used but not defined 
in this Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the 
Indenture. 
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                                 SIGNATURES

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be 
duly executed, all as of the date first written above.

                                    FORT HOWARD CORPORATION,
                                       as Issuer

                                    By _________________________________




                                    NORWEST BANK WISCONSIN, N.A.,
                                       as Trustee


                                    By _________________________________





STATE OF                      )
                              ) ss
COUNTY OF                     )


     On this ____ day of ______________, 1997, before me personally came 
______________________, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose 
and say that he resides in ______________________, that he is 
________________________of Fort Howard Corporation, one of the corporations 
described in and that executed the above instrument; and that he signed his 
name thereto by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation.



                                          ____________________________________
                                                      Notary Public


(Notarial Seal)






STATE OF                      )
                              )
COUNTY OF                     )


I, ___________________________, a Notary Public in the State of Wisconsin, 
certify that ____________________________ personally known to me to be the 
same person who is an Officer of Norwest Bank Wisconsin, N.A., Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin subscribed to the foregoing instrument, appeared before me this day 
in person and acknowledged that such person being thereunto duly authorized 
signed and delivered the said instrument as the free and voluntary act of said 
Bank and as such person's own free and voluntary act, for the uses and 
purposes therein set forth.

GIVEN under my hand and notarial seal this ____day of ______________, 1997.


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                                    Notary Public, State of Wisconsin
                                    My commission: