Officers' Certificate establishing the terms of the 4.95%  Notes



 Exhibit 4.2 

OFFICERS’ CERTIFICATE ESTABLISHING 

THE TERMS OF THE NOTES 

Pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture 

We, George McKenzie, a trustee and President and Chief Executive Officer of Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (the
“Trust”), and William Camp, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Trust, do hereby deliver this Certificate establishing the following terms of the Notes (defined below) pursuant to (i) resolutions adopted
by the Board of Trustees of the Trust dated as of July 29, 2010 and resolutions of the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Trust dated as of September 23, 2010 and (ii) Section 301 of the Indenture, dated as of
August 1, 1996, between the Trust and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (successor to The First National Bank of Chicago), as Trustee, as amended (the “Indenture”), and do hereby certify that (terms used in this
Certificate and not defined herein having the same definitions as in the Indenture): 
 (1) The Notes shall
constitute a single series of debt securities under the Indenture having the title “4.95% Senior Notes due October 1, 2020” (the “Notes”). 

(2) The aggregate principal amount of the Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture (except for
Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 906, 1107 or 1305 of the Indenture) shall be $250,000,000. 

(3) The Notes shall mature on October 1, 2020 (the “Maturity Date”), subject to prior redemption at the
option of the Trust as described in paragraph (9). 
 (4) The rate at which the Notes shall bear interest shall
be 4.95% per annum. The date from which such interest shall accrue shall be September 30, 2010; the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest will be payable shall be April 1 and October 1 in each year, beginning
April 1, 2011, and on the Maturity Date; the Regular Record Dates for the interest payable on the Notes on any Interest Payment Date shall be 15 calendar days prior to the related Interest Payment Date regardless of whether such day is a
Business Day; the interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. 

(5) The Notes shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof. 

(6) The place where the principal of (and Make-Whole Amount, if any) and interest on the Notes shall be payable and the
Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices or demands to or upon the Trust in respect of the Notes and the Indenture may be served shall be the Corporate Trust Office of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust
Company, N.A., at 101 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10286. 







 (7) The entire outstanding principal amount of the Notes (and Make-Whole
Amount, if any) shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 of the Indenture. 

(8) Payment of the principal of (and Make-Whole Amount, any) and interest on the Notes shall be payable in Dollars and the
Notes shall be denominated in Dollars. 
 (9) The Notes shall be redeemable at any time at the option of the
Trust, in whole or in part. Prior to April 1, 2020, the Redemption Price, payable in Dollars, shall equal to the sum of (i) the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed plus accrued interest thereon to the redemption date and
(ii) the Make-Whole Amount, if any, with respect to such Notes. On or after April 1, 2020, the Redemption Price, payable in Dollars, shall equal the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed plus accrued interest thereon to the
redemption date. 
 “Make-Whole Amount” shall mean, in connection with any optional redemption
or accelerated payment of any of the Notes, the excess, if any, of (a) the aggregate present value as of the date of such redemption or accelerated payment of each dollar of principal being redeemed or paid and the amount of interest (exclusive
of interest accrued to the date of redemption or accelerated payment) that would have been payable in respect of each such dollar if such redemption or accelerated payment had not been made, determined by discounting, on a semi-annual basis, such
principal and interest at the Reinvestment Rate (determined on the third Business Day preceding the date such notice of redemption is given or declaration of acceleration is made) from the respective dates on which such principal and interest would
have been payable if such redemption or accelerated payment had not been made, over (b) the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being redeemed or paid. 

“Reinvestment Rate” shall mean with respect to the Notes, 0.40% plus the arithmetic mean of the yields
under the heading “Week Ending” published in the most recent Statistical Release under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities” for the maturity (rounded to the nearest month) corresponding to the remaining life to maturity, as
of the payment date of the principal of the Notes being redeemed or paid. If no maturity exactly corresponds to such maturity, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to such maturity shall be calculated pursuant to the
immediately preceding sentence and the Reinvestment Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding in each of such relevant periods to the nearest month. For the purposes of calculating the
Reinvestment Rate, the most recent Statistical Release published prior to the date of determination of the Make-Whole Amount shall be used. 
  

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 “Statistical Release” shall mean the statistical release
designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States government securities adjusted to constant maturities, or, if such
statistical release is not published at the time of any determination under the Indenture, then such other reasonably comparable index which shall be designated by the Trust. 

(10) The Trust shall not be obligated to redeem, repay or purchase the Notes pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provision or at the option of a Holder thereof. 
 (11) The Holders of the Notes shall have no special rights in
addition to those provided in the Indenture upon the occurrence of any particular events. 
 (12) Other than as
set forth herein, there shall be no deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of Default or additional covenants of the Trust with respect to the Notes set forth in the Indenture. 

(13) The Notes will be represented by a single global security (the “Global Security”) registered in the
name of the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee. DTC or its nominee will credit, on its book-entry registration and transfer system, the amount of Notes represented by the Global Security. Ownership of beneficial
interests in the Global Security will be limited to institutions that have accounts with DTC or its nominee (“Participants”) and to persons that may hold interests through Participants. Beneficial owners of interests in the Global
Security may exchange such interests for Notes of like tenor of any authorized form and denomination only in the manner provided in Section 305 of the Indenture. DTC shall be the depositary of the Global Security. The form of such Global
Security, attached hereto as Exhibit A, is hereby approved. 
 (14) The Notes shall not be issuable as
Bearer Securities. 
 (15) Interest on any of the Notes shall be payable only to the Person in whose name that
Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities thereof) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest. 

(16) Sections 1402 and 1403 of the Indenture shall be applicable to the Notes. 

(17) The Notes shall not be issuable in definitive form except under the circumstances described in Section 305 of
the Indenture. 
 (18) The Trust shall not pay Additional Amounts as contemplated by Section 1010 of the
Indenture on the Notes. 
  

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 (19) The Trust shall have no obligation to permit the conversion of the
Notes into Common Shares or Preferred Shares of the Trust. 
  

			
		 	 /s/ George McKenzie

		 	George McKenzie,
		 	President and Chief Executive Officer
		
		 	 /s/ William Camp

	Date: September 23, 2010	 	William Camp,
		 	Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

  

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 Exhibit A 

Form of Note