**Exhibit 24.1**

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**POWEROF ATTORNEY**

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Each person whosesignature appears below constitutes and appoints Patrick J. Moore and CharlesA. Hinrichs, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact andagent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her andin his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign AnnualReports on Form 10-K and all required interim reports and to file thesame, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,regarding Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, a Delaware corporation, with theSecurities and Exchange Commission and any other regulatory authority, grantingunto said attorney-in-fact and agents, full power and authority to do andperform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in andabout the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might orcould do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that saidattorneys-in-fact and agents, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause tobe done by virtue hereof.

 
| **Signature**                     | ** ** | **Title**                                                                        |
|-----------------------------------|------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ PATRICK J. MOORE              |       | Chairman, Chief  Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)    |
| Patrick J. Moore                  |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ CHARLES A. HINRICHS           |       | Senior Vice President  and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) |
| Charles A. Hinrichs               |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ PAUL K. KAUFMANN              |       | Senior Vice President  and Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)             |
| Paul K. Kaufmann                  |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ JAMES R. BORIS                |       | Director                                                                         |
| James R. Boris                    |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ CONNIE K. DUCKWORTH           |       | Director                                                                         |
| Connie K. Duckworth               |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ ALAN E. GOLDBERG              |       | Director                                                                         |
| Alan E. Goldberg                  |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ WILLIAM T. LYNCH,  JR.        |       | Director                                                                         |
| William T.  Lynch, Jr.       |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ JAMES J. O’CONNOR        |       | Director                                                                         |
| James J. O’Connor            |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ JERRY K. PEARLMAN             |       | Director                                                                         |
| Jerry K. Pearlman                 |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ THOMAS A.  REYNOLDS, III |       | Director                                                                         |
| Thomas A.  Reynolds, III     |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ EUGENE C. SIT                 |       | Director                                                                         |
| Eugene C. Sit                     |       |                                                                             |
|                              |       |                                                                             |
| /s/ WILLIAM D.  SMITHBURG         |       | Director                                                                         |
| William D. Smithburg              |       |                                                                             |

 

 

Date:       February 27, 2008

 

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