EXHIBIT 4.3



                                  EPIC BANCORP

                                    as Issuer



                                    INDENTURE

                            Dated as of June 29, 2006



                            WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

                                   as Trustee



           FLOATING RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES DUE 2036

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS


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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS.......................................................................1

         Section 1.01      Definitions......................................................1

ARTICLE II DEBT SECURITIES..................................................................9

         Section 2.01      Authentication and Dating........................................9
         Section 2.02      Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication..................9
         Section 2.03      Form and Denomination of Debt Securities........................10
         Section 2.04      Execution of Debt Securities....................................10
         Section 2.05      Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Debt Securities........11
         Section 2.06      Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Debt Securities............14
         Section 2.07      Temporary Debt Securities.......................................15
         Section 2.08      Payment of Interest.............................................15
         Section 2.09      Cancellation of Debt Securities Paid, etc.......................16
         Section 2.10      Computation of Interest.........................................17
         Section 2.11      Extension of Interest Payment Period............................18
         Section 2.12      CUSIP Numbers...................................................19
         Section 2.13      Global Debentures...............................................19

ARTICLE III PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY............................................22

         Section 3.01      Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest; Agreed
                           Treatment of the Debt Securities................................22
         Section 3.02      Offices for Notices and Payments, etc...........................23
         Section 3.03      Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee's Office..............23
         Section 3.04      Provision as to Paying Agent....................................23
         Section 3.05      Certificate to Trustee..........................................24
         Section 3.06      Additional Amounts..............................................24
         Section 3.07      Compliance with Consolidation Provisions........................25
         Section 3.08      Limitation on Dividends.........................................25
         Section 3.09      Covenants as to the Trust.......................................26

ARTICLE IV LISTS ..........................................................................26

         Section 4.01      Securityholders' Lists..........................................26
         Section 4.02      Preservation and Disclosure of Lists............................26
         Section 4.03      Financial and Other Information.................................28

ARTICLE V REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS......................................29

         Section 5.01      Events of Default...............................................29
         Section 5.02      Payment of Debt Securities on Default; Suit Therefor............31
         Section 5.03      Application of Moneys Collected by Trustee......................32
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         Section 5.04      Proceedings by Securityholders..................................33
         Section 5.05      Proceedings by Trustee..........................................33
         Section 5.06      Remedies Cumulative and Continuing..............................33
         Section 5.07      Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by
                           Majority of Securityholders.....................................34
         Section 5.08      Notice of Defaults..............................................34
         Section 5.09      Undertaking to Pay Costs........................................35

ARTICLE VI CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE..........................................................35

         Section 6.01      Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee..........................35
         Section 6.02      Reliance on Documents, Opinions, etc............................36
         Section 6.03      No Responsibility for Recitals, etc.............................37
         Section 6.04      Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agents, Transfer
                           Agents or Registrar May Own Debt Securities.....................38
         Section 6.05      Moneys to be Held in Trust......................................38
         Section 6.06      Compensation and Expenses of Trustee............................38
         Section 6.07      Officers' Certificate as Evidence...............................39
         Section 6.08      Eligibility of Trustee..........................................39
         Section 6.09      Resignation or Removal of Trustee...............................40
         Section 6.10      Acceptance by Successor Trustee.................................41
         Section 6.11      Succession by Merger, etc.......................................42
         Section 6.12      Authenticating Agents...........................................42

ARTICLE VII CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS.................................................43

         Section 7.01      Action by Securityholders.......................................43
         Section 7.02      Proof of Execution by Securityholders...........................44
         Section 7.03      Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners..................................44
         Section 7.04      Debt Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding.........45
         Section 7.05      Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound....................45

ARTICLE VIII SECURITYHOLDERS' MEETINGS.....................................................45

         Section 8.01      Purposes of Meetings............................................45
         Section 8.02      Call of Meetings by Trustee.....................................46
         Section 8.03      Call of Meetings by Company or Securityholders..................46
         Section 8.04      Qualifications for Voting.......................................46
         Section 8.05      Regulations.....................................................46
         Section 8.06      Voting..........................................................47
         Section 8.07      Quorum; Actions.................................................48

ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.........................................................48

         Section 9.01      Supplemental Indentures without Consent of
                           Securityholders.................................................48
         Section 9.02      Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Securityholders.........50
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         Section 9.03      Effect of Supplemental Indentures...............................51
         Section 9.04      Notation on Debt Securities.....................................51
         Section 9.05      Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be
                           Furnished to Trustee............................................51

ARTICLE X REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES.........................................................52

         Section 10.01     Optional Redemption.............................................52
         Section 10.02     Special Event Redemption........................................52
         Section 10.03     Notice of Redemption; Selection of Debt Securities..............52
         Section 10.04     Payment of Debt Securities Called for Redemption................53

ARTICLE XI CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE...............................53

         Section 11.01     Company May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms.................53
         Section 11.02     Successor Entity to be Substituted..............................54
         Section 11.03     Opinion of Counsel to be Given to Trustee.......................55

ARTICLE XII SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE........................................55

         Section 12.01     Discharge of Indenture..........................................55
         Section 12.02     Deposited Moneys to be Held in Trust by Trustee.................56
         Section 12.03     Paying Agent to Repay Moneys Held...............................56
         Section 12.04     Return of Unclaimed Moneys......................................56

ARTICLE XIII IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS...............56

         Section 13.01     Indenture and Debt Securities Solely Corporate
                           Obligations.....................................................56

ARTICLE XIV MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.......................................................57

         Section 14.01     Successors......................................................57
         Section 14.02     Official Acts by Successor Entity...............................57
         Section 14.03     Surrender of Company Powers.....................................57
         Section 14.04     Addresses for Notices, etc......................................57
         Section 14.05     Governing Law...................................................57
         Section 14.06     Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent................58
         Section 14.07     Business Day Convention.........................................58
         Section 14.08     Table of Contents, Headings, etc................................58
         Section 14.09     Execution in Counterparts.......................................58
         Section 14.10     Separability....................................................59
         Section 14.11     Assignment......................................................59
         Section 14.12     Acknowledgment of Rights........................................59
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ARTICLE XV SUBORDINATION OF DEBT SECURITIES................................................59

         Section 15.01     Agreement to Subordinate........................................59
         Section 15.02     Default on Senior Indebtedness..................................60
         Section 15.03     Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy............................60
         Section 15.04     Subrogation.....................................................61
         Section 15.05     Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.............................62
         Section 15.06     Notice by the Company...........................................62
         Section 15.07     Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior Indebtedness...........63
         Section 15.08     Subordination May Not Be Impaired...............................64

EXHIBITS
         EXHIBIT A   Form of Debt Security
         EXHIBIT B   Form of Certificate of Officer of the Company
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                  THIS INDENTURE, dated as of June 29, 2006, between Epic
Bancorp, a California corporation (hereinafter sometimes called the "Company"),
and Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee
(hereinafter sometimes called the "Trustee").

                              W I T N E S S E T H :

                  WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has
duly authorized the issuance of its Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debt
Securities due 2036 (the "Debt Securities") under this Indenture and to provide,
among other things, for the execution and authentication, delivery and
administration thereof, the Company has duly authorized the execution of this
Indenture.

                  NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, and the
purchase of the Debt Securities by the holders thereof, the Company covenants
and agrees with the Trustee for the equal and proportionate benefit of the
respective holders from time to time of the Debt Securities as follows:

                                    ARTICLE I
                                   DEFINITIONS

                  Section 1.01      Definitions.
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                  The terms defined in this Section 1.01 (except as herein
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all
purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have
the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01. All accounting terms
used herein and not expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned to such
terms in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and the term
"generally accepted accounting principles" means such accounting principles as
are generally accepted in the United States at the time of any computation. The
words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer
to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other
subdivision.

                  "Additional Amounts" has the meaning set forth in Section
3.06.

                  "Additional Provisions" has the meaning set forth in Section
15.01.

                  "Administrative Action" has the meaning specified within the
definition of "Tax Event" in this Section 1.01.

                  "Applicable Depositary Procedures" means, with respect to any
transfer or transaction involving a Book-Entry Capital Security or a Debt
Security represented by a Global Debenture, the rules and procedures of the
Depositary for such Book-Entry Capital Security or Debt Security represented by
a Global Debenture, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction
and as in effect from time to time.

                  "Authenticating Agent" means any agent or agents of the
Trustee which at the time shall be appointed and acting pursuant to Section
6.12.
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                  "Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar
federal or state law for the relief of debtors.

                  "Board of Directors" means the board of directors or the
executive committee or any other duly authorized designated officers of the
Company.

                  "Board Resolution" means 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.

                  "Book-Entry Capital Security" means a Capital Security the
ownership and transfers of which shall be reflected and made, as applicable,
through book entries by the Depositary.

                  "Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or
any other day on which banking institutions in Wilmington, Delaware, The City of
New York or San Rafael, California are permitted or required by law or executive
order to close.

                  "Calculation Agent" means the Person identified as "Trustee"
in the first paragraph hereof with respect to the Debt Securities and the
Institutional Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities.

                  "Capital Securities" means undivided beneficial interests in
the assets of the Trust which are designated as "MMCapSSM" and rank pari passu
with Common Securities issued by the Trust; provided, however, that if an Event
of Default (as defined in the Declaration) has occurred and is continuing, the
rights of holders of such Common Securities to payment in respect of
distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise are
subordinated to the rights of holders of such Capital Securities.

                  "Capital Securities Guarantee" means the guarantee agreement
that the Company will enter into with Wilmington Trust Company or other Persons
that operates directly or indirectly for the benefit of holders of Capital
Securities of the Trust.

                  "Capital Treatment Event" means, if the Company is organized
and existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or the
District of Columbia, the receipt by the Company and the Trust of an Opinion of
Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of any
amendment to, or change in, the laws, rules or regulations of the United States
or any political subdivision thereof or therein, or any rules, guidelines or
policies of an applicable regulatory authority for the Company or as the result
of any official or administrative pronouncement or action or decision
interpreting or applying such laws, rules or regulations, which amendment or
change is effective or which pronouncement, action or decision is announced on
or after the date of original issuance of the Debt Securities, there is more
than an insubstantial risk that the Company will not, within 90 days of the date
of such opinion, be entitled to treat Capital Securities as "Tier 1 Capital" (or
the then equivalent if the Company were subject to such capital requirement)
applied as if the Company (or its successors) were a bank holding company for
purposes of the capital adequacy guidelines of the Federal Reserve (or any
successor regulatory authority with jurisdiction over bank holding companies) or
any capital adequacy guidelines as then in effect and applicable to the Company;

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provided, however, that the inability of the Company to treat all or any portion
of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities as "Tier 1
Capital" shall not constitute the basis for a Capital Treatment Event if such
inability results from the Company having preferred stock, minority interests in
consolidated subsidiaries and any other class of security or interest which the
Federal Reserve (or any successor regulatory authority with jurisdiction over
bank holding companies) may now or hereafter accord "Tier 1 Capital" treatment
that, in the aggregate, exceed the amount which may now or hereafter qualify for
treatment as "Tier 1 Capital" under applicable capital adequacy guidelines of
the Federal Reserve (or any successor regulatory authority with jurisdiction
over bank holding companies), applied as if the Company (or its successor) were
a bank holding company for purposes of the capital adequacy guidelines of the
Federal Reserve; provided, further, that the distribution of the Debt Securities
in connection with the liquidation of the Trust by the Company shall not in and
of itself constitute a Capital Treatment Event unless such liquidation shall
have occurred in connection with a Tax Event or an Investment Company Event. For
the avoidance of doubt, the inability of the Company to treat all or any portion
of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities as "Tier 1
Capital" as a result of the changes effected by the final rule adopted by the
Federal Reserve on March 1, 2005 shall not constitute the basis for a Capital
Treatment Event.

                  "Certificate" means a certificate signed by any one of the
principal executive officer, the principal financial officer or the principal
accounting officer of the Company.

                  "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

                  "Common Securities" means undivided beneficial interests in
the assets of the Trust which are designated as "Common Securities" and rank
pari passu with Capital Securities issued by the Trust; provided, however, that
if an Event of Default (as defined in the Declaration) has occurred and is
continuing, the rights of holders of such Common Securities to payment in
respect of distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise
are subordinated to the rights of holders of such Capital Securities.

                  "Company" means Epic Bancorp, a corporation incorporated in
the State of California, and, subject to the provisions of Article XI, shall
include its successors and assigns.

                  "Debt Security" or "Debt Securities" has the meaning stated in
the first recital of this Indenture.

                  "Debt Security Register" has the meaning specified in Section
2.05.

                  "Declaration" means the Amended and Restated Declaration of
Trust of the Trust, dated as of June 29, 2006, as amended or supplemented from
time to time.

                  "Default" means any event, act or condition that with notice
or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.

                  "Defaulted Interest" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.08.

                  "Deferred Interest" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.11.

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                  "Depositary" means an organization registered as a clearing
agency under the Exchange Act that is designated as Depositary by the Company.
DTC will be the initial Depositary.

                  "Depositary Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time the Depositary
effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with or on
behalf of the Depositary.

                  "DTC" means The Depository Trust Company, a New York
corporation.

                  "Event of Default" means any event specified in Section 5.01,
which has continued for the period of time, if any, and after the giving of the
notice, if any, therein designated.

                  "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.

                  "Extension Period" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.11.

                  "Federal Reserve" means the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.

                  "Global Debenture" means a global certificate that evidences
all or part of the Debt Securities the ownership and transfers of which shall be
reflected and made, as applicable, through book entries by the Depositary and
the Depositary Participants.

                  "Indenture" means this Indenture as originally executed or, if
amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented, or
both.

                  "Institutional Trustee" has the meaning set forth in the
Declaration.

                  "Interest Payment Date" means March 1, June 1, September 1 and
December 1 of each year, commencing on September 1, 2006, subject to Section
14.07.

                  "Interest Period" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.08.

                  "Interest Rate" means, with respect to any Interest Period, a
per annum rate of interest equal to LIBOR, as determined on the LIBOR
Determination Date for such Interest Period (or, in the case of the first
Interest Period, 5.50%), plus 1.75%; provided, however, that the Interest Rate
for any Interest Period may not exceed the highest rate permitted by New York
law, as the same may be modified by United States law of general application.

                  "Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Company
and the Trust of an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect
that, as a result of a change in law or regulation or written change in
interpretation or application of law or regulation by any legislative body,
court, governmental agency or regulatory authority, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that the Trust is or, within 90 days of the date of such
opinion will be, considered an "investment company" that is required to be
registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which change
becomes effective on or after the date of the original issuance of the Debt
Securities.

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                  "LIBOR" means the London Interbank Offered Rate for
three-month U.S. Dollar deposits in Europe as determined by the Calculation
Agent according to Section 2.10(b).

                  "LIBOR Banking Day" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.10(b)(i).

                  "LIBOR Business Day" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.10(b)(i).

                  "LIBOR Determination Date" has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.10(b)(i).

                  "Liquidation Amount" means the liquidation amount of $1,000
per Trust Security.

                  "Major Depository Institution Subsidiary" means any subsidiary
of the Company that (i) is a depository institution and (ii) meets the
definition of "significant subsidiary" within the meaning of Rule 405 under the
Securities Act.

                  "Maturity Date" means September 1, 2036, subject to Section
14.07.
                  "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman, the President or any Vice President,
and by the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the
Comptroller, an Assistant Comptroller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall
include the statements provided for in Section 14.06 if and to the extent
required by the provisions of such Section.

                  "Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by
legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or may be
other counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall
include the statements provided for in Section 14.06 if and to the extent
required by the provisions of such Section.

                  The term "outstanding," when used with reference to Debt
Securities, subject to the provisions of Section 7.04, means, as of any
particular time, all Debt Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee
or the Authenticating Agent under this Indenture, except

                  (a)      Debt Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee
or the Authenticating Agent or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

                  (b)      Debt Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment
or redemption of which moneys in the necessary amount shall have been deposited
in trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or
shall have been set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company
shall act as its own Paying Agent); provided, that, if such Debt Securities, or
portions thereof, are to be redeemed prior to maturity thereof, notice of such
redemption shall have been given as provided in Articles X and XIV or provision
satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice; and

                  (c)      Debt Securities paid pursuant to Section 2.06 or in
lieu of or in substitution for which other Debt Securities shall have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.06 unless proof
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee is presented that any such Debt
Securities are held by bona fide holders in due course.

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                  "Optional Redemption Date" has the meaning set forth in
Section 10.01.

                  "Optional Redemption Price" means an amount in cash equal to
100% of the principal amount of the Debt Securities being redeemed plus unpaid
interest accrued on such Debt Securities to the related Optional Redemption
Date.

                  "Paying Agent" has the meaning set forth in Section 3.04(e).

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

                  "Predecessor Security" of any particular Debt Security means
every previous Debt Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as
that evidenced by such particular Debt Security; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Debt Security authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in
lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Debt Security shall be deemed to evidence
the same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Debt Security.

                  "Principal Office of the Trustee" means the office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
principally administered, which at all times shall be located within the United
States and at the time of the execution of this Indenture shall be Rodney Square
North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19890-0001.

                  "Reference Banks" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.10(b)(ii).

                  "Resale Restriction Termination Date" means, with respect to
any Debt Security, the date which is the later of (i) two years (or such shorter
period of time as permitted by Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act) after the
later of (y) the date of original issuance of such Debt Security and (z) the
last date on which the Company or any Affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 under
the Securities Act) of the Company was the holder of such Debt Security (or any
predecessor thereto) and (ii) such later date, if any, as may be required by any
subsequent change in applicable law.

                  "Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Trustee, any
officer within the Principal Office of the Trustee with direct responsibility
for the administration of the Indenture, including any vice-president, any
assistant vice-president, any secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer,
any assistant treasurer, any trust officer or other officer of the Principal
Office of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect
to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is
referred because of that officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.

                  "Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

                  "Securityholder," "holder of Debt Securities" or other similar
terms, means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Debt Security is
registered on the Debt Security Register.

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                  "Senior Indebtedness" means, with respect to the Company, (i)
the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect of (A) indebtedness of
the Company for money borrowed, as well as similar obligations arising from
off-balance sheet guarantees and direct credit substitutes and (B) indebtedness
evidenced by securities, debentures, notes, bonds or other similar instruments
issued by the Company, (ii) all capital lease obligations of the Company, (iii)
all obligations of the Company issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price
of property, all conditional sale obligations of the Company and all obligations
of the Company under any title retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts
payable and other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of
business), (iv) all obligations of the Company for the reimbursement of any
letter of credit, any banker's acceptance, any security purchase facility, any
repurchase agreement or similar arrangement, all obligations associated with
derivative products such as interest rate and foreign exchange contracts and
commodity contracts, any interest rate swap, any other hedging arrangement, any
obligation under options or any similar credit or other transaction, (v) all
obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (iv) above of other
Persons for the payment of which the Company is responsible or liable as
obligor, guarantor or otherwise and (vi) all obligations of the type referred to
in clauses (i) through (v) above of other Persons secured by any lien on any
property or asset of the Company (whether or not such obligation is assumed by
the Company), whether the obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i)
through (vi) above were incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture or
thereafter incurred, unless, with the prior approval of any applicable
regulatory authority if not otherwise generally approved, it is provided in the
instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is
outstanding that such obligations are not superior or are pari passu in right of
payment to the Debt Securities; provided, however, that Senior Indebtedness
shall not include (A) any debt securities issued to any trust other than the
Trust (or a trustee of such trust) that is a financing vehicle of the Company (a
"financing entity") in connection with the issuance by such financing entity of
equity or other securities in transactions substantially similar in structure to
the transactions contemplated hereunder and in the Declaration or (B) any
guarantees of the Company in respect of the equity or other securities of any
financing entity referred to in clause (A) above.

                  "Special Event" means any of a Tax Event, an Investment
Company Event or a Capital Treatment Event.

                  "Special Redemption Date" has the meaning set forth in Section
10.02.

                  "Special Redemption Price" means, with respect to the
redemption of any Debt Security following a Special Event, an amount in cash
equal to 103.5% of the principal amount of Debt Securities to be redeemed prior
to September 1, 2007 and thereafter equal to the percentage of the principal
amount of the Debt Securities that is specified below for the Special Redemption
Date plus, in each case, unpaid interest accrued thereon to the Special
Redemption Date:

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     Special Redemption During the 12-Month
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          Period Beginning September 1,           Percentage of Principal Amount
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          2007                                               102.80%

          2008                                               102.10%

          2009                                               101.40%

          2010                                               100.70%

          2011 and thereafter                                100.00%


                  "Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, (i) any
corporation, at least a majority of the outstanding voting stock of which is
owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries
or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, (ii) any general
partnership, joint venture or similar entity, at least a majority of the
outstanding partnership or similar interests of which shall at the time be owned
by such Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries or by such Person and one or
more of its Subsidiaries, and (iii) any limited partnership of which such Person
or any of its Subsidiaries is a general partner. For the purposes of this
definition, "voting stock" means shares, interests, participations or other
equivalents in the equity interest (however designated) in such Person having
ordinary voting power for the election of a majority of the directors (or the
equivalent) of such Person, other than shares, interests, participations or
other equivalents having such power only by reason of the occurrence of a
contingency.

                  "Tax Event" means the receipt by the Company and the Trust of
an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a
result of any amendment to or change (including any announced prospective
change) in the laws or any regulations thereunder of the United States or any
political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of
any official administrative pronouncement (including any private letter ruling,
technical advice memorandum, regulatory procedure, notice or announcement (an
"Administrative Action")) or judicial decision interpreting or applying such
laws or regulations, regardless of whether such Administrative Action or
judicial decision is issued to or in connection with a proceeding involving the
Company or the Trust and whether or not subject to review or appeal, which
amendment, clarification, change, Administrative Action or decision is enacted,
promulgated or announced, in each case on or after the date of original issuance
of the Debt Securities, there is more than an insubstantial risk that: (i) the
Trust is, or will be within 90 days of the date of such opinion, subject to
United States federal income tax with respect to income received or accrued on
the Debt Securities; (ii) if the Company is organized and existing under the
laws of the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia,
interest payable by the Company on the Debt Securities is not, or within 90 days
of the date of such opinion, will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or
in part, for United States federal income tax purposes; or (iii) the Trust is,
or will be within 90 days of the date of such opinion, subject to or otherwise
required to pay, or required to withhold from distributions to holders of Trust
Securities, more than a de minimis amount of other taxes (including withholding
taxes), duties, assessments or other governmental charges.

                  "Trust" means San Rafael Capital Trust II, the Delaware
statutory trust, or any other similar trust created for the purpose of issuing
Capital Securities in connection with the issuance of Debt Securities under this
Indenture, of which the Company is the sponsor.

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                  "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended from time to time, or any successor legislation.

                  "Trust Securities" means Common Securities and Capital
Securities of the Trust.

                  "Trustee" means the Person identified as "Trustee" in the
first paragraph hereof, and, subject to the provisions of Article VI hereof,
shall also include its successors and assigns as Trustee hereunder.

                  "United States" means the United States of America and the
District of Columbia.

                  "U.S. Person" has the meaning given to United States Person as
set forth in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

                                   ARTICLE II
                                 DEBT SECURITIES

                  Section 2.01      Authentication and Dating.
                                    -------------------------

                  Upon the execution and delivery of this Indenture, or from
time to time thereafter, Debt Securities in an aggregate principal amount not in
excess of $3,093,000 may be executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustee
for authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and make
available for delivery said Debt Securities to or upon the written order of the
Company, signed by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, Vice Chairman,
President or Chief Financial Officer or one of its Vice Presidents, without any
further action by the Company hereunder. In authenticating such Debt Securities,
and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation
to such Debt Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject
to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon a copy of any Board
Resolution or Board Resolutions relating thereto and, if applicable, an
appropriate record of any action taken pursuant to such resolution, in each case
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or other officers with
appropriate delegated authority of the Company as the case may be.

                  The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate
and deliver any Debt Securities under this Section if the Trustee, being advised
by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken or if a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith shall determine that such
action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing
Securityholders.

                  The definitive Debt Securities shall be typed, printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Debt Securities,
as evidenced by their execution of such Debt Securities.

                  Section 2.02      Form of Trustee's Certificate of
                                    --------------------------------
Authentication.
--------------

                  The Trustee's certificate of authentication on all Debt
Securities shall be in substantially the following form:

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                  This certificate represents Debt Securities referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.

                                          Wilmington Trust Company,
                                              not in its individual capacity
                                              but solely as trustee


                                          By:
                                              ----------------------------------
                                              Authorized Officer

                  Section 2.03      Form and Denomination of Debt Securities.
                                    ----------------------------------------

                  The Debt Securities shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit A hereto. The Debt Securities shall be in registered form without
coupons and in minimum denominations of $100,000 and any multiple of $1,000 in
excess thereof. The Debt Securities shall be numbered, lettered, or otherwise
distinguished in such manner or in accordance with such plans as the officers
executing the same may determine with the approval of the Trustee as evidenced
by the execution and authentication thereof.

                  Section 2.04      Execution of Debt Securities.
                                    ----------------------------

                  The Debt Securities shall be signed in the name and on behalf
of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature of its Chairman of the Board
of Directors, Vice Chairman, President or Chief Financial Officer or one of its
Executive Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents or Vice Presidents, under its
corporate seal (if legally required) which may be affixed thereto or printed,
engraved or otherwise reproduced thereon, by facsimile or otherwise, and which
need not be attested. Only such Debt Securities as shall bear thereon a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form herein before recited,
executed by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent by the manual or facsimile
signature of an authorized officer, shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the
Trustee or the Authenticating Agent upon any Debt Security executed by the
Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Debt Security so authenticated has
been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the holder is entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture.

                  In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any
of the Debt Securities shall cease to be such officer before the Debt Securities
so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent, or disposed of by the Company, such Debt Securities
nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the
Person who signed such Debt Securities had not ceased to be such officer of the
Company; and any Debt Security may be signed on behalf of the Company by such
Persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Debt Security, shall be
the proper officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of
this Indenture any such person was not such an officer.

                  Every Debt Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication.

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                  Section 2.05      Exchange and Registration of Transfer of
                                    ----------------------------------------
Debt Securities.
---------------

                  The Company shall cause to be kept, at the office or agency
maintained for the purpose of registration of transfer and for exchange as
provided in Section 3.02, a register (the "Debt Security Register") for the Debt
Securities issued hereunder in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as
it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration and transfer of
all Debt Securities as provided in this Article II. Such register shall be in
written form or in any other form capable of being converted into written form
within a reasonable time.

                  Debt Securities to be exchanged may be surrendered at the
Principal Office of the Trustee or at any office or agency to be maintained by
the Company for such purpose as provided in Section 3.02, and the Company shall
execute, the Company or the Trustee shall register and the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery in
exchange therefor, the Debt Security or Debt Securities which the Securityholder
making the exchange shall be entitled to receive. Upon due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Debt Security at the Principal Office of the
Trustee or at any office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose as
provided in Section 3.02, the Company shall execute, the Company or the Trustee
shall register and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate
and make available for delivery in the name of the transferee or transferees, a
new Debt Security for a like aggregate principal amount. Registration or
registration of transfer of any Debt Security by the Trustee or by any agent of
the Company appointed pursuant to Section 3.02, and delivery of such Debt
Security, shall be deemed to complete the registration or registration of
transfer of such Debt Security.

                  All Debt Securities presented for registration of transfer or
for exchange or payment shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee or
the Authenticating Agent) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by, a written
instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and
either the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent duly executed by, the holder or
such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.

                  No service charge shall be made for any exchange or
registration of transfer of Debt Securities, but the Company or the Trustee may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection therewith other than exchanges pursuant
to Section 2.07, Section 9.04 or Section 10.04 not involving any transfer.

                  The Company or the Trustee shall not be required to exchange
or register a transfer of any Debt Security for a period of 15 days immediately
preceding the date of selection of Debt Securities for redemption.

                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Debt Securities may not be
transferred prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date except in
compliance with the legend set forth below, unless otherwise determined by the
Company in accordance with applicable law, which legend shall be placed on each
Debt Security:

                  THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY

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OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED,
ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR
UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST
OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY
BE, AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS THE LATER OF (i) TWO YEARS (OR
SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144(k) UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT) AFTER THE LATER OF (Y) THE DATE OF ORIGINAL ISSUANCE HEREOF AND (Z) THE
LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 405 UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY WAS THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR SUCH
INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION (OR ANY PREDECESSOR THERETO) AND (ii) SUCH LATER DATE,
IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY ANY SUBSEQUENT CHANGE IN APPLICABLE LAW, ONLY (A)
TO THE COMPANY, (B) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("RULE
144A"), TO A PERSON THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER", AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A, THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE
ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (C) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT TO AN "ACCREDITED
INVESTOR" WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (a) (1), (2), (3), (7) OR (8) OF
RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY OR SUCH
INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN
ACCREDITED INVESTOR, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR
OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE
SECURITIES ACT, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-US PERSONS THAT OCCUR
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES PURSUANT TO REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR
(E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY'S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER,
SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (C) OR (E) ABOVE TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF
AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INDENTURE, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE
COMPANY. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN, BY
ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, AGREES THAT IT WILL COMPLY
WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

                  THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION
HEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, ALSO AGREES,
REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT, INDIVIDUAL

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RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE
EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE") (EACH
A "PLAN"), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE "PLAN ASSETS" BY REASON
OF ANY PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY AND NO PERSON INVESTING "PLAN ASSETS" OF
ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION
HEREIN, UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF
AVAILABLE UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION
96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION OR ITS
PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION IS NOT
PROHIBITED BY SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO
SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY
INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS
PURCHASE AND HOLDING HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, THAT EITHER (i) IT
IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR
A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER
PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON
OR ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH
PURCHASE, OR (ii) SUCH PURCHASE AND HOLDING WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED
TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE FOR WHICH
THERE IS NO APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION.

                  IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY
WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER
INFORMATION AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY THE INDENTURE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER
COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

                  THIS SECURITY WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN
MINIMUM DENOMINATIONS OF $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF. ANY
ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN DENOMINATIONS OF LESS THAN $100,000 SHALL
BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. ANY SUCH PURPORTED
TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST
OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
RECEIPT OF DISTRIBUTIONS ON THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION, AND
SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN THIS
SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN.

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                  THIS OBLIGATION IS NOT A DEPOSIT AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE
UNITED STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL
DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (THE "FDIC"). THIS OBLIGATION IS SUBORDINATED TO
THE CLAIMS OF THE DEPOSITORS AND THE CLAIMS OF GENERAL AND SECURED CREDITORS OF
THE COMPANY, IS INELIGIBLE AS COLLATERAL FOR A LOAN BY THE COMPANY OR ANY OF ITS
SUBSIDIARIES AND IS NOT SECURED.

                  Section 2.06      Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Debt
                                    -----------------------------------------
Securities.
----------

                  In case any Debt Security shall become mutilated or be
destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company shall execute, and upon its written
request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Debt Security bearing
a number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the
mutilated Debt Security, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Debt Security
so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Debt
Security shall furnish to the Company and the Trustee such security or indemnity
as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, and, in every case of
destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company and
the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of
such Debt Security and of the ownership thereof.

                  The Trustee may authenticate any such substituted Debt
Security and deliver the same upon the written request or authorization of any
officer of the Company. Upon the issuance of any substituted Debt Security, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses connected therewith. In case any Debt Security which has matured or is
about to mature or has been called for redemption in full shall become mutilated
or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, instead of issuing a
substitute Debt Security, pay or authorize the payment of the same (without
surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Debt Security) if the
applicant for such payment shall furnish to the Company and the Trustee such
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless
and, in case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to the Company
and to the Trustee of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the
ownership thereof.

                  Every substituted Debt Security issued pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 2.06 by virtue of the fact that any such Debt
Security is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual
obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Debt
Security shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits
of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Debt
Securities duly issued hereunder. All Debt Securities shall be held and owned
upon the express condition that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the
foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Debt Securities and shall preclude any and
all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or
hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of
negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.

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                  Section 2.07      Temporary Debt Securities.
                                    -------------------------

                  Pending the preparation of definitive Debt Securities, the
Company may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery temporary Debt Securities that are typed, printed or lithographed.
Temporary Debt Securities shall be issuable in any authorized denomination, and
substantially in the form of the definitive Debt Securities but with such
omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Debt
Securities, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Debt
Security shall be executed by the Company and be authenticated by the Trustee
upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same
effect, as the definitive Debt Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the
Company will execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent
definitive Debt Securities and thereupon any or all temporary Debt Securities
may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at the Principal Office of the Trustee
or at any office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose as
provided in Section 3.02, and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall
authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange for such temporary Debt
Securities a like aggregate principal amount of such definitive Debt Securities.
Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any
charge therefor except that in case of any such exchange involving a
registration of transfer the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax, fee or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto. Until so exchanged, the temporary Debt Securities shall in all respects
be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Debt
Securities authenticated and delivered hereunder.

                  Section 2.08      Payment of Interest.
                                    -------------------

                  Each Debt Security will bear interest at the then applicable
Interest Rate (i) in the case of the initial Interest Period, for the period
from, and including, the date of original issuance of such Debt Security to, but
excluding, the initial Interest Payment Date and (ii) thereafter, for the period
from, and including, the first day following the end of the preceding Interest
Period to, but excluding, the applicable Interest Payment Date or, in the case
of the last Interest Period, the related Optional Redemption Date, Special
Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable (each such period, an "Interest
Period"), on the principal thereof, on any overdue principal and (to the extent
that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) on Deferred
Interest and on any overdue installment of interest (including Defaulted
Interest), payable (subject to the provisions of Article XV) on each Interest
Payment Date and on the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the
Special Redemption Date, as the case may be. Interest and any Deferred Interest
on any Debt Security that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided
for by the Company, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in
whose name such Debt Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such interest
installment, except that interest and any Deferred Interest payable on the
Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, as
the case may be, other than any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the
Person to whom principal is paid. In case (i) the Maturity Date of any Debt
Security or (ii) any Debt Security or portion thereof is called for redemption
and the related Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, as the
case may be, is subsequent to the regular record date with respect to any
Interest Payment Date and prior to such Interest Payment Date, interest on such
Debt Security will be paid upon presentation and surrender of such Debt
Security.

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                  Any interest on any Debt Security, other than Deferred
Interest, that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for by
the Company, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest")
shall forthwith cease to be payable to the holder on the relevant regular record
date by virtue of having been such holder, and such Defaulted Interest shall be
paid by the Company to the Persons in whose names such Debt Securities (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a
special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be
fixed in the following manner: the Company shall notify the Trustee in writing
of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such Debt
Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company
shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount
proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to
the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as provided
in this paragraph. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a special record date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall not be more than fifteen nor
less than ten days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than
ten days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such special record date and,
in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor
to be mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Securityholder at his or her
address as it appears in the Debt Security Register, not less than ten days
prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor having been mailed as
aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names
such Debt Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered
on such special record date and thereafter the Company shall have no further
payment obligation in respect of the Defaulted Interest.

                  Any interest scheduled to become payable on an Interest
Payment Date occurring during an Extension Period shall not be Defaulted
Interest and shall be payable on such other date as may be specified in the
terms of such Debt Securities.

                  The term "regular record date", as used in this Section, shall
mean the fifteenth day prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date, whether or
not such day is a Business Day.

                  Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Debt
Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in
exchange for or in lieu of any other Debt Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, that were carried by such other Debt
Security.

                  Section 2.09      Cancellation of Debt Securities Paid, etc.
                                    -----------------------------------------

                  All Debt Securities surrendered for the purpose of payment,
redemption, exchange or registration of transfer, shall, if surrendered to the
Company or any Paying Agent, be surrendered to the Trustee and promptly canceled
by it, or, if surrendered to the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent, shall be
promptly canceled by it, and no Debt Securities shall be issued in lieu thereof
except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. All
Debt Securities canceled by any Authenticating Agent shall be delivered to the
Trustee. The Trustee shall destroy all canceled Debt Securities unless the

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Company otherwise directs the Trustee in writing, in which case the Trustee
shall dispose of such Debt Securities as directed by the Company. If the Company
shall acquire any of the Debt Securities, however, such acquisition shall not
operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such
Debt Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for
cancellation.

                  Section 2.10      Computation of Interest.
                                    -----------------------

                  (a)      The amount of interest payable for any Interest
Period will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of
days elapsed in such Interest Period.

                  (b)      LIBOR shall be determined by the Calculation Agent
for each Interest Period (other than the first Interest Period, in which case
LIBOR will be 5.50% per annum) in accordance with the following provisions:

                           (i)      On the second LIBOR Business Day (provided,
         that on such day commercial banks are open for business (including
         dealings in foreign currency deposits) in London (a "LIBOR Banking
         Day"), and otherwise the next preceding LIBOR Business Day that is also
         a LIBOR Banking Day) prior to the Interest Payment Date that commences
         such Interest Period (each such day, a "LIBOR Determination Date"),
         LIBOR shall equal the rate, as obtained by the Calculation Agent, for
         three-month U.S. Dollar deposits in Europe, which appears on Telerate
         (as defined in the International Swaps and Derivatives Association,
         Inc. 2000 Interest Rate and Currency Exchange Definitions) page 3750 or
         such other page as may replace such page 3750, as of 11:00 a.m. (London
         time) on such LIBOR Determination Date, as reported by Bloomberg
         Financial Markets Commodities News or any successor service ("Telerate
         Page 3750"). "LIBOR Business Day" means any day that is not a Saturday,
         Sunday or other day on which commercial banking institutions in The
         City of New York or Wilmington, Delaware are authorized or obligated by
         law or executive order to be closed. If such rate is superseded on
         Telerate Page 3750 by a corrected rate before 12:00 noon (London time)
         on such LIBOR Determination Date, the corrected rate as so substituted
         will be LIBOR for such LIBOR Determination Date.

                           (ii)     If, on such LIBOR Determination Date, such
         rate does not appear on Telerate Page 3750, the Calculation Agent shall
         determine the arithmetic mean of the offered quotations of the
         Reference Banks to leading banks in the London interbank market for
         three-month U.S. Dollar deposits in Europe (in an amount determined by
         the Calculation Agent) by reference to requests for quotations as of
         approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such LIBOR Determination Date
         made by the Calculation Agent to the Reference Banks. If, on such LIBOR
         Determination Date, at least two of the Reference Banks provide such
         quotations, LIBOR shall equal the arithmetic mean of such quotations.
         If, on such LIBOR Determination Date, only one or none of the Reference
         Banks provide such a quotation, LIBOR shall be deemed to be the
         arithmetic mean of the offered quotations that at least two leading
         banks in The City of New York (as selected by the Calculation Agent)
         are quoting on such LIBOR Determination Date for three-month U.S.
         Dollar deposits in Europe at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) (in

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         an amount determined by the Calculation Agent). As used herein,
         "Reference Banks" means four major banks in the London interbank market
         selected by the Calculation Agent.

                           (iii)    If the Calculation Agent is required but is
         unable to determine a rate in accordance with at least one of the
         procedures provided above, LIBOR for such Interest Period shall be
         LIBOR in effect for the immediately preceding Interest Period.

                  (c)      All percentages resulting from any calculations on
the Debt Securities will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one
hundred-thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a
percentage point rounded upward (e.g., 9.876545% (or .09876545) being rounded to
9.87655% (or .0987655)), and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such
calculation will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being
rounded upward).

                  (d)      On each LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation
Agent shall notify, in writing, the Company and the Paying Agent of the
applicable Interest Rate that applies to the related Interest Period. The
Calculation Agent shall, upon the request of a holder of any Debt Securities,
inform such holder of the Interest Rate that applies to the related Interest
Period. All calculations made by the Calculation Agent in the absence of
manifest error shall be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Company
and the holders of the Debt Securities. The Paying Agent shall be entitled to
rely on information received from the Calculation Agent or the Company as to the
applicable Interest Rate. The Company shall, from time to time, provide any
necessary information to the Paying Agent relating to any original issue
discount and interest on the Debt Securities that is included in any payment and
reportable for taxable income calculation purposes.

                  Section 2.11      Extension of Interest Payment Period.
                                    ------------------------------------

So long as no Event of Default pursuant to Sections 5.01(b), (e), (f), (g), (h)
or (i) of this Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have
the right, from time to time and without causing an Event of Default, to defer
payments of interest on the Debt Securities by extending the interest payment
period on the Debt Securities at any time and from time to time during the term
of the Debt Securities, for up to 20 consecutive quarterly periods (each such
extended interest payment period, together with all previous and further
consecutive extensions thereof, is referred to herein as an "Extension Period").
No Extension Period may end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date or
extend beyond the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the Special
Redemption Date, as the case may be. During any Extension Period, interest will
continue to accrue on the Debt Securities, and interest on such accrued interest
(such accrued interest and interest thereon referred to herein as "Deferred
Interest") will accrue at an annual rate equal to the Interest Rate applicable
during such Extension Period, compounded quarterly from the date such Deferred
Interest would have been payable were it not for the Extension Period, to the
extent permitted by applicable law. No interest or Deferred Interest (except any
Additional Amounts that may be due and payable) shall be due and payable during
an Extension Period, except at the end thereof. At the end of any Extension
Period, the Company shall pay all Deferred Interest then accrued and unpaid on
the Debt Securities; provided, however, that during any Extension Period, the
Company shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 3.08. Prior to
the termination of any Extension Period, the Company may further extend such
Extension Period, provided, that no Extension Period (including all previous and

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further consecutive extensions that are part of such Extension Period) shall
exceed 20 consecutive quarterly periods. Upon the termination of any Extension
Period and upon the payment of all Deferred Interest, the Company may commence a
new Extension Period, subject to the foregoing requirements. The Company must
give the Trustee notice of its election to begin or extend an Extension Period
no later than the close of business on the fifteenth Business Day prior to the
applicable Interest Payment Date. The Trustee shall give notice of the Company's
election to begin or extend an Extension Period to the Securityholders, promptly
after receipt of notice from the Company of its election to begin or extend an
Extension Period.

                  Section 2.12      CUSIP Numbers.
                                    -------------

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

                  Section 2.13      Global Debentures.
                                    -----------------

                  (a)      Upon the election of an owner of beneficial interests
in outstanding Debt Securities, the Debt Securities owned by such beneficial
owner shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Debentures. Each Global
Debenture issued under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the
Depositary designated by the Company for such Global Debenture or a nominee of
such Depositary and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or
custodian therefor, and each such Global Debenture shall constitute a single
Debt Security for all purposes of this Indenture.

                  (b)      Notwithstanding any other provision in this
Indenture, no Global Debenture may be exchanged in whole or in part for Debt
Securities in certificated form, and no transfer of a Global Debenture in whole
or in part may be, registered in the name of any Person other than the
Depositary for such Global Debenture or a nominee thereof unless (i) such
Depositary advises the Trustee and the Company in writing that such Depositary
is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities as
Depositary with respect to such Global Debenture, and no qualified successor is
appointed by the Company within ninety (90) days of receipt by the Company of
such notice, (ii) such Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered
under the Exchange Act and no successor is appointed by the Company within
ninety (90) days after obtaining knowledge of such event or (iii) an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Upon obtaining knowledge of the
occurrence of any event specified in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, the
Trustee shall notify the Depositary and instruct the Depositary to notify all
owners of beneficial interests in such Global Debenture of the occurrence of
such event and of the availability of Debt Securities in certificated form to
such beneficial owners requesting the same. Upon the issuance of such Debt
Securities in certificated form and the registration in the Debt Security
Register of such Debt Securities in the names of the holders thereof, the

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Trustee shall recognize such holders as holders of Debt Securities for all
purposes of this Indenture and the Debt Securities.

                  (c)      If any Global Debenture is to be exchanged for Debt
Securities in certificated form or canceled in part, or if a Debt Security in
certificated form is to be exchanged in whole or in part for a beneficial
interest in any Global Debenture, then either (i) such Global Debenture shall be
so surrendered for exchange or cancellation as provided herein or (ii) the
principal amount thereof shall be reduced or increased, subject to Section 2.03,
by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged or canceled, or
equal to the principal amount of such Debt Security to be so exchanged for a
beneficial interest therein, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate
adjustment made on the records of the Debt Security registrar, whereupon the
Trustee, in accordance with the Applicable Depositary Procedures, shall instruct
the Depositary or its authorized representative to make a corresponding
adjustment to its records. Upon any such surrender or adjustment of a Global
Debenture by the Depositary, accompanied by registration instructions, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Debt
Securities issuable in exchange for such Global Debenture (or any portion
thereof) in accordance with the instructions of the Depositary. The Trustee may
conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying on, such
instructions.

                  (d)      Every Debt Security authenticated and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global
Debenture or any portion thereof shall be authenticated and delivered in the
form of, and shall be, a Global Debenture, unless such Debt Security is
registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global
Debenture or a nominee thereof.

                  (e)      Debt Securities distributed to holders of Book-Entry
Capital Securities (as defined in the Declaration) upon the dissolution of the
Trust shall be distributed in the form of one or more Global Debentures
registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, and deposited with the
Debt Securities registrar, as custodian for such Depositary, or with such
Depositary, for credit by the Depositary to the owners of beneficial interests
in such Book-Entry Capital Securities. Debt Securities distributed to holders of
Capital Securities in certificated form upon the dissolution of the Trust shall
be issued in certificated form.

                  (f)      The Depositary or its nominee, as the registered
owner of a Global Debenture, shall be the holder of such Global Debenture for
all purposes under this Indenture and the Debt Securities, and owners of
beneficial interests in a Global Debenture shall hold such interests pursuant to
the Applicable Depositary Procedures. Accordingly, any such owner's beneficial
interest in a Global Debenture shall be shown only on, and the transfer of such
interest shall be effected only through, records maintained by the Depositary or
its nominee or its Depositary Participants. The Debt Securities registrar and
the Trustee shall be entitled to deal with the Depositary for all purposes of
this Indenture relating to a Global Debenture as the sole holder of the Debt
Security and shall have no obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global
Debenture. Neither the Trustee nor the Debt Securities registrar shall have any
liability in respect of any transfers affected by the Depositary or its
Depositary Participants.

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                  (g)      The rights of owners of beneficial interests in a
Global Debenture shall be exercised only through the Depositary and shall be
limited to those established by law and agreements between such owners and the
Depositary and/or its Depositary Participants.

                  (h)      No owner of any beneficial interest in any Global
Debenture shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to such Global
Debenture, and the Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any
agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner and holder of such Global
Debenture for all purposes under the Indenture. None of the Company, the Trustee
nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee will have any responsibility or
liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account
of beneficial ownership interests in a Global Debenture or maintaining,
supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership
interests. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the
Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving
effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by
the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and such beneficial owners,
the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of the
Depositary or its nominee as holder of any Debt Security.

                  (i)      Global Debentures shall bear the following legend on
the face thereof:

         THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL DEBENTURE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
         HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY
         TRUST COMPANY ("DTC") OR A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS SECURITY IS
         EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER
         THAN DTC OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN
         THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER
         OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY A NOMINEE
         OF DTC TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN
         LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

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

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                                  ARTICLE III
                       PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

                  Section 3.01      Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest;
                                    -------------------------------------------
Agreed Treatment of the Debt Securities.
---------------------------------------

                  (a)      The Company covenants and agrees that it will duly
and punctually pay or cause to be paid all payments due in respect of the Debt
Securities at the place, at the respective times and in the manner provided in
this Indenture and the Debt Securities. Payment of the principal of and premium,
if any, and interest on the Debt Securities due on the Maturity Date, any
Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, as the case may be,
will be made by the Company in immediately available funds against presentation
and surrender of such Debt Securities. At the option of the Company, each
installment of interest on the Debt Securities due on an Interest Payment Date
other than the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the Special
Redemption Date, as the case may be, may be paid (i) by mailing checks for such
interest payable to the order of the holders of Debt Securities entitled thereto
as they appear on the Debt Security Register or (ii) by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to any account with a banking institution located in
the United States designated by such holders to the Paying Agent no later than
the related record date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Indenture or any Debt Security, if the Trust or the trustee of the Trust is
the holder of any Debt Security, then all payments in respect of such Debt
Security shall be made by the Company in immediately available funds when due.

                  (b)      The Company will treat the Debt Securities as
indebtedness, and the interest payable in respect of such Debt Securities
(including any Additional Amounts) as interest, for all U.S. federal income tax
purposes. All payments in respect of such Debt Securities will be made free and
clear of U.S. withholding tax provided, that (i) any beneficial owner thereof
that is a "United States person" within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of
the Code (A) has provided an Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 (or any
substitute or successor form) in the manner required establishing its status as
a "United States person" for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and (B) the
Internal Revenue Service has neither notified the Issuer that the taxpayer
identification number furnished by such beneficial owner is incorrect nor
notified the Issuer that there is underreporting by such beneficial owner, and
(ii) any beneficial owner thereof that is not a "United States person" within
the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code has provided an Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8 BEN, Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI, or Internal Revenue
Service Form W-8EXP, as applicable (or any substitute or successor form) in the
manner required establishing its non-U.S. status for U.S. federal income tax
purposes.

                  (c)      As of the date of this Indenture, the Company
represents that it has no intention to exercise its right under Section 2.11 to
defer payments of interest on the Debt Securities by commencing an Extension
Period.

                  (d)      As of the date of this Indenture, the Company
represents that the likelihood that it would exercise its right under Section
2.11 to defer payments of interest on the Debt Securities by commencing an
Extension Period at any time during which the Debt Securities are outstanding is
remote because of the restrictions that would be imposed on the Company's
ability to declare or pay dividends or distributions on, or to redeem, purchase

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or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its outstanding equity and
on the Company's ability to make any payments of principal of or premium, if
any, or interest on, or repurchase or redeem, any of its debt securities that
rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the Debt
Securities.

                  Section 3.02      Offices for Notices and Payments, etc.
                                    -------------------------------------

                  So long as any of the Debt Securities remain outstanding, the
Company will maintain in Wilmington, Delaware or in San Rafael, California an
office or agency where the Debt Securities may be presented for payment, an
office or agency where the Debt Securities may be presented for registration of
transfer and for exchange as provided in this Indenture and an office or agency
where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Debt
Securities or of this Indenture may be served. The Company will give to the
Trustee written notice of the location of any such office or agency and of any
change of location thereof. Until otherwise designated from time to time by the
Company in a notice to the Trustee, or specified as contemplated by Section
2.05, such office or agency for all of the above purposes shall be the Principal
Office of the Trustee. In case the Company shall fail to maintain any such
office or agency in Wilmington, Delaware or in San Rafael, California, or shall
fail to give such notice of the location or of any change in the location
thereof, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served at the
Principal Office of the Trustee.

                  In addition to any such office or agency, the Company may from
time to time designate one or more offices or agencies outside Wilmington,
Delaware or San Rafael, California where the Debt Securities may be presented
for registration of transfer and for exchange in the manner provided in this
Indenture, and the Company may from time to time rescind such designation, as
the Company may deem desirable or expedient; provided, however, that no such
designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its
obligation to maintain any such office or agency in Wilmington, Delaware or in
San Rafael, California for the purposes above mentioned. The Company will give
to the Trustee prompt written notice of any such designation or rescission
thereof.

                  Section 3.03      Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee's
                                    -------------------------------------------
Office.
------

                  The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in
the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 6.09, a
Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.

                  Section 3.04      Provision as to Paying Agent.
                                    ----------------------------

                  (a)      If the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other
than the Trustee, it will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the
Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject
to the provision of this Section 3.04,

                           (i)      that it will hold all sums held by it as
         such agent for the payment of all payments due on the Debt Securities
         (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Company or by any other
         obligor on the Debt Securities) in trust for the benefit of the holders
         of the Debt Securities;

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                           (ii)     that it will give the Trustee prompt written
         notice of any failure by the Company (or by any other obligor on the
         Debt Securities) to make any payment on the Debt Securities when the
         same shall be due and payable; and

                           (iii)    that it will, at any time during the
         continuance of any Event of Default, upon the written request of the
         Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such
         Paying Agent.

                  (b)      If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it
will, on or before each due date of the payments due on the Debt Securities, set
aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Debt
Securities a sum sufficient to make such payments so becoming due and will
notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any
failure by the Company (or by any other obligor under the Debt Securities) to
make any payment on the Debt Securities when the same shall become due and
payable.

                  Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for
the Debt Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the payments on
the Debt Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay all
payments so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the
Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its action or failure to
act.

                  (c)      Anything in this Section 3.04 to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a
satisfaction and discharge with respect to the Debt Securities, or for any other
reason, pay, or direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or any such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Trustee upon the same terms and conditions herein contained.

                  (d)      Anything in this Section 3.04 to the contrary
notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section
3.04 is subject to Sections 12.03 and 12.04.

                  (e)      The Company hereby initially appoints the Trustee to
act as paying agent for the Debt Securities (the "Paying Agent").

                  Section 3.05      Certificate to Trustee.
                                    ----------------------

                  The Company will deliver to the Trustee on or before 120 days
after the end of each fiscal year, so long as Debt Securities are outstanding
hereunder, a Certificate, substantially in the form of Exhibit B attached
hereto, stating that in the course of the performance by the signers of their
duties as officers of the Company they would normally have knowledge of any
default by the Company in the performance of any covenants of the Company
contained herein, stating whether or not they have knowledge of any such default
and, if so, specifying each such default of which the signers have knowledge and
the nature thereof.

                  Section 3.06      Additional Amounts.
                                    ------------------

                  If and for so long as the Trust is the holder of all Debt
Securities and is subject to or otherwise required to pay (or is required to
withhold from distributions to holders of Trust Securities) any additional taxes

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(including withholding taxes), duties, assessments or other governmental charges
as a result of a Tax Event, the Company will pay such additional amounts (the
"Additional Amounts") on the Debt Securities or the Trust Securities, as the
case may be, as shall be required so that the net amounts received and retained
by the holders of Debt Securities or Trust Securities, as the case may be, after
payment of all taxes (including withholding taxes), duties, assessments or other
governmental charges, will be equal to the amounts that such holders would have
received and retained had no such taxes (including withholding taxes), duties,
assessments or other governmental charges been imposed.

                  Whenever in this Indenture or the Debt Securities there is a
reference in any context to the payment of principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on the Debt Securities, such mention shall be deemed to include mention
of payments of the Additional Amounts provided for in this Section to the extent
that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in
respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section and express mention
of the payment of Additional Amounts (if applicable) in any provisions hereof
shall not be construed as excluding Additional Amounts in those provisions
hereof where such express mention is not made, provided, however, that,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture or any Debt
Security, the deferral of the payment of interest during an Extension Period
pursuant to Section 2.11 shall not defer the payment of any Additional Amounts
that may be due and payable.

                  Section 3.07      Compliance with Consolidation Provisions.
                                    ----------------------------------------

                  The Company will not, while any of the Debt Securities remain
outstanding, consolidate with, or merge into, any other Person, or merge into
itself, or sell, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of all or substantially
all of its property or capital stock to any other Person unless the provisions
of Article XI hereof are complied with.

                  Section 3.08      Limitation on Dividends.
                                    -----------------------

                  If (i) there shall have occurred and be continuing a Default
or an Event of Default, (ii) the Company shall be in default with respect to its
payment of any obligations under the Capital Securities Guarantee or (iii) the
Company shall have given notice of its election to defer payments of interest on
the Debt Securities by extending the interest payment period as provided herein
and such period, or any extension thereof, shall have commenced and be
continuing, then the Company may not (A) declare or pay any dividends or
distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire, or make a liquidation payment
with respect to, any of the Company's capital stock, (B) make any payment of
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on or repay, repurchase or redeem
any debt securities of the Company that rank pari passu in all respects with or
junior in interest to the Debt Securities or (C) make any payment under any
guarantees of the Company that rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in
interest to the Capital Securities Guarantee (other than (a) repurchases,
redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company (I)
in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar
arrangement with or for the benefit of one or more employees, officers,
directors or consultants, (II) in connection with a dividend reinvestment or
stockholder stock purchase plan or (III) in connection with the issuance of
capital stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or exercisable for
such capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into

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prior to the occurrence of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, (b) as a result of any
exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Company's capital stock (or
any capital stock of a subsidiary of the Company) for any class or series of the
Company's capital stock or of any class or series of the Company's indebtedness
for any class or series of the Company's capital stock, (c) the purchase of
fractional interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the
conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being
converted or exchanged, (d) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any
stockholder's rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property
under any stockholder's rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights
pursuant thereto or (e) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or
other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of
such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the
dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior in interest to such
stock).

                  Section 3.09      Covenants as to the Trust.
                                    -------------------------

                  For so long as such Trust Securities remain outstanding, the
Company shall maintain 100% ownership of the Common Securities; provided,
however, that any permitted successor of the Company under this Indenture may
succeed to the Company's ownership of such Common Securities. The Company, as
owner of the Common Securities, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to
cause the Trust (a) to remain a statutory trust, except in connection with a
distribution of Debt Securities to the holders of Trust Securities in
liquidation of the Trust, the redemption of all of the Trust Securities or
mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as permitted by the Declaration,
(b) to otherwise continue to be classified as a grantor trust for United States
federal income tax purposes and (c) to cause each holder of Trust Securities to
be treated as owning an undivided beneficial interest in the Debt Securities.

                                   ARTICLE IV
                                      LISTS

                  Section 4.01      Securityholders' Lists.
                                    ----------------------

                  The Company covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause
to be furnished to the Trustee:

                  (a)      on each regular record date for an Interest Payment
Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names
and addresses of the Securityholders of the Debt Securities as of such record
date; and

                  (b)      at such other times as the Trustee may request in
writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the
time such list is furnished; except that no such lists need be furnished under
this Section 4.01 so long as the Trustee is in possession thereof by reason of
its acting as Debt Security registrar.

                  Section 4.02      Preservation and Disclosure of Lists.
                                    ------------------------------------

                  (a)      The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as
is reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the
holders of Debt Securities (1) contained in the most recent list furnished to it

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as provided in Section 4.01 or (2) received by it in the capacity of Debt
Securities registrar (if so acting) hereunder. The Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in Section 4.01 upon receipt of a new list so
furnished.

                  (b)      In case three or more holders of Debt Securities
(hereinafter referred to as "applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee and
furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a
Debt Security for a period of at least six months preceding the date of such
application, and such application states that the applicants desire to
communicate with other holders of Debt Securities with respect to their rights
under this Indenture or under such Debt Securities and is accompanied by a copy
of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to
transmit, then the Trustee shall within five Business Days after the receipt of
such application, at its election, either:

                           (i)      afford such applicants access to the
         information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with the
         provisions of subsection (a) of this Section 4.02, or

                           (ii)     inform such applicants as to the approximate
         number of holders of Debt Securities whose names and addresses appear
         in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance
         with the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section 4.02, and as to
         the approximate cost of mailing to such Securityholders the form of
         proxy or other communication, if any, specified in such application.

                  If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants
access to such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such
applicants, mail to each Securityholder of Debt Securities whose name and
address appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section 4.02 a copy of
the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed
and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of
mailing, unless within five days after such tender, the Trustee shall mail to
such applicants and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, if
permitted or required by applicable law, together with a copy of the material to
be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the
Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the holders of
all Debt Securities, as the case may be, or would be in violation of applicable
law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If said
Commission, as permitted or required by applicable law, after opportunity for a
hearing upon the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall
enter an order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry
of an order sustaining one or more of such objections, said Commission shall
find, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so
sustained have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall
mail copies of such material to all such Securityholders with reasonable
promptness after the entry of such order and the renewal of such tender;
otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such
applicants respecting their application.

                  (c)      Each and every holder of Debt Securities, by
receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that
none of the Company, the Trustee or any Paying Agent shall be held accountable
by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and

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addresses of the holders of Debt Securities in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (b) of this Section 4.02, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by
reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under said subsection
(b).

                  Section 4.03      Financial and Other Information.
                                    -------------------------------

                  (a)      The Company shall deliver, by hardcopy or electronic
transmission, to each Securityholder (i) each Report on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q,
if any, prepared by the Company and filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act within 10 Business Days after the
filing thereof or (ii) if the Company is (a) not then subject to Section 13 or
15(d) of the Exchange Act (a "Private Entity") or (b) exempt from reporting
pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) thereunder, the information required by Rule
144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as a
Holder of the Debt Securities is MMCapS Funding XVIII, Ltd. or an entity that
holds a pool of trust preferred securities and/or debt securities as collateral
for its securities or a trustee thereof, and the Company is (i) a Private Entity
that, on the date of original issuance of the Debt Securities, is required to
provide audited consolidated financial statements to its primary regulatory
authority, (ii) a Private Entity that, on the date of original issuance of the
Debt Securities, is not required to provide audited consolidated financial
statements to its primary regulatory authority but subsequently becomes subject
to the audited consolidated financial statement reporting requirements of that
regulatory authority or (iii) subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act
on the date of original issuance of the Debt Securities or becomes so subject
after the date hereof but subsequently becomes a Private Entity, then, within 90
days after the end of each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year in which
the Debt Securities were originally issued if the Company was then subject to
(x) Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or (y) audited consolidated
financial statement reporting requirements of its primary regulatory authority
or, otherwise, the earliest fiscal year in which the Company becomes subject to
(1) Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or (2) the audited consolidated
financial statement reporting requirements of its primary regulatory authority,
the Company shall deliver, by hardcopy or electronic transmission, to each
Securityholder, unless otherwise provided pursuant to the preceding sentence,
(A) a copy of the Company's audited consolidated financial statements (including
balance sheet and income statement) covering the related annual period and (B)
the report of the independent accountants with respect to such financial
statements. In addition to the foregoing, the Company shall deliver to each
Securityholder within 30 days after the end of the fiscal year of the Company,
Form 1099 or such other annual U.S. federal income tax information statement
required by the Code containing such information with regard to the Debt
Securities held by such holder as is required by the Code and the income tax
regulations of the U.S. Treasury thereunder.

                  (b)      If and so long as the Holder of the Debt Securities
is MMCapS Funding XVIII, Ltd. or an entity that holds a pool of trust preferred
securities and/or debt securities or a trustee thereof, the Company will cause
copies of its financial reports, if any, to be delivered to such Holder promptly
following their filing with the Company's applicable regulatory authority.

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                                    ARTICLE V
                   REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS

                  Section 5.01      Events of Default.
                                    -----------------

                  The following events shall be "Events of Default" with respect
to Debt Securities:

                  (a)      the Company defaults in the payment of any interest
upon any Debt Security when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such
default for a period of 30 days; for the avoidance of doubt, an extension of any
interest payment period by the Company in accordance with Section 2.11 of this
Indenture shall not constitute a default under this clause 5.01(a); or

                  (b)      the Company defaults in the payment of any interest
upon any Debt Security, including any Additional Amounts in respect thereof,
following the nonpayment of any such interest for twenty or more consecutive
Interest Periods; or

                  (c)      the Company defaults in the payment of all or any
part of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Debt Securities as and
when the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, upon
redemption, by acceleration of maturity pursuant to Section 5.01 of this
Indenture or otherwise; or

                  (d)      the Company defaults in the performance of, or
breaches, any of its covenants or agreements in Sections 3.06, 3.07, 3.08 or
3.09 of this Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement a default in whose
performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt
with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after
there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the
Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the holders of not less than 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Debt Securities, a written notice
specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating
that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or

                  (e)      a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall
enter a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary
case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or appoints a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian,
trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or for any
substantial part of its property, or orders the winding-up or liquidation of its
affairs and such decree, appointment or order shall remain unstayed and in
effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or

                  (f)      the Company shall commence a voluntary case under any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in
effect, shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case
under any such law, or shall consent to the appointment of or taking possession
by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
shall make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail
generally to pay its debts as they become due; or

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                  (g)      a court or administrative or governmental agency or
body shall enter a decree or order for the appointment of a receiver of a Major
Depository Institution Subsidiary or all or substantially all of its property in
any liquidation, insolvency or similar proceeding with respect to such Major
Depository Institution Subsidiary or all or substantially all of its property;
or

                  (h)      a Major Depository Institution Subsidiary shall
consent to the appointment of a receiver for it or all or substantially all of
its property in any liquidation, insolvency or similar proceeding with respect
to it or all or substantially all of its property; or

                  (i)      the Trust shall have voluntarily or involuntarily
liquidated, dissolved, wound-up its business or otherwise terminated its
existence except in connection with (1) the distribution of the Debt Securities
to holders of the Trust Securities in liquidation of their interests in the
Trust, (2) the redemption of all of the outstanding Trust Securities or (3)
mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as permitted by the Declaration.

                  If an Event of Default specified under clause (b) of this
Section 5.01 occurs and is continuing with respect to the Debt Securities, then,
in each and every such case, either the Trustee or the holders of not less than
25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding
hereunder, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by
Securityholders), may declare the entire principal of the Debt Securities and
any premium and interest accrued, but unpaid, thereon to be due and payable
immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become immediately due
and payable. If an Event of Default specified under clause (e), (f), (g), (h) or
(i) of this Section 5.01 occurs, then, in each and every such case, the entire
principal amount of the Debt Securities and any premium and interest accrued,
but unpaid, thereon shall ipso facto become immediately due and payable without
further action.

                  The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the
condition that if, at any time after the principal of the Debt Securities shall
have become due by acceleration, and before any judgment or decree for the
payment of the moneys due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter
provided, (i) the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest upon all the Debt
Securities and all payments on the Debt Securities which shall have become due
otherwise than by acceleration (with interest upon all such payments and
Deferred Interest, to the extent permitted by law) and such amount as shall be
sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other amounts
due to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.06, if any, and (ii) all Events of
Default under this Indenture, other than the non-payment of the payments in
respect of Debt Securities which shall have become due by acceleration, shall
have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as provided herein, then, in each
and every such case, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Debt Securities then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to
the Trustee, may waive all defaults and rescind and annul such acceleration and
its consequences, but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to
or shall affect any subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent
thereon; provided, however, that if the Debt Securities are held by the Trust or
a trustee of the Trust, such waiver or rescission and annulment shall not be

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effective until the holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the
outstanding Capital Securities of the Trust shall have consented to such waiver
or rescission and annulment.

                  In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right
under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or
abandoned because of such rescission or annulment or for any other reason or
shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case
the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Debt Securities shall be
restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all
rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the
Debt Securities shall continue as though no such proceeding had been taken.

                  Section 5.02      Payment of Debt Securities on Default; Suit
                                    -------------------------------------------
Therefor.
--------

                  The Company covenants that upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default pursuant to clause (b) of Section 5.01 and upon demand of the Trustee,
the Company will pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the holders of the Debt
Securities, the whole amount that then shall have become due and payable on all
Debt Securities, including Deferred Interest accrued on the Debt Securities;
and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover
the costs and expenses of collection, including a reasonable compensation to the
Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and any other amounts due to the
Trustee under Section 6.06. In case the Company shall fail forthwith to pay such
amounts upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any actions or
proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceeding to judgment or final
decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Company or
any other obligor on such Debt Securities and collect in the manner provided by
law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor on such Debt
Securities wherever situated the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.

                  In case there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy
or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Debt
Securities under Bankruptcy Law, or in case a receiver or trustee shall have
been appointed for the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the
case of any other similar judicial proceedings relative to the Company or other
obligor upon the Debt Securities, or to the creditors or property of the Company
or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the
Debt Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
acceleration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have
made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.02, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to
file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest
owing and unpaid in respect of the Debt Securities and, in case of any judicial
proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including
any claim for reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for
reimbursement of all other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.06) and of
the Securityholders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company
or any other obligor on the Debt Securities, or to the creditors or property of
the Company or such other obligor, unless prohibited by applicable law and
regulations, to vote on behalf of the holders of the Debt Securities in any
election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization,

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liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or Person performing
similar functions in comparable proceedings, and to collect and receive any
moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to
distribute the same after the deduction of its charges and expenses; and any
receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization is hereby
authorized by each of the Securityholders to make such payments to the Trustee,
and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments
directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as shall be
sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each predecessor
Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other
amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.06.

                  Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Debt Securities or the rights of any holder thereof or
to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder
in any such proceeding.

                  All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture, or under any of the Debt Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee
without the possession of any of the Debt Securities, or the production thereof
at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or
proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee
of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall be for the ratable
benefit of the holders of the Debt Securities.

                  In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any
proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to
which the Trustee shall be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all
the holders of the Debt Securities, and it shall not be necessary to make any
holders of the Debt Securities parties to any such proceedings.

                  Section 5.03      Application of Moneys Collected by Trustee.
                                    ------------------------------------------

                  Any moneys collected by the Trustee shall be applied in the
following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution
of such moneys, upon presentation of the several Debt Securities in respect of
which moneys have been collected, and stamping thereon the payment, if only
partially paid, and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:

                  First: To the payment of costs and expenses incurred by, and
reasonable fees of, the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and of all
other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.06;

                  Second: To the payment of all Senior Indebtedness of the
Company if and to the extent required by Article XV;

                  Third: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon
Debt Securities, in respect of which or for the benefit of which money has been
collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due upon such Debt Securities; and

                  Fourth: The balance, if any, to the Company.

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                  Section 5.04      Proceedings by Securityholders.
                                    ------------------------------

                  No holder of any Debt Security shall have any right to
institute any suit, action or proceeding for any remedy hereunder, unless such
holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of
Default with respect to the Debt Securities and unless the holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding
shall have given the Trustee a written request to institute such action, suit or
proceeding and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it
may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred thereby,
and the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer
of indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action, suit or proceeding;
provided, that no holder of Debt Securities shall have any right to prejudice
the rights of any other holder of Debt Securities, obtain priority or preference
over any other such holder or enforce any right under this Indenture except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all
holders of Debt Securities.

                  Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the
right of any holder of any Debt Security to receive payment of the principal of
and premium, if any, and interest on such Debt Security when due, or to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, shall not be impaired or
affected without the consent of such holder. For the protection and enforcement
of the provisions of this Section, each and every Securityholder and the Trustee
shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.

                  Section 5.05      Proceedings by Trustee.
                                    ----------------------

                  In case of an Event of Default, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this
Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by suit in
equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether
for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this
Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or
to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this
Indenture or by law.

                  Section 5.06      Remedies Cumulative and Continuing.
                                    ----------------------------------

                  Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.06, all powers and
remedies given by this Article V to the Trustee or to the Securityholders shall,
to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any
other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the holders of the Debt
Securities, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or
observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture or
otherwise established with respect to the Debt Securities, and no delay or
omission of the Trustee or of any holder of any of the Debt Securities to
exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and
continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power, or shall be
construed to be a waiver of any such default or an acquiescence therein; and,
subject to the provisions of Section 5.04, every power and remedy given by this
Article V or by law to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised
from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or
by the Securityholders.

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                  Section 5.07      Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of
                                    --------------------------------------
Defaults by Majority of Securityholders.
---------------------------------------

                  The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Debt Securities affected at the time outstanding and, if the Debt Securities are
held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust, the holders of a majority in
aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding Capital Securities of the Trust
shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or
power conferred on the Trustee with respect to such Debt Securities; provided,
however, that if the Debt Securities are held by the Trust or a trustee of the
Trust, such time, method and place or such exercise, as the case may be, may not
be so directed until the holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation amount
of the outstanding Capital Securities of the Trust shall have directed such
time, method and place or such exercise, as the case may be; provided, further,
that (subject to the provisions of Section 6.01) the Trustee shall have the
right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee shall determine
that the action so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the holders not
taking part in such direction or if the Trustee being advised by counsel
determines that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken
or if a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall determine that the action or
proceedings so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability. Prior
to any declaration of acceleration, or ipso facto acceleration, of the maturity
of the Debt Securities, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Debt Securities at the time outstanding may on behalf of the holders of
all of the Debt Securities waive (or modify any previously granted waiver of)
any past Default or Event of Default and its consequences, except a default (a)
in the payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any of the
Debt Securities, (b) in respect of covenants or provisions hereof which cannot
be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each Debt Security
affected, or (c) in respect of the covenants contained in Section 3.09;
provided, however, that if the Debt Securities are held by the Trust or a
trustee of the Trust, such waiver or modification to such waiver shall not be
effective until the holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the
outstanding Capital Securities of the Trust shall have consented to such waiver
or modification to such waiver; provided, further, that if the consent of the
holder of each outstanding Debt Security is required, such waiver or
modification to such waiver shall not be effective until each holder of the
outstanding Capital Securities of the Trust shall have consented to such waiver
or modification to such waiver. Upon any such waiver or modification to such
waiver, the Default or Event of Default covered thereby shall be deemed to be
cured for all purposes of this Indenture and the Company, the Trustee and the
holders of the Debt Securities shall be restored to their former positions and
rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver or modification to such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or
impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any Default or Event of Default
hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section, said Default or
Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Debt Securities and this
Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing.

                  Section 5.08      Notice of Defaults.
                                    ------------------

                  The Trustee shall, within 90 days after a Responsible Officer
of the Trustee shall have actual knowledge or received written notice of the
occurrence of a default with respect to the Debt Securities, mail to all
Securityholders, as the names and addresses of such holders appear upon the Debt
Security Register, notice of all defaults with respect to the Debt Securities

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known to the Trustee, unless such defaults shall have been cured before the
giving of such notice (the term "default" for the purpose of this Section is
hereby defined to be any event specified in Section 5.01, not including periods
of grace, if any, provided for therein); provided, that, except in the case of
default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
any of the Debt Securities, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such
notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith
determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the
Securityholders.

                  Section 5.09      Undertaking to Pay Costs.
                                    ------------------------

                  All parties to this Indenture agree, and each holder of any
Debt Security by such holder's acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have
agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any
party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and
that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such
suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses
made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply
to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any
Securityholder, or group of Securityholders, holding in the aggregate more than
10% in principal amount of the outstanding Debt Securities (or, if such Debt
Securities are held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust, more than 10% in
liquidation amount of the outstanding Capital Securities), to any suit
instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Debt Security against the
Company on or after the same shall have become due and payable or to any suit
instituted in accordance with Section 14.12.

                                   ARTICLE VI
                             CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE

                  Section 6.01      Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee.
                                    --------------------------------------

                  With respect to the holders of Debt Securities issued
hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with
respect to the Debt Securities and after the curing or waiving of all Events of
Default which may have occurred, with respect to the Debt Securities, undertakes
to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in
this Indenture. In case an Event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities
has occurred (which has not been cured or waived), the Trustee shall exercise
such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same
degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise
or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's own affairs.

                  No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve
the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act or its own willful misconduct or bad faith, except that:

                  (a)      prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and
after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred:

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                           (i)      the duties and obligations of the Trustee
         with respect to the Debt Securities shall be determined solely by the
         express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be
         liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations with
         respect to the Debt Securities as are specifically set forth in this
         Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into
         this Indenture against the Trustee; and

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

                  (b)      the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee,
unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts;

                  (c)      the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith, in accordance with the
direction of the Securityholders pursuant to Section 5.07, relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this
Indenture; and

                  (d)      the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of
any Default or Event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities unless
either (1) a Responsible Officer shall have actual knowledge of such Default or
Event of Default or (2) written notice of such Default or Event of Default shall
have been given to the Trustee by the Company or any other obligor on the Debt
Securities or by any holder of the Debt Securities, except that the Trustee
shall be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default pursuant to Sections
5.01(a), 5.01(b) or 5.01(c) hereof (other than an Event of Default resulting
from the default in the payment of Additional Amounts if the Trustee does not
have actual knowledge or written notice that such payment is due and payable) .

                  None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall
require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise
of any of its rights or powers.

                  Section 6.02      Reliance on Documents, Opinions, etc.
                                    ------------------------------------

                  Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.01:

                  (a)      the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully
protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond,
note, debenture or other paper or document believed by it in good faith to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

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                  (b)      any request, direction, order or demand of the
Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers'
Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically
prescribed); and any Board Resolution may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy
thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company;

                  (c)      the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection
and any advice or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization
and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of
Counsel;

                  (d)      the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order
or direction of any of the Securityholders, pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
which may be incurred therein or thereby;

                  (e)      the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken
or omitted by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or
within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture;
nothing contained herein shall, however, relieve the Trustee of the obligation,
upon the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities
(which has not been cured or waived) to exercise with respect to the Debt
Securities such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and to
use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's
own affairs;

                  (f)      the Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order,
approval, bond, debenture, coupon or other paper or document, unless requested
in writing to do so by the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the outstanding Debt Securities affected thereby; provided, however, that if
the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or
liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is,
in the opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the
security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require
reasonable indemnity against such expense or liability as a condition to so
proceeding; and

                  (g)      the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents (including any Authenticating Agent) or attorneys, and the Trustee shall
not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such
agent or attorney appointed by it with due care.

                  Section 6.03      No Responsibility for Recitals, etc.
                                    -----------------------------------

                  The recitals contained herein and in the Debt Securities
(except in the certificate of authentication of the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the
Trustee and the Authenticating Agent assume no responsibility for the
correctness of the same. The Trustee and the Authenticating Agent make no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the
Debt Securities. The Trustee and the Authenticating Agent shall not be

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accountable for the use or application by the Company of any Debt Securities or
the proceeds of any Debt Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee
or the Authenticating Agent in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture.

                  Section 6.04      Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying
                                    -------------------------------------
Agents, Transfer Agents or Registrar May Own Debt Securities.
------------------------------------------------------------

                  The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any
transfer agent or any Debt Security registrar, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Debt Securities with the same
rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent,
transfer agent or Debt Security registrar.

                  Section 6.05      Moneys to be Held in Trust.
                                    --------------------------

                  Subject to the provisions of Section 12.04, all moneys
received by the Trustee or any Paying Agent shall, until used or applied as
herein provided, be held in trust for the purpose for which they were received,
but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by
law. The Trustee and any Paying Agent shall be under no liability for interest
on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with
the Company. So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, all interest allowed on any such moneys, if any, shall be paid from
time to time to the Company upon the written order of the Company, signed by the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President, the Chief Operating Officer,
a Vice President, the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of the Company.

                  Section 6.06      Compensation and Expenses of Trustee.
                                    ------------------------------------

                  The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from
time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, such compensation as shall
be agreed to in writing between the Company and the Trustee (which shall not be
limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an
express trust), and the Company will pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its
written request for all documented reasonable expenses, disbursements and
advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the
provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the
reasonable expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all Persons not
regularly in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance that
arises from its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith. The Company also
covenants to indemnify each of the Trustee (including in its individual
capacity) and any predecessor Trustee (and its officers, agents, directors and
employees) for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss, damage,
claim, liability or expense including taxes (other than taxes based on the
income of the Trustee), except to the extent such loss, damage, claim, liability
or expense results from the negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of such
indemnitee, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this trust, including the costs and expenses of defending
itself against any claim or liability in the premises. The obligations of the
Company under this Section to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and to pay or
reimburse the Trustee for documented expenses, disbursements and advances shall
constitute additional indebtedness hereunder. Such additional indebtedness shall
be secured by a lien prior to that of the Debt Securities upon all property and
funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for
the benefit of the holders of particular Debt Securities.

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                  Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee
under applicable law, when the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in clause (e), (f), (g), (h) or
(i) of Section 5.01, the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses
of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute
expenses of administration under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law.

                  The provisions of this Section shall survive the resignation
or removal of the Trustee and the defeasance or other termination of this
Indenture.

                  Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture or any Debt
Security to the contrary, the Trustee shall have no obligation whatsoever to
advance funds to pay any principal of or interest on or other amounts with
respect to the Debt Securities or otherwise advance funds to or on behalf of the
Company.

                  Section 6.07      Officers' Certificate as Evidence.
                                    ---------------------------------

                  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 6.01 and 6.02,
whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee
shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established
prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other
evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the
absence of negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the
Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officers'
Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such certificate, in the absence of
negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be
full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it under the
provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.

                  Section 6.08      Eligibility of Trustee.
                                    ----------------------

                  The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a U.S. Person that
is a banking corporation or national association organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or of the
District of Columbia and authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust
powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least fifty million U.S.
dollars ($50,000,000) and subject to supervision or examination by federal,
state, or District of Columbia authority. If such corporation or national
association publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or
to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation or national association shall be deemed to be its combined capital
and surplus as set forth in its most recent records of condition so published.

                  The Company may not, nor may any Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Company, serve as
Trustee, notwithstanding that such corporation or national association shall be
otherwise eligible and qualified under this Article.

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                  In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.09.

                  If the Trustee has or shall acquire any "conflicting interest"
within the meaning of ss.310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall
either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner
provided by, and subject to, this Indenture.

                  Section 6.09      Resignation or Removal of Trustee.
                                    ---------------------------------

                  (a)      The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter
appointed, may at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation
to the Company and by mailing notice thereof, at the Company's expense, to the
holders of the Debt Securities at their addresses as they shall appear on the
Debt Security Register. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company
shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or trustees by written instrument, in
duplicate, executed by order of its Board of Directors, one copy of which
instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the
successor Trustee. If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed and have
accepted appointment within 30 days after the mailing of such notice of
resignation to the affected Securityholders, the resigning Trustee may petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee,
or any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Debt Security or Debt
Securities for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of Section
5.09, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated,
petition any such court for the appointment of a successor Trustee. Such court
may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe,
appoint a successor Trustee.

                  (b)      In case at any time any of the following shall occur:

                           (i)      the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
         provisions of the last paragraph of Section 6.08 after written request
         therefor by the Company or by any Securityholder who has been a bona
         fide holder of a Debt Security or Debt Securities for at least six
         months;

                           (ii)     the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
         accordance with the provisions of Section 6.08 and shall fail to resign
         after written request therefor by the Company or by any such
         Securityholder; or

                           (iii)    the Trustee shall become incapable of
         acting, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of
         the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public
         officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property
         or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
         liquidation,

then, in any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee and appoint a
successor Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the
Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the
Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Trustee, or, subject to the
provisions of Section 5.09, if no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed
and have accepted appointment within 30 days of the occurrence of any of (i),
(ii) or (iii) above, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a
Debt Security or Debt Securities for at least six months may, on behalf of

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himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a
successor Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it
may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor
Trustee.

                  (c)      Upon prior written notice to the Company and the
Trustee, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities at the time outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee and
nominate a successor Trustee, which shall be deemed appointed as successor
Trustee unless within ten Business Days after such nomination the Company
objects thereto, in which case or in the case of a failure by such holders to
nominate a successor Trustee, the Trustee so removed or any Securityholder, upon
the terms and conditions and otherwise as in subsection (a) of this Section, may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor.

                  (d)      Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and
appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this
Section shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor
Trustee as provided in Section 6.10.

                  Section 6.10      Acceptance by Successor Trustee.
                                    -------------------------------

                  Any successor Trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.09
shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor
Trustee an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such provisions as
shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all of the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee shall be vested in the
successor Trustee, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further
act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties
and obligations with respect to the Debt Securities of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Trustee herein; but,
nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the successor Trustee,
the Trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of the amounts then due it
pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.06, execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights and powers of the Trustee
so ceasing to act and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon
request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all
instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to
such successor Trustee all such rights and powers. Any Trustee ceasing to act
shall, nevertheless, retain a lien upon all property or funds held or collected
by such Trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of
Section 6.06.

                  No successor Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in
this Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall
be eligible and qualified under the provisions of Section 6.08.

                  In no event shall a retiring Trustee be liable for the acts or
omissions of any successor Trustee hereunder.

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                  Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Trustee as
provided in this Section, the Company shall mail notice of the succession of
such Trustee hereunder to the holders of Debt Securities at their addresses as
they shall appear on the Debt Security Register. If the Company fails to mail
such notice within ten Business Days after the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Trustee, the successor Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at
the expense of the Company.

                  Section 6.11      Succession by Merger, etc.
                                    -------------------------

                  Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the
corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee
hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto, provided, that such corporation shall be
otherwise eligible and qualified under this Article.

                  In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall
succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Debt Securities shall
have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may
adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee, and deliver
such Debt Securities so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Debt
Securities shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may
authenticate such Debt Securities either in the name of any predecessor
hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such cases such
certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Debt
Securities or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee
shall have; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor Trustee or authenticate Debt Securities in the
name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors
by merger, conversion or consolidation.

                  Section 6.12      Authenticating Agents.
                                    ---------------------

                  There may be one or more Authenticating Agents appointed by
the Trustee upon the request of the Company with power to act on its behalf and
subject to its direction in the authentication and delivery of Debt Securities
issued upon exchange or registration of transfer thereof as fully to all intents
and purposes as though any such Authenticating Agent had been expressly
authorized to authenticate and deliver Debt Securities; provided, however, that
the Trustee shall have no liability to the Company for any acts or omissions of
the Authenticating Agent with respect to the authentication and delivery of Debt
Securities. Any such Authenticating Agent shall at all times be a corporation
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or of any state
thereof or of the District of Columbia authorized under such laws to act as
Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000 and being subject to supervision or examination by federal, state or
District of Columbia authority. If such corporation publishes reports of
condition at least annually pursuant to law or the requirements of such
authority, then for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at

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any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and
with the effect herein specified in this Section.

                  Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be
merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any
Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or
substantially all of the corporate trust business of any Authenticating Agent,
shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, if such successor
corporation is otherwise eligible under this Section without the execution or
filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or such
Authenticating Agent.

                  Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving
written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may
at any time terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent with respect to the
Debt Securities by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating
Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon
such a termination, or in case at any time any Authenticating Agent shall cease
to be eligible under this Section, the Trustee may, and upon the request of the
Company shall, promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent eligible under
this Section, shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company and
shall mail notice of such appointment to all holders of Debt Securities as the
names and addresses of such holders appear on the Debt Security Register. Any
successor Authenticating Agent, upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder,
shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of its
predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Authenticating
Agent herein.

                  The Company agrees to pay to any Authenticating Agent from
time to time reasonable compensation for its services. Any Authenticating Agent
shall have no responsibility or liability for any action taken by it as such in
accordance with the directions of the Trustee.

                                   ARTICLE VII
                         CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS

                  Section 7.01      Action by Securityholders.
                                    -------------------------

                  Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the holders of
a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities or
aggregate liquidation amount of the Capital Securities may take any action
(including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice,
consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that at the time
of taking any such action the holders of such specified percentage have joined
therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of
similar tenor executed by such Securityholders or holders of Capital Securities,
as the case may be, in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b)
by the record of such holders of Debt Securities voting in favor thereof at any
meeting of such Securityholders duly called and held in accordance with the
provisions of Article VIII or of such holders of Capital Securities duly called
and held in accordance with the provisions of the Declaration, or (c) by a
combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a
meeting of such Securityholders or holders of Capital Securities, as the case
may be, or (d) by any other method the Trustee deems satisfactory.

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                  If the Company shall solicit from the Securityholders any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action or revocation of the same, the Company may, at its option, as evidenced
by an Officers' Certificate, fix in advance a record date for such Debt
Securities for the determination of Securityholders entitled to give such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action or revocation of the same, but the Company shall have no obligation to do
so. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation of the same may
be given before or after the record date, but only the Securityholders of record
at the close of business on the record date shall be deemed to be
Securityholders for the purposes of determining whether Securityholders of the
requisite proportion of outstanding Debt Securities have authorized or agreed or
consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action or revocation of the same, and for that purpose the
outstanding Debt Securities shall be computed as of the record date; provided,
however, that no such authorization, agreement or consent by such
Securityholders on the record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall
become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six
months after the record date.

                  Section 7.02      Proof of Execution by Securityholders.
                                    -------------------------------------

                  Subject to the provisions of Sections 6.01, 6.02 and 8.05,
proof of the execution of any instrument by a Securityholder or such
Securityholder's agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with
such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in
such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The ownership of Debt
Securities shall be proved by the Debt Security Register or by a certificate of
the Debt Security registrar. The Trustee may require such additional proof of
any matter referred to in this Section as it shall deem necessary.

                  The record of any Securityholders' meeting shall be proved in
the manner provided in Section 8.06.

                  Section 7.03      Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners.
                                    ------------------------------

                  Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any
Debt Security, the Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying
Agent, any transfer agent and any Debt Security registrar may deem the Person in
whose name such Debt Security shall be registered upon the Debt Security
Register to be, and may treat such Person as, the absolute owner of such Debt
Security (whether or not such Debt Security shall be overdue) for the purpose of
receiving payment of or on account of the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on such Debt Security and for all other purposes; and none of the
Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any transfer
agent or any Debt Security registrar shall be affected by any notice to the
contrary. All such payments so made to any holder for the time being or upon
such holder's order shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so
paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys payable upon
any such Debt Security.

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                  Section 7.04      Debt Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not
                                    -------------------------------------------
Outstanding.
-----------
                  In determining whether the holders of the requisite aggregate
principal amount of Debt Securities have concurred in any direction, consent or
waiver under this Indenture, Debt Securities which are owned by the Company or
any other obligor on the Debt Securities or by any Person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the
Company (other than the Trust) or any other obligor on the Debt Securities shall
be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the purpose of any such
determination, provided, that for the purposes of determining whether the
Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent or waiver,
only Debt Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows
are so owned shall be so disregarded. Debt Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as outstanding for the purposes of this
Section if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the
pledgee's right to vote such Debt Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Company or any such other obligor or Person directly or indirectly controlling
or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or
any such other obligor. In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision
by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full protection to the
Trustee.

                  Section 7.05      Revocation of Consents; Future Holders
                                    --------------------------------------
Bound.
-----

                  At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the
Trustee, as provided in Section 7.01, of the taking of any action by the holders
of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities specified
in this Indenture in connection with such action, any holder (in cases where no
record date has been set pursuant to Section 7.01) or any holder as of an
applicable record date (in cases where a record date has been set pursuant to
Section 7.01) of a Debt Security (or any Debt Security issued in whole or in
part in exchange or substitution therefor) the serial number of which is shown
by the evidence to be included in the Debt Securities the holders of which have
consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at the
Principal Office of the Trustee and upon proof of holding as provided in Section
7.02, revoke such action so far as concerns such Debt Security (or so far as
concerns the principal amount represented by any exchanged or substituted Debt
Security). Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the holder of any Debt
Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon all future
holders and owners of such Debt Security, and of any Debt Security issued in
exchange or substitution therefor or on registration of transfer thereof,
irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon such
Debt Security or any Debt Security issued in exchange or substitution therefor.

                                  ARTICLE VIII
                            SECURITYHOLDERS' MEETINGS

                  Section 8.01      Purposes of Meetings.
                                    --------------------

                  A meeting of Securityholders may be called at any time and
from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Article VIII for any of the
following purposes:

                  (a)      to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee,
or to give any directions to the Trustee, or to consent to the waiving of any
default hereunder and its consequences, or to take any other action authorized
to be taken by Securityholders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article V;

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                  (b)      to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor
trustee pursuant to the provisions of Article VI;

                  (c)      to consent to the execution of an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02; or

                  (d)      to take any other action authorized to be taken by or
on behalf of the holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of such
Debt Securities under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable
law.

                  Section 8.02      Call of Meetings by Trustee.
                                    ---------------------------

                  The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Securityholders
to take any action specified in Section 8.01, to be held at such time and at
such place in The City of New York, the Borough of Manhattan, or Wilmington,
Delaware, as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the
Securityholders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in
general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be mailed
to holders of Debt Securities affected at their addresses as they shall appear
on the Debt Securities Register. Such notice shall be mailed not less than 20
nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.

                  Section 8.03      Call of Meetings by Company or
                                    ------------------------------
Securityholders.
---------------

                  In case at any time the Company pursuant to a Board
Resolution, or the holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the
Debt Securities, as the case may be, then outstanding, shall have requested the
Trustee to call a meeting of Securityholders, by written request setting forth
in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the
Trustee shall not have mailed the notice of such meeting within 20 days after
receipt of such request, then the Company or such Securityholders may determine
the time and the place in San Rafael, California for such meeting and may call
such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 8.01, by mailing notice
thereof as provided in Section 8.02.

                  Section 8.04      Qualifications for Voting.
                                    -------------------------

                  To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Securityholders, a
Person shall be (a) a holder of one or more Debt Securities or (b) a Person
appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a holder of one or more Debt
Securities. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at
any meeting of Securityholders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such
meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel
and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.

                  Section 8.05      Regulations.
                                    -----------

                  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the
Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any
meeting of Securityholders, in regard to proof of the holding of Debt Securities

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and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties
of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates
and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the
conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate.

                  The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a
temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by
the Company or by Securityholders as provided in Section 8.03, in which case the
Company or the Securityholders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in
like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent
secretary of the meeting shall be elected by majority vote at the meeting.

                  Subject to the provisions of Section 7.04, at any meeting each
holder of Debt Securities with respect to which such meeting is being held or
proxy therefor shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of
Debt Securities held or represented by such holder; provided, however, that no
vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Debt Security
challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not
outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than
by virtue of Debt Securities held by such chairman or instruments in writing as
aforesaid duly designating such chairman as the Person to vote on behalf of
other Securityholders. Any meeting of Securityholders duly called pursuant to
the provisions of Section 8.02 or 8.03 may be adjourned from time to time by a
majority of those present, whether or not constituting a quorum, and the meeting
may be held as so adjourned without further notice.

                  Section 8.06      Voting.
                                    ------

                  The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of
holders of Debt Securities with respect to which such meeting is being held
shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of such
holders or of their representatives by proxy and the serial number or numbers of
the Debt Securities held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the
meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at
the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the
secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in triplicate of all
votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each
meeting of Securityholders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and
there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of
votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons
having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting
and showing that said notice was mailed as provided in Section 8.02. The record
shall show the serial numbers of the Debt Securities voting in favor of or
against any resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the
duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be
preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted
at the meeting.

                  Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence
of the matters therein stated.

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                  Section 8.07      Quorum; Actions.
                                    ---------------

                  The Persons entitled to vote a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding shall constitute a quorum for a
meeting of Securityholders; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken
at such meeting with respect to a consent, waiver, request, demand, notice,
authorization, direction or other action which may be given by the holders of
not less than a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities then outstanding, the Persons holding or representing such specified
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding
will constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes of the
time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the
request of Securityholders, be dissolved. In any other case, the meeting may be
adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the permanent
chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence
of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further
adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the permanent
chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting.
Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in
Section 8.02, except that such notice need be given only once not less than five
days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened.
Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the
percentage, as provided above, of the aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities then outstanding which shall constitute a quorum.

                  Except as limited by the proviso in the first paragraph of
Section 9.02, any resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly
reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the
affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Debt Securities then outstanding; provided, however, that, except as limited
by the proviso in the first paragraph of Section 9.02, any resolution with
respect to any consent, waiver, request, demand, notice, authorization,
direction or other action that this Indenture expressly provides may be given by
the holders of not less than a specified percentage in outstanding principal
amount of the Debt Securities may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned
meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid only by
the affirmative vote of the holders of not less than such specified percentage
in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding.

                  Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of
holders of Debt Securities duly held in accordance with this Section shall be
binding on all the Securityholders, whether or not present or represented at the
meeting.

                                   ARTICLE IX
                             SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

                  Section 9.01      Supplemental Indentures without Consent of
                                    ------------------------------------------
Securityholders.
---------------

                  The Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the
Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto, without the consent of the Securityholders, for
one or more of the following purposes:

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                  (a)      to evidence the succession of another corporation to
the Company, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor
corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company,
pursuant to Article XI hereof;

                  (b)      to add to the covenants of the Company such further
covenants, restrictions or conditions for the protection of the holders of Debt
Securities as the Board of Directors shall consider to be for the protection of
the holders of such Debt Securities, and to make the occurrence, or the
occurrence and continuance, of a Default in any of such additional covenants,
restrictions or conditions a Default or an Event of Default permitting the
enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in this Indenture as
herein set forth; provided, however, that in respect of any such additional
covenant, restriction or condition such supplemental indenture may provide for a
particular period of grace after Default (which period may be shorter or longer
than that allowed in the case of other Defaults) or may provide for an immediate
enforcement upon such Default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee
upon such default;

                  (c)      to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any
provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be
defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any
supplemental indenture, or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture, provided, that any such action shall not
adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Debt Securities then
outstanding;

                  (d)      to add to, delete from, or revise the terms of Debt
Securities, including, without limitation, any terms relating to the issuance,
exchange, registration or transfer of Debt Securities, including to provide for
transfer procedures and restrictions substantially similar to those applicable
to the Capital Securities, as required by Section 2.05 (for purposes of assuring
that no registration of Debt Securities is required under the Securities Act),
provided, that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the
holders of the Debt Securities then outstanding (it being understood, for
purposes of this proviso, that transfer restrictions on Debt Securities
substantially similar to those applicable to Capital Securities shall not be
deemed to adversely affect the holders of the Debt Securities);

                  (e)      to evidence and provide for the acceptance of
appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Debt Securities
and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section
6.10;

                  (f)      to make any change (other than as elsewhere provided
in this Section) that does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder
in any material respect; or

                  (g)      to provide for the issuance of and establish the form
and terms and conditions of the Debt Securities, to establish the form of any
certifications required to be furnished pursuant to the terms of this Indenture
or the Debt Securities, or to add to the rights of the holders of Debt
Securities.

                  The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in
the execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further
appropriate agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to

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accept the conveyance, transfer and assignment of any property thereunder, but
the Trustee shall not be obligated to, but may in its discretion, enter into any
such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

                  Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of
this Section may be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent
of the holders of any of the Debt Securities at the time outstanding,
notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 9.02.

                  Section 9.02      Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
                                    ---------------------------------------
Securityholders.
---------------

                  With the consent (evidenced as provided in Section 7.01) of
the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities
at the time outstanding affected by such supplemental indenture, the Company,
when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may from time to time and
at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto (which
shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, then in effect,
applicable to indentures qualified thereunder) for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner
the rights of the holders of the Debt Securities; provided, however, that no
such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the holders of each
Debt Security then outstanding and affected thereby, (i) change the Maturity
Date of any Debt Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or any premium
thereon, or reduce the rate (or manner of calculation of the rate) or extend the
time of payment of interest thereon, or reduce (other than as a result of the
maturity or earlier redemption of any such Debt Security in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture and such Debt Security) or increase the aggregate
principal amount of Debt Securities then outstanding, or change any of the
redemption provisions, or make the principal thereof or any interest or premium
thereon payable in any coin or currency other than United States Dollars, or
impair or affect the right of any Securityholder to institute suit for payment
thereof, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Debt Securities the holders
of which are required to consent to any such supplemental indenture; and
provided, further, that if the Debt Securities are held by the Trust or the
trustee of the Trust, such supplemental indenture shall not be effective until
the holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding
Capital Securities shall have consented to such supplemental indenture;
provided, further, that if the consent of the Securityholder of each outstanding
Debt Security is required, such supplemental indenture shall not be effective
until each holder of the outstanding Capital Securities shall have consented to
such supplemental indenture.

                  Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a Board
Resolution authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and
upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Securityholders
(and holders of Capital Securities, if required) as aforesaid, the Trustee shall
join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless
such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in
its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental
indenture.

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                  Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, a notice, prepared
by the Company, setting forth in general terms the substance of such
supplemental indenture, to the Securityholders as their names and addresses
appear upon the Debt Security Register. Any failure of the Trustee to mail such
notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect
the validity of any such supplemental indenture.

                  It shall not be necessary for the consent of the
Securityholders under this Section to approve the particular form of any
proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent
shall approve the substance thereof.

                  Section 9.03      Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
                                    ---------------------------------

                  Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to
the provisions of this Article IX, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be
modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture
of the Trustee, the Company and the holders of Debt Securities shall thereafter
be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such
modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such
supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and
conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.

                  Section 9.04      Notation on Debt Securities.
                                    ---------------------------

                  Debt Securities authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this
Article IX may bear a notation as to any matter provided for in such
supplemental indenture. If the Company or the Trustee shall so determine, new
Debt Securities so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Board of
Directors of the Company, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any
such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company,
authenticated by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent and delivered in
exchange for the Debt Securities then outstanding.

                  Section 9.05      Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental
                                    --------------------------------------
Indenture to be Furnished to Trustee.
------------------------------------

                  The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.01 and
6.02, shall, in addition to the documents required by Section 14.06, receive an
Officers' Certificate as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture
executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this Article IX. The
Trustee shall also receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX is authorized or
permitted by, and conforms to, the terms of this Article IX and that it is
proper for the Trustee under the provisions of this Article IX to join in the
execution thereof.

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                                    ARTICLE X
                            REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

                  Section 10.01     Optional Redemption.
                                    -------------------

                  The Company shall have the right, subject to the receipt by
the Company of the prior approval from any applicable regulatory authority of
the Company and from the Federal Reserve (if the Company is then subject to the
regulatory jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve), if then required under
applicable capital guidelines or policies of such applicable regulatory
authority or the Federal Reserve, to redeem the Debt Securities, in whole or
(provided that all accrued and unpaid interest has been paid on all Debt
Securities for all Interest Periods terminating on or prior to such date) from
time to time in part, on any Interest Payment Date on or after September 1, 2011
(each, an "Optional Redemption Date"), at the Optional Redemption Price.

                  Section 10.02     Special Event Redemption.
                                    ------------------------

                  If a Special Event shall occur and be continuing, the Company
shall have the right, subject to the receipt by the Company of prior approval
from any applicable regulatory authority of the Company and from the Federal
Reserve (if the Company is then subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of the
Federal Reserve), if then required under applicable capital guidelines or
policies of such applicable regulatory authority or the Federal Reserve, to
redeem the Debt Securities, in whole but not in part, at any time within 90 days
following the occurrence of such Special Event (the "Special Redemption Date"),
at the Special Redemption Price.

                  Section 10.03     Notice of Redemption; Selection of Debt
                                    ---------------------------------------
Securities.
----------

                  In case the Company shall desire to exercise the right to
redeem all, or, as the case may be, any part of the Debt Securities, it shall
fix a date for redemption and shall mail, or cause the Trustee to mail (at the
expense of the Company), a notice of such redemption at least 30 and not more
than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption to the holders of Debt
Securities so to be redeemed as a whole or in part at their last addresses as
the same appear on the Debt Security Register. Such mailing shall be by first
class mail. The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the holder
receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice by mail or any
defect in the notice to the holder of any Debt Security designated for
redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the
proceedings for the redemption of any other Debt Security.

                  Each such notice of redemption shall specify the CUSIP number,
if any, of the Debt Securities to be redeemed, the date fixed for redemption,
the price (or manner of calculation of the price) at which Debt Securities are
to be redeemed, the place or places of payment, that payment will be made upon
presentation and surrender of such Debt Securities, that interest accrued to the
date fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in said notice, and that on
and after said date interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed
will cease to accrue. If less than all the Debt Securities are to be redeemed,
the notice of redemption shall specify the numbers of the Debt Securities to be
redeemed. In case the Debt Securities are to be redeemed in part only, the
notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to

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be redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption,
upon surrender of such Debt Security, a new Debt Security or Debt Securities in
principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.

                  Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Optional
Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date specified in the notice of
redemption given as provided in this Section, the Company will deposit with the
Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents an amount of money sufficient to
redeem on such date all the Debt Securities so called for redemption at the
applicable price therefor, together with unpaid interest accrued to such date.

                  The Company will give the Trustee notice not less than 45 nor
more than 75 days prior to the date fixed for redemption as to the price at
which the Debt Securities are to be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount
of Debt Securities to be redeemed and the Trustee shall select, in such manner
as in its sole discretion it shall deem appropriate and fair, the Debt
Securities or portions thereof (in integral multiples of $1,000) to be redeemed.

                  Section 10.04     Payment of Debt Securities Called for
                                    -------------------------------------
Redemption.
----------

                  If notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section
10.03, the Debt Securities or portions of Debt Securities with respect to which
such notice has been given shall become due and payable on the related Optional
Redemption Date or Special Redemption Date (as the case may be) and at the place
or places stated in such notice at the applicable price therefor, together with
unpaid interest accrued thereon to said Optional Redemption Date or the Special
Redemption Date (as the case may be), and on and after said Optional Redemption
Date or the Special Redemption Date (as the case may be) (unless the Company
shall default in the payment of such Debt Securities at the redemption price,
together with unpaid interest accrued thereon to said date) interest on the Debt
Securities or portions of Debt Securities so called for redemption shall cease
to accrue. On presentation and surrender of such Debt Securities at a place of
payment specified in said notice, such Debt Securities or the specified portions
thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable price
therefor, together with unpaid interest, if any, accrued thereon to said
Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date (as the case may be);
provided, however, that interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on or
prior to said Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date will be
paid to the holders on the relevant regular record date.

                  Upon presentation of any Debt Security redeemed in part only,
the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available
for delivery to the holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Debt
Security or Debt Securities of authorized denominations in principal amount
equal to the unredeemed portion of the Debt Security so presented.

                                   ARTICLE XI
                CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE

                  Section 11.01     Company May Consolidate, etc., on Certain
                                    -----------------------------------------
Terms.
-----

                  Nothing contained in this Indenture or in the Debt Securities
shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other
corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company) or

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successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or
successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance,
transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property or
capital stock of the Company or its successor or successors to any other
corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company or its successor or
successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, that
the Company hereby covenants and agrees that (i) upon any such consolidation,
merger (where the Company is not the surviving corporation), sale, conveyance,
transfer or other disposition, the successor entity shall be a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof
or the District of Columbia (unless such corporation has (1) agreed to make all
payments due in respect of the Debt Securities or, if outstanding, the Trust
Securities and the Capital Securities Guarantee without withholding or deduction
for, or on account of, any taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental
charges under the laws or regulations of the jurisdiction of organization or
residence (for tax purposes) of such corporation or any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof or therein unless required by applicable law, in which
case such corporation shall have agreed to pay such additional amounts as shall
be required so that the net amounts received and retained by the holders of such
Debt Securities or Trust Securities, as the case may be, after payment of all
taxes (including withholding taxes), duties, assessments or other governmental
charges, will be equal to the amounts that such holders would have received and
retained had no such taxes (including withholding taxes), duties, assessments or
other governmental charges been imposed, (2) irrevocably and unconditionally
consented and submitted to the jurisdiction of any United States federal court
or New York state court, in each case located in the Borough of Manhattan, The
City of New York, in respect of any action, suit or proceeding against it
arising out of or in connection with this Indenture, the Debt Securities, the
Capital Securities Guarantee or the Declaration and irrevocably and
unconditionally waived, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection to
the laying of venue in any such court or that any such action, suit or
proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum and (3) irrevocably
appointed an agent in The City of New York for service of process in any action,
suit or proceeding referred to in clause (2) above) and such corporation
expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Company under the Debt
Securities, this Indenture, the Capital Securities Guarantee and the
Declaration) and (ii) after giving effect to any such consolidation, merger,
sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing.

                  Section 11.02     Successor Entity to be Substituted.
                                    ----------------------------------

                  In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance,
transfer or other disposition contemplated in Section 11.01 and upon the
assumption by the successor corporation, by supplemental indenture, executed and
delivered to the Trustee and reasonably satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of
the due and punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on all of the Debt Securities and the due and punctual performance and
observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be
performed or observed by the Company, such successor corporation shall succeed
to and be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been
named herein as the Company, and thereupon the predecessor entity shall be
relieved of any further liability or obligation hereunder or upon the Debt
Securities. Such successor corporation thereupon may cause to be signed, and may
issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the
Debt Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed
by the Company and delivered to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent; and,

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upon the order of such successor corporation instead of the Company and subject
to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the
Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver any Debt
Securities which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers
of the Company to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for authentication,
and any Debt Securities which such successor corporation thereafter shall cause
to be signed and delivered to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for that
purpose. All the Debt Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same
legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Debt Securities theretofore
or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though
all of such Debt Securities had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.

                  Section 11.03     Opinion of Counsel to be Given to Trustee.
                                    -----------------------------------------

                  The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.01 and
6.02, shall receive, in addition to the Opinion of Counsel required by Section
9.05, an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any consolidation,
merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, and any assumption,
permitted or required by the terms of this Article XI complies with the
provisions of this Article XI.

                                   ARTICLE XII
                     SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE

                  Section 12.01     Discharge of Indenture.
                                    ----------------------

                  When (a) the Company shall deliver to the Trustee for
cancellation all Debt Securities theretofore authenticated (other than any Debt
Securities which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have
been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.06) and not theretofore canceled,
or (b) all the Debt Securities not theretofore canceled or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their
terms to become due and payable within one year or are to be called for
redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for
the giving of notice of redemption, and the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee, in trust, funds, which shall be immediately due and payable, sufficient
to pay at maturity or upon redemption all of the Debt Securities (other than any
Debt Securities which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall
have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.06) not theretofore canceled
or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and premium,
if any, and interest due or to become due to the Maturity Date, any Optional
Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, as the case may be, but
excluding, however, the amount of any moneys for the payment of principal of and
premium, if any, or interest on the Debt Securities (1) theretofore repaid to
the Company in accordance with the provisions of Section 12.04, or (2) paid to
any state or to the District of Columbia pursuant to its unclaimed property or
similar laws, and if in the case of either clause (a) or (b) above the Company
shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the
Company, then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect except for the
provisions of Sections 2.05, 2.06, 3.01, 3.02, 3.04, 6.06, 6.09 and 12.04
hereof, which shall survive until such Debt Securities shall mature or are
redeemed, as the case may be, and are paid in full. Thereafter, Sections 6.06,
6.09 and 12.04 shall survive, and the Trustee, on demand of the Company
accompanied by an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating

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that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with, and at the cost and
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture, the Company, however, hereby
agreeing to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter
reasonably and properly incurred by the Trustee in connection with this
Indenture or the Debt Securities.

                  Section 12.02     Deposited Moneys to be Held in Trust by
                                    ---------------------------------------
Trustee.
-------

                  Subject to the provisions of Section 12.04, all moneys
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 12.01 shall be held in trust and
applied by it to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company if acting as its own Paying Agent), to the holders of the
particular Debt Securities for the payment of which such moneys have been
deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for
principal, premium, if any, and interest.

                  Section 12.03     Paying Agent to Repay Moneys Held.
                                    ---------------------------------

                  Upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, all
moneys then held by any Paying Agent of the Debt Securities (other than the
Trustee) shall, upon demand of the Company, be repaid to the Company or paid to
the Trustee, and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such moneys.

                  Section 12.04     Return of Unclaimed Moneys.
                                    --------------------------

                  Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any Paying
Agent for payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on Debt
Securities and not applied but remaining unclaimed by the holders of Debt
Securities for two years after the date upon which the principal of and premium,
if any, or interest on such Debt Securities, as the case may be, shall have
become due and payable, shall be repaid to the Company by the Trustee or such
Paying Agent on written demand; and the holder of any of the Debt Securities
shall thereafter look only to the Company for any payment which such holder may
be entitled to collect and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent
with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease.

                                  ARTICLE XIII
                    IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS,
                             OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

                  Section 13.01     Indenture and Debt Securities Solely
                                    ------------------------------------
Corporate Obligations.
---------------------

                  No recourse for the payment of the principal of or premium, if
any, or interest on any Debt Security, or for any claim based thereon or
otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation,
covenant or agreement of the Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental
indenture, or in any such Debt Security, or because of the creation of any
indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator,
stockholder, officer, director, employee or agent, as such, past, present or
future, of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation of the
Company, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation of
the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or

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by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly
understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a
condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and
the issue of the Debt Securities.

                                   ARTICLE XIV
                            MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

                  Section 14.01     Successors.
                                    ----------

                  All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements of
the Company contained in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns,
whether so expressed or not.

                  Section 14.02     Official Acts by Successor Entity.
                                    ---------------------------------

                  Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture
authorized or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or
officer of the Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and
effect by the like board, committee, officer or other authorized Person of any
entity that shall at the time be the lawful successor of the Company.

                  Section 14.03     Surrender of Company Powers.
                                    ---------------------------

                  The Company, by instrument in writing executed by authority of
2/3 (two thirds) of its Board of Directors and delivered to the Trustee, may
surrender any of the powers reserved to the Company and thereupon such power so
surrendered shall terminate both as to the Company and as to any permitted
successor.

                  Section 14.04     Addresses for Notices, etc.
                                    --------------------------

                  Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture
is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the
Securityholders on the Company may be given or served in writing by being
deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office
letter box addressed (until another address is filed by the Company with the
Trustee for such purpose) to the Company at 630 Las Gallinas Avenue, San Rafael,
California 94903, Attention: Michael Moulton. Any notice, direction, request or
demand by any Securityholder or the Company to or upon the Trustee shall be
deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or
made in writing at the office of Wilmington Trust Company at Rodney Square
North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19890-0001, Attention: Corporate
Capital Markets.

                  Section 14.05     Governing Law.
                                    -------------

                  This Indenture and the Debt Securities shall each be governed
by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without
regard to conflict of laws principles of said State other than Section 5-1401 of
the New York General Obligations Law.

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                  Section 14.06     Evidence of Compliance with Conditions
                                    --------------------------------------
Precedent.
---------

                  Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee
to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Company
shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that in the
opinion of the signers all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this
Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion
of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions
precedent have been complied with (except that no such Opinion of Counsel is
required to be furnished to the Trustee in connection with the authentication
and issuance of Debt Securities).

                  Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and
delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Indenture (except certificates delivered pursuant to
Section 3.05) shall include (a) a statement that the person making such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
relating thereto; (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in
such certificate or opinion are based; (c) a statement that, in the opinion of
such person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is
necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion as to whether or
not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and (d) a statement as to
whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has
been complied with.

                  Section 14.07     Business Day Convention.
                                    -----------------------

                  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if
any Interest Payment Date, other than the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption
Date or the Special Redemption Date, falls on a day that is not a Business Day,
then any interest payable will be paid on, and such Interest Payment Date will
be moved to, the next succeeding Business Day, and additional interest will
accrue for each day that such payment is delayed as a result thereof. If the
Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date falls
on a day that is not a Business Day, then the principal, premium, if any, and/or
interest payable on such date will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day,
and no additional interest will accrue in respect of such payment made on such
next succeeding Business Day.

                  Section 14.08     Table of Contents, Headings, etc.
                                    --------------------------------

                  The table of contents and the titles and headings of the
Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of
reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way
modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

                  Section 14.09     Execution in Counterparts.
                                    -------------------------

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

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                  Section 14.10     Separability.
                                    ------------

                  In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this
Indenture or in the Debt Securities shall for any reason be held to be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or
unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Indenture or of
such Debt Securities, but this Indenture and such Debt Securities shall be
construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been
contained herein or therein.

                  Section 14.11     Assignment.
                                    ----------

                  Subject to Article XI, the Company will have the right at all
times to assign any of its rights or obligations under this Indenture and the
Debt Securities to a direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company;
provided, however, that, in the event of any such assignment, the Company will
remain liable for all such obligations. Subject to the foregoing, this Indenture
is binding upon and inures to the benefit of the parties hereto and their
respective successors and assigns. This Indenture may not otherwise be assigned
by the parties thereto.

                  Section 14.12     Acknowledgment of Rights.
                                    ------------------------

                  The Company acknowledges that, with respect to any Debt
Securities held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust, if such trustee of the
Trust fails to enforce its rights under this Indenture as the holder of Debt
Securities held as the assets of the Trust after the holders of a majority in
aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding Capital Securities of the Trust
have so directed in writing such trustee, a holder of record of such Capital
Securities may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, institute legal
proceedings directly against the Company to enforce such trustee's rights under
this Indenture without first instituting any legal proceedings against such
trustee or any other Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing and such event is attributable to the
failure of the Company to pay interest or premium, if any, on or principal of
the Debt Securities on the date such interest, premium, if any, or principal is
otherwise due and payable (or, in the case of redemption, on the related
Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date (as the case may be)),
the Company acknowledges that a holder of outstanding Capital Securities of the
Trust may directly institute a proceeding against the Company for enforcement of
payment to such holder directly of the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on the Debt Securities having an aggregate principal amount equal to
the aggregate liquidation amount of the Capital Securities of such holder on or
after the respective due date (or Optional Redemption Date or Special Redemption
Date (as the case may be)) specified in the Debt Securities.

                                   ARTICLE XV
                        SUBORDINATION OF DEBT SECURITIES

                  Section 15.01     Agreement to Subordinate.
                                    ------------------------

                  The Company covenants and agrees, and each holder of Debt
Securities issued hereunder and under any supplemental indenture (the
"Additional Provisions") by such holder's acceptance thereof likewise covenants
and agrees, that all Debt Securities shall be issued subject to the provisions

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of this Article XV; and each holder of a Debt Security, whether upon original
issue or upon transfer or assignment thereof, accepts and agrees to be bound by
such provisions.

                  The payment by the Company of the payments due on all Debt
Securities issued hereunder and under any Additional Provisions shall, to the
extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth, be subordinated and junior in
right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness of the
Company, whether outstanding at the date of this Indenture or thereafter
incurred.

                  No provision of this Article XV shall prevent the occurrence
of any default or Event of Default hereunder.

                  Section 15.02     Default on Senior Indebtedness.
                                    ------------------------------

                  In the event and during the continuation of any default by the
Company in the payment of principal, premium, interest or any other amount due
on any Senior Indebtedness of the Company following any applicable grace period,
or in the event that the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness of the Company has
been accelerated because of a default, and such acceleration has not been
rescinded or canceled and such Senior Indebtedness has not been paid in full,
then, in either case, no payment shall be made by the Company with respect to
the payments due on the Debt Securities.

                  In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment
shall be received by the Trustee or any Securityholder when such payment is
prohibited by the preceding paragraph of this Section, such payment shall,
subject to Section 15.06, be held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid
over or delivered to, the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their respective
representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to
which any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective
interests may appear, but only to the extent that the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness (or their representative or representatives or trustee) notify the
Trustee in writing within 90 days of such payment of the amounts then due and
owing on the Senior Indebtedness and only the amounts specified in such notice
to the Trustee shall be paid to the holders of Senior Indebtedness.

                  Section 15.03     Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy.
                                    ------------------------------------

                  Upon any payment by the Company or distribution of assets of
the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities,
to creditors upon any dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization of
the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other proceedings, all amounts due upon all Senior Indebtedness
of the Company shall first be paid in full, or payment thereof provided for in
money in accordance with its terms, before any payment is made by the Company on
the Debt Securities; and upon any such dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or
reorganization, any payment by the Company, or distribution of assets of the
Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to
which the Securityholders or the Trustee would be entitled to receive from the
Company, except for the provisions of this Article XV, shall be paid by the
Company, or by any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent
or other Person making such payment or distribution, or by the Securityholders

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or by the Trustee under this Indenture if received by them or it, directly to
the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company (pro rata to such holders on
the basis of the respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held by such holders,
as calculated by the Company) or their representative or representatives, or to
the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any instruments
evidencing such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective
interests may appear, to the extent necessary to pay such Senior Indebtedness in
full, in money or money's worth, after giving effect to any concurrent payment
or distribution to or for the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, before any
payment or distribution is made to the Securityholders or to the Trustee.

                  In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment
or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in
cash, property or securities, prohibited by the foregoing shall be received by
the Trustee or any Securityholder before all Senior Indebtedness of the Company
is paid in full, or provision is made for such payment in money in accordance
with its terms, such payment or distribution shall be held in trust for the
benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness or their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or
trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing such
Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective interests may
appear, as calculated by the Company, for application to the payment of all
Senior Indebtedness of the Company remaining unpaid to the extent necessary to
pay such Senior Indebtedness in full in money in accordance with its terms,
after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the
benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.

                  For purposes of this Article XV, the words "cash, property or
securities" shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as
reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation
provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which
is subordinated at least to the extent provided in this Article XV with respect
to the Debt Securities to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness of the Company,
that may at the time be outstanding, provided, that (a) such Senior Indebtedness
is assumed by the new corporation, if any, resulting from any such
reorganization or readjustment, and (b) the rights of the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness are not, without the consent of such holders, altered by such
reorganization or readjustment. The consolidation of the Company with, or the
merger of the Company into, another corporation or the liquidation or
dissolution of the Company following the conveyance, transfer or other
disposition of its property as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to
another corporation upon the terms and conditions provided for in Article XI of
this Indenture shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or
reorganization for the purposes of this Section if such other corporation shall,
as a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the
conditions stated in Article XI of this Indenture. Nothing in Section 15.02 or
in this Section shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or
pursuant to Section 6.06 of this Indenture.

                  Section 15.04     Subrogation.
                                    -----------

                  Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness of
the Company, the Securityholders shall be subrogated to the rights of the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of
cash, property or securities of the Company applicable to such Senior
Indebtedness until all payments due on the Debt Securities shall be paid in

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full; and, for the purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to
the holders of such Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to
which the Securityholders or the Trustee would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Article XV, and no payment over pursuant to the provisions of
this Article XV to or for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness
by Securityholders or the Trustee, shall, as between the Company, its creditors
other than holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and the holders of the
Debt Securities be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Company to or
on account of such Senior Indebtedness. It is understood that the provisions of
this Article XV are, and are intended, solely for the purposes of defining the
relative rights of the holders of the Debt Securities, on the one hand, and the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand.

                  Nothing contained in this Article XV or elsewhere in this
Indenture, any Additional Provisions or in the Debt Securities is intended to or
shall impair, as between the Company, its creditors other than the holders of
Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and the holders of the Debt Securities, the
obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the
holders of the Debt Securities all payments on the Debt Securities as and when
the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is
intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the holders of the Debt
Securities and creditors of the Company other than the holders of Senior
Indebtedness of the Company, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the
Trustee or the holder of any Debt Security from exercising all remedies
otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject
to the rights, if any, under this Article XV of the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company received
upon the exercise of any such remedy.

                  Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company
referred to in this Article XV, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Article VI of this Indenture, and the Securityholders shall be entitled to
conclusively rely upon any order or decree made by any court of competent
jurisdiction in which such dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or
reorganization proceedings are pending, or a certificate of the receiver,
trustee in bankruptcy, liquidation trustee, agent or other Person making such
payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Securityholders, for
the purposes of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such
distribution, the holders of Senior Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the
Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or
distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article XV.

                  Section 15.05     Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
                                    -----------------------------------

                  Each Securityholder, by such Securityholder's acceptance
thereof, authorizes and directs the Trustee on such Securityholder's behalf to
take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination provided in this Article XV and appoints the Trustee such
Securityholder's attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.

                  Section 15.06     Notice by the Company.
                                    ---------------------

                  The Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee at the Principal Office of the Trustee of any fact known
to the Company that would prohibit the making of any payment of moneys to or by
the Trustee in respect of the Debt Securities pursuant to the provisions of this

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Article XV. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article XV or any other
provision of this Indenture or any Additional Provisions, the Trustee shall not
be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts that would prohibit the
making of any payment of moneys to or by the Trustee in respect of the Debt
Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Article XV unless and until a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Principal Office of the Trustee shall
have received written notice thereof from the Company or a holder or holders of
Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and before the receipt of any
such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article VI of
this Indenture, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts
exist; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall not have received the notice
provided for in this Section at least two Business Days prior to the date upon
which by the terms hereof any money may become payable for any purpose
(including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of or premium, if
any, or interest on any Debt Security), then, anything herein contained to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to
receive such money and to apply the same to the purposes for which they were
received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be
received by it within two Business Days prior to such date.

                  The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article VI of this
Indenture, shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the delivery to it of a
written notice by a Person representing himself or herself to be a holder of
Senior Indebtedness of the Company (or a trustee or representative on behalf of
such holder) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of such
Senior Indebtedness or a trustee or representative on behalf of any such holder
or holders. In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of such
Senior Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to
this Article XV, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of such Senior
Indebtedness held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to
participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the
rights of such Person under this Article XV, and, if such evidence is not
furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial
determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment.

                  Section 15.07     Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior
                                    ----------------------------------------
Indebtedness.
------------

                  The Trustee, in its individual capacity, shall be entitled to
all the rights set forth in this Article XV in respect of any Senior
Indebtedness at any time held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of
Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture or any Additional Provisions
shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.

                  With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the
Company, the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its
covenants and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article XV, and
no implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness shall be read into this Indenture or any Additional Provisions
against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not owe or be deemed to owe any fiduciary
duty to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness and, subject to the provisions
of Article VI of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be liable to any holder
of such Senior Indebtedness if it shall pay over or deliver to Securityholders,
the Company or any other Person money or assets to which any holder of such
Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article XV or otherwise.

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                  Nothing in this Article XV shall apply to claims of, or
payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 6.06.

                  Section 15.08     Subordination May Not Be Impaired.
                                    ---------------------------------

                  No right of any present or future holder of any Senior
Indebtedness of the Company to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at
any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on
the part of the Company, or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any
such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company, with the terms, provisions
and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof that any
such holder may have or otherwise be charged with.

                  Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing
paragraph, the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company may, at any time
and from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the
Securityholders, without incurring responsibility to the Securityholders and
without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article XV or
the obligations hereunder of the holders of the Debt Securities to the holders
of such Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (a) change the
manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or
alter, such Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner
such Senior Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement
under which such Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (b) sell, exchange, release
or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing
such Senior Indebtedness; (c) release any Person liable in any manner for the
collection of such Senior Indebtedness; and (d) exercise or refrain from
exercising any rights against the Company or any other Person.

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                  Wilmington Trust Company, in its capacity as Trustee, hereby
accepts the trusts in this Indenture declared and provided, upon the terms and
conditions herein above set forth.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized, as of the day and year first above written.

                                           EPIC BANCORP


                                           By:
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name:
                                               Title:


                                           WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
                                                 as Trustee


                                           By:
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name:
                                               Title:

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                                                                       EXHIBIT A

                              FORM OF DEBT SECURITY

                           [FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY]

                  [THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL DEBENTURE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY ("DTC") OR A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS SECURITY IS
EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN DTC OR
ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO
TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY
DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY A NOMINEE OF DTC TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC)
MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

                  UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE
& CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR
OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH
AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

                  THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY
OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED,
ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR
UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST
OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY
BE, AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS THE LATER OF (i) TWO YEARS (OR
SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144(k) UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT) AFTER THE LATER OF (Y) THE DATE OF ORIGINAL ISSUANCE HEREOF AND (Z) THE
LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 405 UNDER


-------------------------
(1) Only applicable if this Debt Security is a Global Debt Security.
<PAGE>

THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY WAS THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR SUCH
INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION (OR ANY PREDECESSOR THERETO) AND (ii) SUCH LATER DATE,
IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY ANY SUBSEQUENT CHANGE IN APPLICABLE LAW, ONLY (A)
TO THE COMPANY, (B) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("RULE
144A"), TO A PERSON THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER", AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A, THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE
ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (C) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT TO AN "ACCREDITED
INVESTOR" WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (a) (1), (2), (3), (7) OR (8) OF
RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY OR SUCH
INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN
ACCREDITED INVESTOR, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR
OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE
SECURITIES ACT, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-US PERSONS THAT OCCUR
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES PURSUANT TO REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR
(E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY'S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER,
SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (C) OR (E) ABOVE TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF
AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INDENTURE, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE
COMPANY. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN, BY
ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, AGREES THAT IT WILL COMPLY
WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

                  THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION
HEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, ALSO AGREES,
REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT, INDIVIDUAL
RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE
EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE") (EACH
A "PLAN"), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE "PLAN ASSETS" BY REASON
OF ANY PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY AND NO PERSON INVESTING "PLAN ASSETS" OF
ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION
HEREIN, UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF
AVAILABLE UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION
96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION OR ITS
PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION IS NOT

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PROHIBITED BY SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO
SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY
INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS
PURCHASE AND HOLDING HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, THAT EITHER (i) IT
IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR
A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER
PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON
OR ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH
PURCHASE, OR (ii) SUCH PURCHASE AND HOLDING WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED
TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE FOR WHICH
THERE IS NO APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION.

                  IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY
WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER
INFORMATION AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY THE INDENTURE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER
COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

                  THIS SECURITY WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN
MINIMUM DENOMINATIONS OF $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF. ANY
ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN DENOMINATIONS OF LESS THAN $100,000 SHALL
BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. ANY SUCH PURPORTED
TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST
OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
RECEIPT OF DISTRIBUTIONS ON THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION, AND
SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN THIS
SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN.

                  THIS OBLIGATION IS NOT A DEPOSIT AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE
UNITED STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL
DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION (THE "FDIC"). THIS OBLIGATION IS SUBORDINATED TO
THE CLAIMS OF THE DEPOSITORS AND THE CLAIMS OF GENERAL AND SECURED CREDITORS OF
THE COMPANY, IS INELIGIBLE AS COLLATERAL FOR A LOAN BY THE COMPANY OR ANY OF ITS
SUBSIDIARIES AND IS NOT SECURED.

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            Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debt Security due 2036

                                       of
                                  EPIC BANCORP


                  Epic Bancorp, a California corporation (the "Company", which
term includes any successor permitted under the Indenture (as defined herein)),
for value received, promises to pay to Wilmington Trust Company, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Institutional Trustee for San Rafael Capital
Trust II, a Delaware statutory trust, or registered assigns, the principal
amount of THREE MILLION NINETY-THREE THOUSAND Dollars ($3,093,000) on September
1, 2036 (the "Maturity Date") (or any Optional Redemption Date or the Special
Redemption Date, each as defined herein, or any earlier date of acceleration of
the maturity of this Debt Security), and to pay interest on the outstanding
principal amount of this Debt Security from June 29, 2006, or from the most
recent Interest Payment Date (as defined below) to which interest has been paid
or duly provided for, quarterly (subject to deferral as set forth herein) in
arrears on March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 of each year, commencing
on September 1, 2006 (each, an "Interest Payment Date"), at a rate per annum,
which, with respect to any Interest Period (as defined in the Indenture), will
be equal to LIBOR (as defined in the Indenture), as determined on the LIBOR
Determination Date (as defined in the Indenture) for such Interest Period (or,
in the case of the first Interest Period, will be 5.50%), plus 1.75% (the
"Interest Rate") (provided that the Interest Rate for any Interest Period may
not exceed the highest rate permitted by New York law, as the same may be
modified by United States law of general application) until the principal hereof
shall have been paid or duly provided for, and on any overdue principal and
(without duplication and to the extent that payment of such interest is
enforceable under applicable law) on any overdue installment of interest at an
annual rate equal to the then applicable Interest Rate, compounded quarterly.
The amount of interest payable for any Interest Period shall be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed in such Interest
Period.

                  The interest installment so payable, and punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the
Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Debt Security (or one or
more Predecessor Securities, as defined in the Indenture) is registered at the
close of business on the "regular record date" for such interest installment,
which shall be the fifteenth day prior to such Interest Payment Date, whether or
not such day is a Business Day (as defined herein). Any such interest
installment (other than Deferred Interest (as defined herein)) not punctually
paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the holders on
such regular record date and may be paid to the Person in whose name this Debt
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of
business on a special record date to be fixed by the Trustee for the payment of
such defaulted interest, notice whereof shall be given to the holders of the
Debt Securities not less than 10 days prior to such special record date, all as
more fully provided in the Indenture.

                  Payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest
on this Debt Security due on the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or
the Special Redemption Date, as the case may be, shall be made in immediately
available funds against presentation and surrender of this Debt Security at the
office or agency of the Trustee maintained for that purpose in Wilmington,

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Delaware, or at the office or agency of any other Paying Agent appointed by the
Company maintained for that purpose in Wilmington, Delaware or San Rafael,
California. Payment of interest on this Debt Security due on any Interest
Payment Date other than the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the
Special Redemption Date, as the case may be, shall be made at the option of the
Company by check mailed to the holder thereof at such address as shall appear in
the Debt Security Register or by wire transfer of immediately available funds to
an account appropriately designated by the holder hereof. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, so long as the holder of this Debt Security is the Institutional
Trustee, payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this
Debt Security shall be made in immediately available funds when due at such
place and to such account as may be designated by the Institutional Trustee. All
payments in respect of this Debt Security shall be payable in any coin or
currency of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts.

                  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if
any Interest Payment Date, other than the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption
Date or the Special Redemption Date, falls on a day that is not a Business Day,
then any interest payable will be paid on, and such Interest Payment Date will
be moved to, the next succeeding Business Day, and additional interest will
accrue for each day that such payment is delayed as a result thereof. If the
Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date falls
on a day that is not a Business Day, then the principal, premium, if any, and/or
interest payable on such date will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day,
and no additional interest will accrue in respect of such payment made on such
next succeeding Business Day.

                  So long as no Event of Default pursuant to Sections 5.01(b),
(e), (f), (g), (h) or (i) of the Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the
Company shall have the right, from time to time and without causing an Event of
Default, to defer payments of interest on the Debt Securities by extending the
interest payment period on the Debt Securities at any time and from time to time
during the term of the Debt Securities, for up to 20 consecutive quarterly
periods (each such extended interest payment period, together with all previous
and further consecutive extensions thereof, is referred to herein as an
"Extension Period"). No Extension Period may end on a date other than an
Interest Payment Date or extend beyond the Maturity Date, any Optional
Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, as the case may be. During any
Extension Period, interest will continue to accrue on the Debt Securities, and
interest on such accrued interest (such accrued interest and interest thereon
referred to herein as "Deferred Interest") will accrue at an annual rate equal
to the Interest Rate applicable during such Extension Period, compounded
quarterly from the date such Deferred Interest would have been payable were it
not for the Extension Period, to the extent permitted by applicable law. No
interest or Deferred Interest (except any Additional Amounts (as defined in the
Indenture) that may be due and payable) shall be due and payable during an
Extension Period, except at the end thereof. At the end of any Extension Period,
the Company shall pay all Deferred Interest then accrued and unpaid on the Debt
Securities; provided, however, that during any Extension Period, the Company may
not (i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase,
acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company's
capital stock, (ii) make any payment of principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company
that rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the Debt
Securities or (iii) make any payment under any guarantees of the Company that

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rank in all respects pari passu with or junior in respect to the Capital
Securities Guarantee (other than (a) repurchases, redemptions or other
acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company (A) in connection with
any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for
the benefit of one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, (B) in
connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or
(C) in connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Company (or
securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock), as
consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to such Extension
Period, (b) as a result of any exchange or conversion of any class or series of
the Company's capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of the
Company) for any class or series of the Company's capital stock or of any class
or series of the Company's indebtedness for any class or series of the Company's
capital stock, (c) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the
Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of
such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (d) any
declaration of a dividend in connection with any stockholder's rights plan, or
the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any stockholder's rights
plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto or (e) any
dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the
dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or
other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or
ranks pari passu with or junior to such stock). Prior to the termination of any
Extension Period, the Company may further extend such Extension Period,
provided, that no Extension Period (including all previous and further
consecutive extensions that are part of such Extension Period) shall exceed 20
consecutive quarterly periods. Upon the termination of any Extension Period and
upon the payment of all Deferred Interest, the Company may commence a new
Extension Period, subject to the foregoing requirements. The Company must give
the Trustee notice of its election to begin or extend an Extension Period no
later than the close of business on the fifteenth Business Day prior to the
applicable Interest Payment Date.

                  The indebtedness evidenced by this Debt Security is, to the
extent provided in the Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to
the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness (as defined in the
Indenture), and this Debt Security is issued subject to the provisions of the
Indenture with respect thereto. Each holder of this Debt Security, by accepting
the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes
and directs the Trustee on such holder's behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination so
provided and (c) appoints the Trustee such holder's attorney-in-fact for any and
all such purposes. Each holder hereof, by such holder's acceptance hereof,
hereby waives all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions
contained herein and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior Indebtedness,
whether now outstanding or hereafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such
holder upon said provisions.

                  The Company waives diligence, presentment, demand for payment,
notice of nonpayment, notice of protest, and all other demands and notices.

                  This Debt Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the Indenture hereinafter referred to and shall not be valid or become
obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall
have been signed by or on behalf of the Trustee.

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                  The provisions of this Debt Security are continued on the
reverse side hereof and such continued provisions shall for all purposes have
the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

                  This Debt Security may contain more than one counterpart of
the signature page and this Debt Security may be executed and authenticated by
the affixing of the signature of a proper officer of the Company, and the
signature of the Trustee providing authentication, to any of such counterpart
signature pages. All of such counterpart signature pages shall be read as though
one, and they shall have the same force and effect as though the Company had
executed, and the Trustee had authenticated, a single signature page.

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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has duly executed this
certificate.

                                           EPIC BANCORP


                                           By:
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name:
                                               Title:


Dated:  ______________________, ____




                          CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION


                  This certificate represents Debt Securities referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.


                                           WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
                                             not in its individual capacity but
                                             solely as the Trustee


                                           By:
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Authorized Officer

Dated:  ______________________, ____

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                          [FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]


                  This Debt Security is one of a duly authorized series of debt
securities of the Company (collectively, the "Debt Securities"), all issued or
to be issued pursuant to an Indenture (the "Indenture"), dated as of June 29,
2006, duly executed and delivered between the Company and Wilmington Trust
Company, as Trustee (the "Trustee"), to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the
Trustee, the Company and the holders of the Debt Securities of which this Debt
Security is a part.

                  Upon the occurrence and continuation of a Tax Event, an
Investment Company Event or a Capital Treatment Event (each, a "Special Event"),
the Company shall have the right to redeem this Debt Security, at its option, in
whole with all other Debt Securities but not in part, at any time, within 90
days following the occurrence of such Special Event (the "Special Redemption
Date"), at the Special Redemption Price (as defined herein).

                  The Company shall also have the right to redeem this Debt
Security at its option, in whole or (provided that all accrued and unpaid
interest has been paid on all Debt Securities for all Interest Periods
terminating on or prior to such date) from time to time in part, on any Interest
Payment Date on or after September 1, 2011 (each, an "Optional Redemption
Date"), at the Optional Redemption Price (as defined herein).

                  Any redemption pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs will
be made, subject to receipt by the Company of prior approval from any applicable
regulatory authority of the Company and from the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System (the "Federal Reserve") (if the Company were then subject
to the regulatory jurisdiction of the Federal Reserve) if then required under
applicable capital guidelines or policies of such applicable regulatory
authority or the Federal Reserve, upon not less than 30 days' nor more than 60
days' prior written notice. If the Debt Securities are only partially redeemed
by the Company, the Debt Securities will be redeemed pro rata or by any other
method utilized by the Trustee. In the event of redemption of this Debt Security
in part only, a new Debt Security or Debt Securities for the unredeemed portion
hereof will be issued in the name of the holder hereof upon the cancellation
hereof.

                  "Optional Redemption Price" means an amount in cash equal to
100% of the principal amount of this Debt Security being redeemed plus unpaid
interest accrued thereon to the related Optional Redemption Date.

                  "Special Redemption Price" means, with respect to the
redemption of this Debt Security following a Special Event, an amount in cash
equal to 103.50% of the principal amount of this Debt Security to be redeemed
prior to September 1, 2007 and thereafter equal to the percentage of the
principal amount of this Debt Security that is specified below for the Special
Redemption Date plus, in each case, unpaid interest accrued thereon to the
Special Redemption Date:

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      Special Redemption During the 12-Month
      --------------------------------------
           Period Beginning September 1,          Percentage of Principal Amount
           -----------------------------          ------------------------------

         2007                                                102.80%

         2008                                                102.10%

         2009                                                101.40%

         2010                                                100.70%

         2011 and thereafter                                 100.00%


                  In case an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture,
shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all of the Debt
Securities may be declared, and, in certain cases, shall ipso facto become, due
and payable, and upon any such declaration of acceleration shall become due and
payable, in each case, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the
conditions provided in the Indenture.

                  The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and
the Trustee, with the consent of the holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time outstanding affected
thereby, as specified in the Indenture, to execute supplemental indentures for
the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of the Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the Debt Securities;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, among other
things, without the consent of the holders of each Debt Security then
outstanding and affected thereby (i) change the Maturity Date of any Debt
Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or any premium thereon, or
reduce the rate (or manner of calculation of the rate) or extend the time of
payment of interest thereon, or reduce (other than as a result of the maturity
or earlier redemption of any such Debt Security in accordance with the terms of
the Indenture and such Debt Security) or increase the aggregate principal amount
of Debt Securities then outstanding, or change any of the redemption provisions,
or make the principal thereof or any interest or premium thereon payable in any
coin or currency other than United States Dollars, or impair or affect the right
of any holder to institute suit for payment thereof, or (ii) reduce the
aforesaid percentage of Debt Securities the holders of which are required to
consent to any such supplemental indenture. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Debt Securities at the time outstanding, on behalf of the holders of all the
Debt Securities, to waive any past default in the performance of any of the
covenants contained in the Indenture, or established pursuant to the Indenture,
and its consequences, except (a) a default in payments due in respect of any of
the Debt Securities, (b) in respect of covenants or provisions of the Indenture
which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each
Debt Security affected, or (c) in respect of the covenants of the Company
relating to its ownership of Common Securities of the Trust. Any such consent or
waiver by the holder of this Debt Security (unless revoked as provided in the
Indenture) shall be conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon all future

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holders and owners of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued in
exchange herefor or in place hereof (whether by registration of transfer or
otherwise), irrespective of whether or not any notation of such consent or
waiver is made upon this Debt Security.

                  No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Debt Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to make all payments due on this
Debt Security at the time and place and at the rate and in the money herein
prescribed.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations herein and therein set forth, this Debt Security is transferable by
the holder hereof on the Debt Security Register (as defined in the Indenture) of
the Company, upon surrender of this Debt Security for registration of transfer
at the office or agency of the Trustee in Wilmington, Delaware, or at any other
office or agency of the Company in Wilmington, Delaware or San Rafael,
California, accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Company or the Trustee duly executed by the holder
hereof or such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one
or more new Debt Securities of authorized denominations and for the same
aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees. No service charge will be made for any such registration of
transfer, but the Company or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax, fee or other governmental charge payable in relation thereto
as specified in the Indenture.

                  Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of this
Debt Security, the Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying
Agent, any transfer agent and the Debt Security registrar may deem and treat the
holder hereof as the absolute owner hereof (whether or not this Debt Security
shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing hereon)
for the purpose of receiving payment of the principal of and premium, if any,
and interest on this Debt Security and for all other purposes, and none of the
Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any transfer
agent or any Debt Security registrar shall be affected by any notice to the
contrary.

                  As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations herein and therein set forth, Debt Securities are exchangeable for a
like aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities of different authorized
denominations, as requested by the holder surrendering the same.

                  The Debt Securities are issuable only in registered
certificated form without coupons.

                  No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of
or premium, if any, or interest on this Debt Security, or for any claim based
hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the
Indenture, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director, employee or
agent, past, present or future, as such, of the Company or of any predecessor or
successor corporation of the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution,
statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or
otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the
consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released.

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                  All terms used but not defined in this Debt Security shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

                  THIS DEBT SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT
OF LAWS PRINCIPLES OF SAID STATE OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK
GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW.

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                                                                       EXHIBIT B



                  FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF OFFICER OF THE COMPANY



         Pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Indenture, dated as of June 29, 2006
(as amended or supplemented from time to time, the "Indenture"), between Epic
Bancorp, as issuer (the "Company"), and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee,
the undersigned certifies that he/she is a [principal executive officer,
principal financial officer or principal accounting officer] of the Company and
in the course of the performance by the undersigned of his/her duties as an
officer of the Company, the undersigned would normally have knowledge of any
default by the Company in the performance of any covenants contained in the
Indenture, and the undersigned hereby further certifies that he/she has no
knowledge of any default for the fiscal year ending on __________, 20___ [,
except as follows: specify each such default and the nature thereof].

         Capitalized terms used herein, and not otherwise defined herein, have
the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Indenture.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Certificate as of

____________, 20____.



                                              ---------------------------------
                                              Name:
                                              Title:

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