Document:

Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture dated April 15, 2004

 Exhibit 4.01 

  
 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY 
  
 TO 
  
 UMB BANK & TRUST, N.A. 
  
 Trustee 
  

  
 Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture 
  
 Dated as of April 15, 2004 
  

  
 First Mortgage Bonds 
  
 51⁄2% Series due May 1, 2019 
  

  

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
	 	 	 	  	Page

	 Parties
	 	 	  	1
	 Recitals
	 	 	  	1
	 	 	 Previous Indentures
	  	1
	 	 	 Identity of the Company
	  	9
	 	 	 Identity of Trustee
	  	9
	 	 	 Outstanding Bonds
	  	9
	 	 	 Form of Fully Registered Bond
	  	10
	 	 	 Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
	  	13
	 	 	 Compliance with legal requirements
	  	13
	 Granting Clause
	  	13
	 Exception Clause
	  	15
	 Habendum Clause
	  	15
	 Exceptions, Reservations, etc
	  	15
	 Grant in trust
	  	15
	 Covenant Clause
	  	16
			
	 	 	ARTICLE I	  	 
	 	 	DEFINITIONS	  	 
			
	 Section 1.1
	 	 Terms defined by reference
	  	16
	 Section 1.2
	 	 Trustee
	  	16
	 Section 1.3
	 	 Original Indenture
	  	16
	 Section 1.4
	 	 First Supplemental Indenture
	  	16
	 Section 1.5
	 	 Second Supplemental Indenture
	  	16
	 Section 1.6
	 	 Third Supplemental Indenture
	  	16
	 Section 1.7
	 	 Fourth Supplemental Indenture
	  	16
	 Section 1.8
	 	 Fifth Supplemental Indenture
	  	16
	 Section 1.9
	 	 Sixth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.10
	 	 Seventh Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.11
	 	 Eighth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.12
	 	 Ninth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.13
	 	 Tenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.14
	 	 Eleventh Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.15
	 	 Twelfth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.16
	 	 Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.17
	 	 Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.18
	 	 Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.19
	 	 Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.20
	 	 Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.21
	 	 Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.22
	 	 Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17

  

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	 Section 1.23
	 	 Twentieth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.24
	 	 Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.25
	 	 Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.26
	 	 Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.27
	 	 Twenty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.28
	 	 Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.29
	 	 Twenty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.30
	 	 The Mortgage
	  	18
	 Section 1.31
	 	 Hereof, hereunder, etc.
	  	18
	 Section 1.32
	 	 2019 Series
	  	18
			
	 	 	ARTICLE II	  	 
	 	 	CREATION, DESCRIPTION, REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF	  	 
	 	 	THE 2019 SERIES OF BONDS	  	 
			
	 Section 2.1
	 	 Creation and principal amount of the 2019 Series
	  	18
	 Section 2.2
	 	 Date of Bonds
	  	19
	 Section 2.3
	 	 Denominations, etc.
	  	19
	 Section 2.4
	 	 Exchange of Bonds
	  	19
	 Section 2.5
	 	 Registration of Bonds
	  	19
	 Section 2.6
	 	 Temporary Bonds
	  	19
	 Section 2.7
	 	 Payment of Defaulted Interest
	  	19
	 Section 2.8
	 	 Transfers or Exchanges of Bonds called for redemption
	  	20
			
	 	 	ARTICLE III	  	 
	 	 	REDEMPTION OF BONDS OF THE 2019 SERIES	  	 
			
	 Section 3.1
	 	 Circumstances in which redeemable
	  	20
	 Section 3.2
	 	 Additional circumstances in which redeemable
	  	20
	 Section 3.3
	 	 Notice of intention to redeem
	  	21
			
	 	 	ARTICLE IV	  	 
	 	 	PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY	  	 
			
	 Section 4.1
	 	 Maintenance and Improvement Fund
	  	22
	 Section 4.2
	 	 Restrictions as to dividends
	  	22
	 Section 4.3
	 	 Earnings requirements for additional Bonds
	  	23
	 Section 4.4
	 	 Postponement of interest
	  	24
			
	 	 	ARTICLE V	  	 
	 	 	MISCELLANEOUS	  	 
			
	 Section 5.1
	 	 Payments due on Sundays and holidays
	  	24
	 Section 5.2
	 	 Provisions required by Trust Indenture Act of 1939 to control
	  	25

  

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	 Section 5.3
	 	 Acceptance of Trust
	  	25
	 Section 5.4
	 	 This Indenture Part of Original Indenture
	  	25
	 Section 5.5
	 	 Execution in any number of counterparts
	  	25
	 Section 5.6
	 	 Date of execution
	  	25

  

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 TWENTY-SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 15th day of April 2004 between LACLEDE GAS
COMPANY, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Missouri, having its principal place of business at 720 Olive Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63101, hereinafter sometimes called the “Company,” party of the
first part, and UMB BANK & TRUST, N.A., a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States, having its principal place of business and corporate trust office at Two South Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri 63102, hereinafter
sometimes called the “Trustee,” party of the second part. 
  
 WHEREAS, there have heretofore been duly executed and delivered the following four indentures between the Company and Mississippi Valley Trust Company, to-wit: 
  
 (a) An indenture of mortgage and deed of trust, hereinafter sometimes called the “Original
Indenture,” dated as of February 1, 1945, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 6324 at Page 93 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book
2078 at Page 12 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 294 at Page 399 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page 480 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 551 at Page 593 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 198 at Page 629 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77
at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 224 at Page 451 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 503 at Page 606 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of
State of Missouri under filing number 26,557 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2590088; and 
  
 (b) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “First Supplemental Indenture,”
dated as of December 1, 1946, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 6562 at Page 528, and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 2268 at Page 273;
and 
  
 (c) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter
sometimes called the “Second Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of March 15, 1948, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 6687 at Page 467, and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 2327 at Page 357; and 
  
 (d) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Third Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of April 1, 1951, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis,
Missouri, in Book 7079 at Page 125 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 2869 at Page 275; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there have been heretofore duly executed and delivered four indentures between the Company and Mercantile Trust Company, to-wit: 
  
 (a) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called
the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of December 1, 1954, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of 

  

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Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 7458 at Page 400 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 3342 at
Page 34 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 294 at Page 477 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page 574 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St.
Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 198 at Page 721 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 183
and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 224 at Page 632 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 1 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of
Missouri under filing number 26,558; and 
  
 (b)
A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 1, 1957, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 7731 at Page 152 and
in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 3766 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 294 at Page 494 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson
County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page 611 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 38 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 1 and in
the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 220 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri,
in Book 507 at Page 38 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 26,559; and 
  
 (c) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Sixth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of July 1, 1960, which
is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 8087 at Page 55 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 4348 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 294 at Page 535 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page 651 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at
Page 78 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 22 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 260 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds
of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 42 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 62 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 26,560; and

  
 (d) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter
sometimes called the “Seventh Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of June 1, 1964, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 8506 at Page 215 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 5410 at Page 399 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 342 at Page 2 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page
697 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 124 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 46 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds
of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 306 and in the office of the 

  

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Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 89 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page
90 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 26,561; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there have been heretofore duly executed and delivered eight indentures between the Company and Mercantile Trust Company National Association,
to-wit: 
  
 (a) A supplemental indenture,
hereinafter sometimes called the “Eighth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of April 15, 1966, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 8678 at Page 1 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 5949 at Page 450 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 361 at Page 148 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book
434 at Page 746 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 172 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 71 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 354 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 138 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at
Page 118 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 28,645; and 
  
 (b) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Ninth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 1, 1968, which is
recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 8834 at Page 213 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 6323 at Page 1904 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 389 at Page 888 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 498 at Page 408 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at
Page 790 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 216 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 94 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 398 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 183 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 145 and
is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 87,403; and 
  
 (c) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Tenth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 15, 1970, which
is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 8988 at Page 52 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 6456 at Page 132 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 396 at Page 560 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 554 at Page 79 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page
829 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 255 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 114 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 436 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 223 and in the office 

  

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of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 168 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing
number 154,857; and 
  
 (d) A supplemental
indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Eleventh Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of March 15, 1972, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 9133 at Page 4 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 6577 at Page 1993 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 401 at Page 706 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County,
Missouri, in Book 620 at Page 157 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 435 at Page 23 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 210 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 640 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 282 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County,
Missouri, in Book 78 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 265 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 234,221; and 
  
 (e) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called
the “Twelfth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of March 15, 1974, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 40M at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis
County, Missouri, in Book 6721 at Page 91 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 407 at Page 888 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 677 at Page 1445 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 465 at Page 976 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 210 at Page 255 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois
County, Missouri, in Book 598 at Page 683 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 237 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 84 at Page 117 and in the office of
the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 535 at Page 540 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Beckham County, Oklahoma, in Book 127 at Page 149 and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Trust Vol.
58 at Page 731 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 333,360; and 
  
 (f) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of June 1, 1975,
which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 70M at Page 2061 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 6796 at Page 1447 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 411 at Page 9 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 704 at Page 1739 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book
481 at Page 292 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 124 at Page 225 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 624 at Page 359 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 242 at Page 234 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 86 at Pages 483-532 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book
547 at Page 300 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Beckham County, Oklahoma, in Book 130 at Page 416 and in the 

  

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office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Trust Vol. 59 at Page 649 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sabine Parish, Louisiana, under
Registry No. 227328 in Mtg. Book 108 at Page 478 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 378628 in Mtg. Book 115 at Page 803 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana,
under Registry No. 124894 in Mtg. Book 343 at Page 293 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for Red River Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 128419 in Mtg. Book 75 at Page 546 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri
under filing number 397,857; and 
  
 (g) A
supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of October 26, 1976, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 108M at Page
131 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 6907 at Page 1970 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 416 at Page 192 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St.
Charles County, Missouri, in Book 745 at Page 40 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 669 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 241 at Page 279
and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 654 at Page 132 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 248 at Page 795 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison
County, Missouri, in Book 89 at Pages 694-700 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 565 at Page 57 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Beckham County, Oklahoma, in Book 315 at Page 146 and in the
office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in the Deed Records Vol. 260 at Page 991 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sabine Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 233001 in Mtg. Book 114 at Page 208 and in the office of the Clerk
of Court for DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 389929 in Mtg. Book 122 at Page 15 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 129850 in Mtg. Book 360 at Page 593 and in the office of the
Clerk of Court for Red River Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 131795 in Mtg. Book 79 at Page 21 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 479,397 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of
Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2590089; and 
  
 (h) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of July 15, 1979, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St.
Louis, Missouri, in Book 202M at Page 1288 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 7181 at Page 23 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 430 at Page 273 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 846 at Page 880 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 580 at Page 278 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, in Book 285 at Page 93 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 722 at Page 57 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 262 at Pages 709-770 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 98 at Pages 720-781 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 597 at Page 661 and in the office of the County Clerk of Beckham County,
Oklahoma, in Misc. Record Book 385 at Page 230 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 273 at Pages 54-116 and in the office of the County Clerk of Blaine County, Oklahoma, in Book 325 Misc. Page 1 and in the

  

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office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 64 at Page 707 and in the office of the County Clerk of Lipscomb County,
Texas, in the Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 196 at Page 607 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roberts County, Texas, in the Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 30 at Page 45 and in the office of the County Clerk of Hemphill County, Texas, in the Deed
of Trust Records, Vol. 59 at Page 428 and in the office of the Clerk of the Court for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 141319 in Mtg. Book 402 at Page 2 and in the office of the Clerk of the Court for the DeSoto Parish, Louisiana,
under Registry No. 417237 in Mtg. Book 136 at Page 524 and in the office of the Clerk of the Court for Sabine Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 246026 in Mtg. Book 128 at Page 86 and in the office of the Clerk of the Court for Red River Parish,
Louisiana, under Registry No. 141470 in Mtg. Book 87 at Page 619 and in the office of the Clerk of the Court for Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 602396 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document
Number 667303; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there have been heretofore duly
executed and delivered two indentures between the Company and Mercantile Bank National Association, to-wit: 
  
 (a) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 1, 1986,
which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book M-529 at Page 655 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 7902 at Page 1138 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 573 at Page 2 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 1080 at Page 1577 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in
Book 197 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 407 at Page 137 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 894 at Page 138 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 293 at Page 797 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 116 at Page 589 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 669 at
Page 228 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 807 at Page 120 and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 91 at Page 191, and in Deed Records, Vol. 348 at
Page 69 and in the office of the Secretary of State of Texas under Document Number 131214 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document Number 1322775; and 
  
 (b) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called
the “Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 15, 1988, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book M-669 at Page 258 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St.
Louis County, Missouri, in Book 8315 at Page 902 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 676 at Page 449 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 1212 at Page 1948 and
in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 396 at Page 1987 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 459 at Page 289 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St.
Francois County, Missouri, in Book 962 at Page 8 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 303 at Page 527 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 123 at Page 243 and in the
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of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 691 at Page 620 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book
973 at Page 1 and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 91 at Page 234, and in Deed Records, Vol. 369 at Page 386 and in the office of the Secretary of State of Texas under Document Number
86131214 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document Number 1596374 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2590090; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there have been heretofore duly executed and delivered five
indentures between the Company and Mercantile Bank of St. Louis National Association, to-wit: 
  
 (a) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of November 15,
1989, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 762M at Page 1126 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 8646 at Page 2196 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 748 at Page 17 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 1294 at Page 631 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in
Book 442 at Page 14 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 498 at Page 13 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 1012 at Page 36 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 311 at Page 503 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 127 at Page 682 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 709 at
Page 78 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 1094 at Page 263 and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 93 at Page 630 and in the office of the Secretary
of State of Texas under Document Number 252980 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document Number 1798065 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing
number 2590091; and 
  
 (b) A supplemental
indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 15, 1991, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 848 at Page 716 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 8983 at Page 1095 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 821 at Page 79 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County,
Missouri, in Book 1370 at Page 1846 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 483 at Page 1909 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 541 at Page 82 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 1060 at Page 253 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 319 at Page 355 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County,
Missouri, in Book 132 at Page 44 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 725 at Page 442 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 1213 at Page 105, UCC Filing No. 135, and
in the office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, UCC Filing No. 023021, and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 96 at Page 96 and in Deed Records, Book 399 at Page 254, and in the
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Secretary of State of Texas under Document Number 088153 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document Number 1999268 and
is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2590092; and 
  
 (c) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twentieth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of November 1, 1992,
which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book M945 at Page 1068 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 9494 at Page 423 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 937 at Page 144 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 1491 at Page 1289 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in
Book 543 at Page 2135 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 594 at Page 10 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 1121 at Page 458 and in the office of
the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 326 at Page 888 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 137 at Page 166 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book
747 at Page 72 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Franklin County, Missouri, in Book 712 at Page 889 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 1303 at Page 39, UCC Filing No. 296, and in the office of
the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, UCC Filing No. 056514, and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Book 98 at Page 88 and in Deed Records, Book 409 at Page 589, and in the office of the
Secretary of State of Texas under Document Number 212435 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document Number 2188520 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451
under filing number 2590093; and 
  
 (d) A
supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 1, 1993, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book M982 at Page 0356
and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 9701 at Page 797 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 979 at Page 722 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St.
Charles County, Missouri, in Book 1542 at Page 1449 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 567 at Page 2217 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 610 at Page
136 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 1142 at Page 84 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 328 at Page 508 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of
Madison County, Missouri, in Book 139 at Page 361 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 753 at Page 328 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Franklin County, Missouri, in Book 743 at Page 638 and in
the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 1337 at Page 10, UCC Filing No. 109, and in the office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, UCC Filing No. 023874 and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler
County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Book 98 at Page 804 and in Deed Records, Book 413 at Page 387, and in the office of the Secretary of State of Texas under Document No. 086970 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri
under Document No. 2259648 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2590094; and 
  

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 (e) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twenty-Second
Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of November 15, 1995, which is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2604323; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there have been heretofore duly executed and delivered three
indentures between the Company and State Street Bank and Trust Company of Missouri, N.A., to-wit: 
  
 (a) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of October 15,
1997, which is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2841222; and 
  
 (b) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twenty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of June 1, 1999,
which is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 3039096; and 
  
 (c) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of September 15,
2000, which is filed in the office of the Secretary of the State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 4088953; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there has been heretofore duly executed and delivered a supplemental indenture between the Company and UMB Bank & Trust, N.A., to-wit:

  
 (a) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter
sometimes called the “Twenty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of June 15, 2001, which is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 4178825; and 

 
 WHEREAS, the Company is the same corporation as is designated in the
Original and First and Second Supplemental Indentures as The Laclede Gas Light Company, which was the Company’s corporate name, but before the date of the Third Supplemental Indenture its corporate name was duly changed to, and now is, Laclede
Gas Company; and 
  
 WHEREAS, UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., the
party of the second part to this Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture, is the present Trustee under the Original Indenture, being the successor to State Street Bank and Trust Company of Missouri, N.A., which was the successor to Mercantile Bank of
St. Louis National Association (from which State Street Bank and Trust Company of Missouri, N.A., acquired certain corporate trust assets), which was the successor to Mercantile Bank National Association, which was the successor to Mercantile Trust
Company National Association, which was the successor to Mercantile Trust Company (which in turn was the corporation resulting from a consolidation on August 31, 1951, to which Mississippi Valley Trust Company, the original Trustee, was a party);
and 
  
 WHEREAS, there are now outstanding under the Eighteenth
Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 8 1/2% Series due November 15, 2004; under the Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 8 5/8% Series due May 15, 2006; under the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, First
Mortgage Bonds of the 7 1/2% Series due November 1, 2007; under the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 6 1/2% Series due 

  

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November 15, 2010; under the Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 6 1/2% Series due October 15, 2012; under the Twenty-Fourth
Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 7% Series due June 1, 2029; under the Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 7.90% Series due September 15, 2030; and under the Twenty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture, First
Mortgage Bonds of the 6-5/8% Series due June 15, 2016; but all bonds of the eighteen series provided for respectively by the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth,
Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Twenty-First Supplemental Indentures and the First Mortgage Bonds of the 3 1/2% Series issued under the Original Indenture have ceased to be outstanding; and 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company desires to create a new series of bonds under the Mortgage to be designated as “First Mortgage
Bonds, 51⁄2% Series due May 1, 2019” (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “2019 Series”), for an aggregate principal amount of $50,000,000 to be issued as fully registered bonds without coupons, the definitive bonds (certain
of the provisions of which may be printed on the reverse side thereof) and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication thereof to be substantially in the following forms, respectively: 
  
 (FORM OF FULLY REGISTERED BOND) 
 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY 
 FIRST MORTGAGE BOND,

  

					
	 No.
	  	 51⁄2% Series due May 1, 2019
	  	 $

  
 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY, a
corporation of the State of Missouri (hereinafter called “the Company”), for value received hereby promises to pay to              or registered assigns, at the office or agency
of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at the option of the registered owner hereof at the office or agency of the Company in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri,
            Dollars on the 1st day of May, 2019 (or upon earlier redemption), by check or draft in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be
legal tender for public and private debts, and to pay to the registered owner hereof by check or draft interest thereon from and including April 28, 2004 or from the 1st day of May or November next preceding the date of this bond to which date
interest has been paid or duly provided for (or, if this bond is dated any date after the record date for any interest payment date and on or before such interest payment date, then from such interest payment date), at the rate of 51⁄2% per
annum, in like coin or currency at either of said offices or agencies at the option of the registered owner hereof, on May 1 and November 1 in each year, until the Company’s obligation with respect to the payment of such principal shall have
been discharged. The interest so payable on any May 1 or November 1 will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned, be paid to the person in whose name this bond is registered at the close of business on the
record date, which shall be the April 15 or October 15, as the case may be, next preceding such interest payment date, or, if such April 15 or October 15 shall be a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, are authorized by law to close, the next preceding day which shall not be a legal holiday or a day on which such institutions are so authorized to close. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, so long as the holder is The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or a nominee thereof, such payments of principal and interest will be made in accordance with the Letter of Representations among DTC, 

  

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the Company and UMB Bank & Trust, n.a. (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “Trustee”). If a registered owner of an aggregate principal
amount in excess of $100,000 of the bonds so requests, payments of principal and interest to that registered owner shall be made by electronic transfer to an account at a commercial bank or savings institution located in the continental United
States designated in writing by such registered owner. Any such request must be made in writing to the Company and the Trustee at least 10 days in advance of such payment and must specify the name and address of the receiving bank, its ABA routing
number, and the account name and number to receive the electronic transfer. 
  
 This bond is one of an issue of bonds of the Company, issuable in series, and is one of a series known as its First Mortgage Bonds, 51⁄2% Series due May 1, 2019 (hereinafter referred to as the “2019
Series”), all bonds of all series issued and to be issued under and equally secured (except in so far as any sinking or other fund established in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned may afford additional
security for the bonds of any particular series) by a Mortgage and Deed of Trust (hereinafter referred to as the “Original Indenture”) dated as of February 1, 1945, executed by the Company to Mississippi Valley Trust Company, which was
succeeded through consolidation by Mercantile Trust Company, which was succeeded by Mercantile Trust Company National Association, which was succeeded by Mercantile Bank National Association, which was succeeded by Mercantile Bank of St. Louis
National Association, which was succeeded by State Street Bank and Trust Company of Missouri, N.A., which in turn was succeeded by UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., as Trustee, and indentures supplemental thereto, including the supplemental indenture
thereto dated as of April 15, 2004, said Mortgage and Deed of Trust as supplemented being herein called the “Mortgage,” to which reference is made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the
security, the rights of the owners of the bonds in respect thereof, the duties and immunities of the Trustee, and the terms and conditions upon which the bonds are secured. With the consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as
provided in the Mortgage, the rights and obligations of the Company and/or of the owners of the bonds and/or coupons and/or the terms and provisions of the Mortgage and/or of any instruments supplemental thereto may be modified or altered by the
affirmative vote of the owners of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) in principal amount of the bonds affected by such modification or alteration (including the bonds of the 2019 Series, if so affected), then outstanding under the
Mortgage (excluding bonds disqualified from voting by reason of the Company’s interest therein as provided in the Mortgage); provided that no such modification or alteration shall permit the extension of the maturity of the principal of this
bond or the reduction in the rate of interest hereon or any other modification in the terms of payment of such principal or interest, or the creation of a lien on the mortgaged and pledged property ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of
the Mortgage or the deprivation of the owner hereof of a lien upon such property without the consent of the owner hereof, except that the owners of not less than seventy-five percent (75%) in principal amount of the bonds at any time outstanding
under the Mortgage (including a like percent of the principal amount of the bonds of the 2019 Series, if any interest payment on bonds of the 2019 Series is to be affected) may consent on behalf of the owners of all bonds at any time outstanding to
the postponement of any interest payment for a period not exceeding three years from its due date. 
  
 The bonds of the 2019 Series are redeemable, in whole or in part, upon the notice referred to below, and otherwise subject to the provisions of the Mortgage, prior to maturity: (i) through operation of 

  

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the maintenance and improvement fund or pursuant to paragraph B of Section 13.06 of the Original Indenture (having reference to the taking of all the
mortgaged property by eminent domain and certain comparable contingencies) at 100% of the principal amount thereof, together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption; or (ii) pursuant to Section 3.2 of the supplemental indenture dated
as of April 15, 2004 to the Original Indenture at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (A) 100% of the principal amount of the bonds of the 2019 Series being redeemed; or (B) as determined by the Independent Investment Banker (as defined in
the supplemental indenture dated as of April 15, 2004 to the Original Indenture), the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the bonds of the 2019 Series being redeemed (excluding the portion of
any such interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption), discounted (for purposes of determining such present values) to the date fixed for redemption on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the
Adjusted Treasury Rate (as defined in the supplemental indenture dated as of May 1, 2004 to the Original Indenture) plus 0.20% plus, in each case, accrued interest thereon to the date fixed for redemption without premium. Except as set forth above,
the bonds of the 2019 Series are not redeemable prior to May 1, 2019. 
  
 The notice of redemption of bonds of the 2019 Series shall be given by mailing a copy thereof to each registered owner, directed to his registered address not less than thirty nor more than ninety days prior to the date fixed for
redemption, all as provided in, and subject to the applicable provisions of, the Mortgage. 
  
 The principal hereof may be declared or may become due on the conditions, in the manner, and at the time set forth in the Mortgage, upon the occurrence of a completed default as in the Mortgage provided. 

 
 At the option of the registered owner, any bonds of the 2019 Series, upon
surrender thereof at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, together with a written instrument of transfer in form approved by the Company duly executed
by the registered owner or his duly authorized attorney, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 2.05 of the Original Indenture, be exchangeable for a like aggregate amount of fully registered bonds of the same series of other authorized
denominations. 
  
 This bond is transferable as prescribed in the
Mortgage by the registered owner hereof in person, or by his duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, upon surrender and cancellation of this
bond and upon presentation of a written instrument of transfer, duly executed, with signature guaranteed by a signature guarantor that is a participant in a nationally recognized signature guaranty program, and upon payment, if the Company shall
require it, of the transfer charges prescribed in the Mortgage, and thereupon, a new fully registered bond of the same series for a like principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor as provided in the Mortgage. The Company
and the Trustee may deem and treat the person in whose name this bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment and for all other purposes. 
  
 No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or of interest on this bond against any incorporator or any
past, present or future subscriber to the capital stock, stockholder, officer or director of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation, as such, either 

  

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directly or through the Company or any predecessor or successor corporation, under any rule of law, statute or constitution or by the enforcement of any
assessment or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, subscribers, stockholders, officers and directors, as such, being released by the owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and being likewise waived and released by the terms of the
Mortgage. 
  
 This bond shall not become obligatory until UMB Bank
& Trust, n.a., the Trustee under the Mortgage, or its successor thereunder, shall have signed the form of certificate endorsed hereon. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, LACLEDE GAS COMPANY has caused this instrument to be signed in its name by its President or one of its Vice-Presidents, by his or her
signature or a facsimile thereof, and a facsimile of its corporate seal to be imprinted hereon and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, by his or her signature or a facsimile thereof. 
  
 Dated 
  

			
	LACLEDE GAS COMPANY
		
	By	 	 
	 	 	

	 President

  

	
	 ATTEST:

	
	  
	

	 Secretary

  
 (FORM OF TRUSTEE’S
CERTIFICATE) 
  
 This bond is one of the bonds, of the Series
herein designated, provided for in the within-mentioned Mortgage. 
  

			
	 UMB BANK & TRUST, N.A.
 Trustee

		
	By	 	 
	 	 	

	 Authorized Signatory

  
 and 
  
 WHEREAS, all conditions and requirements necessary to make this
Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture a valid, binding and legal instrument have been done, performed and fulfilled, and the execution and delivery hereof have been in all respects duly authorized; 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, THIS TWENTY-SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH: That
Laclede Gas Company, in consideration of the premises and of one dollar to it duly paid by the Trustee at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in order to secure the payment both of
the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds from time to time issued under the Mortgage, according 

  

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to their tenor and effect and the performance of all the provisions of the Mortgage and of said bonds, hath granted, bargained and sold, released, conveyed,
assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain and sell, release, convey, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, set over and confirm unto UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., as Trustee, and to its
successor or successors in said trust and its and their assigns forever, all the following described properties of the Company, that is to say: 
  
 All several parcels of real estate more particularly described in the Original Indenture as Parcels Nos. 1 to 14 inclusive, and in the First Supplemental
Indenture as Parcels (a) to (i) inclusive, and the Third Supplemental Indenture as Parcels II to VI inclusive, and in the Fourth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to VII inclusive, beginning on page 13 and extending to page 15 thereof, and in
the Fifth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to X inclusive, beginning on page 14 and extending to page 17 thereof, and in the Sixth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to XI inclusive, beginning on page 14 and extending to page 21 thereof,
and in the Seventh Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to XIII inclusive, beginning on page 16 and extending to page 24 thereof, and in the Eighth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to VIII inclusive, beginning on page 16 and extending to
page 19 thereof, and in the Ninth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II and III, beginning on page 11 and extending to page 12 thereof, and in the Tenth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to VI inclusive, beginning on page 11 and extending to
page 13 thereof, and in the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II and III, beginning on page 13 and extending to page 16 thereof, and in the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture on page 15 thereof, and in the Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture
beginning on page 16 and extending to page 24 thereof, and in the Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 15 and extending to page 39 thereof, and in the Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 16 and extending to page 17
thereof, and in the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 17 and extending to page 19 thereof, and in the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 15 and extending to page 16 thereof, and in the Nineteenth Supplemental
Indenture beginning on page 16 and extending to page 17 thereof, and in the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 17 and extending to page 19 thereof, and in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 17 and extending to
page 19 thereof, and in the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 10 and extending to page 11 thereof, and in the Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 10 and extending to page 11 thereof, and in the Twenty-Fourth
Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 10 and extending to page 11 thereof, and in the Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 13 and extending to page 14 thereof, and in the Twenty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 13
and extending to page 15 thereof; except any parcel or part of such real estate heretofore released from the lien of the Mortgage, or to which the Company and the Trustee have heretofore disclaimed any right, title, or interest. 
  
 TOGETHER WITH all other property, whether real, personal or mixed (except any
hereinafter expressly excepted), and whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company and wheresoever situated, including (without in anywise limiting or impairing by the enumeration of the same the scope and intent of the foregoing or of any
general description contained in this Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture) all real estate, lands, leases, leaseholds (except the last day of the term of any lease or leasehold), easements, licenses, permits, franchises, privileges, rights of way
and other rights in or relating to real estate or the occupancy of lands, all rights of way and roads, all gas plants, gas containers, buildings and other structures and all offices, buildings and the contents 

  

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thereof; all machinery, engines, boilers, gas machines, purifiers, scrubbers, retorts, tanks, pumps, regulators, meters, gas and mechanical appliances,
conduits, gas or other pipes, gas mains and pipes, service pipes, fittings, valves and connections, tools, implements, apparatus, supplies, furniture and chattels; all federal, state, municipal and other franchises, privileges and permits; all lines
for the distribution of gas for any purpose including pipes, conduits and all apparatus for use in connection therewith; and (except as hereinafter expressly excepted) all the right, title and interest of the Company in and to all other property of
any kind or nature appertaining to and/or used and/or occupied and/or enjoyed in connection with any property hereinabove described or referred to; 
  
 AND TOGETHER WITH all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining to the aforesaid property or any
part thereof, with the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, and (subject to the provisions of Section 13.01 of the Original Indenture) the tolls, rents, revenues, issues, earnings, income, product and profits thereof, and all the
estate, right, title and interest and claim whatsoever, at law as well as in equity, which the Company now has or may hereafter acquire in and to the aforesaid property and franchises and every part and parcel thereof; 
  
 Provided that all property of the kinds which by the terms of the Original
Indenture are expressly excepted from the lien and operation thereof is expressly excepted herefrom with the same effect and to the same extent as in the Original Indenture provided with respect to such property so expressly excepted; 
  
 TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such properties, real, personal, and mixed, granted,
bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over or confirmed by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto the Trustee and its successors and assigns forever; 
  
 Subject, however, as to all property embraced herein to all of the
restrictions, exceptions and reservations of easements, rights of way or otherwise, contained in any and all deeds and/or other conveyances under or through which the Company acquired or shall acquire and/or claims or shall claim title thereto, and
to the restrictions, exceptions, reservations and provisions in the Mortgage specifically set forth; and 
  
 Subject further, with respect to the premises, property, franchises and rights owned by the Company at the date of execution hereof, to excepted
encumbrances as defined in Section 1.06 of the Original Indenture, and subject, with respect to property acquired after the date of execution of the Original Indenture or hereafter acquired, to all excepted encumbrances, all other defects and
limitations of title and to all other encumbrances existing at the time of such acquisition, including any purchase money mortgage or lien upon such property created by the Company at the time of the acquisition of such property. 
  
 IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, upon the terms and trusts in the Original Indenture
and this Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture set forth, for the benefit and security of those who shall hold the bonds and coupons issued and to be issued under the Mortgage, or any of them, in accordance with the terms of the Mortgage without
preference, priority or distinction as to lien of any of said bonds and coupons over any other thereof by reason of priority in the time of the issue or 

  

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negotiation thereof or for any other reason whatsoever, subject, however, to the provisions in reference to extended, transferred or pledged coupons and
claims for interest in the Original Indenture set forth; it being intended that the lien and security of all of said bonds and coupons of all series issued or to be issued hereunder shall take effect from the execution and delivery of the Mortgage,
and that the lien and security of the Mortgage shall take effect from the date of execution and delivery of the Original Indenture as though all of the said bonds of all series were actually authenticated and delivered and issued upon such date.

  
 And the Company, for itself and its successors and assigns,
does hereby covenant and agree to and with the Trustee and its successor or successors in such trust, for the benefit of those who shall hold the bonds of the 2019 Series, or any of such bonds, as follows: 
  
 ARTICLE I 
  
 DEFINITIONS 
  
 SECTION 1.1. For all purposes of this Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture, except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise
requires, the terms defined in Sections 1.2 to 1.32 hereof shall have the meanings specified in such Sections, and all other terms which are defined in the Original Indenture (including those defined by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Original Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 1.2. The term “the Trustee” shall mean the party of the second part hereto, UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., and, subject to the provisions
of Article XVIII of the Original Indenture, shall also include its successors and assigns. 
  
 SECTION 1.3. The term “Original Indenture” shall mean the indenture of mortgage and deed of trust dated as of February 1, 1945, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.4. The term “First Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the
supplemental indenture dated as of December 1, 1946, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.5. The term “Second Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of March 15, 1948, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.6. The term “Third Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of April 1,
1951, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.7. The term
“Fourth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of December 1, 1954, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.8. The term “Fifth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 1, 1957, hereinbefore referred to.

  

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 SECTION 1.9. The term “Sixth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture
dated as of July 1, 1960, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION
1.10. The term “Seventh Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of June 1, 1964, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.11. The term “Eighth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of April 15, 1966, hereinbefore referred
to. 
  
 SECTION 1.12. The term “Ninth Supplemental
Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 1, 1968, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.13. The term “Tenth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 15, 1970, hereinbefore referred to.

  
 SECTION 1.14. The term “Eleventh Supplemental
Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of March 15, 1972, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.15. The term “Twelfth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of March 15, 1974, hereinbefore referred
to. 
  
 SECTION 1.16. The term “Thirteenth Supplemental
Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of June 1, 1975, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.17. The term “Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of October 26, 1976, hereinbefore
referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.18. The term “Fifteenth
Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of July 15, 1979, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.19. The term “Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 1, 1986, hereinbefore referred
to. 
  
 SECTION 1.20. The term “Seventeenth Supplemental
Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 15, 1988, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.21. The term “Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of November 15, 1989, hereinbefore
referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.22. The term “Nineteenth
Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 15, 1991, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.23. The term “Twentieth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of November 1, 1992, hereinbefore
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 SECTION 1.24. The term “Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental
indenture dated as of May 1, 1993, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.25. The term “Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of November 15, 1995, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.26. The term “Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of
October 15, 1997, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.27 The
term “Twenty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of June 11, 1999 hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.28 The term “Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of September 15, 2000 hereinbefore
referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.29 The term “Twenty-Sixth
Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of June 15, 2001 hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.30. The term “the Mortgage” shall mean the Original Indenture as supplemented by the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth Supplemental
Indentures and hereby, or as the same may from time to time hereafter be supplemented, modified, altered or amended by any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to the provisions of the Original Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 1.31. The term “hereof,” “hereunder,”
“hereto,” “hereby,” “hereinbefore,” and the like, refer to this Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 1.32. The term “2019 Series” shall mean the series of First Mortgage Bonds created by this Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture, as in
Section 2.1 hereof provided. 
  
 ARTICLE II 
 CREATION, DESCRIPTION, REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND 
 EXCHANGE OF THE 2019 SERIES OF BONDS 
  
 SECTION 2.1. The
Company hereby creates a new series of bonds that may be authenticated and delivered, either before or after the filing or recording hereof, under any applicable provisions of the Original Indenture, and may be issued under the Mortgage, and each of
which series shall be designated by the title “First Mortgage Bonds, 51⁄2% Series due May 1, 2019”. The aggregate principal amount of bonds of the 2019 Series that may be executed by the Company and authenticated is limited to Fifty
Million Dollars ($50,000,000), except bonds of such series authenticated and delivered pursuant to Section 2.4 or 2.6 hereof or Section 2.09 or Section 12.04 of the Original Indenture. 
  

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 SECTION 2.2. All bonds of the 2019 Series shall be dated as provided in Section 2.03 of the Original
Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 2.3. The bonds of the 2019 Series shall be
issuable only as fully registered bonds without coupons, in the denomination of $1,000, and, at the option of the Company, in any multiple or multiples of $1,000, and such bonds, and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall,
respectively, be substantially of the tenor and purport in this Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture above recited, and they may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification, and such legends or endorsements, printed, lithographed or
engraved thereon as the Company may deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent with the Mortgage, including any legend or legends permitted pursuant to Section 2.04 of the Original Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 2.4. At the option of the registered owner, any bonds of the 2019
Series, upon surrender thereof at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, together with a written instrument of transfer in form approved by the Company
duly executed by the registered owner or his duly authorized attorney, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 2.05 of the Original Indenture, be exchangeable for a like aggregate amount of fully registered bonds of the same series of other
authorized denominations. 
  
 SECTION 2.5. The bonds of the 2019
Series are transferable as prescribed in the Mortgage by the registered owner thereof in person, or by his duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St.
Louis, State of Missouri, upon surrender and cancellation of such bonds and upon presentation of a written instrument of transfer, duly executed, with signature guaranteed by a signature guarantor that is a participant in a nationally recognized
signature guaranty program, and upon payment, if the Company shall require it, of the transfer charges prescribed in the Mortgage, and thereupon, new fully registered bonds of the same series for a like principal amount will be issued to the
transferee in exchange therefor as provided in the Mortgage. 
  
 SECTION 2.6. Until bonds of the 2019 Series in definitive form are ready for delivery, there may be authenticated and delivered and issued, in lieu of any definitive bond or bonds of said series, temporary bonds of said series as provided
in Section 2.08 of the Original Indenture. Such temporary bonds shall be substantially in the form of the definitive bonds of the 2019 Series, but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary bonds, and may
contain such reference to any provisions of the Mortgage as may be appropriate, all as determined by the Board of Directors. 
  
 SECTION 2.7. The person in whose name any bond of the 2019 Series is registered at the close of business on any record date (as hereinbelow defined) with
respect to any interest payment date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such interest payment date notwithstanding the cancellation of such bond upon any transfer or exchange thereof subsequent to the record date and prior to such
interest payment date, except if and to the extent the Company shall default in the payment of the interest due on such interest payment date, in which case such defaulted interest shall be paid to the person in whose name such bond is registered on
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preceding such interest payment date, or, if such April 15 or October 15 shall be a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, are authorized by law to close, the next preceding day which shall not be a legal holiday or a day on which such institutions are so authorized to close. 
  
 SECTION 2.8. Anything in this Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges of bonds of the 2019 Series for a period of fifteen (15) days next preceding any selection of bonds of the 2019 Series to be redeemed, and the Company shall
not be required to make transfers or exchanges of the principal amount of any of such bonds called or selected for redemption except in the case of any bond of the 2019 Series to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be so redeemed.

  
 ARTICLE III 
 REDEMPTION OF BONDS OF THE 2019 SERIES 
  
 SECTION 3.1. Bonds of the 2019 Series shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at 100% of the principal amount thereof, together with accrued interest to
the date fixed for redemption at any time before maturity by the application of cash deposited with the Trustee as the result of the operation of the Maintenance and Improvement Fund provided for in Section 9.07 of the Original Indenture or in
Section 4.1 hereof, or pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (B) of Section 13.06 of the Original Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 3.2. Bonds of the 2019 Series shall also be redeemable, at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, prior to
maturity, at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (A) 100% of the principal amount of the bonds of the 2019 Series being redeemed; and (B) as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, as hereinafter defined, the sum of the present
values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the bonds of the 2019 Series being redeemed (excluding the portion of any such interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption), discounted (for purposes of determining
such present values) to the date fixed for redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate, as hereinafter defined, plus 0.20% plus, in each case, accrued interest thereon to the date
fixed for redemption without premium. 
  
 For purposes of this
Section 3.2: 
  
 “Adjusted Treasury Rate” means, with
respect to any date fixed for redemption: 
  
 (a) the yield, under
the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which reports yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the
Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the bonds of the 2019 Series, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be
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Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month); or 
  
 (b) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the
week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a
percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such date fixed for redemption. 
  
 The Adjusted Treasury Rate shall be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the date fixed for redemption. 
  
 “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a
day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed or a day on which the corporate trust office of the Trustee is closed for business. 
  
 “Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury
security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the bonds of the 2019 Series that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in
pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the bonds of the 2019 Series. 
  
 “Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any date fixed for redemption, (a) the average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations
for such date fixed for redemption after excluding the highest and the lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations or (b) if the Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all
such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations. 
  
 “Independent
Investment Banker” means Merrill Lynch Government Securities, Inc., or, if such firm is unwilling or unable to select the Comparable Treasury Issue, an independent investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the Company.

  
 “Reference Treasury Dealer” means a primary United
States Government securities dealer selected by the Independent Investment Banker after consultation with the Company. 
  
 “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any date fixed for redemption, the average, as
determined by the Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker by such Reference
Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the third Business Day preceding such date fixed for redemption. 
  
 SECTION 3.3. Article XII of the Original Indenture is and shall be applicable to any redemption of bonds of the 2019 Series. The notice of intention to
redeem provided for in Section 12.02 of the Original Indenture need not be published with respect to bonds of the 2019 Series but shall be given by mailing a copy thereof to each registered owner thereof, directed to his registered 

  

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address, not less than thirty (30) nor more than ninety (90) days prior to the date fixed for redemption. 
  
 ARTICLE IV 
 PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY 
  
 SECTION 4.1. So long as any bonds of the 2019 Series are outstanding, all covenants and provisions of Section 9.07 of the Original Indenture, which (under the terms of the Original Indenture and without regard to any
provision of any supplemental indenture heretofore or hereafter executed) expired when all bonds of the 3 1/2% Series due 1965 ceased to be outstanding, shall continue in force and effect; provided, however, that the provisions of said Section 9.07
with reference to computing the Maintenance and Improvement Fund on the basis of 15% of the gross operating revenue of the Company (which had ceased to be applicable prior to the retirement of the 3 1/2% Series due 1965) shall remain inapplicable,
and the provisions for such computation on the basis of 2 3/4% of the average amount of the gross property account of the Company shall continue to apply, so long as any bonds of the 2019 Series are outstanding. 
  
 SECTION 4.2. So long as any of the bonds of the 2019 Series are outstanding,
the Company will not (a) declare any dividends (other than dividends in common stock) on any common stock, or order the making of any distribution on any shares of common stock or to owners of common stock or (b) purchase, redeem or otherwise
acquire or retire for value any shares of common stock, if the aggregate net amount of such declarations, distributions so ordered, purchases, redemptions, acquisitions and retirements after September 30, 1953, would exceed the sum of (y) the Net
Income Available for Common Stock for the period beginning October 1, 1953, and ending with the last day of the calendar quarter immediately preceding the calendar quarter in which such dividend is declared, distribution ordered, or purchase,
redemption, acquisition or retirement made, plus (z) Eight Million Dollars ($8,000,000). 
  
 The aggregate net amount of the declarations, distributions ordered, purchases, redemptions, acquisitions and retirements referred to in the first paragraph of this Section 4.2 shall be determined by deducting from
the aggregate amount thereof the total amount of cash payments received by the Company after September 30, 1953, for any shares of common stock sold by the Company after September 30, 1953. 
  
 Net Income Available for Common Stock, for the purpose of this Section 4.2,
for any period, means (1) the net income of the Company for such period computed according to the applicable system of accounts prescribed by the Public Service Commission of Missouri and any applicable orders of said Commission and (to the extent
not prescribed by such system of accounts or orders) according to generally accepted accounting principles, less (2) an amount equal to the dividends accrued (whether or not declared or paid) during such period on any and all classes of stock having
preference over the common stock as to assets or dividends. 
  
 For the purposes of the last preceding paragraph of this Section 4.2, the term “Public Service Commission of Missouri” shall also apply, and be deemed to refer, to any regulatory body which may (A) succeed said Commission with
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or (B) supersede said Commission with respect to such jurisdiction, or (C) have such jurisdiction over phases of the Company’s business or parts of its
property over which said Commission shall not have jurisdiction. 
  
 SECTION 4.3. So long as any bonds of the 2019 Series are outstanding, the Company shall not be entitled to have authenticated and delivered any bonds pursuant to Article VI, Article VII or Article VIII of the Original Indenture, except
bonds which may be authenticated and delivered under Article VII of the Original Indenture, without the receipt by the Trustee of a net earnings certificate showing the net earnings to be as required by Section 6.05 of the Original Indenture, unless
(in addition to all other requirements for the authentication and delivery of such bonds): 
  
 (a) net earnings of the Company after provision for depreciation, depletion and amortization of property, for any 12 consecutive calendar
months within the 15 calendar months immediately preceding the date on which such additional bonds are to be issued, shall have been not less than 2 1/4 times the amount of the total annual interest charges upon the funded debt of the Company to be
outstanding immediately after the issue of such additional bonds; and 
  
 (b) the Trustee shall have received a certificate made, signed and verified by the same persons (including an independent public accountant where required) as would be required if such certificate were a net earnings
certificate under the Original Indenture, showing the net earnings of the Company to be as required by the foregoing clause (a) of this Section 4.3. Such certificate shall show the net earnings and total annual interest charges referred to in said
clause (a). 
  
 For the purposes of this Section 4.3, “funded
debt” shall mean all indebtedness created or assumed by the Company maturing one year or more after the date of the creation or assumption thereof. 
  
 For the purposes of this Section 4.3, net earnings of the Company after provision for depreciation, depletion and amortization of property shall mean the
total operating revenue and other income (net) of the Company less operating expenses (including provision for depreciation, depletion and amortization of property) and less taxes (excluding income and excess profits taxes or other taxes which are
imposed on or measured by income). In the determination of net earnings of the Company the following additional requirements shall be applicable: 
  
 (i) No profits or losses from the sale or abandonment of capital assets or change in value of securities or other investments shall be
taken into account in making such computations; 
  
 (ii) In case the Company shall have sold any property for a consideration in excess of $5,000,000, within or after the particular period for which the calculation is made, then, in computing the net earnings of the Company so available, the
net earnings or net losses of such property for the whole of such period shall be excluded to the extent practicable on the basis of actual earnings and expenses of such property or on the basis of such estimates of the earnings and expenses of such
property as the signers of a Treasurer’s certificate filed with the Trustee shall deem proper; 
  

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 (iii) In case the Company shall, within or after the particular period for which the
calculation is made, have acquired (by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) any property which within six months prior to the date of acquisition thereof by the Company has been used or operated by a person or persons other than the Company
in a business similar to that in which it has been or is to be used or operated by the Company, then in computing the net earnings of the Company so available for such purposes there shall be included, to the extent that they may not have been
otherwise included, the net earnings or net losses of the property so acquired for the whole of such period to the extent practicable on the basis of actual earnings and expenses of such property or on the basis of such estimates of the earnings and
expenses of such property as the signers of a Treasurer’s certificate filed with the Trustee shall deem proper. The net earnings or net losses of such property for the period preceding such acquisition shall in such case be ascertained and
computed as provided in this clause (iii) as if such acquired property had been owned by the Company during the whole of such period; and 
  
 (iv) The “net earnings of property” referred to in clauses (ii) and (iii) of this Section 4.3 shall mean the net earnings of
such property computed in the manner provided in this definition for the computation of net earnings of the Company available for the pertinent purposes. 
  
 All accounting determinations required by this Section 4.3 shall (except to the extent, if any, to which the preceding provisions of this Section 4.3 may
conflict with this provision) be made according to the applicable system of accounts prescribed by the Public Service Commission of Missouri and any applicable orders of said Commission and (to the extent not prescribed by such system of accounts or
orders) according to generally accepted accounting principles. 
  
 For the purposes of this Section 4.3, the term “Public Service Commission of Missouri” shall be applicable as provided in Section 4.2 of this Article IV. 
  
 SECTION 4.4. So long as any bonds of the 2019 Series are outstanding, in order that any interest payment on the bonds of any
of the Series may be postponed pursuant to clause (2) of Section 20.07 of the Original Indenture, there shall be required, in addition to all other prerequisites to such postponement provided in the Original Indenture, the consent of the owners of
not less than seventy-five percent (75%) in principal amount of bonds of the 2019 Series at the time outstanding, such consent to be given at the same time as and in the same manner as the consent of the owners of other bonds required by said clause
(2) of Section 20.07 of the Original Indenture. 
  
 ARTICLE V

 MISCELLANEOUS 
  
 SECTION 5.1. In any case where the date of maturity of interest on or principal of bonds of the 2019 Series or the date fixed for redemption of any such
bonds shall be in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions are authorized by law to close, then payment of interest or principal need not
be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding date not in The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions are authorized by law to close, with the same force and effect as if
made on the date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest shall accrue for the period after such date. 
  

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 SECTION 5.2. If and to the extent that any provision hereof, or any other provision of the Mortgage,
limits, qualifies, or conflicts with another provision included in the Mortgage which is required to be included in the Mortgage by any of Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended by the Trust Indenture Reform
Act of 1990, through operation of Section 318(c) thereof, such required provisions shall control. 
  
 SECTION 5.3. The Trustee hereby accepts the trust hereby declared and provided and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions in the
Original Indenture and in this Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture set forth. 
  
 SECTION 5.4. This Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture is executed and shall be construed as an indenture supplemental to the Original Indenture and shall form a part thereof. 
  
 SECTION 5.5. This Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture may be simultaneously
executed in any number of counterparts, each of which, when so executed, shall be deemed to be an original; such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
  
 SECTION 5.6. Although this Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture is dated, for convenience and for purposes of reference, as
of April 15, 2004, the actual dates of execution by the Company and by the Trustee are as indicated by their respective acknowledgements hereto annexed. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Laclede Gas Company, party of the first part, has caused its corporate name to be
hereunto affixed and this instrument to be signed and sealed by its President, a Vice President, or Chief Financial Officer and its corporate seal to be attested by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, for and in its behalf; and UMB Bank &
Trust, n.a., Trustee, party of the second part, in token of its acceptance of the trust hereby created, has caused its name to be hereunto affixed and this instrument to be signed and sealed by a Vice President, and its seal to be attested by its
Assistant Secretary. 
  

			
	 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY

		
	 By
	 	 /S/    D. H. YAEGER

	 	 	

	 	 	 President

  

	
	 ATTEST:

	
	 /S/    M. C. KULLMAN

	

	 Secretary
 (SEAL)

  

			
	 UMB BANK & TRUST, N.A.
Trustee

		
	 By
	 	 /S/    ROBERT CLASQUIN

	 	 	

	 	 	 Vice President

  

	
	 ATTEST:

	
	 /S/    KARIE A. MYERS

	

	 Assistant Secretary
 (SEAL)

  

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	 State of Missouri
	  	 )

	 	  	 ) ss.

	 City of St. Louis
	  	 )

  
 On this 26th
day of April, 2004 before me appeared D. H. Yaeger, to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn did say that he is the President of Laclede Gas Company, the corporation described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and that the
seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its board of directors, and said D. H. Yaeger acknowledged said
instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation. 
  
 IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal in my office in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, the day and year last above written. 
  

My commission expires July 2, 2005. 
  

	
	
	 /S/    JOYCE L. JANSEN

	

	 Notary Public
 State of Missouri

  
 (SEAL) 
  

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	 State of Missouri
	  	 )

	 	  	 ) ss.

	 City of St. Louis
	  	 )

  
 On this 26th
day of April, 2004 before me appeared Robert A. Clasquin to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn did say that (s)he is a Vice President of UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., the national banking association described in and which
executed the foregoing instrument, and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the seal of said association and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said association by authority of its board of directors, and said
Assistant Secretary acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said association. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal in my office in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, the day and year last above
written. 
  
 My commission expires July 2, 2005.

  

	
	
	 /S/    JOYCE L. JANSEN

	

	 Notary Public
 State of Missouri

  
 (SEAL) 
  

 28Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture dated April 15, 2004

 Exhibit 4.02 

  
 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY 
  
 TO 
  
 UMB BANK & TRUST, N.A. 
  
 Trustee 
  

  
 Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture 
  
 Dated as of April 15, 2004 
  

  
 First Mortgage Bonds 
  
 6% Series due May 1, 2034 
  

  

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
	 	 	 	  	Page

	 	 	 	  	 
	 Parties
	  	1
	 Recitals
	  	1
	 	 	 Previous Indentures
	  	1
	 	 	 Identity of the Company
	  	9
	 	 	 Identity of Trustee
	  	9
	 	 	 Outstanding Bonds
	  	10
	 	 	 Form of Fully Registered Bond
	  	10
	 	 	 Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
	  	13
	 	 	 Compliance with legal requirements
	  	14
	 Granting Clause
	  	14
	 Exception Clause
	  	15
	 Habendum Clause
	  	15
	 Exceptions, Reservations, etc.
	  	15
	 Grant in trust
	  	16
	 Covenant Clause
	  	16
		
	ARTICLE I	  	 
	DEFINITIONS	  	 
			
	 Section 1.1
	 	 Terms defined by reference
	  	16
	 Section 1.2
	 	 Trustee
	  	16
	 Section 1.3
	 	 Original Indenture
	  	16
	 Section 1.4
	 	 First Supplemental Indenture
	  	16
	 Section 1.5
	 	 Second Supplemental Indenture
	  	16
	 Section 1.6
	 	 Third Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.7
	 	 Fourth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.8
	 	 Fifth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.9
	 	 Sixth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.10
	 	 Seventh Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.11
	 	 Eighth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.12
	 	 Ninth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.13
	 	 Tenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.14
	 	 Eleventh Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.15
	 	 Twelfth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.16
	 	 Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.17
	 	 Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.18
	 	 Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.19
	 	 Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.20
	 	 Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	17
	 Section 1.21
	 	 Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.22
	 	 Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture
	  	18

  

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	 Section 1.23
	 	 Twentieth Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.24
	 	 Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.25
	 	 Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.26
	 	 Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.27
	 	 Twenty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.28
	 	 Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.29
	 	 Twenty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.30
	 	 Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture
	  	18
	 Section 1.31
	 	 The Mortgage
	  	18
	 Section 1.32
	 	 Hereof, hereunder, etc.
	  	18
	 Section 1.33
	 	 2034 Series
	  	18
		
	ARTICLE II	  	 
	 CREATION, DESCRIPTION, REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF
 THE 2034 SERIES OF BONDS
	  	 
			
	 Section 2.1
	 	 Creation and principal amount of the 2034 Series
	  	19
	 Section 2.2
	 	 Date of Bonds
	  	19
	 Section 2.3
	 	 Denominations, etc.
	  	19
	 Section 2.4
	 	 Exchange of Bonds
	  	19
	 Section 2.5
	 	 Registration of Bonds
	  	19
	 Section 2.6
	 	 Temporary Bonds
	  	19
	 Section 2.7
	 	 Payment of Defaulted Interest
	  	20
	 Section 2.8
	 	 Transfers or Exchanges of Bonds called for redemption
	  	20
		
	ARTICLE III	  	 
	REDEMPTION OF BONDS OF THE 2034 SERIES	  	 
			
	 Section 3.1
	 	 Circumstances in which redeemable
	  	20
	 Section 3.2
	 	 Additional circumstances in which redeemable
	  	20
	 Section 3.3
	 	 Notice of intention to redeem
	  	22
		
	ARTICLE IV	  	 
	PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY	  	 
			
	 Section 4.1
	 	 Maintenance and Improvement Fund
	  	22
	 Section 4.2
	 	 Restrictions as to dividends
	  	22
	 Section 4.3
	 	 Earnings requirements for additional Bonds
	  	23
	 Section 4.4
	 	 Postponement of interest
	  	24
		
	ARTICLE V	  	 
	MISCELLANEOUS	  	 
			
	 Section 5.1
	 	 Payments due on Sundays and holidays
	  	25
	 Section 5.2
	 	 Provisions required by Trust Indenture Act of 1939 to control
	  	25

  

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	 Section 5.3
	 	 Acceptance of Trust
	  	25
	 Section 5.4
	 	 This Indenture Part of Original Indenture
	  	25
	 Section 5.5
	 	 Execution in any number of counterparts
	  	25
	 Section 5.6
	 	 Date of execution
	  	25

  

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 TWENTY-EIGHTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 15th day of April 2004 between LACLEDE GAS COMPANY,
a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Missouri, having its principal place of business at 720 Olive Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63101, hereinafter sometimes called the “Company,” party of the first part,
and UMB BANK & TRUST, N.A., a national banking association organized under the laws of the United States, having its principal place of business and corporate trust office at Two South Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri 63102, hereinafter sometimes
called the “Trustee,” party of the second part. 
  
 WHEREAS, there have heretofore been duly executed and delivered the following four indentures between the Company and Mississippi Valley Trust Company, to-wit: 
  
 (a) An indenture of mortgage and deed of trust, hereinafter sometimes called the “Original
Indenture,” dated as of February 1, 1945, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 6324 at Page 93 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book
2078 at Page 12 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 294 at Page 399 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page 480 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 551 at Page 593 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 198 at Page 629 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77
at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 224 at Page 451 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 503 at Page 606 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of
State of Missouri under filing number 26,557 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2590088; and 
  
 (b) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “First Supplemental Indenture,”
dated as of December 1, 1946, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 6562 at Page 528, and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 2268 at Page 273;
and 
  
 (c) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter
sometimes called the “Second Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of March 15, 1948, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 6687 at Page 467, and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 2327 at Page 357; and 
  
 (d) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Third Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of April 1, 1951, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis,
Missouri, in Book 7079 at Page 125 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 2869 at Page 275; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there have been heretofore duly executed and delivered four indentures between the Company and Mercantile Trust Company, to-wit: 
  
 (a) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called
the “Fourth Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of December 1, 1954, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of 

  

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Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 7458 at Page 400 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 3342 at
Page 34 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 294 at Page 477 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page 574 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St.
Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 198 at Page 721 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 183
and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 224 at Page 632 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 1 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of
Missouri under filing number 26,558; and 
  
 (b)
A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 1, 1957, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 7731 at Page 152 and
in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 3766 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 294 at Page 494 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson
County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page 611 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 38 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 1 and in
the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 220 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri,
in Book 507 at Page 38 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 26,559; and 
  
 (c) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Sixth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of July 1, 1960, which
is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 8087 at Page 55 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 4348 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 294 at Page 535 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page 651 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at
Page 78 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 22 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 260 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds
of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 42 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 62 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 26,560; and

  
 (d) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter
sometimes called the “Seventh Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of June 1, 1964, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 8506 at Page 215 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 5410 at Page 399 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 342 at Page 2 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page
697 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 124 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 46 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds
of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 306 and in the office of the 

  

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Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 89 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page
90 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 26,561; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there have been heretofore duly executed and delivered eight indentures between the Company and Mercantile Trust Company National Association,
to-wit: 
  
 (a) A supplemental indenture,
hereinafter sometimes called the “Eighth Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of April 15, 1966, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 8678 at Page 1 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 5949 at Page 450 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 361 at Page 148 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book
434 at Page 746 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 172 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 71 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 354 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 138 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at
Page 118 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 28,645; and 
  
 (b) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Ninth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 1, 1968, which is
recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 8834 at Page 213 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 6323 at Page 1904 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 389 at Page 888 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 498 at Page 408 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at
Page 790 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 216 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 94 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 398 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 183 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 145 and
is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 87,403; and 
  
 (c) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Tenth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 15, 1970, which
is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 8988 at Page 52 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 6456 at Page 132 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 396 at Page 560 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 554 at Page 79 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 434 at Page
829 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 255 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 114 and in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 77 at Page 436 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 223 and in the office 

  

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of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 168 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing
number 154,857; and 
  
 (d) A supplemental
indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Eleventh Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of March 15, 1972, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 9133 at Page 4 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 6577 at Page 1993 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 401 at Page 706 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County,
Missouri, in Book 620 at Page 157 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 435 at Page 23 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 199 at Page 210 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 552 at Page 640 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 226 at Page 282 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County,
Missouri, in Book 78 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 265 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 234,221; and 
  
 (e) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called
the “Twelfth Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of March 15, 1974, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 40M at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis
County, Missouri, in Book 6721 at Page 91 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 407 at Page 888 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 677 at Page 1445 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 465 at Page 976 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 210 at Page 255 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois
County, Missouri, in Book 598 at Page 683 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 237 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 84 at Page 117 and in the office of
the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 535 at Page 540 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Beckham County, Oklahoma, in Book 127 at Page 149 and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Trust Vol.
58 at Page 731 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 333,360; and 
  
 (f) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Thirteenth Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of June 1, 1975,
which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 70M at Page 2061 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 6796 at Page 1447 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 411 at Page 9 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 704 at Page 1739 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book
481 at Page 292 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 124 at Page 225 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 624 at Page 359 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 242 at Page 234 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 86 at Pages 483-532 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book
547 at Page 300 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Beckham County, Oklahoma, in Book 130 at Page 416 and in the 

  

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office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Trust Vol. 59 at Page 649 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sabine Parish, Louisiana, under
Registry No. 227328 in Mtg. Book 108 at Page 478 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 378628 in Mtg. Book 115 at Page 803 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana,
under Registry No. 124894 in Mtg. Book 343 at Page 293 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for Red River Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 128419 in Mtg. Book 75 at Page 546 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri
under filing number 397,857; and 
  
 (g) A
supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Fourteenth Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of October 26, 1976, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 108M at Page
131 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 6907 at Page 1970 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 416 at Page 192 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St.
Charles County, Missouri, in Book 745 at Page 40 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 507 at Page 669 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 241 at Page 279
and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 654 at Page 132 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 248 at Page 795 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison
County, Missouri, in Book 89 at Pages 694-700 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 565 at Page 57 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Beckham County, Oklahoma, in Book 315 at Page 146 and in the
office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in the Deed Records Vol. 260 at Page 991 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sabine Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 233001 in Mtg. Book 114 at Page 208 and in the office of the Clerk
of Court for DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 389929 in Mtg. Book 122 at Page 15 and in the office of the Clerk of Court for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 129850 in Mtg. Book 360 at Page 593 and in the office of the
Clerk of Court for Red River Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 131795 in Mtg. Book 79 at Page 21 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under filing number 479,397 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of
Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2590089; and 
  
 (h) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Fifteenth Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of July 15, 1979, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St.
Louis, Missouri, in Book 202M at Page 1288 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 7181 at Page 23 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 430 at Page 273 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 846 at Page 880 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 580 at Page 278 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, in Book 285 at Page 93 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 722 at Page 57 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 262 at Pages 709-770 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 98 at Pages 720-781 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 597 at Page 661 and in the office of the County Clerk of Beckham County,
Oklahoma, in Misc. Record Book 385 at Page 230 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 273 at Pages 54-116 and in the office of the County Clerk of Blaine County, Oklahoma, in Book 325 Misc. Page 1 and in the

  

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office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 64 at Page 707 and in the office of the County Clerk of Lipscomb County,
Texas, in the Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 196 at Page 607 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roberts County, Texas, in the Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 30 at Page 45 and in the office of the County Clerk of Hemphill County, Texas, in the Deed
of Trust Records, Vol. 59 at Page 428 and in the office of the Clerk of the Court for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 141319 in Mtg. Book 402 at Page 2 and in the office of the Clerk of the Court for the DeSoto Parish, Louisiana,
under Registry No. 417237 in Mtg. Book 136 at Page 524 and in the office of the Clerk of the Court for Sabine Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 246026 in Mtg. Book 128 at Page 86 and in the office of the Clerk of the Court for Red River Parish,
Louisiana, under Registry No. 141470 in Mtg. Book 87 at Page 619 and in the office of the Clerk of the Court for Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, under Registry No. 602396 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document
Number 667303; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there have been heretofore duly
executed and delivered two indentures between the Company and Mercantile Bank National Association, to-wit: 
  
 (a) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Sixteenth Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of May 1, 1986,
which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book M-529 at Page 655 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 7902 at Page 1138 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 573 at Page 2 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 1080 at Page 1577 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in
Book 197 at Page 1 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 407 at Page 137 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 894 at Page 138 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 293 at Page 797 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 116 at Page 589 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 669 at
Page 228 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 807 at Page 120 and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 91 at Page 191, and in Deed Records, Vol. 348 at
Page 69 and in the office of the Secretary of State of Texas under Document Number 131214 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document Number 1322775; and 
  
 (b) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called
the “Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 15, 1988, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book M-669 at Page 258 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St.
Louis County, Missouri, in Book 8315 at Page 902 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 676 at Page 449 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 1212 at Page 1948 and
in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 396 at Page 1987 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 459 at Page 289 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St.
Francois County, Missouri, in Book 962 at Page 8 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 303 at Page 527 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 123 at Page 243 and in the
office 

  

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of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 691 at Page 620 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book
973 at Page 1 and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 91 at Page 234, and in Deed Records, Vol. 369 at Page 386 and in the office of the Secretary of State of Texas under Document Number
86131214 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document Number 1596374 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2590090; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there have been heretofore duly executed and delivered five
indentures between the Company and Mercantile Bank of St. Louis National Association, to-wit: 
  
 (a) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Eighteenth Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of November 15,
1989, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 762M at Page 1126 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 8646 at Page 2196 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 748 at Page 17 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 1294 at Page 631 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in
Book 442 at Page 14 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 498 at Page 13 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 1012 at Page 36 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 311 at Page 503 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 127 at Page 682 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 709 at
Page 78 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 1094 at Page 263 and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 93 at Page 630 and in the office of the Secretary
of State of Texas under Document Number 252980 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document Number 1798065 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing
number 2590091; and 
  
 (b) A supplemental
indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Nineteenth Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of May 15, 1991, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book 848 at Page 716 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 8983 at Page 1095 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 821 at Page 79 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County,
Missouri, in Book 1370 at Page 1846 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 483 at Page 1909 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 541 at Page 82 and in the
office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 1060 at Page 253 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 319 at Page 355 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County,
Missouri, in Book 132 at Page 44 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 725 at Page 442 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 1213 at Page 105, UCC Filing No. 135, and
in the office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, UCC Filing No. 023021, and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Vol. 96 at Page 96 and in Deed Records, Book 399 at Page 254, and in the
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Secretary of State of Texas under Document Number 088153 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document Number 1999268 and
is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2590092; and 
  
 (c) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twentieth Supple-mental Indenture,” dated as of November 1,
1992, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book M945 at Page 1068 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 9494 at Page 423 and in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 937 at Page 144 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Charles County, Missouri, in Book 1491 at Page 1289 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in
Book 543 at Page 2135 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 594 at Page 10 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 1121 at Page 458 and in the office of
the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 326 at Page 888 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Madison County, Missouri, in Book 137 at Page 166 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book
747 at Page 72 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Franklin County, Missouri, in Book 712 at Page 889 and in the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 1303 at Page 39, UCC Filing No. 296, and in the office of
the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, UCC Filing No. 056514, and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Book 98 at Page 88 and in Deed Records, Book 409 at Page 589, and in the office of the
Secretary of State of Texas under Document Number 212435 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri under Document Number 2188520 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451
under filing number 2590093; and 
  
 (d) A
supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of May 1, 1993, which is recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, in Book M982 at Page 0356
and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri, in Book 9701 at Page 797 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Boone County, Missouri, in Book 979 at Page 722 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St.
Charles County, Missouri, in Book 1542 at Page 1449 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Jefferson County, Missouri, in Book 567 at Page 2217 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri, in Book 610 at Page
136 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Francois County, Missouri, in Book 1142 at Page 84 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Iron County, Missouri, in Book 328 at Page 508 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of
Madison County, Missouri, in Book 139 at Page 361 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Butler County, Missouri, in Book 753 at Page 328 and in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Franklin County, Missouri, in Book 743 at Page 638 and in
the office of the County Clerk of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in Book 1337 at Page 10, UCC Filing No. 109, and in the office of the County Clerk of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, UCC Filing No. 023874 and in the office of the County Clerk of Wheeler
County, Texas, in Deed of Trust Records, Book 98 at Page 804 and in Deed Records, Book 413 at Page 387, and in the office of the Secretary of State of Texas under Document No. 086970 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri
under Document No. 2259648 and is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2590094; and 
  

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 (e) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twenty-Second
Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of November 15, 1995, which is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2604323; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there have been heretofore duly executed and delivered three
indentures between the Company and State Street Bank and Trust Company of Missouri, N.A., to-wit: 
  
 (a) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of October 15,
1997, which is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 2841222; and 
  
 (b) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twenty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of June 1, 1999,
which is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 3039096; and 
  
 (c) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes called the “Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of September 15,
2000, which is filed in the office of the Secretary of the State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 4088953; and 
  
 WHEREAS, there has been heretofore duly executed and delivered a supplemental indenture between the Company and UMB Bank & Trust, N.A., to-wit:

  
 (a) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter
sometimes called the “Twenty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of June 15, 2001, which is filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Missouri pursuant to R.S.Mo. 443.451 under filing number 4178825; and 

 
 (b) A supplemental indenture, hereinafter sometimes
called the “Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture,” dated as of April 15, 2004, which is to be executed and delivered contemporaneously with this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture; and 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company is the same corporation as is designated in the Original
and First and Second Supplemental Indentures as The Laclede Gas Light Company, which was the Company’s corporate name, but before the date of the Third Supplemental Indenture its corporate name was duly changed to, and now is, Laclede Gas
Company; and 
  
 WHEREAS, UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., the party of
the second part to this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture, is the present Trustee under the Original Indenture, being the successor to State Street Bank and Trust Company of Missouri, N. A., which was the successor to Mercantile Bank of St. Louis
National Association (from which State Street Bank and Trust Company of Missouri, N.A., acquired certain corporate trust assets), which was the successor to Mercantile Bank National Association, which was the successor to Mercantile Trust Company
National Association, which was the successor to Mercantile Trust Company (which in turn was the corporation resulting from a consolidation on August 31, 1951, to which Mississippi Valley Trust Company, the original Trustee, was a party); and

  

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 WHEREAS, there are now outstanding under the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of
the 8 1/2% Series due November 15, 2004; under the Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 8 5/8% Series due May 15, 2006; under the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 7 1/2% Series due November 1,
2007; under the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 6 1/2% Series due November 15, 2010; under the Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 6 1/2% Series due October 15, 2012; under the
Twenty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 7% Series due June 1, 2029; under the Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 7.90% Series due September 15, 2030; under the Twenty-Sixth Supplemental
Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the 6-5/8% Series due June 15, 2016; and under the Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture, First Mortgage Bonds of the % Series due April 15, 2019; but all bonds of the eighteen series provided for respectively by
the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Twenty-First Supplemental Indentures and the First Mortgage Bonds of the 3 1/2% Series issued under
the Original Indenture have ceased to be outstanding; and 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company desires to create a new series of bonds under the Mortgage to be designated as “First Mortgage Bonds, 6% Series due May 1, 2034” (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “2034 Series”), for an
aggregate principal amount of $100,000,000 to be issued as fully registered bonds without coupons, the definitive bonds (certain of the provisions of which may be printed on the reverse side thereof) and the Trustee’s certificate of
authentication thereof to be substantially in the following forms, respectively: 
  
 (FORM OF FULLY REGISTERED BOND) 
 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY 
 FIRST MORTGAGE BOND, 
  

					
	 No.
	  	 6% Series due May 1, 2034
	  	 $

  
 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY, a
corporation of the State of Missouri (hereinafter called “the Company”), for value received hereby promises to pay to                     
or registered assigns, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or at the option of the registered owner hereof at the office or agency of the Company in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri,
                     Dollars on the 1st day of May, 2034 (or upon earlier redemption), by check or draft in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for public and private debts, and to pay to the registered owner hereof by check or draft interest thereon from and including April 28, 2004 or from the 15th day of April or October next preceding the date of this bond to which date interest has been paid or duly provided for (or, if
this bond is dated any date after the record date for any interest payment date and on or before such interest payment date, then from such interest payment date), at the rate of 6% per annum, in like coin or currency at either of said offices or
agencies at the option of the registered owner hereof, on May 1 and November 1 in each year, until the Company’s obligation with respect to the payment of such principal shall have been discharged. The interest so payable on any May 1 or
November 1 will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned, be paid to the person in whose name this bond is registered at the close of business on the record date, which shall be the April 15 or October 15, as the
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payment date, or, if such April 15 or October 15 shall be a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, are authorized by law to close, the next preceding day which shall not be a legal holiday or a day on which such institutions are so authorized to close. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as
the holder is The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or a nominee thereof, such payments of principal and interest will be made in accordance with the Letter of Representations among DTC, the Company and UMB Bank & Trust, n.a.
(hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “Trustee”). If a registered owner of an aggregate principal amount in excess of $100,000 of the bonds so requests, payments of principal and interest to that registered owner shall be made by
electronic transfer to an account at a commercial bank or savings institution located in the continental United States designated in writing by such registered owner. Any such request must be made in writing to the Company and the Trustee at least
10 days in advance of such payment and must specify the name and address of the receiving bank, its ABA routing number, and the account name and number to receive the electronic transfer. 
  
 This bond is one of an issue of bonds of the Company, issuable in series, and is one of a series known as its First Mortgage
Bonds, 6% Series due May 1, 2034 (hereinafter referred to as the “2034 Series”), all bonds of all series issued and to be issued under and equally secured (except in so far as any sinking or other fund established in accordance with the
provisions of the Mortgage hereinafter mentioned may afford additional security for the bonds of any particular series) by a Mortgage and Deed of Trust (hereinafter referred to as the “Original Indenture”) dated as of February 1, 1945,
executed by the Company to Mississippi Valley Trust Company, which was succeeded through consolidation by Mercantile Trust Company, which was succeeded by Mercantile Trust Company National Association, which was succeeded by Mercantile Bank National
Association, which was succeeded by Mercantile Bank of St. Louis National Association, which was succeeded by State Street Bank and Trust Company of Missouri, N.A., which in turn was succeeded by UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., as Trustee, and
indentures supplemental thereto, including the supplemental indenture thereto dated as of April 15, 2004, said Mortgage and Deed of Trust as supplemented being herein called the “Mortgage,” to which reference is made for a description of
the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the rights of the owners of the bonds in respect thereof, the duties and immunities of the Trustee, and the terms and conditions upon which the bonds are secured. With the
consent of the Company and to the extent permitted by and as provided in the Mortgage, the rights and obligations of the Company and/or of the owners of the bonds and/or coupons and/or the terms and provisions of the Mortgage and/or of any
instruments supplemental thereto may be modified or altered by the affirmative vote of the owners of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66 2/3%) in principal amount of the bonds affected by such modification or alteration (including the
bonds of the 2034 Series, if so affected), then outstanding under the Mortgage (excluding bonds disqualified from voting by reason of the Company’s interest therein as provided in the Mortgage); provided that no such modification or alteration
shall permit the extension of the maturity of the principal of this bond or the reduction in the rate of interest hereon or any other modification in the terms of payment of such principal or interest, or the creation of a lien on the mortgaged and
pledged property ranking prior to or on a parity with the lien of the Mortgage or the deprivation of the owner hereof of a lien upon such property without the consent of the owner hereof, except that the owners of not less than seventy-five percent
(75%) in principal amount of the bonds at any time outstanding under the Mortgage (including a like percent of the principal amount of the bonds of the 2034 Series, if any interest 

  

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payment on bonds of the 2034 Series is to be affected) may consent on behalf of the owners of all bonds at any time outstanding to the postponement of any
interest payment for a period not exceeding three years from its due date. 
  
 The bonds of the 2034 Series are redeemable, in whole or in part, upon the notice referred to below, and otherwise subject to the provisions of the Mortgage, prior to maturity: (i) through operation of the maintenance
and improvement fund or pursuant to paragraph B of Section 13.06 of the Original Indenture (having reference to the taking of all the mortgaged property by eminent domain and certain comparable contingencies) at 100% of the principal amount thereof,
together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption; or (ii) pursuant to Section 3.2 of the supplemental indenture dated as of April 15, 2004 to the Original Indenture at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (A) 100% of the
principal amount of the bonds of the 2034 Series being redeemed; or (B) as determined by the Independent Investment Banker (as defined in the supplemental indenture dated as of April 15, 2004 to the Original Indenture), the sum of the present values
of the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the bonds of the 2034 Series being redeemed (excluding the portion of any such interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption), discounted (for purposes of determining such
present values) to the date fixed for redemption on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate (as defined in the supplemental indenture dated as of April 15, 2004 to the Original
Indenture) plus 0.20% plus, in each case, accrued interest thereon to the date fixed for redemption without premium. Except as set forth above, the bonds of the 2034 Series are not redeemable prior to May 1, 2034. 
  
 The notice of redemption of bonds of the 2034 Series shall be given by
mailing a copy thereof to each registered owner, directed to his registered address not less than thirty nor more than ninety days prior to the date fixed for redemption, all as provided in, and subject to the applicable provisions of, the Mortgage.

  
 The principal hereof may be declared or may become due on the
conditions, in the manner, and at the time set forth in the Mortgage, upon the occurrence of a completed default as in the Mortgage provided. 
  
 At the option of the registered owner, any bonds of the 2034 Series, upon surrender thereof at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, together with a written instrument of transfer in form approved by the Company duly executed by the registered owner or his duly authorized attorney, shall, subject to
the provisions of Section 2.05 of the Original Indenture, be exchangeable for a like aggregate amount of fully registered bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations. 
  
 This bond is transferable as prescribed in the Mortgage by the registered owner hereof in person, or by his duly authorized
attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, upon surrender and cancellation of this bond and upon presentation of a written instrument of transfer, duly executed,
with signature guaranteed by a signature guarantor that is a participant in a nationally recognized signature guaranty program, and upon payment, if the Company shall require it, of the transfer charges prescribed in the Mortgage, and thereupon, a
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principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor as provided in the Mortgage. The Company and the Trustee may deem and treat the person
in whose name this bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of receiving payment and for all other purposes. 
  
 No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or of interest on this bond against any incorporator or any past, present or future
subscriber to the capital stock, stockholder, officer or director of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation, as such, either directly or through the Company or any predecessor or successor corporation, under any rule of law,
statute or constitution or by the enforcement of any assessment or otherwise, all such liability of incorporators, subscribers, stockholders, officers and directors, as such, being released by the owner hereof by the acceptance of this bond and
being likewise waived and released by the terms of the Mortgage. 
  
 This bond shall not become obligatory until UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., the Trustee under the Mortgage, or its successor thereunder, shall have signed the form of certificate endorsed hereon. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, LACLEDE GAS COMPANY has caused this instrument to be
signed in its name by its President or one of its Vice-Presidents, by his or her signature or a facsimile thereof, and a facsimile of its corporate seal to be imprinted hereon and attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, by his
or her signature or a facsimile thereof. 
  
 Dated 
  

			
	 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY

		
	By	 	 
	 	 	

	 President

  

	
	ATTEST:
	
	  
	

	 Secretary

  
 (FORM OF TRUSTEE’S
CERTIFICATE) 
  
 This bond is one of the bonds, of the Series
herein designated, provided for in the within-mentioned Mortgage. 
  

			
	 UMB BANK & TRUST, N.A.
 Trustee

		
	By	 	 
	 	 	

	 Authorized Signatory

  
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 WHEREAS, all conditions and requirements necessary to make this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture a
valid, binding and legal instrument have been done, performed and fulfilled, and the execution and delivery hereof have been in all respects duly authorized; 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, THIS TWENTY-EIGHTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH: That Laclede Gas Company, in consideration of the premises and of one dollar to it
duly paid by the Trustee at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in order to secure the payment both of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds from time to
time issued under the Mortgage, according to their tenor and effect and the performance of all the provisions of the Mortgage and of said bonds, hath granted, bargained and sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set
over and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain and sell, release, convey, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, set over and confirm unto UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., as Trustee, and to its successor or successors in said trust and its
and their assigns forever, all the following described properties of the Company, that is to say: 
  
 All several parcels of real estate more particularly described in the Original Indenture as Parcels Nos. 1 to 14 inclusive, and in the First Supplemental
Indenture as Parcels (a) to (i) inclusive, and the Third Supplemental Indenture as Parcels II to VI inclusive, and in the Fourth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to VII inclusive, beginning on page 13 and extending to page 15 thereof, and in
the Fifth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to X inclusive, beginning on page 14 and extending to page 17 thereof, and in the Sixth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to XI inclusive, beginning on page 14 and extending to page 21 thereof,
and in the Seventh Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to XIII inclusive, beginning on page 16 and extending to page 24 thereof, and in the Eighth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to VIII inclusive, beginning on page 16 and extending to
page 19 thereof, and in the Ninth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II and III, beginning on page 11 and extending to page 12 thereof, and in the Tenth Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II to VI inclusive, beginning on page 11 and extending to
page 13 thereof, and in the Eleventh Supplemental Indenture in paragraphs II and III, beginning on page 13 and extending to page 16 thereof, and in the Twelfth Supplemental Indenture on page 15 thereof, and in the Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture
beginning on page 16 and extending to page 24 thereof, and in the Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 15 and extending to page 39 thereof, and in the Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 16 and extending to page 17
thereof, and in the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 17 and extending to page 19 thereof, and in the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 15 and extending to page 16 thereof, and in the Nineteenth Supplemental
Indenture beginning on page 16 and extending to page 17 thereof, and in the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 17 and extending to page 19 thereof, and in the Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 17 and extending to
page 19 thereof, and in the Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 10 and extending to page 11 thereof, and in the Twenty-Third Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 10 and extending to page 11 thereof, and in the Twenty-Fourth
Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 10 and extending to page 11 thereof, and in the Twenty-Fifth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 13 and extending to page 14 thereof, and in the Twenty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 13
and extending to page 15 thereof; and in the Twenty-Seventh Supplemental Indenture beginning on page 14 and extending to page 15 thereof; except any 

  

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parcel or part of such real estate heretofore released from the lien of the Mortgage, or to which the Company and the Trustee have heretofore disclaimed any
right, title, or interest. 
  
 TOGETHER WITH all other property,
whether real, personal or mixed (except any hereinafter expressly excepted), and whether now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company and wheresoever situated, including (without in anywise limiting or impairing by the enumeration of the same the
scope and intent of the foregoing or of any general description contained in this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture) all real estate, lands, leases, leaseholds (except the last day of the term of any lease or leasehold), easements, licenses,
permits, franchises, privileges, rights of way and other rights in or relating to real estate or the occupancy of lands, all rights of way and roads, all gas plants, gas containers, buildings and other structures and all offices, buildings and the
contents thereof; all machinery, engines, boilers, gas machines, purifiers, scrubbers, retorts, tanks, pumps, regulators, meters, gas and mechanical appliances, conduits, gas or other pipes, gas mains and pipes, service pipes, fittings, valves and
connections, tools, implements, apparatus, supplies, furniture and chattels; all federal, state, municipal and other franchises, privileges and permits; all lines for the distribution of gas for any purpose including pipes, conduits and all
apparatus for use in connection therewith; and (except as hereinafter expressly excepted) all the right, title and interest of the Company in and to all other property of any kind or nature appertaining to and/or used and/or occupied and/or enjoyed
in connection with any property hereinabove described or referred to; 
  
 AND TOGETHER WITH all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining to the aforesaid property or any part thereof, with the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, and (subject
to the provisions of Section 13.01 of the Original Indenture) the tolls, rents, revenues, issues, earnings, income, product and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title and interest and claim whatsoever, at law as well as in equity, which
the Company now has or may hereafter acquire in and to the aforesaid property and franchises and every part and parcel thereof; 
  
 Provided that all property of the kinds which by the terms of the Original Indenture are expressly excepted from the lien and operation thereof is
expressly excepted herefrom with the same effect and to the same extent as in the Original Indenture provided with respect to such property so expressly excepted; 
  
 TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such properties, real, personal, and mixed, granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned,
transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over or confirmed by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto the Trustee and its successors and assigns forever; 
  
 Subject, however, as to all property embraced herein to all of the restrictions, exceptions and reservations of easements,
rights of way or otherwise, contained in any and all deeds and/or other conveyances under or through which the Company acquired or shall acquire and/or claims or shall claim title thereto, and to the restrictions, exceptions, reservations and
provisions in the Mortgage specifically set forth; and 
  
 Subject
further, with respect to the premises, property, franchises and rights owned by the Company at the date of execution hereof, to excepted encumbrances as defined in Section 1.06 of 

  

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the Original Indenture, and subject, with respect to property acquired after the date of execution of the Original Indenture or hereafter acquired, to all
excepted encumbrances, all other defects and limitations of title and to all other encumbrances existing at the time of such acquisition, including any purchase money mortgage or lien upon such property created by the Company at the time of the
acquisition of such property. 
  
 IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, upon the
terms and trusts in the Original Indenture and this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture set forth, for the benefit and security of those who shall hold the bonds and coupons issued and to be issued under the Mortgage, or any of them, in accordance
with the terms of the Mortgage without preference, priority or distinction as to lien of any of said bonds and coupons over any other thereof by reason of priority in the time of the issue or negotiation thereof or for any other reason whatsoever,
subject, however, to the provisions in reference to extended, transferred or pledged coupons and claims for interest in the Original Indenture set forth; it being intended that the lien and security of all of said bonds and coupons of all series
issued or to be issued hereunder shall take effect from the execution and delivery of the Mortgage, and that the lien and security of the Mortgage shall take effect from the date of execution and delivery of the Original Indenture as though all of
the said bonds of all series were actually authenticated and delivered and issued upon such date. 
  
 And the Company, for itself and its successors and assigns, does hereby covenant and agree to and with the Trustee and its successor or successors in such
trust, for the benefit of those who shall hold the bonds of the 2034 Series, or any of such bonds, as follows: 
  
 ARTICLE I 
 DEFINITIONS 
  
 SECTION 1.1. For all purposes of this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture, except as herein otherwise expressly provided or
unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined in Sections 1.2 to 1.33 hereof shall have the meanings specified in such Sections, and all other terms which are defined in the Original Indenture (including those defined by reference to the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Original Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 1.2. The term “the Trustee” shall mean the party of the second part hereto, UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., and, subject to the provisions
of Article XVIII of the Original Indenture, shall also include its successors and assigns. 
  
 SECTION 1.3. The term “Original Indenture” shall mean the indenture of mortgage and deed of trust dated as of February 1, 1945, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.4. The term “First Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the
supplemental indenture dated as of December 1, 1946, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.5. The term “Second Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of March 15, 1948, hereinbefore referred to. 
  

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 SECTION 1.6. The term “Third Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture
dated as of April 1, 1951, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION
1.7. The term “Fourth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of December 1, 1954, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.8. The term “Fifth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 1, 1957, hereinbefore referred to.

  
 SECTION 1.9. The term “Sixth Supplemental Indenture”
shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of July 1, 1960, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.10. The term “Seventh Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of June 1, 1964, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.11. The term “Eighth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of April 15,
1966, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.12. The term
“Ninth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 1, 1968, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.13. The term “Tenth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 15, 1970, hereinbefore referred to.

  
 SECTION 1.14. The term “Eleventh Supplemental
Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of March 15, 1972, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.15. The term “Twelfth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of March 15, 1974, hereinbefore referred
to. 
  
 SECTION 1.16. The term “Thirteenth Supplemental
Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of June 1, 1975, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.17. The term “Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of October 26, 1976, hereinbefore
referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.18. The term “Fifteenth
Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of July 15, 1979, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.19. The term “Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 1, 1986, hereinbefore referred
to. 
  
 SECTION 1.20. The term “Seventeenth Supplemental
Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 15, 1988, hereinbefore referred to. 
  

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 SECTION 1.21. The term “Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental
indenture dated as of November 15, 1989, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.22. The term “Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 15, 1991, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.23. The term “Twentieth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of
November 1, 1992, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.24. The
term “Twenty-First Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of May 1, 1993, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.25. The term “Twenty-Second Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of November 15, 1995, hereinbefore
referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.26. The term “Twenty-Third
Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of October 15, 1997, hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.27 The term “Twenty-Fourth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of June 11, 1999 hereinbefore
referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.28 The term “Twenty-Fifth
Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of September 15, 2000 hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.29 The term “Twenty-Sixth Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of June 15, 2001 hereinbefore
referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.30 The term “Twenty-Seventh
Supplemental Indenture” shall mean the supplemental indenture dated as of April 15, 2004 hereinbefore referred to. 
  
 SECTION 1.31. The term “the Mortgage” shall mean the Original Indenture as supplemented by the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-First, Twenty-Second, Twenty-Third, Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth, Twenty-Sixth and Twenty-Seventh
Supplemental Indentures and hereby, or as the same may from time to time hereafter be supplemented, modified, altered or amended by any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to the provisions of the Original Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 1.32. The term “hereof,” “hereunder,”
“hereto,” “hereby,” “hereinbefore,” and the like, refer to this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 1.33. The term “2034 Series” shall mean the series of First Mortgage Bonds created by this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture, as in
Section 2.1 hereof provided. 
  

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 ARTICLE II 
 CREATION, DESCRIPTION, REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND 
 EXCHANGE OF THE 2034 SERIES OF BONDS 
  
 SECTION 2.1. The Company hereby creates a new series of bonds that may be
authenticated and delivered, either before or after the filing or recording hereof, under any applicable provisions of the Original Indenture, and may be issued under the Mortgage, and each of which series shall be designated by the title
“First Mortgage Bonds, 6% Series due May 1, 2034”. The aggregate principal amount of bonds of the 2034 Series that may be executed by the Company and authenticated is limited to One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000), except bonds of
such series authenticated and delivered pursuant to Section 2.4 or 2.6 hereof or Section 2.09 or Section 12.04 of the Original Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 2.2. All bonds of the 2034 Series shall be dated as provided in Section 2.03 of the Original Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 2.3. The bonds of the 2034 Series shall be issuable only as fully
registered bonds without coupons, in the denomination of $1,000, and, at the option of the Company, in any multiple or multiples of $1,000, and such bonds, and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall, respectively, be substantially
of the tenor and purport in this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture above recited, and they may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification, and such legends or endorsements, printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as the Company
may deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent with the Mortgage, including any legend or legends permitted pursuant to Section 2.04 of the Original Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 2.4. At the option of the registered owner, any bonds of the 2034 Series, upon surrender thereof at the office or
agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, together with a written instrument of transfer in form approved by the Company duly executed by the registered owner or his duly
authorized attorney, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 2.05 of the Original Indenture, be exchangeable for a like aggregate amount of fully registered bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations. 
  
 SECTION 2.5. The bonds of the 2034 Series are transferable as prescribed in
the Mortgage by the registered owner thereof in person, or by his duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, upon surrender and
cancellation of such bonds and upon presentation of a written instrument of transfer, duly executed, with signature guaranteed by a signature guarantor that is a participant in a nationally recognized signature guaranty program, and upon payment, if
the Company shall require it, of the transfer charges prescribed in the Mortgage, and thereupon, new fully registered bonds of the same series for a like principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange therefor as provided in the
Mortgage. 
  
 SECTION 2.6. Until bonds of the 2034 Series in
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series, temporary bonds of said series as provided in Section 2.08 of the Original Indenture. Such temporary bonds shall be substantially in the form of the
definitive bonds of the 2034 Series, but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary bonds, and may contain such reference to any provisions of the Mortgage as may be appropriate, all as determined by the Board
of Directors. 
  
 SECTION 2.7. The person in whose name any bond
of the 2034 Series is registered at the close of business on any record date (as hereinbelow defined) with respect to any interest payment date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such interest payment date notwithstanding the
cancellation of such bond upon any transfer or exchange thereof subsequent to the record date and prior to such interest payment date, except if and to the extent the Company shall default in the payment of the interest due on such interest payment
date, in which case such defaulted interest shall be paid to the person in whose name such bond is registered on the date of payment of such defaulted interest. The record date shall be April 15 or October 15, as the case may be, next preceding such
interest payment date, or, if such April 15 or October 15 shall be a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, are authorized by law to
close, the next preceding day which shall not be a legal holiday or a day on which such institutions are so authorized to close. 
  
 SECTION 2.8. Anything in this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall not be required to make transfers or
exchanges of bonds of the 2034 Series for a period of fifteen (15) days next preceding any selection of bonds of the 2034 Series to be redeemed, and the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges of the principal amount of any of
such bonds called or selected for redemption except in the case of any bond of the 2034 Series to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be so redeemed. 
  
 ARTICLE III 
 REDEMPTION OF BONDS OF THE 2034 SERIES 
  
 SECTION 3.1.
Bonds of the 2034 Series shall be redeemable, in whole or in part, at 100% of the principal amount thereof, together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption at any time before maturity by the application of cash deposited with the
Trustee as the result of the operation of the Maintenance and Improvement Fund provided for in Section 9.07 of the Original Indenture or in Section 4.1 hereof, or pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (B) of Section 13.06 of the Original
Indenture. 
  
 SECTION 3.2. Bonds of the 2034 Series shall also be
redeemable, at the option of the Company, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, prior to maturity, at a redemption price equal to the greater of: (A) 100% of the principal amount of the bonds of the 2034 Series being redeemed; and (B)
as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, as hereinafter defined, the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the bonds of the 2034 Series being redeemed (excluding the portion of any
such interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption), discounted (for purposes of determining such present values) to the date fixed for redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury
Rate, as hereinafter defined, plus 0.20% plus, in each case, accrued interest thereon to the date fixed for redemption without premium. 
  

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 For purposes of this Section 3.2: 
  
 “Adjusted Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any date fixed for redemption: 
  
 (a) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the
immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which
reports yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within
three months before or after the remaining term of the bonds of the 2034 Series, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Adjusted Treasury Rate shall be
interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month); or 
  
 (b) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate
per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price
for such date fixed for redemption. 
  
 The Adjusted Treasury Rate shall be
calculated on the third Business Day preceding the date fixed for redemption. 
  
 “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed or a day on
which the corporate trust office of the Trustee is closed for business. 
  
 “Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the bonds of the 2034 Series that would be utilized, at
the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the bonds of the 2034 Series. 
  
 “Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any date fixed
for redemption, (a) the average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such date fixed for redemption after excluding the highest and the lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations or (b) if the Independent Investment Banker obtains
fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations. 
  
 “Independent Investment Banker” means Merrill Lynch Government Securities, Inc. or, if such firm is unwilling or unable to select the Comparable
Treasury Issue, an independent investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the Company. 
  

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 “Reference Treasury Dealer” means a primary United States Government securities dealer selected
by the Independent Investment Banker after consultation with the Company. 
  
 “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any date fixed for redemption, the average, as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and
asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the third Business Day preceding
such date fixed for redemption. 
  
 SECTION 3.3 Article XII of the
Original Indenture is and shall be applicable to any redemption of bonds of the 2034 Series. The notice of intention to redeem provided for in Section 12.02 of the Original Indenture need not be published with respect to bonds of the 2034 Series but
shall be given by mailing a copy thereof to each registered owner thereof, directed to his registered address, not less than thirty (30) nor more than ninety (90) days prior to the date fixed for redemption. 
  
 ARTICLE IV 
 PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY 
  
 SECTION 4.1. So long as any bonds of the 2034 Series are outstanding, all covenants and provisions of Section 9.07 of the Original Indenture, which (under the terms of the Original Indenture and without regard to any
provision of any supplemental indenture heretofore or hereafter executed) expired when all bonds of the 3 1/2% Series due 1965 ceased to be outstanding, shall continue in force and effect; provided, however, that the provisions of said Section 9.07
with reference to computing the Maintenance and Improvement Fund on the basis of 15% of the gross operating revenue of the Company (which had ceased to be applicable prior to the retirement of the 3 1/2% Series due 1965) shall remain inapplicable,
and the provisions for such computation on the basis of 2 3/4% of the average amount of the gross property account of the Company shall continue to apply, so long as any bonds of the 2034 Series are outstanding. 
  
 SECTION 4.2. So long as any of the bonds of the 2034 Series are outstanding,
the Company will not (a) declare any dividends (other than dividends in common stock) on any common stock, or order the making of any distribution on any shares of common stock or to owners of common stock or (b) purchase, redeem or otherwise
acquire or retire for value any shares of common stock, if the aggregate net amount of such declarations, distributions so ordered, purchases, redemptions, acquisitions and retirements after September 30, 1953, would exceed the sum of (y) the Net
Income Available for Common Stock for the period beginning October 1, 1953, and ending with the last day of the calendar quarter immediately preceding the calendar quarter in which such dividend is declared, distribution ordered, or purchase,
redemption, acquisition or retirement made, plus (z) Eight Million Dollars ($8,000,000). 
  
 The aggregate net amount of the declarations, distributions ordered, purchases, redemptions, acquisitions and retirements referred to in the first paragraph of this Section 4.2 shall be determined by deducting from
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Company after September 30, 1953, for any shares of common stock sold by the Company after September 30, 1953. 
  
 Net Income Available for Common Stock, for the purpose of this Section 4.2,
for any period, means (1) the net income of the Company for such period computed according to the applicable system of accounts prescribed by the Public Service Commission of Missouri and any applicable orders of said Commission and (to the extent
not prescribed by such system of accounts or orders) according to generally accepted accounting principles, less (2) an amount equal to the dividends accrued (whether or not declared or paid) during such period on any and all classes of stock having
preference over the common stock as to assets or dividends. 
  
 For the purposes of the last preceding paragraph of this Section 4.2, the term “Public Service Commission of Missouri” shall also apply, and be deemed to refer, to any regulatory body which may (A) succeed said Commission with
respect to jurisdiction over the accounting of the Company, or (B) supersede said Commission with respect to such jurisdiction, or (C) have such jurisdiction over phases of the Company’s business or parts of its property over which said
Commission shall not have jurisdiction. 
  
 SECTION 4.3. So long
as any bonds of the 2034 Series are outstanding, the Company shall not be entitled to have authenticated and delivered any bonds pursuant to Article VI, Article VII or Article VIII of the Original Indenture, except bonds which may be authenticated
and delivered under Article VII of the Original Indenture, without the receipt by the Trustee of a net earnings certificate showing the net earnings to be as required by Section 6.05 of the Original Indenture, unless (in addition to all other
requirements for the authentication and delivery of such bonds): 
  
 (a) net earnings of the Company after provision for depreciation, depletion and amortization of property, for any 12 consecutive calendar months within the 15 calendar months immediately preceding the date on which
such additional bonds are to be issued, shall have been not less than 2 1/4 times the amount of the total annual interest charges upon the funded debt of the Company to be outstanding immediately after the issue of such additional bonds; and

  
 (b) the Trustee shall have received a
certificate made, signed and verified by the same persons (including an independent public accountant where required) as would be required if such certificate were a net earnings certificate under the Original Indenture, showing the net earnings of
the Company to be as required by the foregoing clause (a) of this Section 4.3. Such certificate shall show the net earnings and total annual interest charges referred to in said clause (a). 
  
 For the purposes of this Section 4.3, “funded debt” shall mean all
indebtedness created or assumed by the Company maturing one year or more after the date of the creation or assumption thereof. 
  
 For the purposes of this Section 4.3, net earnings of the Company after provision for depreciation, depletion and amortization of property shall mean the
total operating revenue and other income (net) of the Company less operating expenses (including provision for depreciation, depletion and amortization of property) and less taxes (excluding income and excess profits taxes or 

  

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other taxes which are imposed on or measured by income). In the determination of net earnings of the Company the following additional requirements shall be
applicable: 
  
 (i) No profits or losses from the
sale or abandonment of capital assets or change in value of securities or other investments shall be taken into account in making such computations; 
  
 (ii) In case the Company shall have sold any property for a consideration in excess of $5,000,000, within or after the particular period
for which the calculation is made, then, in computing the net earnings of the Company so available, the net earnings or net losses of such property for the whole of such period shall be excluded to the extent practicable on the basis of actual
earnings and expenses of such property or on the basis of such estimates of the earnings and expenses of such property as the signers of a Treasurer’s certificate filed with the Trustee shall deem proper; 
  
 (iii) In case the Company shall, within or after the
particular period for which the calculation is made, have acquired (by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise) any property which within six months prior to the date of acquisition thereof by the Company has been used or operated by a person
or persons other than the Company in a business similar to that in which it has been or is to be used or operated by the Company, then in computing the net earnings of the Company so available for such purposes there shall be included, to the extent
that they may not have been otherwise included, the net earnings or net losses of the property so acquired for the whole of such period to the extent practicable on the basis of actual earnings and expenses of such property or on the basis of such
estimates of the earnings and expenses of such property as the signers of a Treasurer’s certificate filed with the Trustee shall deem proper. The net earnings or net losses of such property for the period preceding such acquisition shall in
such case be ascertained and computed as provided in this clause (iii) as if such acquired property had been owned by the Company during the whole of such period; and 
  
 (iv) The “net earnings of property” referred to in clauses (ii) and (iii) of this Section 4.3
shall mean the net earnings of such property computed in the manner provided in this definition for the computation of net earnings of the Company available for the pertinent purposes. 
  
 All accounting determinations required by this Section 4.3 shall (except to the extent, if any, to which the preceding
provisions of this Section 4.3 may conflict with this provision) be made according to the applicable system of accounts prescribed by the Public Service Commission of Missouri and any applicable orders of said Commission and (to the extent not
prescribed by such system of accounts or orders) according to generally accepted accounting principles. 
  
 For the purposes of this Section 4.3, the term “Public Service Commission of Missouri” shall be applicable as provided in Section 4.2 of this
Article IV. 
  
 SECTION 4.4. So long as any bonds of the 2034
Series are outstanding, in order that any interest payment on the bonds of any of the Series may be postponed pursuant to clause (2) of Section 20.07 of the Original Indenture, there shall be required, in addition to all other prerequisites to such
postponement provided in the Original Indenture, the consent of the owners of not less than seventy-five percent (75%) in principal amount of bonds of the 2034 Series at the time outstanding, 

  

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such consent to be given at the same time as and in the same manner as the consent of the owners of other bonds required by said clause (2) of Section 20.07
of the Original Indenture. 
  
 ARTICLE V 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
  
 SECTION 5.1. In any case where the date of maturity of interest on or principal of bonds of the 2034 Series or the date fixed for redemption of any such
bonds shall be in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions are authorized by law to close, then payment of interest or principal need not
be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding date not in The City of New York, or in the City of St. Louis, a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions are authorized by law to close, with the same force and effect as if
made on the date of maturity or the date fixed for redemption, and no interest shall accrue for the period after such date. 
  
 SECTION 5.2. If and to the extent that any provision hereof, or any other provision of the Mortgage, limits, qualifies, or conflicts with another
provision included in the Mortgage which is required to be included in the Mortgage by any of Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended by the Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990, through operation of Section
318(c) thereof, such required provisions shall control. 
  
 SECTION 5.3. The Trustee hereby accepts the trust hereby declared and provided and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions in the Original Indenture and in this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture set forth. 
  
 SECTION 5.4. This Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture is executed and shall
be construed as an indenture supplemental to the Original Indenture and shall form a part thereof. 
  
 SECTION 5.5. This Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture may be simultaneously executed in any number of counterparts, each of which, when so executed,
shall be deemed to be an original; such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
  
 SECTION 5.6. Although this Twenty-Eighth Supplemental Indenture is dated, for convenience and for purposes of reference, as of April 15, 2004, the actual
dates of execution by the Company and by the Trustee are as indicated by their respective acknowledgements hereto annexed. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Laclede Gas Company, party of the first part, has caused its corporate name to be
hereunto affixed and this instrument to be signed and sealed by its President, a Vice President, or Chief Financial Officer and its corporate seal to be attested by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, for and in its behalf; and UMB Bank &
Trust, n.a., Trustee, party of the second part, in token of its acceptance of the trust hereby created, has caused its name to be hereunto affixed and this instrument to be signed and sealed by a Vice President, and its seal to be attested by its
Assistant Secretary. 
  

									
	 	 	 	 	 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY

					
	 	 	 	 	 	 	By	 	/S/    D. H. YAEGER
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 President

			
	 ATTEST:
	 	 	 	 
				
	/S/    M. C. KULLMAN	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 Secretary
 (SEAL)
	 	 	 	 	 	 
			
	 	 	 	 	 UMB BANK & TRUST, N.A.
Trustee

					
	 	 	 	 	 	 	By	 	/S/    ROBERT CLASQUIN
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 Vice President

			
	 ATTEST:
	 	 	 	 
				
	/S/    KARIE A. MYERS	 	 	 	 	 	 
	
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 Assistant Secretary
 (SEAL)
	 	 	 	 	 	 

  

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	 State of Missouri
	  	)
	 	  	) ss.
	 City of St. Louis
	  	)

  
 On this 26th
day of April, 2004 before me appeared D. H. Yaeger, to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn did say that he is the President of Laclede Gas Company, the corporation described in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and that the
seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its board of directors, and said D. H. Yaeger acknowledged said
instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation. 
  
 IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal in my office in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, the day and year last above written. 
  

My commission expires February 18, 2008. 
  

	
	
	/S/    KAREN A. ZURLIENE
	

	 Notary Public
 State of Missouri

  
 (SEAL) 
  

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	 State of Missouri
	  	 )

	 	  	 ) ss.

	 City of St. Louis
	  	 )

  
 On this 26th
day of April, 2004 before me appeared Robert A. Clasquin to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn did say that (s)he is a Vice President of UMB Bank & Trust, n.a., the national banking association described in and which
executed the foregoing instrument, and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the seal of said association and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said association by authority of its board of directors, and said
Robert A. Clasquin acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said association. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal in my office in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, the day and year last above
written. 
  
 My commission expires February 18, 2008.

  

	
	
	/S/    KAREN A. ZURLIENE
	

	 Notary Public
 State of Missouri

  
 (SEAL) 
  

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