Document:

Form of Deposit Agreement.

 Exhibit 4.1 
  

 PUBLIC STORAGE, INC. 
 COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, N. A., AS DEPOSITARY 
 AND 
 THE HOLDERS FROM TIME TO TIME OF 
 THE DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS DESCRIBED HEREIN 
 RELATING TO SERIES K PREFERRED STOCK 
  

 DEPOSIT AGREEMENT

  

 Dated as of
August 8, 2006 
  

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
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	 	  	ARTICLE I	  	 
			
		  	Definitions	  	
			
		  	ARTICLE II	  	
			
		  	Form of Receipts, Deposit of Stock,
Execution and Delivery, Transfer,
Surrender and Redemption of Receipts	  	
			
	 SECTION 2.1
	  	Form And Transfer Of Receipts	  	2
	 SECTION 2.2
	  	Deposit of Stock; Execution and Delivery of Receipts in Respect Thereof	  	3
	 SECTION 2.3
	  	Registration of Transfer of Receipts	  	4
	 SECTION 2.4
	  	Split-ups and Combinations of Receipts; Surrender of Receipts and Withdrawal of Stock	  	4
	 SECTION 2.5
	  	Limitations on Execution and Delivery, Transfer, Surrender and Exchange of Receipts	  	5
	 SECTION 2.6
	  	Lost Receipts, etc	  	5
	 SECTION 2.7
	  	Cancellation and Destruction of Surrendered Receipts	  	5
	 SECTION 2.8
	  	Redemption of Stock	  	6
			
		  	ARTICLE III	  	
			
		  	Certain Obligations of	  	
		  	Holders of Receipts and the Company	  	
			
	 SECTION 3.1
	  	Filing Proofs, Certificates and Other Information	  	7
	 SECTION 3.2
	  	Payment of Taxes or Other Governmental Charges	  	7
	 SECTION 3.3
	  	Warranty as to Stock	  	7
			
		  	ARTICLE IV	  	
			
		  	The Deposited Securities; Notices	  	
			
	 SECTION 4.1
	  	Cash Distributions	  	8
	 SECTION 4.2
	  	Distributions Other than Cash, Rights, Preferences or Privileges	  	8
	 SECTION 4.3
	  	Subscription Rights, Preferences or Privileges	  	8
	 SECTION 4.4
	  	Notice of Dividends, etc.; Fixing Record Date for Holders of Receipts	  	9
	 SECTION 4.5
	  	Voting Rights	  	10
	 SECTION 4.6
	  	Changes Affecting Deposited Securities and Reclassifications, Recapitalizations, etc	  	10
	 SECTION 4.7
	  	Delivery of Reports	  	10
	 SECTION 4.8
	  	List of Receipt Holders	  	11

  

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	 	  	 ARTICLE V
	  	 
			
	 	  	 The Depositary, the Depositary's Agents, the Registrar and the Company
	  	 
			
	 SECTION 5.1
	  	Maintenance of Offices, Agencies and Transfer Books by the Depositary; Registrar	  	11
	 SECTION 5.2
	  	 Prevention of or Delay in Performance by the Depositary, the Depositary's Agents, the Registrar or the Company
	  	12
	 SECTION 5.3
	  	Obligation of the Depositary, the Depositary's Agents, the Registrar and the Company	  	12
	 SECTION 5.4
	  	Resignation and Removal of the Depositary; Appointment of Successor Depositary	  	13
	 SECTION 5.5
	  	Corporate Notices and Reports	  	14
	 SECTION 5.6
	  	Indemnification by the Company	  	14
	 SECTION 5.7
	  	Charges and Expenses	  	15
	 SECTION 5.8
	  	Tax Compliance	  	15
			
		  	ARTICLE VI	  	
			
		  	Amendment and Termination	  	
	 SECTION 6.1
	  	Amendment	  	15
	 SECTION 6.2
	  	Termination	  	16
			
		  	ARTICLE VII	  	
			
		  	Miscellaneous	  	
	 SECTION 7.1
	  	Counterparts	  	16
	 SECTION 7.2
	  	Exclusive Benefit of Parties	  	16
	 SECTION 7.3
	  	Invalidity of Provisions	  	16
	 SECTION 7.4
	  	Notices	  	17
	 SECTION 7.5
	  	Appointment of Registrar	  	17
	 SECTION 7.6
	  	Holders of Receipts Are Parties	  	17
	 SECTION 7.7
	  	Governing Law	  	18
	 SECTION 7.8
	  	Inspection of Deposit Agreement	  	18
	 SECTION 7.9
	  	Headings	  	18
			
		  	Form of Depositary Shares	  	
		
	 Form of Face of Receipt
	  	A-1
	 Form of Reverse of Receipt
	  	A-3

  

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 DEPOSIT AGREEMENT, dated as of August 8, 2006, among PUBLIC STORAGE, INC., a California corporation
(the “Company”), Computershare Shareholder Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Computershare Trust Company, N. A., a national banking association (collectively, the “Depositary” or individually
“CSS” and the “Trust Company” respectively), and the holders from time to time of the Receipts described herein. 
 WHEREAS, it is desired to provide, as hereinafter set forth in this Deposit Agreement, for the additional deposit of shares of Series K Preferred Stock of the Company with the Depositary for the purposes set forth in this Deposit Agreement
and for the issuance hereunder of Receipts evidencing Depositary Shares in respect of the Stock so deposited; and 
 WHEREAS, the Receipts
are to be substantially in the form of Exhibit A annexed hereto, with appropriate insertions, modifications and omissions, as hereinafter provided in this Deposit Agreement; 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises contained herein, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby
agree as follows: 
 ARTICLE I 
 Definitions 
 The following definitions shall, for all purposes, unless otherwise indicated, apply to the respective terms
used in this Deposit Agreement: 
 “Certificate” shall mean the Certificate of Determination filed with the Secretary of State of
the State of California establishing the Stock as a series of preferred stock of the Company. 
 “Deposit Agreement” shall mean
this Deposit Agreement, as amended or supplemented from time to time. 
 “Depositary” shall mean the Depositary as defined above
and any successor as Depositary hereunder. 
 “Depositary Shares” shall mean Depositary Shares, each representing 1/1,000 of a
share of Stock and evidenced by a Receipt. 
 “Depositary’s Agent” shall mean an agent appointed by the Depositary pursuant to
Section 5.1 and shall include the Registrar if such Registrar is not the Depositary. 
 “Depositary’s Office” shall mean
the principal office of the Depositary at which at any particular time its depositary receipt business shall be administered. 
 “Receipt” shall mean one of the Depositary Receipts, substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit A hereto, issued hereunder, whether in definitive or temporary form and evidencing the number of Depositary Shares held of record
by the record holder of such Depositary Shares. 

 “record holder” or “holder” as applied to a Receipt shall mean the person in whose
name a Receipt is registered on the books of the Depositary maintained for such purpose. 
 “Registrar” shall mean the Depositary
or such other bank or trust company which shall be appointed to register ownership and transfers of Receipts as herein provided. 
 “Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. 
 “Stock” shall mean shares of the
Company’s 7.25% Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series K, $.01 par value per share. 
 ARTICLE II 
 Form of Receipts, Deposit of Stock, 
 Execution and Delivery, Transfer, 
 Surrender and Redemption of Receipts 
 SECTION 2.1 Form And Transfer Of Receipts. Definitive Receipts shall be engraved or printed or lithographed on steel-engraved borders, with
appropriate insertions, modifications and omissions, as hereinafter provided, if and to the extent required by any securities exchange on which the Receipts are listed. Pending the preparation of definitive Receipts or if definitive Receipts are not
required by any securities exchange on which the Receipts are listed, the Depositary, upon the written order of the Company or any holder of Stock, as the case may be, delivered in compliance with Section 2.2, shall execute and deliver
temporary Receipts which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise substantially of the tenor of the definitive Receipts in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as the persons executing such Receipts may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Receipts. If temporary Receipts are issued, the Company and the Depositary will cause definitive Receipts to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Receipts, the temporary Receipts shall be exchangeable for definitive Receipts upon surrender of the temporary Receipts at the Depositary’s Office or at such other place or places as the
Depositary shall determine, without charge to the holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Receipts, the Depositary shall execute and deliver in exchange therefor definitive Receipts representing the same number of
Depositary Shares as represented by the surrendered temporary Receipt or Receipts. Such exchange shall be made at the Company’s expense and without any charge to the holder therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Receipts shall in all
respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement, and with respect to the Stock, as definitive Receipts. 
 Receipts shall be
executed by the Depositary by the manual and/or facsimile signature of a duly authorized officer of the Depositary. No Receipt shall be entitled to any benefits under this Deposit Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless it shall
have been executed in accordance with the foregoing sentence. The Depositary shall record on its books each Receipt so signed and delivered as hereinafter provided. 
  

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 Receipts shall be in denominations of any number of whole Depositary Shares. The Company shall deliver to
the Depositary from time to time such quantities of Receipts as the Depositary may request to enable the Depositary to perform its obligations under this Deposit Agreement. 
 Receipts may be endorsed with or have incorporated in the text thereof such legends or recitals or changes not inconsistent with the provisions of this
Deposit Agreement as may be required by the Depositary or required to comply with any applicable law or any regulation thereunder or with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange upon which the Stock, the Depositary Shares or the
Receipts may be listed or to conform with any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Receipts are subject. 
 Title to Depositary Shares evidenced by a Receipt, which is properly endorsed or accompanied by a properly executed instrument of transfer, shall be
transferable by delivery with the same effect as in the case of a negotiable instrument; provided, however, that until transfer of a Receipt shall be registered on the books of the Depositary as provided in Section 2.3, the Depositary may,
notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, treat the record holder thereof at such time as the absolute owner thereof for the purpose of determining the person entitled to distributions of dividends or other distributions or to any notice provided
for in this Deposit Agreement and for all other purposes. 
 SECTION 2.2 Deposit of Stock; Execution and Delivery of Receipts in Respect
Thereof. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Deposit Agreement, the Company or, subject to Section 2.4, any holder of Stock may from time to time deposit shares of Stock under this Deposit Agreement by delivery to the Depositary of
a certificate or certificates for the Stock to be deposited, properly endorsed or accompanied, if required by the Depositary, by a duly executed instrument of transfer or endorsement, in form satisfactory to the Depositary, together with all such
certifications as may be required by the Depositary in accordance with the provisions of this Deposit Agreement, and together with a written order of the Company or such holder, as the case may be, directing the Depositary to execute and deliver to,
or upon the written order of, the person or persons stated in such order a Receipt or Receipts for the number of Depositary Shares representing such deposited Stock. 
 Deposited Stock shall be held by the Depositary at the Depositary’s Office or at such other place or places as the Depositary shall determine. 
 Upon receipt by the Depositary of a certificate or certificates for Stock deposited in accordance with the provisions of this Section, together with the
other documents required as above specified, and upon recordation of the Stock on the books of the Company in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, the Depositary, subject to the terms and conditions of this Deposit Agreement, shall execute and
deliver, to or upon the order of the person or persons named in the written order delivered to the Depositary referred to in the first paragraph of this Section, a Receipt or Receipts for the whole number of Depositary Shares representing, in the
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 the Stock so deposited and registered in such name or names as may be requested by such person or persons. The Depositary
shall execute and deliver such Receipt or Receipts at the Depositary’s Office or such other offices, if any, as the Depositary may designate. Delivery at other offices shall be at the risk and expense of the person requesting such delivery.

 SECTION 2.3 Registration of Transfer of Receipts. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Deposit Agreement, the Depositary
shall register on its books from time to time transfers of Receipts upon any surrender thereof by the holder in person or by a duly authorized attorney, properly endorsed or accompanied by a properly executed instrument of transfer. Thereupon, the
Depositary shall execute a new Receipt or Receipts evidencing the same aggregate number of Depositary Shares as those evidenced by the Receipt or Receipts surrendered and deliver such new Receipt or Receipts to or upon the order of the person
entitled thereto. 
 SECTION 2.4 Split-ups and Combinations of Receipts; Surrender of Receipts and Withdrawal of Stock. Upon surrender
of a Receipt or Receipts at the Depositary’s Office or at such other offices as it may designate for the purpose of effecting a split-up or combination of such Receipt or Receipts, and subject to the terms and conditions of this Deposit
Agreement, the Depositary shall execute and deliver a new Receipt or Receipts in the authorized denomination or denominations requested, evidencing the aggregate number of Depositary Shares evidenced by the Receipt or Receipts surrendered; provided,
however, that the Depositary shall not issue any Receipt evidencing a fractional Depositary Share. 
 Any holder of a Receipt or Receipts
representing any number of whole shares of Stock may (unless the related Depositary Shares have previously been called for redemption) withdraw the Stock and all money and other property, if any, represented thereby by surrendering such Receipt or
Receipts at the Depositary’s Office or at such other offices as the Depositary may designate for such withdrawals and paying any unpaid amount due the Depositary. Thereafter, without unreasonable delay, the Depositary shall deliver to such
holder or to the person or persons designated by such holder as hereinafter provided, the number of whole shares of Stock and all money and other property, if any, represented by the Receipt or Receipts so surrendered for withdrawal, but holders of
such whole shares of Stock will not thereafter be entitled to deposit such Stock hereunder or to receive Depositary Shares therefor. If a Receipt delivered by the holder to the Depositary in connection with such withdrawal shall evidence a number of
Depositary Shares in excess of the number of Depositary Shares representing the number of whole shares of Stock to be so withdrawn, the Depositary shall at the same time, in addition to such number of whole shares of Stock and such money and other
property, if any, to be so withdrawn, deliver to such holder, or upon his order, a new Receipt evidencing such excess number of Depositary Shares, provided, however, that the Depositary shall not issue any Receipt evidencing a
fractional Depositary Share. Delivery of the Stock and money and other property being withdrawn may be made by the delivery of such certificates, documents of title and other instruments as the Depositary may deem appropriate which, if required by
the Depositary, shall be properly endorsed or accompanied by proper instruments of transfer. 
 If the Stock and the money and other property
being withdrawn are to be delivered to a person or persons other than the record holder of the Receipt or Receipts being 
  

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 surrendered for withdrawal of Stock, such holders shall execute and deliver to the Depositary a written order so
directing the Depositary and the Depositary may require that the Receipt or Receipts surrendered by such holder for withdrawal of such shares of Stock be properly endorsed in blank or accompanied by a properly executed instrument of transfer in
blank. 
 Delivery of the Stock and the money and other property, if any, represented by Receipts surrendered for withdrawal shall be made by
the Depositary at the Depositary’s Office, except that, at the request, risk and expense of the holder surrendering such Receipt or Receipts and for the account of the holder thereof, such delivery may be made at such other place as may be
designated by such holder. 
 SECTION 2.5 Limitations on Execution and Delivery, Transfer, Surrender and Exchange of Receipts. As a
condition precedent to the execution and delivery, registration of transfer, split-up, combination, surrender or exchange of any Receipt, the Depositary, any of the Depositary’s Agents or the Company may require payment to it of a sum
sufficient for the payment (or, in the event that the Depositary or the Company shall have made such payment, the reimbursement to it) of any charges or expenses payable by the holder of a Receipt pursuant to Sections 3.2 and 5.7, may require the
production of evidence satisfactory to it as to the identity and genuineness of any signature, and may also require compliance with such regulations, if any, as the Depositary or the Company may establish consistent with the provisions of this
Deposit Agreement. 
 The deposit of Stock may be refused, the delivery of Receipts against Stock may be suspended, the registration of
transfer of Receipts may be refused and the registration of transfer, surrender or exchange of outstanding Receipts may be suspended (i) during any period when the register of stockholders of the Company is closed, or (ii) if any such
action is deemed necessary or advisable by the Depositary, any of the Depositary’s Agents or the Company at any time or from time to time because of any requirement of law or of any government or governmental body or commission or under any
provision of this Deposit Agreement. 
 SECTION 2.6 Lost Receipts, etc. In case any receipt shall be mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen, the Depositary in its reasonable discretion may execute and deliver a Receipt of like form and tenor in exchange and substitution for such mutilated Receipt, or in lieu of and in substitution for such destroyed, lost or stolen Receipt, upon
(i) the filing by the holder thereof with the Depositary of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Depositary of such destruction or loss or theft of such Receipt, of the authenticity thereof and of his or her ownership thereof, (ii) the
furnishing of the Depositary with indemnification reasonably satisfactory to it and the Company and (iii) the payment of any reasonable expense (including reasonable fees, charges and expenses of the Depositary) in connection with such
execution and delivery. 
 SECTION 2.7 Cancellation and Destruction of Surrendered Receipts. All Receipts surrendered to the
Depositary or any Depositary’s Agent shall be cancelled by the Depositary. Except as prohibited by applicable law or regulation, the Company is authorized to destroy all Receipts so cancelled. 
  

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 SECTION 2.8 Redemption of Stock. Whenever the Company shall be permitted and shall elect to redeem
shares of Stock in accordance with the provisions of the Certificate, it shall (unless otherwise agreed to in writing with the Depositary) give or cause to be given to the Depositary not less than 60 days’ notice of the date of such proposed
redemption or exchange of Stock and of the number of such shares held by the Depositary to be so redeemed and the applicable redemption price, as set forth in the Certificate, which notice shall be accompanied by a certificate from the Company
stating that such redemption of Stock is in accordance with the provisions of the Certificate. Notice of redemption of Stock will also be given by the Company by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Los Angeles and the
City of New York, such publication to be made once a week for two successive weeks commencing not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption date, and the Depositary will publish a notice of redemption of the Depositary Shares
containing the same type of information and in the same manner as the Company’s notice of redemption. On the date of such redemption, provided that the Company shall then have paid or caused to be paid in full to the Depositary the redemption
price of the Stock to be redeemed, plus an amount equal to any accrued and unpaid dividends thereon to the date fixed for redemption, in accordance with the provisions of the Certificate, the Depositary shall redeem the number of Depositary Shares
representing such Stock. The Depositary shall mail notice of the Company’s redemption of Stock and the proposed simultaneous redemption of the number of Depositary Shares representing the Stock to be redeemed by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, not less than 30 and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption of such Stock and Depositary Shares (the “Redemption Date”) to the record holders of the Receipts evidencing the Depositary Shares to be so
redeemed, at the address of such holders as they appear on the records of the Depositary; but neither failure to mail any such notice of redemption of Depositary Shares to one or more such holders nor any defect in any notice of redemption of
Depositary Shares to one or more such holders shall affect the sufficiency of the proceedings for redemption as to the other holders. The Company will provide the Depositary with the information necessary for the Depositary to prepare such notice
and each such notice shall state: (i) the Redemption Date; (ii) the number of Depositary Shares to be redeemed and, if less than all the Depositary Shares held by any such holder are to be redeemed, the number of such Depositary Shares
held by such holder to be so redeemed; (iii) the redemption price per Depositary Share; (iv) the place or places where Receipts evidencing Depositary Shares are to be surrendered for payment of the redemption price; and (v) that
dividends in respect of the Stock represented by the Depositary Shares to be redeemed will cease to accrue on such Redemption Date. In case less than all the outstanding Depositary Shares are to be redeemed, the Depositary Shares to be so redeemed
shall be determined pro rata or by lot in a manner determined by the Board of Directors. 
 Notice having been mailed by the Depositary as
aforesaid, from and after the Redemption Date (unless the Company shall have failed to provide the funds necessary to redeem the Stock evidenced by the Depositary Shares called for redemption) (i) dividends on the shares of Stock so called for
redemption shall cease to accrue from and after such date, (ii) the Depositary Shares being redeemed from such proceeds shall be deemed no longer to be outstanding, (iii) all rights of the holders of Receipts evidencing such Depositary
Shares (except the right to receive the redemption price) shall, to the extent of such Depositary Shares, cease and terminate, and (iv) upon surrender in accordance with such redemption notice of the Receipts evidencing any such Depositary
Shares called for redemption (properly endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Depositary or applicable law shall so require), such Depositary 
  

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 Shares shall be redeemed by CSS at a redemption price per Depositary Share equal to the same fraction of the redemption
price per share paid with respect to the shares of Stock as the fraction each Depositary Share represents of a share of Stock plus the same fraction of all money and other property, if any, represented by such Depositary Shares, including all
amounts paid by the Company in respect of dividends which on the Redemption Date have accumulated on the shares of Stock to be so redeemed and have not theretofore been paid. Any funds deposited by the Company with CSS for any Depositary Shares that
the holders thereof fail to redeem will be returned to the Company after a period of five years from the date such funds are so deposited. 
 If fewer than all of the Depositary Shares evidenced by a Receipt are called for redemption, the Depositary will deliver to the holder of such Receipt upon its surrender to the Depositary, together with the redemption payment, a new Receipt
evidencing the Depositary Shares evidenced by such prior Receipt and not called for redemption, provided, however, that the Depositary shall not issue any Receipt evidencing a fractional Depositary Share. 
 ARTICLE III  
 Certain Obligations
of 
 Holders of Receipts and the Company 
 SECTION 3.1 Filing Proofs, Certificates and Other Information. Any holder of a Receipt may be required from time to time to file such proof of residence, or other matters or other information, to execute
such certificates and to make such representations and warranties as the Depositary or the Company may reasonably deem necessary or proper or otherwise reasonably request. The Depositary or the Company may withhold the delivery, or delay the
registration of transfer, redemption or exchange, of any Receipt or the withdrawal or conversion of the Stock represented by the Depositary Shares evidenced by any Receipt or the distribution of any dividend or other distribution or the sale of any
rights or of the proceeds thereof until such proof or other information is filed or such certificates are executed or such representations and warranties are made. 
 SECTION 3.2 Payment of Taxes or Other Governmental Charges. Holders of Receipts shall be obligated to make payments to the Depositary of certain charges and expenses, as provided in Section 5.7.
Registration of transfer of any Receipt or any withdrawal of Stock and all money or other property, if any, represented by the Depositary Shares evidenced by such Receipt may be refused until any such payment due is made, and any dividends, interest
payments or other distributions may be withheld or any part of or all the Stock or other property represented by the Depositary Shares evidenced by such Receipt and not theretofore sold may be sold for the account of the holder thereof (after
attempting by reasonable means to notify such holder prior to such sale), and such dividends, interest payments or other distributions or the proceeds of any such sale may be applied to any payment of such charges or expenses, the holder of such
Receipt remaining liable for any deficiency. 
 SECTION 3.3 Warranty as to Stock. The Company hereby represents and warrants that the
Stock, when issued, will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. Such representation and warranty shall survive the deposit of the Stock and the issuance of Receipts. 
  

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 ARTICLE IV  
 The Deposited Securities; Notices 
 SECTION 4.1 Cash Distributions. Whenever CSS shall receive
any cash dividend or other cash distribution on Stock, CSS shall, subject to Sections 3.1 and 3.2, distribute to record holders of Receipts on the record date fixed pursuant to Section 4.4 such amounts of such dividend or distribution as are,
as nearly as practicable, in proportion to the respective numbers of Depositary Shares evidenced by the Receipts held by such holders; provided, however, that in case the Company or CSS shall be required to withhold and shall withhold from any cash
dividend or other cash distribution in respect of the Stock an amount on account of taxes or as otherwise required by law, regulation or court process, the amount made available for distribution or distributed in respect of Depositary Shares shall
be reduced accordingly. In the event that the calculation of any such cash dividend or other cash distribution to be paid to any record holder on the aggregate number of Depositary Receipts held by such holder results in an amount which is a
fraction of a cent, the amount CSS shall distribute to such record holder shall be rounded to the next highest whole cent if such fraction of a cent is equal to or greater than $.005, otherwise such fractional interest shall be disregarded; and upon
request of CSS, the Company shall pay the additional amount to CSS for distribution. 
 SECTION 4.2 Distributions Other than Cash, Rights,
Preferences or Privileges. Whenever the Depositary shall receive any distribution other than cash, rights, preferences or privileges upon Stock, the Depositary shall, subject to Sections 3.1 and 3.2, distribute to record holders of Receipts on
the record date fixed pursuant to Section 4.4 such amounts of the securities or property received by it as are, as nearly as practicable, in proportion to the respective numbers of Depositary Shares evidenced by the Receipts held by such
holders, in any manner that the Depositary may deem equitable and practicable for accomplishing such distribution. If in the opinion of the Depositary such distribution cannot be made proportionately among such record holders, or if for any other
reason (including any requirement that the Company or the Depositary withhold an amount on account of taxes) the Depositary deems such distribution not to be feasible, the Depositary may, with the approval of the Company, adopt such method as it
deems equitable and practicable for the purpose of effecting such distribution, including the sale (at public or private sale) of the securities or property thus received, or any part thereof, at such place or places and upon such terms as it may
deem equitable and appropriate. The net proceeds of any such sale shall, subject to Sections 3.1 and 3.2, be distributed or made available for distribution, as the case may be, by the Depositary to record holders of Receipts as provided by
Section 4.1 in the case of a distribution received in cash. 
 SECTION 4.3 Subscription Rights, Preferences or Privileges. If the
Company shall at any time offer or cause to be offered to the persons in whose names Stock is recorded on the books of the Company any rights, preferences or privileges to subscribe for or to purchase any securities or any rights, preferences or
privileges of any other nature, such rights, preferences or privileges shall in each such instance be made available by the Depositary to the record holders of Receipts in such manner as the Depositary may determine, either by the issue to such
record holders of warrants representing such rights, preferences or privileges or by such other method as may be approved by the Depositary in its discretion with the approval of the Company; provided, however, that (i) if at the
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 preferences or privileges the Depositary determines that it is not lawful or (after consultation with the Company) not
feasible to make such rights, preferences or privileges available to holders of Receipts by the issue of warrants or otherwise, or (ii) if and to the extent so instructed by holders of Receipts who do not desire to execute such rights,
preferences or privileges, then the Depositary, in its discretion (with approval of the Company, in any case where the Depositary has determined that it is not feasible to make such rights, preferences or privileges available), may, if applicable
laws or the terms of such rights, preferences or privileges permit such transfer, sell such rights, preferences or privileges at public or private sale, at such place or places and upon such terms as it may deem proper. The net proceeds of any such
sale shall, subject to Sections 3.1 and 3.2, be distributed by the Depositary to the record holders of Receipts entitled thereto as provided by Section 4.1 in the case of a distribution received in cash. 
 If registration under the Securities Act of the securities to which any rights, preferences or privileges relate is required in order for holders of
Receipts to be offered or sold the securities to which such rights, preferences or privileges relate, the Company will file promptly a registration statement pursuant to the Securities Act with respect to such rights, preferences or privileges and
securities and use its best efforts and take all steps available to it to cause such registration statement to become effective sufficiently in advance of the expiration of such rights, preferences or privileges to enable such holders to exercise
such rights, preferences or privileges. In no event shall the Depositary make available to the holders of Receipts any right, preference or privilege to subscribe for or to purchase any securities unless and until it has received written notice from
the Company that such registration statement shall have become effective, or that the offering and sale of such securities to such holders are exempt from registration under the provisions of the Securities Act and the Company shall have provided to
the Depositary an opinion of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Depositary to such effect. 
 If any other action under the laws of any
jurisdiction or any governmental or administrative authorization, consent or permit is required in order for such rights, preferences or privileges to be made available to holders of Receipts, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to take
such action or obtain such authorization, consent or permit sufficiently in advance of the expiration of such rights, preferences or privileges to enable such holders to exercise such rights, preferences or privileges. 
 SECTION 4.4 Notice of Dividends, etc.; Fixing Record Date for Holders of Receipts. Whenever any cash dividend or other cash distribution shall
become payable or any distribution other than cash shall be made, or if rights, preferences or privileges shall at any time be offered, with respect to Stock, or whenever the Depositary shall receive notice of any meeting at which holders of Stock
are entitled to vote or of which holders of Stock are entitled to notice, or whenever the Depositary and the Company shall decide it is appropriate, the Depositary shall in each such instance fix a record date (which shall be the same date as the
record date fixed by the Company with respect to or otherwise in accordance with the terms of the Stock) for the determination of the holders of Receipts who shall be entitled to receive such dividend, distribution, rights, preferences or privileges
or the net proceeds of the sale thereof, or to give instructions for the exercise of voting rights at any such meeting, or who shall be entitled to notice of such meeting or for any other appropriate reasons. 
  

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 SECTION 4.5 Voting Rights. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at which the holders of Stock are
entitled to vote, the Depositary shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, mail to the record holders of Receipts a notice which shall contain (i) such information as is contained in such notice of meeting and (ii) a statement that the
holders may, subject to any applicable restrictions, instruct the Depositary as to the exercise of the voting rights pertaining to the amount of Stock represented by their respective Depositary Shares (including an express indication that
instructions may be given to the Depositary to give a discretionary proxy to a person designated by the Company) and a brief statement as to the manner in which such instructions may be given. Upon the written request of the holders of Receipts on
the relevant record date, the Depositary shall use its best efforts to vote or cause to be voted, in accordance with the instructions set forth in such requests, the maximum number of whole shares of Stock represented by the Depositary Shares
evidenced by all Receipts as to which any particular voting instructions are received. The Company hereby agrees to take all action which may be deemed necessary by the Depositary in order to enable the Depositary to vote such Stock or cause such
Stock to be voted. In the absence of specific instructions from the holder of a Receipt, the Depositary will not vote (but, at its discretion, may appear at any meeting with respect to such Stock unless directed to the contrary by the holders of all
the Receipts) to the extent of the Stock represented by the Depositary Shares evidenced by such Receipt. 
 SECTION 4.6 Changes Affecting
Deposited Securities and Reclassifications, Recapitalizations, etc. Upon any change in par value or liquidation preference, split-up, combination or any other reclassification of the Stock, or upon any recapitalization, reorganization, merger or
consolidation affecting the Company or to which it is a party, the Depositary may in its discretion with the approval (not to be unreasonably withheld) of, and shall upon the instructions of, the Company, and (in either case) in such manner as the
Depositary may deem equitable, (i) make such adjustments in the fraction of an interest in one share of Stock represented by one Depositary Share as may be necessary (as certified by the Company) fully to reflect the effects of such change in
par value or liquidation preference, split-up, combination or other reclassification of Stock, or of such recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation and (ii) treat any securities which shall be received by the Depositary in
exchange for or upon conversion of or in respect of the Stock as new deposited securities so received in exchange for or upon conversion or in respect of such Stock. In any such case, the Depositary may in its discretion, with the approval of the
Company, execute and deliver additional Receipts or may call for the surrender of all outstanding Receipts to be exchanged for new Receipts specifically describing such new deposited securities. Anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding,
holders of Receipts shall have the right from and after the effective date of any such change in par value or liquidation preference, split-up, combination or other reclassification of the Stock or any such recapitalization, reorganization, merger
or consolidation to surrender such Receipts to the Depositary with instructions to convert, exchange or surrender the Stock represented thereby only into or for, as the case may be, the kind and amount of shares of stock and other securities and
property and cash into which the Stock represented by such Receipts would have been converted or for which such Stock would have been exchanged or surrendered had such Receipt been surrendered immediately prior to the effective date of such
transaction. 
 SECTION 4.7 Delivery of Reports. The Depositary shall furnish to holders of Receipts any reports and communications
received from the Company which are received by the Depositary as the holder of Stock. 
  

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 SECTION 4.8 List of Receipt Holders. Promptly upon request from time to time by the Company, the
Depositary shall furnish to it a list, as of the most recent practicable date, of the names, addresses and holdings of Depositary Shares of all record holders of Receipts. The Company shall be entitled to receive such list four times annually
without charge. 
 ARTICLE V  
 The Depositary, the Depositary’s 
 Agents, the Registrar and the Company 
 SECTION 5.1 Maintenance of Offices, Agencies and Transfer Books by the Depositary; Registrar. Upon execution of this Deposit Agreement, the
Depositary shall maintain at the Depositary’s office facilities for the execution and delivery, registration and registration of transfer, surrender and exchange of Receipts, and at the offices of the Depositary’s Agents, if any,
facilities for the delivery, registration of transfer, surrender and exchange of Receipts, all in accordance with the provisions of this Deposit Agreement. 
 The Depositary shall keep books at the Depositary’s Office for the registration and registration of transfer of Receipts, which books during normal business hours shall be open for inspection by the record
holders of Receipts; provided that any such holder requesting to exercise such right shall certify to the Depositary that such inspection shall be for a proper purpose reasonably related to such person’s interest as an owner of Depositary
Shares evidenced by the Receipts. 
 The Depositary may close such books, at any time or from time to time, when deemed expedient by it in
connection with the performance of its duties hereunder. 
 The Depositary may, with the approval of the Company, appoint a Registrar for
registration of the Receipts or the Depositary Shares evidenced thereby. If the Receipts or the Depositary Shares evidenced thereby or the Stock represented by such Depositary Shares shall be listed on one or more national securities exchanges, the
Depositary will appoint a Registrar (acceptable to the Company) for registration of such Receipts or Depositary Shares in accordance with any requirements of such exchange. Such Registrar (which may be the Depositary if so permitted by the
requirements of any such exchange) may be removed and a substitute registrar appointed by the Depositary upon the request or with the approval of the Company. If the Receipts, such Depositary Shares or such Stock are listed on one or more other
stock exchanges, the Depositary will, at the request and at the expense of the Company, arrange such facilities for the delivery, registration, registration of transfer, surrender and exchange of such Receipts, such Depositary Shares or such Stock
as may be required by law or applicable securities exchange regulation. 
 The Depositary may from time to time appoint Depositary’s
Agents to act in any respect for the Depositary for the purposes of this Deposit Agreement and may at any time appoint additional Depositary’s Agents and vary or terminate the appointment of such Depositary’s Agents. The Depositary will
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 SECTION 5.2 Prevention of or Delay in Performance by the Depositary, the Depositary’s Agents, the
Registrar or the Company. Neither the Depositary nor any Depositary’s Agent nor the Registrar nor the Company shall incur any liability to any holder of any Receipt if by reason of any provision of any present or future law, or regulation
thereunder, of the United States of America or of any other governmental authority or, in the case of the Depositary, the Depositary’s Agent or the Registrar, by reason of any provision, present or future, of the Company’s Articles of
Incorporation or by reason of any act of God or war or other circumstance beyond the control of the relevant party, the Depositary, the Depositary’s Agent, the Registrar or the Company shall be prevented, delayed or forbidden from, or subjected
to any penalty on account of, doing or performing any act or thing which the terms of this Deposit Agreement provide shall be done or performed; nor shall the Depositary, any Depositary’s Agent, the Registrar or the Company incur liability to
any holder of a Receipt (i) by reason of any nonperformance or delay, caused as aforesaid, in the performance of any act or thing which the terms of this Deposit Agreement shall provide shall or may be done or performed, or (ii) by reason
of any exercise of, or failure to exercise, any discretion provided for in this Deposit Agreement except, in the case of any such exercise or failure to exercise discretion not caused as aforesaid, if caused by the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of the party charged with such exercise or failure to exercise. 
 SECTION 5.3 Obligation of the Depositary, the
Depositary’s Agents, the Registrar and the Company. Neither the Depositary nor any Depositary’s Agent nor the Registrar nor the Company assumes any obligation or shall be subject to any liability under this Deposit Agreement or any
Receipt to holders of Receipts other than for its gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith. 
 Neither the Depositary nor any
Depositary’s Agent nor the Registrar nor the Company shall be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any action, suit or other proceeding in respect of the Stock, the Depositary Shares or the Receipts which in its reasonable
opinion may involve it in expense or liability unless indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against expense and liability be furnished as often as may be reasonably required. 
 Neither the Depositary nor any Depositary’s Agent nor the Registrar nor the Company shall be liable for any action or any failure to act by it in
reliance upon the written advice of legal counsel or accountants, or information from any person presenting Stock for deposit, any holder of a Receipt or any other person believed by it in good faith to be competent to give such information. The
Depositary, any Depositary’s Agent, the Registrar and the Company may each rely and shall each be protected in acting upon any written notice, request, direction or other document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed
or presented by the proper party or parties. 
 The Depositary shall not be responsible for any failure to carry out any instruction to vote
any of the shares of Stock or for the manner or effect of any such vote made, as long as any such action or non-action is in good faith. The Depositary will indemnify the Company and hold it harmless from any loss, liability or expense (including
the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself) which may arise out of acts performed or omitted by the Depositary, including when such Depositary acts as Registrar, or the Depositary’s Agents in connection with this Agreement due to its
or their gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith. The indemnification obligations of the Depositary set forth in this Section 5.3 shall survive any termination of this Agreement and any succession of any Depositary. 
  

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 The Depositary, its parent, affiliates or subsidiaries, the Depositary’s Agents, and the Registrar
may own, buy, sell and deal in any class of securities of the Company and its affiliates and in Receipts or Depositary Shares or become pecuniarily interested in any transaction in which the Company or its affiliates may be interested or contract
with or lend money to or otherwise act as fully or as freely as if it were not the Depositary, parent, affiliate or subsidiary or Depositary’s Agent or Registrar hereunder. The Depositary may also act as trustee, transfer agent or registrar of
any of the securities of the Company and its affiliates. 
 It is intended that neither the Depositary nor any Depositary’s Agent nor
the Registrar, acting as the Depositary’s Agent or Registrar, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be an “issuer” of the securities under the federal securities laws or applicable state securities laws, it being expressly understood
and agreed that the Depositary, any Depositary’s Agent and the Registrar are acting only in a ministerial capacity as Depositary or Registrar for the Stock. 
 Neither the Depositary (or its officers, directors, employees or agents) nor any Depositary’s Agent nor the Registrar makes any representation or has any responsibility as to the validity of the registration
statement pursuant to which the Depositary Shares are registered under the Securities Act, the Stock, the Depositary Shares or the Receipts (except for its counter-signatures thereon) or any instruments referred to therein or herein, or as to the
correctness of any statement made therein or herein. 
 The Depositary assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the description that
appears in the Receipts, which can be taken as a statement of the Company summarizing certain provisions of this Deposit Agreement. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or in the Receipts, the Depositary makes no warranties or representations
as to the validity or genuineness of any Stock at any time deposited with the Depositary hereunder or of the Depositary Shares, as to the validity or sufficiency of this Deposit Agreement, as to the value of the Depositary Shares or as to any right,
title or interest of the record holders of Receipts in and to the Depositary Shares. The Depositary shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Depositary Shares or the Receipts or the proceeds thereof. 
 SECTION 5.4 Resignation and Removal of the Depositary; Appointment of Successor Depositary. The Depositary may at any time resign as Depositary
hereunder by delivering notice of its election to do so to the Company, such resignation to take effect upon the appointment of a successor Depositary and its acceptance of such appointment as hereinafter provided. 
 The Depositary may at any time be removed by the Company by notice of such removal delivered to the Depositary, such removal to take effect upon the
appointment of a successor Depositary and its acceptance of such appointment as hereinafter provided. 
 In case at any time the Depositary
acting hereunder shall resign or be removed, the Company shall, within 60 days after the delivery of the notice of resignation or removal, as the case may be, appoint a successor Depositary, which shall be a bank or trust company having 

 

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 its principal office in the United States of America and having a combined capital and surplus of at least $150,000,000.
If no successor Depositary shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 60 days after delivery of such notice, the resigning or removed Depositary may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Depositary. Every successor Depositary shall execute and deliver to its predecessor and to the Company an instrument in writing accepting its appointment hereunder, and thereupon such successor Depositary, without any further act or deed,
shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor and for all purposes shall be the Depositary under this Deposit Agreement, and such predecessor, upon payment of all sums due it and on the written
request of the Company, shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor all rights and powers of such predecessor hereunder, shall duly assign, transfer and deliver all right, title and interest in the Stock and any moneys or
property held hereunder to such successor, and shall deliver to such successor a list of the record holders of all outstanding Receipts and such records, books and other information in its possession relating thereto. Any successor Depositary shall
promptly mail notice of its appointment to the record holders of Receipts. 
 Any corporation into or with which the Depositary may be
merged, consolidated or converted shall be the successor of such Depositary without the execution or filing of any document or any further act, and notice thereof shall not be required hereunder. Such successor Depositary may authenticate the
Receipts in the name of the predecessor Depositary or in the name of the successor Depositary. 
 SECTION 5.5 Corporate Notices and
Reports. The Company agrees that it will deliver to the Depositary, and the Depositary will, promptly after receipt thereof, transmit to the record holders of Receipts, in each case at the addresses recorded in the Depositary’s books,
copies of all notices and reports (including without limitation financial statements) required by law or by the rules of any national securities exchange upon which the Stock, the Depositary Shares or the Receipts are listed, to be furnished to the
record holders of Receipts. Such transmission will be at the Company’s expense and the Company will provide the Depositary with such number of copies of such documents as the Depositary may reasonably request. 
 SECTION 5.6 Indemnification by the Company. The Company shall indemnify the Depositary, any Depositary’s Agent and the Registrar against, and
hold each of them harmless from, any loss, liability or expense (including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself) which may arise out of acts performed or omitted in connection with this Deposit Agreement and the Receipts by the
Depositary, any Registrar or any of their respective agents (including any Depositary’s Agent), except for any liability arising out of gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on the respective parts of any such person or persons. The
obligations of the Company set forth in this Section 5.6 shall survive any succession of any Depositary or Depositary’s Agent. Subject to the foregoing, the Depositary may, at any time, apply to any officer of the Company for instruction,
and may consult with legal counsel for the Company with respect to any matter arising in connection with the services to be performed by the Depositary under this Agreement, and Depositary and its agents and subcontractors shall not be liable and
shall be indemnified by the Company for any action taken or omitted by it in reliance upon such instructions or upon the advice or opinion of such counsel. 
  

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 SECTION 5.7 Charges and Expenses. The Company shall pay all transfer and other taxes and
governmental charges arising solely from the existence of the depositary arrangements. The Company shall pay charges of the Depositary in connection with the initial deposit of the Stock and the initial issuance of the Depositary Shares, all
withdrawals of shares of the Stock by owners of Depositary Shares, and any redemption of the Stock at the option of the Company. All other transfer and other taxes and governmental charges shall be at the expense of holders of Depositary Shares. If,
at the request of a holder of Receipts, the Depositary incurs charges or expenses for which it is not otherwise liable hereunder, such holder will be liable for such charges and expenses. All other charges and expenses of the Depositary and any
Depositary’s Agent hereunder (including, in each case, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) incident to the performance of their respective obligations hereunder will be paid upon consultation and agreement between the Depositary and the
Company as to the amount and nature of such charges and expenses. The Depositary shall present its statement for charges and expenses to the Company at such intervals as the Company and the Depositary may agree. 
 SECTION 5.8 Tax Compliance. The Depositary, on its own behalf and on behalf of the Company, will comply with all applicable certification,
information reporting and withholding (including “backup” withholding) requirements imposed by applicable tax laws, regulations or administrative practice with respect to (i) any payments made with respect to the Depositary Shares or
(ii) the issuance, delivery, holding, transfer, redemption or exercise of rights under the Depositary Receipts or the Depositary Shares. Such compliance shall include, without limitation, the preparation and timely filing of required returns
and the timely payment of all amounts required to be withheld to the appropriate taxing authority or its designated agent. 
 The Depositary
shall comply with any direction received from the Company with respect to the application of such requirements to particular payments or holders or in other particular circumstances, and may for purposes of this Agreement rely on any such direction
in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.3 hereof. 
 The Depositary shall maintain all appropriate records documenting compliance
with such requirements, and shall make such records available on request to the Company or to its authorized representatives. 
 The Company
acknowledges that the bank accounts maintained by CSS in connection with the services provided hereunder will be in CSS’s name and that, to the extent permitted by law, CSS may receive investment earnings in connection with the investment at
CSS’s risk and for its benefit of funds held in those accounts from time to time. 
 ARTICLE VI  
 Amendment and Termination 
 SECTION
6.1 Amendment. The form of the Receipts and any provisions of this Deposit Agreement may at any time and from time to time be amended by agreement between the Company and the Depositary in any respect which they may deem necessary or
desirable; provided, however, that no such amendment (other than any change in the fees of any Depositary or Registrar, which shall go into effect not sooner than three months after notice thereof to the 
  

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 holders of the Receipts) which shall materially adversely alter the rights of the holders of Receipts shall be effective
unless such amendment shall have been approved by the holders of at least a majority of the Depositary Shares then outstanding. Every holder of an outstanding Receipt at the time any such amendment becomes effective shall be deemed, by continuing to
hold such Receipt, to be bound by the Deposit Agreement as amended thereby. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event may any amendment impair the right of any holder of any Depositary Shares, upon surrender of the Receipts evidencing such
Depositary Shares and subject to any conditions specified in this Deposit Agreement, to receive shares of Stock and any money or other property represented thereby, except in order to comply with mandatory provisions of applicable law. 

SECTION 6.2 Termination. This Deposit Agreement may be terminated by the Company at any time upon not less than 60 days’ prior written
notice to the Depositary, in which case, on a date that is not later than 30 days after the date of such notice, the Depositary shall deliver or make available for delivery to holders of Depositary Shares, upon surrender of the Receipts evidencing
such Depositary Shares, such number of whole or fractional shares of Stock as are represented by such Depositary Shares. This Deposit Agreement will automatically terminate after (i) all outstanding Depositary Shares have been redeemed pursuant
to Section 2.8 or (ii) there shall have been made a final distribution in respect of the Stock in connection with any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company and such distribution shall have been distributed to the holders of
Depositary Receipts pursuant to Section 4.1 or 4.2, as applicable. 
 Upon the termination of this Deposit Agreement, the Company shall
be discharged from all obligations under this Deposit Agreement except for its obligations to the Depositary, the Registrar and any Depositary’s Agent under Sections 5.6 and 5.7. 
 ARTICLE VII  
 Miscellaneous 
 SECTION 7.1 Counterparts. This Deposit Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and by each of the parties hereto on separate
counterparts, each of which counterparts, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. 
 SECTION 7.2 Exclusive Benefit of Parties. This Deposit Agreement is for the exclusive benefit of the parties hereto, and their respective
successors hereunder, and shall not be deemed to give any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim to any other person whatsoever. 
 SECTION 7.3 Invalidity of Provisions. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Deposit Agreement or in the Receipts should be or become invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein or therein shall in no way be affected, prejudiced or disturbed thereby. 
  

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 SECTION 7.4 Notices. Any and all notices to be given to the Company hereunder or under the
Receipts shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if personally delivered or sent by mail, or by telegram or facsimile transmission confirmed by letter, addressed to the Company at: 
 Public Storage, Inc. 
 701 Western Avenue, 2nd
Floor 
 Glendale, California 91201-2397 
 Facsimile No.: (818) 244-9267 
 or at any other address of which the Company shall have notified the
Depositary in writing. 
 Any and all notices to be given to the Depositary hereunder or under the Receipts shall be in writing and shall be
deemed to have been duly given if personally delivered or sent by mail or by telegram or facsimile transmission confirmed by letter, addressed to the Depositary at the Depositary’s Office, at: 
 Computershare Trust Company, N. A. 
 250
Royall Street 
 Mail Stop: 3B 
 Canton, MA 02021 
 Attention: Client Administration 
 Facsimile No.: (617) 575-2549 
 or at any other address of which the Depositary shall
have notified the Company in writing. 
 Any and all notices to be given to any record holder of a Receipt hereunder or under the Receipts
shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if personally delivered or sent by mail, or by telegram or facsimile transmission confirmed by letter, addressed to such record holder at the address of such record holder as it appears
on the books of the Depositary, or if such holder shall have filed with the Depositary a written request that notices intended for such holder be mailed to some other address, at the address designated in such request. 
 Delivery of a notice sent by mail or by telegram or facsimile transmission shall be deemed to be effected at the time when a duly addressed letter
containing the same (or a confirmation thereof in the case of a telegram or facsimile transmission) is deposited for mailing by first class mail, postage prepaid. The Depositary or the Company may, however, act upon any telegram or facsimile
transmission received by it from the other or from any holder of a Receipt, notwithstanding that such telegram or facsimile transmission shall not subsequently be confirmed by letter or as aforesaid. 
 SECTION 7.5 Appointment of Registrar. The Company hereby also appoints the Depositary as Registrar in respect of the Receipts and the Depositary
hereby accepts such appointments. 
 SECTION 7.6 Holders of Receipts Are Parties. The holders of Receipts from time to time shall be
parties to this Deposit Agreement and shall be bound by all of the terms and conditions hereof and of the Receipts by acceptance of delivery thereof. 
  

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 SECTION 7.7 Governing Law. THIS DEPOSIT AGREEMENT AND THE RECEIPTS AND ALL RIGHTS HEREUNDER AND
THEREUNDER AND PROVISIONS HEREOF AND THEREOF SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS MADE IN AND TO BE PERFORMED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK
GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW. 
 SECTION 7.8 Inspection of Deposit Agreement. Copies of this Deposit Agreement shall be filed with the
Depositary and the Depositary’s Agent and shall be open to inspection during business hours at the Depositary’s Office or respective offices of the Depositary’s Agent, if any, by any holder of a Receipt. 
 SECTION 7.9 Headings. The headings of articles and sections in this Deposit Agreement and in the form of the Receipt set forth in Exhibit A hereto
have been inserted for convenience only and are not to be regarded as a part of this Deposit Agreement or the Receipts or to have any bearing upon the meaning or interpretation of any provision contained herein or in the Receipts. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company and the Depositary have duly executed this Agreement as of the day and
year first above set forth, and all holders of Receipts shall become parties hereto by and upon acceptance by them of delivery of Receipts issued in accordance with the terms hereof. 
  

									
		 		 		 	PUBLIC STORAGE, INC.
			
	Attested by:	 		 	
			
	  	 		 	  
					
	Name:	 	John Reyes	 		 	Name:	 	Stephanie G. Heim
	Title:	 	Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer	 		 	Title:	 	Vice President, Corporate Counsel and Secretary
				
		 		 		 	COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, N. A.
				
	Attested by:	 		 		 	
			
	  	 		 	  
					
	Name:	 	Margaret Dunn	 		 	Name:	 	Tyler Haynes
	Title:	 	Senior Account Manager	 		 	Title:	 	Managing Director

  

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 ANNEX A 
 TEMPORARY RECEIPT EXCHANGEABLE FOR DEFINITIVE 
 ENGRAVED RECEIPT WHEN READY FOR DELIVERY

 The Shares represented by this Depositary Receipt are subject to restrictions on ownership and transfer for the purpose of this Corporation’s
maintenance of its status as a Real Estate Investment Trust under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Except as set forth in this Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws, no person may Beneficially Own (i) more than
2.0% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of this Corporation, or (ii) more than 9.9% of the outstanding shares of any series of Preferred Stock or Equity Stock of this Corporation, with certain further restrictions and exceptions as are
set forth in this Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws. Any Person who attempts to own or Beneficially Own Shares in excess of the above limitations must immediately notify this Corporation. All capitalized terms in this legend
have the meanings defined in this Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws. If any of the restrictions on transfer or ownership set forth in the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws are violated, the Shares represented hereby will be
automatically transferred to the Trustee of a Trust for the benefit of a Charitable Beneficiary pursuant to the terms of the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws. In addition, attempted transfers of Shares in violation of the limitations described
above (as modified or expanded upon in this Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws), may be void ab initio. This Corporation will furnish to the holder hereof, upon request and without charge, a complete written
statement of the terms and conditions of these restrictions. Requests for such documents may be directed to the corporate secretary. 
  

	
	DEPOSITARY SHARES
	
	 THIS DEPOSITARY RECEIPT
 IS TRANSFERABLE IN
 BOSTON,
 MA OR NEW YORK, NY

	
	 CUSIP 74460D 27 3

	
	     SEE REVERSE FOR
 CERTAIN
DEFINITIONS

 DEPOSITARY RECEIPT FOR DEPOSITARY 
         SHARES EACH REPRESENTING 1/1,000th OF A 
         SHARE OF 7.25% CUMULATIVE PREFERRED STOCK, 
         SERIES
K 
                                        
 OF 
                     PUBLIC STORAGE, INC.

                     INCORPORATED UNDER THE 

            LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 
  

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 COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, N. A., as Depositary (the “Depositary”), hereby certifies that

 is the registered owner of
                                        
DEPOSITARY SHARES 
 (“Depositary Shares”), each Depositary Share representing a 1/1,000 interest in one share of 7.25% Cumulative Preferred Stock,
Series K (the “Stock”), of Public Storage, Inc., a California corporation (the “Corporation”), on deposit with the Depositary, subject to the terms and entitled to the benefits of the Deposit Agreement dated as of August 8,
2006 (the “Deposit Agreement”), between the Corporation and the Depositary. By accepting this Depositary Receipt, the holder hereof becomes a party to and agrees to be bound by all the terms and conditions of the Deposit Agreement. This
Depositary Receipt shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose or be entitled to any benefits under the Deposit Agreement unless it shall have been executed by the Depositary by the manual and/or facsimile signature of a duly authorized officer
or, if executed in facsimile by the Depositary, countersigned by a Registrar in respect of the Depositary Receipts by a duly authorized officer. 
 The
Corporation is authorized to issue Common Stock, one or more series of Preferred Stock, one or more series of Equity Stock and Depositary Shares. The Corporation will furnish without charge to each receiptholder, who so requests in writing, a
statement of the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions granted to or imposed upon the respective classes of shares and upon the holders thereof, a copy of the Corporation’s Bylaws and a copy of the Deposit Agreement. Any such request
shall be made to the Corporation at the principal office of the Corporation at 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, California 91201-2397, Attention: Secretary. 
 This Depositary Receipt is continued on the reverse hereof and the additional provisions set forth therein (including, without limitation, those relating to redemption) for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 Dated: 
  

			
	Countersigned
	
	COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
	
	Depositary, Transfer Agent and Registrar
		
	By:	 	  
		 	Authorized Officer

  

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 THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS DEPOSITARY RECEIPT ARE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE ARTICLES AND
BYLAWS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO (1) SECTION (C) OF THE CERTIFICATE OF DETERMINATION RELATING TO THE STOCK, WHICH CONFERS UPON THE BOARD THE RIGHT, ON OR AFTER AUGUST 8, 2011, TO CALL FOR REDEMPTION THE STOCK, (2) ARTICLE XI,
SECTION 7 OF THE BYLAWS, WHICH CONFERS UPON THE BOARD THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TO REGISTER THE TRANSFER OF AND/OR TO CALL FOR REDEMPTION THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE IF NECESSARY IN ITS OPINION TO MAINTAIN THE CORPORATION’S
QUALIFICATION AS A “REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST” UNDER THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED, AND (3) THE PROVISIONS OF THE ARTICLES AND BYLAWS, WHICH SET FORTH OWNERSHIP LIMITATION PROVISIONS DESIGNED TO MAINTAIN SUCH
QUALIFICATION. 
 1. The Deposit Agreement. Depositary Receipts, of which this Depositary Receipt is one, are made available upon the
terms and conditions set forth in the Deposit Agreement, dated as of August 8, 2006 (the “Deposit Agreement”), among the Company, the Depositary and all holders from time to time of Depositary Receipts. The Deposit Agreement (copies
of which are on file at the principal office maintained by the Depositary which at the time of the execution of the Deposit Agreement is located at 250 Royall Street, Mail Stop: 45-02-62, Canton, MA 02021 (the “Depositary’s Office”)
and at the office of any agent of the Depositary) sets forth the rights of holders of Depositary Receipts and the rights and duties of the Depositary. The statements made on the face and the reverse of this Depositary Receipt are summaries of
certain provisions of the Deposit Agreement and are subject to the detailed provisions thereof, to which reference is hereby made. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Depositary Receipt and the provisions of the Deposit
Agreement, the provisions of the Deposit Agreement will govern. 
 2. Definitions. Unless otherwise expressly herein provided, all
defined terms used in this summary of the Deposit Agreement shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Deposit Agreement. 
 3.
Redemption of Stock. Whenever the Company shall elect to redeem shares of Stock, it shall (unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Depositary) give the Depositary not less than 60 days’ notice of the date of such proposed redemption
and of the number of such shares of Stock held by the Depositary to be so redeemed and the applicable redemption price. The Depositary shall mail, first-class postage prepaid, notice of the redemption of Stock and the proposed simultaneous
redemption of Depositary Shares representing the Stock to be redeemed, not less than 30 and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption of such Stock and Depositary Shares, to the record holders of the Depositary Receipts evidencing
the Depositary Shares to be so redeemed, at the addresses of such holders as the same appear on the records of the Depositary. Any such notice shall also be published in the same manner as notices of redemption of the Stock are required to be
published by the Company. On the date of such redemption, the Depositary shall redeem the number of Depositary Shares representing such redeemed Stock; provided, that the Company shall then have paid or caused to be paid in full to the Depositary
the redemption price of the Stock to be redeemed, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends payable with respect thereto to the date of any such redemption. In case fewer than all the outstanding Depositary Shares are to be redeemed, the Depositary
Shares to be redeemed shall be determined pro rata or by lot in a manner determined by the Board of Directors. Notice having been mailed as aforesaid, from and after the Redemption Date (unless the Company shall have failed to provide the funds
necessary to redeem the shares of Stock evidenced by the Depositary Shares 
  

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 called for redemption), dividends on the shares of Stock so called for redemption shall cease to accrue, the Depositary
Shares called for redemption shall be deemed no longer to be outstanding and all rights of the holders of Depositary Receipts evidencing such Depositary Shares (except the right to receive the redemption price) shall, to the extent of such
Depositary Shares, cease and terminate. Upon surrender in accordance with said notice of the Depositary Receipts evidencing such Depositary Shares (properly endorsed or assigned for transfer, if the Depositary or applicable law shall so require),
such Depositary Shares shall be redeemed at a redemption price per Depositary Share equal to the same fraction of the redemption price per share paid with respect to the shares of Stock as the fraction each Depositary Share represents of a share of
Stock plus the same fraction of all money and other property, if any, represented by such Depositary Shares, including all amounts paid by the Company in respect of dividends which on the Redemption Date have accumulated on the shares of Stock to be
so redeemed and have not theretofore been paid. The foregoing is subject further to the terms and conditions of the Certificate of Determination. If fewer than all of the Depositary Shares evidenced by this Depositary Receipt are called for
redemption, the Depositary will deliver to the holder of this Depositary Receipt upon its surrender to the Depositary, together with the redemption payment, a new Depositary Receipt evidencing the Depositary Shares evidenced by such prior Depositary
Receipt and not called for redemption. 
 4. Surrender of Depositary Receipts and Withdrawal of Stock. Upon surrender of this
Depositary Receipt to the Depositary at the Depositary’s Office or at such other offices as the Depositary may designate, and subject to the provisions of the Deposit Agreement, the holder hereof is entitled to withdraw, and to obtain delivery,
without unreasonable delay, to or upon the order of such holder, any or all of the Stock (but only in whole shares of Stock) and all money and other property, if any, at the time represented by the Depositary Shares evidenced by this Depositary
Receipt; provided, however, that, in the event this Depositary Receipt shall evidence a number of Depositary Shares in excess of the number of Depositary Shares representing the whole number of shares of Stock to be withdrawn, the Depositary shall,
in addition to such whole number of shares of Stock and such money and other property, if any, to be withdrawn, deliver, to or upon the order of such holder, a new Depositary Receipt or Depositary Receipts evidencing such excess number of whole
Depositary Shares. 
 5. Transfers, Split-ups, Combinations. Subject to the Deposit Agreement, this Depositary Receipt is transferable
on the books of the Depositary upon surrender of this Depositary Receipt to the Depositary, properly endorsed or accompanied by a properly executed instrument of transfer, and upon such transfer the Depositary shall sign and deliver a Depositary
Receipt or Depositary Receipts to or upon the order of the person entitled thereto, all as provided in and subject to the Deposit Agreement. This Depositary Receipt may be split into other Depositary Receipts or combined with other Depositary
Receipts into one Depositary Receipt evidencing the same aggregate number of Depositary Shares evidenced by the Depositary Receipt or Depositary Receipts surrendered; provided, however, that the Depositary shall not issue any Depositary Receipt
evidencing a fractional Depositary Share. 
 6. Conditions to Signing and Delivery, Transfer, etc., of Depositary Receipts. Prior to
the execution and delivery, registration of transfer, split-up, combination, surrender or exchange of this Depositary Receipt, the Depositary, any of the Depositary’s Agents or the Company may 
  

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 require any or all of the following: (i) payment to it of a sum sufficient for the payment (or, in the event that
the Depositary or the Company shall have made such payment, the reimbursement to it) of any tax or other governmental charge with respect thereto; (ii) production of proof satisfactory to it as to the identity and genuineness of any signature;
and (iii) compliance with such reasonable regulations, if any, as the Depositary or the Company may establish not inconsistent with the Deposit Agreement. 
 7. Suspension of Delivery, Transfer, etc. The deposit of Stock may be refused, the delivery of this Depositary Receipt against Stock may be suspended, the registration of transfer of Depositary Receipts may be
refused and the registration of transfer, surrender or exchange of this Depositary Receipt may be suspended (i) during any period when the register of stockholders of the Company is closed or (ii) if any such action is deemed necessary or
advisable by the Depositary, any of the Depositary’s Agents or the Company at any time or from time to time because of any requirement of law or of any government or governmental body or commission, or under any provision of the Deposit
Agreement. 
 8. Amendment. The form of the Depositary Receipts and any provision of the Deposit Agreement may at any time and from
time to time be amended by agreement between the Company and the Depositary in any respect that they may deem necessary or desirable; provided, however, that no such amendment (other than any changes in the fees of any Depositary or Registrar which
shall go into effect not sooner than three months after Notice thereof to the holders of the Depositary Receipts) which shall materially adversely alter the rights of holders of Depositary Receipts shall be effective unless such amendment shall have
been approved by at least a majority of the Depositary Shares then outstanding. The holder of this Depositary Receipt at the time any such amendment becomes effective shall be deemed, by continuing to hold this Depositary Receipt, to be bound by the
Deposit Agreement as amended thereby. In no event shall any amendment impair the right of the owner of the Depositary Shares evidenced by this Depositary Receipt to surrender this Depositary Receipt with instructions to the Depositary to deliver to
the holder the Stock and all money and other property, if any, represented thereby, except in order to comply with mandatory provisions of applicable law. 
 9. Charges and Expenses. The Company will pay all transfer and other taxes and governmental charges arising solely from the existence of the depositary arrangement, except such charges as are expressly provided
in the Deposit Agreement to be at the expense of holders of Depositary Receipts. 
 10. Title to Depositary Receipts. Title to this
Depositary Receipt, when properly endorsed or accompanied by a properly executed instrument of transfer, is transferable by delivery with the same effect as in the case of a negotiable instrument; provided, however, that the Depositary may,
notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, treat the record holder hereof at such time as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of determining the person entitled to distribution of dividends or other distributions or to any notice provided for
in the Deposit Agreement and for all other purposes. 
 11. Dividends and Distributions. Whenever the Depositary shall receive any
cash dividend or other cash distribution on the Stock, the Depositary shall, subject to the provisions of the Deposit Agreement, distribute to record holders of Depositary Receipts such amounts of such sums 
  

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 as are, as nearly as practicable, in proportion to the respective numbers of Depositary Shares evidenced by the
Depositary Receipts held by such holders; provided, however, that in case the Company or the Depositary shall be required by law to withhold and does withhold from any cash dividend or other cash distribution in respect of the Stock an amount on
account of taxes or as otherwise required by law, regulation or court process, the amount made available for distribution or distributed in respect of Depositary Shares shall be reduced accordingly. In the event that the calculation of any such cash
dividend or other cash distribution to be paid to any record holder on the aggregate number of Depositary Receipts held by such holder results in an amount which is a fraction of a cent, the amount the Depositary shall distribute to such record
holder shall be rounded to the next highest whole cent; and upon request of the Depositary, the Company shall pay the additional amount to the Depositary for distribution. 
 12. Subscription Rights, Preferences or Privileges. If the Company shall at any time offer or cause to be offered to the persons in whose name
Stock is registered on the books of the Company any rights, preferences or privileges to subscribe for or to purchase any securities or any rights, preferences or privileges of any other nature, such rights, preferences or privileges shall in each
such instance, subject to the provisions of the Deposit Agreement, be made available by the Depositary to the record holders of Depositary Receipts in such manner as the Depositary shall determine. 
 13. Notice of Dividends, Fixing of Record Date. Whenever (i) any cash dividend or other cash distribution shall become payable, or any
distribution other than cash shall be made, or any rights, preferences or privileges shall at any time be offered, with respect to the Stock, or (ii) the Depositary shall receive notice of any meeting at which holders of Stock are entitled to
vote or of which holders of Stock are entitled to notice or whenever the Depositary and the Company shall decide it is appropriate, the Depositary shall in each such instance fix a record date (which shall be the same date as the record date fixed
by the Company with respect to the Stock) for the determination of the holders of Depositary Receipts (x) who shall be entitled to receive such dividend, distribution, rights, preferences or privileges or the net proceeds of the sale thereof,
or (y) who shall be entitled to give instructions for the exercise of voting rights at any such meeting or to receive notice of such meeting or for any other appropriate reasons. 
 14. Voting Rights. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at which the holders of Stock are entitled to vote, the Depositary shall, as soon as
practicable thereafter, mail to the record holders of Depositary Receipts a notice, which shall contain (i) such information as is contained in such notice of meeting, (ii) a statement that the holders may, subject to any applicable
restrictions, instruct the Depositary as to the exercise of the voting rights pertaining to the Stock represented by their respective Depositary Shares, and (iii) a brief statement as to the manner in which such instructions may be given. Upon
the written request of a holder of this Depositary Receipt on such record date the Depositary shall use its best efforts to vote or cause to be voted the Stock represented by the Depositary Shares evidenced by this Depositary Receipt in accordance
with the instructions set forth in such request. The Company hereby agrees to take all action that may be deemed necessary by the Depositary in order to enable the Depositary to vote such Stock or cause such Stock to be voted. In the absence of
specific instructions from the holder of this Depositary Receipt, the Depositary will abstain from voting to the extent of the Stock represented by the Depositary Shares evidenced by this Depositary Receipt. 
  

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 15. Reports, Inspection of Transfer Books. The Depositary shall transmit to the record holders of
Depositary Receipts copies of all reports and communications received from the Company that are received by the Depositary as the holder of Stock. The Depositary shall keep books at the Corporate Office for the registration and transfer of
Depositary Receipts, which books at all reasonable times will be open for inspection by the record holders of Depositary Receipts; provided that any such holder requesting to exercise such right shall certify to the Depositary that such inspection
shall be for a proper purpose reasonably related to such person’s interest as an owner of Depositary Shares. 
 16. Liability of the
Depositary, the Depositary’s Agents, the Registrar and the Company. Neither the Depositary nor any Depositary’s Agent nor the Registrar nor the Company shall incur any liability to any holder of this Depositary Receipt, if by reason of
any provision of any present or future law or regulation thereunder of any governmental authority or, in the case of the Depositary, the Registrar or any Depositary’s Agent, by reason of any provision present or future, of the Articles of
Incorporation or by reason of any act of God or war or other circumstances beyond the control of the relevant party, the Depositary, any Depositary’s Agent, the Registrar or the Company shall be prevented or forbidden from doing or performing
any act or thing that the terms of the Deposit Agreement provide shall be done or performed; nor shall the Depositary, any Depositary’s Agent, the Registrar or the Company incur any liability to any holder of this Depositary Receipt (i) by
reason of any nonperformance or delay, caused as aforesaid, in the performance of any act or thing that the terms of the Deposit Agreement provide shall or may be done or performed, or (ii) by reason of any exercise of, or failure to exercise,
any discretion provided for in the Deposit Agreement except if such exercise or failure to exercise discretion is caused by its gross negligence or willful misconduct. 
 17. Obligations of the Depositary, the Depositary’s Agents, the Registrar and the Company. Neither the Depositary nor any Depositary’s Agent nor the Registrar nor the Company assumes any obligation or
shall be subject to any liability under the Deposit Agreement or this Depositary Receipt to the holder hereof or other persons, other than for its gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith. 
 Neither the Depositary nor any Depositary’s Agent nor the Registrar nor the Company shall be under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend
any action, suit or other proceeding with respect to Stock, Depositary Shares or Depositary Receipts or Common Stock that in its opinion may involve it in expense or liability, unless indemnity satisfactory to it against all expense and liability be
furnished as often as may be required. 
 Neither the Depositary nor any Depositary’s Agent nor the Registrar nor the Company will be
liable for any action or failure to act by it in reliance upon the advice of or information from legal counsel, accountants, any person presenting Stock for deposit, any holder of this Depositary Receipt or any other person believed by it in good
faith to be competent to give such advice or information. 
  

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 18. Termination of Deposit Agreement. Whenever so directed by the Company upon not less than 60
days’ prior written notice, the Depositary will terminate the Deposit Agreement by mailing notice of such termination to the record holders of all Depositary Receipts then outstanding at least 30 days after the date of such notice. Upon the
termination of the Deposit Agreement, the Company shall be discharged to all obligations thereunder except for its obligations to the Depositary, any Depositary’s Agent and any Registrar under Sections 5.6 and 5.7 of the Deposit Agreement.

 19. Governing Law. The Deposit Agreement and this Depositary Receipt and all rights thereunder and hereunder and provisions thereof
and hereof shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York, including without limitation Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations Law. 
  

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 The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this Depositary Receipt, shall
be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
  

									
	 TEN COM
	 	 -
	  	as tenants in common	  	UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -	  	             Custodian             
					
	 TEN ENT
	 	 -
	  	 as tenants by the entireties
	  		  	 (Cust)                    
(Minor)

					
	 JT TEN
	 	 -
	  	 as joint tenants with right
 of survivorship and not as
 tenants in common
	  		  	 under Uniform Gifts to Minors
 Act
                    
             (State)

					
		 		  		  	 UNIF TRF MIN ACT -
	  	              Custodian (until age     
)

					
		 		  		  		  	 (Cust)
              under Uniform Transfers
 (Minor)
 to Minors Act
                            
                                 (State)

 Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

  

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 For Value Received,
                                        
                 hereby sell, assign and transfer unto 
 PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER 
             IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF ASSIGNEE 

	
	  
                                       
                                        
                         

	  
                                       
                                        
                         

	  
                                       
                                        
                         

                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                    
                                       
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                                        
                    
 PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS INCLUDING POSTAL ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE 
                                       
   Depositary Shares represented by the within Depositary Receipt, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint
                                        
Attorney to transfer the said Depositary Shares on the books of the within named Depositary with full power of substitution in the premises. 
  

					
	Dated                                     
                                        
                                  	 		 	Signed
			
		 		 	                                       
                                        
                                        
     
 NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE TO THIS
 ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE
 NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF
 THIS DEPOSITARY RECEIPT IN EVERY
 PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR

ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

 SIGNATURE(S) GUARANTEED 
  

			
	By	 	                                      
                                        
                                  
		 	 THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED
 BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION
 (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN
 ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH
 MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED
SIGNATURE
 GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM), PURSUANT
 TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15.

  

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 Exhibit 10.2 
 BEN FRANKLIN BANK OF ILLINOIS 
 EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN 
 Adopted effective January 1, 2006 

 BEN FRANKLIN BANK OF ILLINOIS 
 EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN 
 This Employee Stock Ownership Plan, executed on
the      day of                         , 2006, by Ben Franklin Bank of Illinois, a federally
chartered mutual savings bank (the “Bank”), 
 W I T N E S S E T H T H A T 
 WHEREAS, the board of directors of the Bank has resolved to adopt an employee stock ownership plan (“Plan”), effective January 1, 2006,
for eligible employees of the Bank and subsidiaries of the Bank, in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth therein; 
 NOW,
THEREFORE, the Bank hereby adopts the following Plan setting forth the terms and conditions pertaining to contributions by the Employer and the payment of benefits to Participants and Beneficiaries. 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Bank has adopted this Plan and caused this instrument to be executed by its duly authorized officers as of the above date.

 ATTEST: 
  

							
	  
	 		 	By:	 	  

	Secretary	 		 		 	Authorized Officer

 C O N T E N T S 
  

					
	 	  	 	  	Page No.
	Section 1.	  	Plan Identity	  	1
	1.1	  	Name	  	1
	1.2	  	Purpose	  	1
	1.3	  	Effective Date	  	1
	1.4	  	Fiscal Period	  	1
	1.5	  	Single Plan for All Employers	  	1
	1.6	  	Interpretation of Provisions	  	1
	Section 2.	  	Definitions	  	1
	Section 3.	  	Eligibility for Participation	  	11
	3.1	  	Initial Eligibility	  	11
	3.2	  	Definition of Eligibility Year	  	11
	3.3	  	Terminated Employees	  	11
	3.4	  	Certain Employees Ineligible	  	11
	3.5	  	Participation and Reparticipation	  	12
	3.6	  	Omission of Eligible Employee	  	12
	3.7	  	Inclusion of Ineligible Employee	  	12
	Section 4.	  	Contributions and Credits	  	13
	4.1	  	Discretionary Contributions	  	13
	4.2	  	Contributions for Stock Obligations	  	13
	4.3	  	Conditions as to Contributions	  	14
	4.4	  	Rollover Contributions	  	14
	Section 5.	  	Limitations on Contributions and Allocations	  	14
	5.1	  	Limitation on Annual Additions	  	14
	5.2	  	Effect of Limitations	  	16
	5.3	  	Limitations as to Certain Participants	  	17
	5.4	  	Erroneous Allocations	  	17
	5.5	  	Dividend Recharacterization	  	18
	Section 6.	  	Trust Fund and Its Investment.	  	18
	6.1	  	Creation of Trust Fund	  	18
	6.2	  	Stock Fund and Investment Fund	  	18
	6.3	  	Acquisition of Company Stock	  	18
	6.4	  	Participants’ Option to Diversify	  	20
	Section 7.	  	Voting Rights and Dividends on Company Stock	  	20
	7.1	  	Voting and Tendering of Company Stock	  	20
	7.2	  	Application of Dividends	  	21
	Section 8.	  	Adjustments to Accounts	  	23
	8.1	  	ESOP Allocations	  	23
	8.2	  	harges to Accounts	  	24
	8.3	  	Stock Fund Account	  	24

					
	8.4	  	Investment Fund Account	  	24
	8.5	  	Adjustment to Value of Trust Fund	  	25
	8.6	  	Participant Statements	  	25
	Section 9.	  	Vesting of Participants’ Interests	  	25
	9.1	  	Deferred Vesting in Accounts	  	25
	9.2	  	Computation of Vesting Years	  	25
	9.3	  	Full Vesting Upon Certain Events	  	26
	9.4	  	Full Vesting Upon Plan Termination	  	27
	9.5	  	Forfeiture, Repayment, and Restoral	  	28
	9.6	  	Accounting for Forfeitures	  	28
	9.7	  	Vesting and Nonforfeitability	  	29
	Section 10.	  	Payment of Benefits	  	29
	10.1	  	Benefits for Participants	  	29
	10.2	  	Time for Distribution	  	29
	10.3	  	Marital Status	  	31
	10.4	  	Delay in Benefit Determination	  	31
	10.5	  	Accounting for Benefit Payments	  	31
	10.6	  	Options to Receive and Sell Company Stock	  	31
	10.7	  	Restrictions on Disposition of Company Stock	  	32
	10.8	  	Continuing Loan Provisions; Creations of Protections and Rights	  	33
	10.9	  	Direct Rollover of Eligible Distribution	  	33
	10.10	  	Waiver of 30-Day Period After Notice of Distribution	  	34
	Section 11.	  	Rules Governing Benefit Claims and Review of Appeals	  	34
	11.1	  	Claim for Benefits	  	34
	11.2	  	Notification by Committee	  	34
	11.3	  	Claims Review Procedure	  	35
	Section 12.	  	The Committee and its Functions	  	35
	12.1	  	Authority of Committee	  	35
	12.2	  	Identity of Committee	  	35
	12.3	  	Duties of Committee	  	36
	12.4	  	Compliance with ERISA	  	36
	12.5	  	Action by Committee	  	36
	12.6	  	Execution of Documents	  	36
	12.7	  	Adoption of Rules	  	36
	12.8	  	Responsibilities to Participants	  	36
	12.9	  	Alternative Payees in Event of Incapacity	  	37
	12.10	  	Indemnification by Employers	  	37
	12.11	  	Nonparticipation by Interested Member	  	37
	Section 13.	  	Adoption, Amendment, or Termination of the Plan	  	37
	13.1	  	Adoption of Plan by Other Employers	  	37
	13.2	  	Plan Adoption Subject to Qualification	  	38
	13.3	  	Right to Amend or Terminate	  	38

  

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	Section 14.	  	Miscellaneous Provisions	  	39
	14.1	  	Plan Creates No Employment Rights	  	39
	14.2	  	Nonassignability of Benefits	  	39
	14.3	  	Limit of Employer Liability	  	39
	14.4	  	Treatment of Expenses	  	39
	14.5	  	Number and Gender	  	39
	14.6	  	Nondiversion of Assets	  	39
	14.7	  	Separability of Provisions	  	40
	14.8	  	Service of Process	  	40
	14.9	  	Governing State Law	  	40
	14.10	  	Employer Contributions Conditioned on Deductibility	  	40
	14.11	  	Unclaimed Accounts	  	40
	14.12	  	Qualified Domestic Relations Order	  	40
	Section 15.	  	Top-Heavy Provisions	  	41
	15.1	  	Top-Heavy Plan	  	41
	15.2	  	Super Top-Heavy Plan	  	42
	15.3	  	Definitions	  	42
	15.4	  	Top-Heavy Rules of Application	  	43
	15.5	  	Minimum Contributions	  	44
	15.6	  	Top-Heavy Provisions Control in Top-Heavy Plan	  	45

  

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 BEN FRANKLIN BANK OF ILLINOIS 
 EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN 
 Section 1. Plan Identity. 
 1.1 Name. The name of this Plan is “Ben Franklin Bank of Illinois Employee Stock Ownership Plan.” 
 1.2 Purpose. The purpose of this Plan is to describe the terms and conditions under which contributions made pursuant to the Plan will be
credited and paid to the Participants and their Beneficiaries. 
 1.3 Effective Date. The Effective Date of this Plan is
January 1, 2006. 
 1.4 Fiscal Period. This Plan shall be operated on the basis of a January 1 to December 31
fiscal year for the purpose of keeping the Plan’s books and records and distributing or filing any reports or returns required by law. 
 1.5 Single Plan for All Employers. This Plan shall be treated as a single plan with respect to all participating Employers for the purpose of crediting contributions and forfeitures and distributing benefits, determining
whether there has been any termination of Service, and applying the limitations set forth in Section 5. 
 1.6 Interpretation of
Provisions. The Employers intend this Plan and the Trust Agreement to be a qualified stock bonus plan under Section 401(a) of the Code and an employee stock ownership plan within the meaning of Section 407(d)(6) of ERISA and
Section 4975(e)(7) of the Code. The Plan is intended to have its assets invested primarily in qualifying employer securities of one or more Employers within the meaning of Section 407(d)(3) of ERISA, and to satisfy any requirement under
ERISA or the Code applicable to such a plan. 
 Accordingly, the Plan and Trust Agreement shall be interpreted and applied in a manner
consistent with this intent and shall be administered at all times and in all respects in a nondiscriminatory manner. 
 Section 2.
Definitions. 
 The following capitalized words and phrases shall have the meanings specified when used in this Plan and in the
Trust Agreement, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: 
 “Account” means a Participant’s interest in the
assets accumulated under this Plan as expressed in terms of a separate account balance which is periodically adjusted to reflect his Employer’s contributions, the Plan’s investment experience, and distributions and forfeitures. 

 “Active Participant” means a Participant who has satisfied the eligibility requirements
under Section 3 and who has at least 1,000 Hours of Service during the current Plan Year. However, a Participant shall not qualify as an Active Participant unless (i) he is in active Service with an Employer as of the last day of the Plan
Year, or (ii) he is on a Recognized Absence as of that date, or (iii) his Service terminated during the Plan Year by reason of Disability, death, Early or Normal Retirement. 
 “Bank” means Ben Franklin Bank of Illinois and any entity which succeeds to the business of Ben Franklin Bank of Illinois and adopts
this Plan as its own pursuant to Section 13.1 of the Plan. 
 “Beneficiary” means the person or persons who are
designated by a Participant to receive benefits payable under the Plan on the Participant’s death. In the absence of any designation or if all the designated Beneficiaries shall die before the Participant dies or shall die before all benefits
have been paid, the Participant’s Beneficiary shall be his surviving Spouse, if any, or his estate if he is not survived by a Spouse. The Committee may rely upon the advice of the Participant’s executor or administrator as to the identity
of the Participant’s Spouse. 
 “Break in Service” means any Plan Year, or, for the initial eligibility computation
period under Section 3.2, the 12-consecutive month period beginning on the first day of which an Employee has an Hour of Service, in which an Employee has 500 or fewer Hours of Service. Solely for this purpose, an Employee shall be considered
employed for his normal hours of paid employment during a Recognized Absence (said Employee shall not be credited with more than 501 Hours of Service to avoid a Break in Service), unless he does not resume his Service at the end of the Recognized
Absence. Further, if an Employee is absent for any period (i) by reason of the Employee’s pregnancy, (ii) by reason of the birth of the Employee’s child, (iii) by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in
connection with the Employee’s adoption of the child, or (iv) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately after such birth or placement, the Employee shall be credited with the Hours of Service which would
normally have been credited but for such absence, up to a maximum of 501 Hours of Service. 
 “Code” means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 
 “Committee” means the committee responsible for the administration of this Plan in
accordance with Section 12. 
 “Company” means Ben Franklin Financial, Inc., the holding company of the Bank, and any
entity which succeeds to the business of the Company and adopts this Plan as its own pursuant to Section 13.1 of the Plan. 
  

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 “Company Stock” means shares of the Company’s voting common stock or preferred
stock meeting the requirements of Section 409(e)(3) of the Code issued by an Employer which is a member of the same controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Code Section 414(b). The term “Company Stock” shall
include fractional shares, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. 
 “Disability” means the inability to engage in
any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months. An
individual shall not be considered to be permanently and totally disabled unless he furnishes proof of the existence thereof in such form and manner, and at such times, as the Committee may require. 
 “Early Retirement Date” means the date on which a Participant’s employment with the Bank is terminated for any reason on or after
the date on which he attains age 55. 
 “Effective Date” means January 1, 2006. 
 “Eligible Employee” means an Employee, other than an Employee identified in Section 3.4, who has performed 1,000 Hours of Service
in the applicable Eligibility Year in accordance with Section 3.2. 
 “Employee” means any individual who is employed
by the Bank or the Company, including an officer, who receives regular compensation other than retirement benefits under this Plan and including Leased Employees. However, if Leased Employees constitute less than twenty percent of the
Employer’s “nonhighly compensated work force” (as defined in Code Section 414(n)(5)(c)(ii) of the Code), the term “Employee” shall not include any Leased Employees who are covered by a plan described in Code
Section 414(n)(5)(B) maintained by a leasing organization. 
 “Employer” means the Bank, the Company or any affiliate
within the purview of section 414(b), (c) or (m) and 415(h) of the Code, any other corporation, partnership, or proprietorship which adopts this Plan with the Bank’s consent pursuant to Section 13.1, and any entity which succeeds
to the business of any Employer and adopts the Plan pursuant to Section 13.2. 
 “Entry Date” means the Effective Date
of the Plan and each January 1 and July 1 of each Plan Year after the Effective Date. 
 “ERISA” means the
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 “415 Compensation” 
 (a) shall mean wages, as defined in Code Section 3401(a) for purposes of income tax withholding at the source. 
 (b) Any elective deferral as defined in Code Section 402(g)(3) (any Employer contributions made on behalf of a Participant to the
extent not includible in gross income and any Employer contributions to purchase an annuity contract under Code Section 403(b) under a salary reduction agreement) and any amount which is contributed or deferred by the Employer at the election
of the Participant and which is not includible in gross income of the Participant by reason of Code Section 125 (Cafeteria Plan), Code Section 457 or 132(f)(4) shall also be included in the definition of 415 Compensation. 
 (c) 415 Compensation in excess of $220,000 (as indexed) shall be disregarded for all Participants. For purposes of this sub-section, the
$220,000 limit shall be referred to as the “applicable limit” for the Plan Year in question. The $220,000 limit shall be adjusted for increases in the cost of living in accordance with Section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Code, effective for
the Plan Year which begins within the applicable calendar year. For purposes of the applicable limit, 415 Compensation shall be prorated over short Plan Years. 
 “Fair Market Value” means, with respect to Company Stock, either (a) the price of the stock prevailing on a national securities exchange which is registered under Section 6 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, or (b) if the stock is not traded on a national securities exchange, then the offering price for the stock as established by the current bid and asked prices quoted by persons independent of the Company and any affiliates
of the Company. If at any time there shall be no generally-recognized market for the Company Stock, then the Fair Market Value of the Company Stock shall be determined by the Trustee based upon a valuation of an independent appraiser meeting the
requirements of the regulations prescribed under Code Section 170(a)(1). 
 “Highly Compensated Employee” for any Plan
Year means an Employee who, during either that or the immediately preceding Plan Year was at any time a five percent owner of the Employer (as defined in Code Section 416(i)(1)) or, during the immediately preceding Plan Year, had 415
Compensation exceeding $100,000 (the $100,000 amount is adjusted at the same time and in the same manner as under Code Section 415(d)) and was in the group of Employees consisting of the top 20 percent of all Employees when ranked on the basis
of compensation paid by the Employer during the preceding Plan Year. For these purposes, “the top 20 percent of all Employees” shall be determined by taking into account all individuals working for all related Employer entities described
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normally works fewer than 17 1/2 hours per week or in fewer than six months per year, who has not reached age 21, whose employment is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, or who is a nonresident alien who receives no earned income from United States
sources. 
 “Hours of Service” means hours to be credited to an Employee under the following rules: 
 (a) Each hour for which an Employee is paid or is entitled to be paid for services to an Employer is an Hour of Service. 
 (b) Each hour for which an Employee is directly or indirectly paid or is entitled to be paid for a period of vacation, holidays, illness,
disability, lay-off, jury duty, temporary military duty, or leave of absence is an Hour of Service. However, except as otherwise specifically provided, no more than 501 Hours of Service shall be credited for any single continuous period which an
Employee performs no duties. No more than 501 Hours of Service will be credited under this paragraph for any single continuous period (whether or not such period occurs in a single computation period). Further, no Hours of Service shall be credited
on account of payments made solely under a plan maintained to comply with worker’s compensation, unemployment compensation, or disability insurance laws, or to reimburse an Employee for medical expenses. 
 (c) Each hour for which back pay (ignoring any mitigation of damages) is either awarded or agreed to by an Employer is an Hour of Service.
However, no more than 501 Hours of Service shall be credited for any single continuous period during which an Employee would not have performed any duties. The same Hours of Service will not be credited both under paragraph (a) or (b) as
the case may be, and under this paragraph (c). These hours will be credited to the employee for the computation period or periods to which the award or agreement pertains rather than the computation period in which the award agreement or payment is
made. 
 (d) Hours of Service shall be credited in any one period only under one of the foregoing paragraphs (a), (b) and
(c); an Employee may not get double credit for the same period. 
 (e) If an Employer finds it impractical to count the actual
Hours of Service for any class or group of non-hourly Employees, each Employee in that class or group shall be credited with 90 Hours of Service for each bi-weekly pay period in which he has at least one Hour of Service. However, an Employee shall
be credited only for his normal working hours during a paid absence. 
 (f) Hours of Service to be credited on account of a
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was made. If the period overlaps two or more Plan Years, the Hours of Service credit shall be allocated in proportion to the respective portions of the
period included in the several Plan Years. However, in the case of periods of 31 days or less, the Administrator may apply a uniform policy of crediting the Hours of Service to either the first Plan Year or the second. 
 (g) In all respects an Employee’s Hours of Service shall be counted as required by Section 2530.200b-2(b) and (c) of the
Department of Labor’s regulations under Title I of ERISA. 
 “Investment Fund” means that portion of the Trust Fund
consisting of assets other than Company Stock. Notwithstanding the above, assets from the Investment Fund may be used to purchase Company Stock in the open market or otherwise, or used to pay on the Stock Obligation, and shares so purchased will be
allocated to a Participant’s Stock Fund. 
 “Leased Employee” means any person (other than an employee of the
“Recipient”) who, pursuant to an agreement between the Recipient and the Leasing Organization: (a) has performed services for the Recipient (or for the Recipient and a related person determined in accordance with Code
Section 414(n)(6)) on a substantially full-time basis for a period of at least one year; and (b) performed these services under the primary direction and control of the Recipient. For these purposes, the terms “Recipient” and
“Leasing Organization” shall have the meanings set forth in Code Section 414(n). 
 “Normal Retirement” means
retirement on or after the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. 
 “Normal Retirement Date” means the date on which a
Participant’s employment with the Bank is terminated for any reason on or after the date on which he attains age 65. 
 “Participant” means any Eligible Employee who is an Active Participant participating in the Plan, or an Employee or former Employee who was previously an Active Participant and still has a balance credited to his Account.

 “Period of Uniformed Service” means the length of time that an Employee serves in the Uniformed Services. 
 “Plan Year” means the twelve-month period that begins on January 1st and ends on December 31st. 
 “Recognized Absence” means a period for which — 
 (a) an Employer grants an Employee a leave of absence for a limited period, but only if an Employer grants such leave on a
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 (b) an Employee is temporarily laid off by an Employer because of a change in business
conditions; or 
 (c) an Employee is on active military duty, but only to the extent that his employment rights are protected
by the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 (38 U.S.C. Sec. 2021). 
 “Reemployment After a Period of Uniformed Service”

 (a) “Reemployment (or Reemployed) After a Period of Uniformed Service” means that an Employee returned to employment
with a Participating Employer, within the time frame set forth in subparagraph (b) below, after a Period of Uniformed Service in the Uniformed Services and the following rules corresponding to provisions of the Uniformed Services Employment and
Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (“USERRA”) apply: (i) he gives sufficient notice of leave to the Participating Employer prior to commencing a Period of Uniformed Service, or is excused from providing such notice; (ii) his or
her employment with the Participating Employer prior to a Period of Uniformed Service was not of a brief, nonrecurrent nature that would preclude a reasonable expectation that such employment would continue indefinitely or for a significant period;
(iii) the Participating Employer’s circumstances have not changed so that reemployment is unreasonable or an undue hardship to the Participating Employer; and (iv) the applicable cumulative Periods of Uniformed Service under USERRA
equals five years or less, unless service in the Uniformed Services: 
 (1) in excess of five years is required to complete an initial Period
of Uniformed Service; 
 (2) prevents the Participant from obtaining orders releasing him or her from such Period of Uniformed Service prior
to the expiration of a five-year period (through no fault of the Participant); 
 (3) is required in the National Guard for drill and
instruction, field exercises or active duty training, or to fulfill necessary additional training, or to fulfill necessary additional training requirements certified in writing by the Secretary of the branch of Uniformed Services concerned; or

 (4) for a Participant is 
 (A) required other than for training under any provisions of law during a war or national agency declared by the President or Congress; 
 (B) required (other than for training) in support of an operational mission for which personnel have been ordered to active duty other than during war or national emergency; 
  

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 (C) required in support of a critical mission or requirement of the Uniformed Services; or 

(D) the result of being called into service as a member of the National Guard by the President in the case of rebellion or danger of rebellion against
the authority of the United States Government or if the President is unable to execute the laws of the United States with the regular forces. 
 (b) The applicable statutory time frames within which an Employee must report to a Participating Employer after a Period of Uniformed Service are as follows: 
 (1) If the Period of Uniformed Service was less than 31 days, 
 (A) not later than the beginning of the
first full regularly scheduled work period on the first full calendar day following the completion of the Period of Uniformed Service and the expiration of eight hours after a period of time allowing for the safe transportation of the Employee from
the place of service in the Uniformed Services to the Employee’s residence; or 
 (B) as soon as possible after the expiration of the
eight-hour period of time referred to in Clause (A), if reporting within the period referred to in such clause is impossible or unreasonable through no fault of the Employee. 
 (2) In the case of an Employee whose Period of Uniformed Service was for more than 30 days but less than 181 days, by submitting an application for
reemployment with a Participating Employer not later than 14 days after the completion of the Period of Uniformed Service or, if submitting such application within such period is impossible or unreasonable through no fault of the Employee, the next
first full calendar day when submission of such application becomes reasonable. 
 (3) In the case of an Employee whose Period of Uniformed
Service was for more than 180 days, by submitting an application for reemployment with a Participating Employer not later than 90 days after the completion of the Period of Uniformed Service. 
 (4) In the case of an Employee who is hospitalized for, or convalescing from, an illness or injury related to the Period of Uniformed Service the
Employee shall apply for reemployment with a Participating Employer at the end of the period that is necessary for the Employee to recover. Such period of recovery shall not exceed two years, unless circumstances beyond the Employee’s control
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 (c) Notwithstanding subparagraph (a), Reemployment After a Period of Uniformed Service terminates upon
the occurrence of any of the following: 
 (1) a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge from the Uniformed Services; 
 (2) any other discharge from the Uniformed Services under circumstances other than an honorable condition; 
 (3) a discharge of a commissioned officer from the Uniformed Services by court martial, by commutation of sentence by court martial, or, in time of war,
by the President; or 
 (4) a demotion of a commissioned officer in the Uniformed Services for absence without authorized leave of at least
3 months confinement under a sentence by court martial, or confinement in a federal or state penitentiary after being found guilty of a crime under a final sentence. 
 “Service” means an Employee’s period(s) of employment or self-employment with an Employer, excluding for initial eligibility purposes any period in which the individual was a nonresident alien
and did not receive from an Employer any earned income which constituted income from sources within the United States. An Employee’s Service shall include any Service which constitutes Service with a predecessor Employer within the meaning of
Section 414(a) of the Code, provided, however, that Service with an acquired entity shall not be considered Service under the Plan unless required by applicable law or agreed to by the parties to such transaction. An Employee’s Service
shall also include any Service with an entity which is not an Employer, but only to the extent: (i) that the other entity is a member of a controlled group of corporations or is under common control with other trades and businesses within the
meaning of Section 414(b) or 414(c) of the Code, and a member of the controlled group or one of the trades and businesses is an Employer, (ii) that the other entity is a member of an affiliated service group within the meaning of
Section 414(m) of the Code, and a member of the affiliated service group is an Employer, or (iii) of the Employee’s Service with all employers aggregated with the Employer under Section 414(o) of the Code (but not until the
Proposed Regulations under Section 414(o) become effective). Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, contributions, benefits and service credit with respect to qualified military service will be provided in accordance with
Section 414(u) of the Code. 
 “Spouse” means the individual, if any, to whom a Participant is lawfully married on the
date benefit payments to the Participant are to begin, or on the date of the Participant’s death, if earlier. A former Spouse shall be treated as the Spouse or surviving Spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order
as described in section 414(p) of the Code. 
  

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 “Stock Fund” means that portion of the Trust Fund consisting of Company Stock.

 “Stock Obligation” means an indebtedness arising from any extension of credit to the Plan or the Trust which satisfies
the requirements set forth in Section 6.3 and which was obtained for any or all of the following purposes: 
 (i) to acquire qualifying
Employer securities as defined in Treasury Regulations § 54.4975-12; 
 (ii) to repay such Stock Obligation; or 
 (iii) to repay a prior exempt loan. 
 “Trust” or “Trust Fund” means the trust fund created under this Plan to hold the assets of the Plan. 
 “Trust Agreement” means the agreement between the Bank and the Trustee concerning the Trust Fund. If any assets of the Trust Fund are held in a co-mingled trust fund with assets of other qualified retirement plans,
“Trust Agreement” shall be deemed to include the trust agreement governing that co-mingled trust fund. With respect to the allocation of investment responsibility for the assets of the Trust Fund, the provisions of Article II of the Trust
Agreement are incorporated herein by reference. 
 “Trustee” means one or more corporate persons or individuals selected
from time to time by the Bank to serve as trustee or co-trustees of the Trust Fund. 
 “Unallocated Stock Fund” means that
portion of the Stock Fund consisting of the Plan’s holding of Company Stock which have been acquired in exchange for one or more Stock Obligations and which have not yet been allocated to the Participant’s Accounts in accordance with
Section 4.2. 
 “Uniformed Service” means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in the uniformed
service of the United States, including the U.S. Public Health Services, under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial activity duty for training, inactive duty training, full-time National Guard duty, and the
period for which a person is absent from a position of employment for purposes of an examination to determine the fitness of the person to perform any such duty. 
 “Valuation Date” means, for so long as there is a generally recognized market for the Company Stock, each business day. If at any time there shall be no generally recognized market for the Company
Stock, then “Valuation Date” shall mean the last day of the Plan Year and each other date as of which the Committee shall determine the investment experience of the Investment Fund and adjust the Participants’ Accounts accordingly.

  

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 “Valuation Period” means the period following a Valuation Date and ending with the next
Valuation Date; provided, however, that with respect to the assets in the Investment Fund, the last day of the Valuation Period shall be December 31. 
 “Vesting Year” means a unit of Service credited to a Participant pursuant to Section 9.2 for purposes of determining his vested interest in his Account. 
 “Year of Service” means a 12-month period of Service during which an Employee or Participant has completed at least 1,000 Hours of
Service with the Bank, the Company, the Bank’s mutual predecessor or an affiliate. For purposes of determining Vesting Years prior to the adoption of the Plan, a Year of Service shall be based on the calendar year. 
 Section 3. Eligibility for Participation. 
 3.1 Initial Eligibility. Each Employee shall initially enter the Plan on the Effective Date if he or she was an Employee on the Effective Date. Any person who subsequently becomes an Employee shall enter the Plan as of the
Entry Date coincident with or next following the later of the following dates: 
 (a) the last day of the Eligible Employee’s first
Eligibility Year, and 
 (b) the Eligible Employee’s 21st birthday. However, if an Eligible Employee is not in active Service with an
Employer on the date he would otherwise first enter the Plan, his entry shall be deferred until the next day he is in Service. 
 3.2
Definition of Eligibility Year. “Eligibility Year” means an applicable eligibility period (as defined below) in which the Eligible Employee has completed 1,000 Hours of Service for the Employer. For this purpose, an
Employee’s first “eligibility period” is the 12-consecutive month period beginning on the first day on which he has an Hour of Service. If the Employee does not have 1,000 Hours of Service in the first eligibility period, the next
eligibility period shall commence on the first day of the Plan Year commencing within the Employee’s first eligibility period, and subsequent eligibility periods shall be each Plan Year thereafter. 
 3.3 Terminated Employees. An Employee shall have no interest or rights under this Plan if the Employee is never in active Service with an
Employer on or after the Effective Date. 
 3.4 Certain Employees Ineligible. 
 3.4-1. No Employee shall participate in the Plan while his Service is covered by a collective bargaining agreement between an Employer and the
Employee’s collective bargaining representative if (i) retirement benefits have been the subject of good faith bargaining between the Employer and the representative and (ii) the collective bargaining agreement does not provide for
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 3.4-2. Leased Employees are not eligible to participate in the Plan. 
 3.4-3. Employees who are nonresident aliens with no earned income (within the meaning of Code Section 911(d)(2)) from the Employer which constitutes
income from sources within the United States (within the meaning of Code Section 861(a)(3)). 
 3.4-4. An Eligible Employee may elect
not to participate in the Plan, provided, however, such election is made solely to meet the requirements of Code Section 409(n). For an election to be effective for a particular Plan Year, the Eligible Employee or Participant must file the
election in writing with the Plan Administrator no later than the last day of the Plan Year for which the election is to be effective. The Employer may not make a contribution under the Plan for the Eligible Employee or for the Participant for the
Plan Year for which the election is effective, nor for any succeeding Plan Year, unless the Eligible Employee or Participant re-elects to participate in the Plan. The Eligible Employee or Participant may elect again not to participate, but not
earlier than the first Plan Year following the Plan Year in which the re-election was first effective. 
 3.5 Participation and
Reparticipation. Subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing requirements, an Eligible Employee shall participate in the Plan during each period of his Service from the date on which he first becomes eligible until his termination. For this
purpose, an Eligible Employee who returns before five (5) consecutive one year Breaks in Service who previously satisfied the initial eligibility requirements or who returns after five (5) consecutive one year Breaks in Service with a
vested Account balance in the Plan shall re-enter the Plan as of the date of his return to Service with an Employer. 
 3.6 Omission of
Eligible Employee. If, in any Plan Year, any Eligible Employee who should be included as a Participant in the Plan is erroneously omitted and discovery of such omission is not made until after a contribution by his Employer for the year has
been made, the Employer shall, in its sole discretion, (i) either allocate an amount equal to the omitted allocation (A) from forfeitures under Section 9.6 or (B) from dividends received on Company Stock in the Unallocated Stock
Fund, or (ii) make a subsequent contribution with respect to the omitted Eligible Employee in the amount which the said Employer would have contributed regardless of whether or not it is deductible in whole or in part in any taxable year under
applicable provisions of the Code. 
 3.7 Inclusion of Ineligible Employee. If, in any Plan Year, any person who should not
have been included as a Participant in the Plan is erroneously included and discovery of such incorrect inclusion is not made until after a contribution for the year has been made, the Employer shall not be entitled to recover the contribution made
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such contribution. In such event, the amount contributed with respect to the ineligible person shall constitute a forfeiture for the fiscal year in which the
discovery is made. Any person who, after the close of a Plan Year, is retroactively treated by the Bank, an affiliated company or any other party as an Employee for such prior Plan Year shall not, for purposes of the Plan, be considered an Employee
for such prior Plan Year unless expressly treated as such by the Bank. 
 Section 4. Contributions and Credits. 
 4.1 Discretionary Contributions. 
 4.1-1. The Employer shall from time to time contribute, with respect to a Plan Year, such amounts as it may determine from time to time. The Employer shall have no obligation to contribute any amount under this Plan except as so determined
in its sole discretion. The Employer’s contributions and available forfeitures for a Plan Year shall be credited as of the last day of the year to the Accounts of the Active Participants in the manner set forth in Section 8.1-2.

 4.1-2. Upon a Participant’s Reemployment After a Period of Uniformed Service, the Employer shall make an additional contribution on
behalf of such Participant that would have been made on his or her behalf during the Plan Year or Years corresponding to the Participant’s Period of Uniformed Service. 
 4.2 Contributions for Stock Obligations. If the Trustee, upon instructions from the Committee, incurs any Stock Obligation upon the
purchase of Company Stock, the Employer may contribute for each Plan Year an amount sufficient to cover all payments of principal and interest as they come due under the terms of the Stock Obligation. If there is more than one Stock Obligation, the
Employer shall designate the one to which any contribution is to be applied. Investment earnings realized on Employer contributions and any dividends paid by the Employer on Company Stock held in the Unallocated Stock Account, shall be applied to
the Stock Obligation related to that Company Stock, subject to Section 7.2. 
 In each Plan Year in which Employer contributions,
earnings on contributions, or dividends on Company Stock in the Unallocated Stock Fund are used as payments under a Stock Obligation, a certain number of shares of the Company Stock acquired with that Stock Obligation which is then held in the
Unallocated Stock Fund shall be released for allocation among the Participants. The number of shares released shall bear the same ratio to the total number of those shares then held in the Unallocated Stock Fund (prior to the release) as
(i) the principal and interest payments made on the Stock Obligation in the current Plan Year bears to (ii) the sum of (i) above, and the remaining principal and interest payments required (or projected to be required on the basis of
the interest rate in effect at the end of the Plan Year) to satisfy the Stock Obligation. 
  

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 At the direction of the Committee, the current and projected payments of interest under a Stock
Obligation may be ignored in calculating the number of shares to be released in each year if (i) the Stock Obligation provides for annual payments of principal and interest at a cumulative rate that is not less rapid at any time than level
annual payments of such amounts for 10 years, (ii) the interest included in any payment is ignored only to the extent that it would be determined to be interest under standard loan amortization tables, and (iii) the term of the Stock
Obligation, by reason of renewal, extension, or refinancing, has not exceeded 10 years from the original acquisition of the Company Stock. 
 4.3 Conditions as to Contributions. Employers’ contributions shall in all events be subject to the limitations set forth in Section 5. Contributions may be made in the form of cash, or securities and other property
to the extent permissible under ERISA, including Company Stock, and shall be held by the Trustee in accordance with the Trust Agreement. In addition to the provisions of Section 13.2 for the return of an Employer’s contributions in
connection with a failure of the Plan to qualify initially under the Code, any amount contributed by an Employer due to a good faith mistake of fact, or based upon a good faith but erroneous determination of its deductibility under Section 404
of the Code, shall be returned to the Employer within one year after the date on which the contribution was originally made, or within one year after its nondeductibility has been finally determined. However, the amount to be returned shall be
reduced to take account of any adverse investment experience within the Trust Fund in order that the balance credited to each Participant’s Account is not less that it would have been if the contribution had never been made. 
 4.4 Rollover Contributions. This Plan shall not accept a direct rollover or rollover contribution of an “eligible rollover
distribution” as such term is defined in Section 10.9-1 of the Plan. 
 Section 5. Limitations on Contributions and Allocations.

 5.1 Limitation on Annual Additions. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, allocation of Employer contributions
for any Plan Year shall be subject to the following: 
 5.1-1 If allocation of Employer contributions in accordance with Section 4.1 will
result in an allocation of more than one-third the total contributions for a Plan Year to the Accounts of Highly Compensated Employees, then allocation of such amount shall be adjusted so that such excess will not occur. 
 5.1-2 After adjustment, if any, required by the preceding paragraph, the annual additions during any Plan Year to any Participant’s Account under
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Employer for this purpose) shall not exceed the lesser of $44,000 (or such other dollar amount which results from cost-of-living adjustments under
Section 415(d) of the Code) (the “dollar limitation”) or 100 percent of the Participant’s 415 Compensation for such limitation year (the “percentage limitation”). The percentage limitation shall not apply to any
contribution for medical benefits after separation from service (within the meaning of Section 401(h) or Section 419A(f)(2) of the Code) which is otherwise treated as an annual addition. If, as a result of the allocation of forfeitures, a
reasonable error in estimating a Participant’s annual compensation, a reasonable error in determining the amount of elective deferrals (within the meaning of Code Section 402(g)(3)) that may be made with respect to any individual under the
limits of Code Section 415, or under other limited facts and circumstances that the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service finds justify the availability of the rules set forth in this paragraph, the annual additions under the terms of
the Plan for a particular Participant would cause the limitations of Code Section 415 applicable to that Participant for the limitation year to be exceeded, the excess amounts shall not be deemed annual additions in that limitation year if they
are treated in accordance with any one of the following: 
 (i) Any excess amount at the end of the Plan Year that cannot be allocated to the
Participant’s Account shall be reallocated to the remaining Participants who are eligible for an allocation of Employer contributions for the Plan Year. The reallocation shall be made in accordance with Section 4.1 of the Plan as if the
Participant whose Account otherwise would receive the excess amount is not eligible for an allocation of Employer contributions. 
 (ii) If
the allocation or reallocation of the excess amounts causes the limitations of Code section 415 to be exceeded with respect to each Participant for the limitation year, then the excess amount will be held unallocated in a suspense account. The
suspense account will be applied to reduce future Employer contributions for all remaining Participants in the next limitation year and each succeeding limitation year if necessary. 
 (iii) If a suspense account is in existence at any time during a limitation year, it will not participate in any allocation of investment gains and
losses. All amounts held in suspense accounts must be allocated to Participants’ Accounts before any contributions may be made to the Plan for the limitation year. 
 (iv) If a suspense account exists at the time of Plan termination, amounts held in the suspense account that cannot be allocated shall revert to the Employer. 
 5.1-3 For purposes of this Section 5.1, the “annual addition” to a Participant’s Accounts means the sum of (i) Employer
contributions, (ii) Employee contributions, if any, and (iii) forfeitures. For these purposes, annual additions to a defined contribution plan shall not include the allocation of the excess amounts remaining in the Unallocated Stock Fund
subsequent to a sale of stock from such fund in accordance with a transaction described in Section 8.1 of the Plan. 
  

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 5.1-4 Notwithstanding the foregoing, if no more than one-third of the Employer contributions to the Plan
for a year which are deductible under Section 404(a)(9) of the Code are allocated to Highly Compensated Employees (within the meaning of Section 414(q) of the Internal Revenue Code), the limitations imposed herein shall not apply to:

 (i) forfeitures of Employer securities (within the meaning of Section 409 of the Code) under the Plan if such securities were acquired
with the proceeds of a loan described in Section 404(a)(9)(A) of the Code), or 
 (ii) Employer contributions to the Plan which are
deductible under Section 404(a)(9)(B) and charged against a Participant’s Account. 
 5.1-5 If the Employer contributes amounts, on
behalf of Eligible Employees covered by this Plan, to other “defined contribution plans” as defined in Section 3(34) of ERISA, the limitation on annual additions provided in this Section shall be applied to annual additions in the
aggregate to this Plan and to such other plans. Reduction of annual additions, where required, shall be accomplished first by reductions under such other plan pursuant to the directions of the named fiduciary for administration of such other plans
or under priorities, if any, established under the terms of such other plans and then by allocating any remaining excess for this Plan in the manner and priority set out above with respect to this Plan. 
 5.1-6 A limitation year shall mean each 12 consecutive month period ending on December 31. 
 5.2 Effect of Limitations. The Committee shall take whatever action may be necessary from time to time to assure compliance with the
limitations set forth in Section 5.1. Specifically, the Committee shall see that each Employer restrict its contributions for any Plan Year to an amount which, taking into account the amount of available forfeitures, may be completely allocated
to the Participants consistent with those limitations. Where the limitations would otherwise be exceeded by any Participant, further allocations to the Participant shall be curtailed to the extent necessary to satisfy the limitations. Where an
excessive amount is contributed on account of a mistake as to one or more Participants’ compensation, or there is an amount of forfeitures which may not be credited in the Plan Year in which it becomes available, the amount shall be corrected
in accordance with Section 5.1-2 of the Plan. If it is determined at any time that the Committee and/or Trustee has erred in accepting and allocating any contributions or forfeitures under this Plan, or in allocating net gain or loss pursuant
to Sections 8.2 and 8.3, then the Committee, in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, shall determine the manner in which such error shall be corrected and shall promptly advise the Trustee in writing of such error and of the method for correcting
such error. The Accounts of any or all Participants may be revised, if necessary, in order to correct such error. 
  

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 5.3 Limitations as to Certain Participants. Aside from the limitations set forth in
Section 5.1, if the Plan acquires any Company Stock in a transaction as to which a selling shareholder or the estate of a deceased shareholder is claiming the benefit of Section 1042 of the Code, the Committee shall see that none of such
Company Stock, and no other assets in lieu of such Company Stock, are allocated to the Accounts of certain Participants in order to comply with Section 409(n) of the Code. 
 This restriction shall apply at all times to a Participant who owns (taking into account the attribution rules under Section 318(a) of the Code,
without regard to the exception for employee plan trusts in Section 318(a)(2)(B)(i) more than 25 percent of any class of stock of a corporation which issued the Company Stock acquired by the Plan, or another corporation within the same
controlled group, as defined in Section 409(l)(4) of the Code (any such class of stock hereafter called a “Related Class”). For this purpose, a Participant who owns more than 25 percent of any Related Class at any time within the one
year preceding the Plan’s purchase of the Company Stock shall be subject to the restriction as to all allocations of the Company Stock, but any other Participant shall be subject to the restriction only as to allocations which occur at a time
when he owns more than 25 percent of any Related Class. 
 Further, this restriction shall apply to the selling shareholder claiming the
benefit of Section 1042 and any other Participant who is related to such a shareholder within the meaning of Section 267(b) of the Code, during the period beginning on the date of sale and ending on the later of (1) the date that is
ten years after the date of sale, or (2) the date of the Plan allocation attributable to the final payment of acquisition indebtedness incurred in connection with the sale. 
 This restriction shall not apply to any Participant who is a lineal descendant of a selling shareholder if the aggregate amounts allocated under the Plan
for the benefit of all such descendants do not exceed five percent of the Company Stock acquired from the shareholder. 
 5.4 Erroneous
Allocations. No Participant shall be entitled to any annual additions or other allocations to his Account in excess of those permitted under Section 5. If it is determined at any time that the administrator and/or Trustee have erred in
accepting and allocating any contributions or forfeitures under this Plan, or in allocating investment adjustments, or in excluding or including any person as a Participant, then the administrator, in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, shall
determine the manner in which such error shall be corrected, after taking into consideration Sections 3.6 and 3.7, if applicable, and shall promptly advise the Trustee in writing of such error and of the method for correcting such error. The
Accounts of any or all Participants may be revised, if necessary, in order to correct such error. 
  

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 5.5 Dividend Recharacterization. If any dividend paid on Stock shall be recharacterized to
be an Employer contribution to the Plan for any limitation year, and if this recharacterization would cause an allocation to the Participant’s Accounts to exceed the limits allowed under Section 415 of the Code for the limitation year,
then the Participant’s Accounts shall be retroactively reduced by an amount equal to the sum of (i) the excess of the amount credited to the Participant’s Accounts over the maximum amount that was properly allocable to his or her
Accounts (the “excess amount”) plus (ii) all earnings of the Trust Fund credited to the Participant’s Accounts that are attributable to the excess amount. This provision shall be administered in such a way as to assure
that no Participant receives any benefit from an allocation of any excess amount to his or her Accounts. Any excess amount and any earnings attributable to the excess amount shall be placed in the suspense account referred to in Section 5.1. It
shall be conclusively presumed that any error with respect to the characterization of any dividend payment by the Company was a mistake of fact with respect to which the Trustee or the Administrator shall be entitled to make corrective adjustments
to Participant Accounts. 
 Section 6. Trust Fund and Its Investment. 
 6.1 Creation of Trust Fund. All amounts received under the Plan from Employers and investments shall be held as the Trust Fund pursuant to
the terms of this Plan and of the Trust Agreement between the Bank and the Trustee. The benefits described in this Plan shall be payable only from the assets of the Trust Fund, and none of the Bank, any other Employer, its board of directors or
trustees, its stockholders, its officers, its employees, the Committee, and the Trustee shall be liable for payment of any benefit under this Plan except from the Trust Fund. 
 6.2 Stock Fund and Investment Fund. The Trust Fund held by the Trustee shall be divided into the Stock Fund, consisting entirely of Company
Stock, and the Investment Fund, consisting of all assets of the Trust other than Company Stock. The Trustee shall have no investment responsibility for the Stock Fund, but shall accept any Employer contributions made in the form of Company Stock,
and shall acquire, sell, exchange, distribute, and otherwise deal with and dispose of Company Stock in accordance with the instructions of the Committee. The Trustee shall have full responsibility for the investment of the Investment Fund, except to
the extent such responsibility may be delegated from time to time to one or more investment managers pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Trust Agreement, or to the extent the Committee directs the Trustee to purchase Company Stock with the assets in
the Investment Fund. 
 6.3 Acquisition of Company Stock. From time to time the Committee may, in its sole discretion, direct
the Trustee to acquire Company Stock from the issuing Employer or from shareholders, including shareholders who are or have been Employees, Participants, or fiduciaries with respect to the Plan. The Trustee shall pay for such Company Stock no more
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pursuant to Section 12.3. The Committee may direct the Trustee to finance the acquisition of Company Stock by incurring or assuming indebtedness to the
seller or another party which indebtedness shall be called a “Stock Obligation.” The term “Stock Obligation” shall refer to a loan made to the Plan by a disqualified person within the meaning of Section 4975(e)(2) of the
Code, or a loan to the Plan which is guaranteed by a disqualified person. A Stock Obligation includes a direct loan of cash, a purchase-money transaction, and an assumption of an obligation of a tax-qualified employee stock ownership plan under
Section 4975(e)(7) of the Code (“ESOP”). For these purposes, the term “guarantee” shall include an unsecured guarantee and the use of assets of a disqualified person as collateral for a loan, even though the use of assets
may not be a guarantee under applicable state law. An amendment of a Stock Obligation in order to qualify as an “exempt loan” is not a refinancing of the Stock Obligation or the making of another Stock Obligation. The term “exempt
loan” refers to a loan that satisfies the provisions of this paragraph. A “non-exempt loan” fails to satisfy this paragraph. Any Stock Obligation shall be subject to the following conditions and limitations: 
 6.3-1 A Stock Obligation shall be for a specific term, shall not be payable on demand except in the event of default, and shall bear a reasonable rate of
interest. 
 6.3-2 A Stock Obligation may, but need not, be secured by a collateral pledge of either the Company Stock acquired in exchange
for the Stock Obligation, or the Company Stock previously pledged in connection with a prior Stock Obligation which is being repaid with the proceeds of the current Stock Obligation. No other assets of the Plan and Trust may be used as collateral
for a Stock Obligation, and no creditor under a Stock Obligation shall have any right or recourse to any Plan and Trust assets other than Company Stock remaining subject to a collateral pledge. 
 6.3-3 Any pledge of Company Stock to secure a Stock Obligation must provide for the release of pledged Company Stock in connection with payments on the
Stock Obligations in the ratio prescribed in Section 4.2. 
 6.3-4 Repayments of principal and interest on any Stock Obligation shall be
made by the Trustee only from Employer cash contributions designated for such payments, from earnings on such contributions, and from cash dividends received on Company Stock, in the last case, however, subject to the further requirements of
Section 7.2. 
 6.3-5 In the event of default of a Stock Obligation, the value of Plan assets transferred in satisfaction of the Stock
Obligation must not exceed the amount of the default. If the lender is a disqualified person within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code, a Stock Obligation must provide for a transfer of Plan assets upon default only upon and to the extent
of the failure of the Plan to meet the payment schedule of said Stock Obligation. For purposes of this paragraph, the making of a guarantee does not make a person a lender. 
  

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 6.4 Participants’ Option to Diversify. The Committee shall provide for a procedure
under which each Participant may, during the qualified election period, elect to “diversify” a portion of the Company Stock allocated to his Account, as provided in Section 401(a)(28)(B) of the Code. An election to diversify must be
made on the prescribed form and filed with the Committee within the period specified herein. For each of the first five (5) Plan years in the qualified election period, the Participant may elect to diversify an amount which does not exceed 25%
of the number of shares allocated to his Account since the inception of the Plan, less all shares with respect to which an election under this Section has already been made. For the last year of the qualified election period, the Participant may
elect to have up to 50 percent of the value of his Account committed to other investments, less all shares with respect to which an election under this Section has already been made. The term “qualified election period” shall mean the six
(6) Plan Year period beginning with the first Plan Year in which a Participant has both attained age 55 and completed 10 years of participation in the Plan. A Participant’s election to diversify his Account may be made within each year of
the qualified election period and shall continue for the 90-day period immediately following the last day of each year in the qualified election period. Once a Participant makes such election, the Plan must complete diversification in accordance
with such election within 90 days after the end of the period during which the election could be made for the Plan Year. In the discretion of the Committee, the Plan may satisfy the diversification requirement by any of the following methods:

 6.4-1 The Plan may distribute all or part of the amount subject to the diversification election. 
 6.4-2 The Plan may offer the Participant at least three other distinct investment options, if available under the Plan. The other investment options
shall satisfy the requirements of Regulations under Section 404(c) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”). 
 6.4-3 The Plan may transfer the portion of the Participant’s Account subject to the diversification election to another qualified defined contribution plan of the Employer that offers at least three investment
options satisfying the requirements of the Regulations under Section 404(c) of ERISA. 
 Section 7. Voting Rights and Dividends on Company
Stock. 
 7.1 Voting and Tendering of Company Stock. 
 7.1-1. The Trustee generally shall vote all shares of Company Stock held under the Plan in accordance with the written instructions of the
Committee. However, if any Employer has registration-type class of securities within the meaning of Section 409(e)(4) of the Code, or if a matter submitted to the holders of the Company Stock involves a merger, consolidation,
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substantially all assets of an entity, then (i) the shares of Company Stock which have been allocated to Participants’ Accounts shall be voted by
the Trustee in accordance with the Participants’ written instructions, and (ii) the Trustee shall vote any unallocated Company Stock, allocated Company Stock for which it has received no voting instructions, and Company Stock for which
Participants vote to “abstain,” in the same proportions as it votes the allocated Company Stock for which it has received instructions from Participants; provided, however, that if an exempt loan, as defined in Section 4975(d) of the
Code, is outstanding and the Plan is in default on such exempt loan, as default is defined in the loan documents, then to the extent that such loan documents require the lender to exercise voting rights with respect to the unallocated shares, the
loan documents will prevail. In the event no shares of Company Stock have been allocated to Participants’ Accounts at the time Company Stock is to be voted and any exempt loan which may be outstanding is not in default, each Participant shall
be deemed to have one share of Company Stock allocated to his or her Account for the sole purpose of providing the Trustee with voting instructions. 
 Notwithstanding any provision hereunder to the contrary, all unallocated shares of Company Stock must be voted by the Trustee in a manner determined by the Trustee to be for the exclusive benefit of the Participants
and Beneficiaries. Whenever such voting rights are to be exercised, the Employers shall provide the Trustee, in a timely manner, with the same notices and other materials as are provided to other holders of the Company Stock, which the Trustee shall
distribute to the Participants. The Participants shall be provided with adequate opportunity to deliver their instructions to the Trustee regarding the voting of Company Stock allocated to their Accounts. The instructions of the Participants’
with respect to the voting of allocated shares hereunder shall be confidential. 
 7.1-2 In the event of a tender offer, Company Stock shall
be tendered by the Trustee in the same manner as set forth above with respect to the voting of Company Stock. Notwithstanding any provision hereunder to the contrary, Company Stock must be tendered by the Trustee in a manner determined by the
Trustee to be for the exclusive benefit of the Participants and Beneficiaries. 
 7.2 Application of Dividends. 
 7.2-1 Stock Dividends. Dividends on Company Stock which are received by the Trustee in the form of additional Company Stock shall be retained in
the Stock Fund, and shall be allocated among the Participants’ Accounts and the Unallocated Stock Fund in accordance with their holdings of the Company Stock on which the dividends are paid. 
 7.2-2 Cash Dividends. The treatment of dividends paid in cash shall be determined after consideration to whether the cash dividends are paid on
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 (i) On Company Stock in Participants’ Accounts. 
 (A) Employer Exercises Discretion. Dividends on Company Stock credited to Participants’ Accounts which are received by the Trustee in the
form of cash shall, at the direction of the Employer paying the dividends, either (i) be credited to the Accounts in accordance with Section 8.4(c) and invested as part of the Investment Fund, (ii) be distributed immediately to the
Participants in proportion with the Participants’ Stock Fund Account balance, (iii) be distributed to the Participants within 90 days of the close of the Plan Year in which paid in proportion with the Participants’ Stock Fund Account
balance or (iv) be used to make payments on the Stock Obligation. If dividends on Company Stock allocated to a Participant’s Account are used to repay the Stock Obligation, Company Stock with a Fair Market Value equal to the dividends so
used must be allocated to such Participant’s Account in lieu of the dividends. 
 (B) Participant Exercises Discretion over
Dividend. In addition, in the sole discretion of the Employer, the Employer may grant Participants the right to elect: (I) to have cash dividends paid on shares of Company Stock credited to such Participants’ Stock Fund Accounts
distributed to the Participant, or (II) to leave the cash dividends allocated to the Participant’s Account in the Plan, to be credited to the Stock Fund Account and invested in shares of Company Stock. Dividends on which such election may be
made will be fully vested in the Participant (even if not otherwise vested, absent the ability to make such election). Accordingly, the Employer may choose to offer this election only to Participants who are fully vested in their Account. In the
event the Employer elects to give Participants the right to determine the treatment of such dividends, the Participant’s election shall be made by filing with the Committee the appropriate written direction as provided by the Committee at such
time and in accordance with such procedures and limitations which the Committee may from time to time establish; provided, however, that the procedures established by the Committee shall provide a reasonable opportunity to change the election at
least annually, may establish a default election if a Participant fails to make an affirmative election within the time established for making elections, may provide that the election is applicable for the Plan Year and cannot be revoked with
respect to such Plan Year, shall otherwise be implemented in a manner such that the dividends paid or reinvested will constitute “applicable dividends” which may be deducted under Code Section 404(k), and are in accordance with
applicable guidance issued or to be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. If the Employer elects to give Participants the right to exercise the discretion in this Paragraph 7.2-2(i)(B), the ability to make such election shall be available to the
Participant with respect to dividends paid for the entire Plan Year. 
 (ii) On Company Stock in the Unallocated Stock Fund.
Dividends received on shares of Company Stock held in the Unallocated Stock Fund shall be applied to the repayment of principal and interest then due on the Stock Obligation used to acquire such shares. If the amount of dividends exceeds the amount
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interest (including any prepayments of principal and interest deemed advisable by the Employer), then in the sole discretion of the Committee, the excess
shall: (A) be allocated to Active Participants on a non-discriminatory basis, consistent with Section 7.2-2(i) above, and in the discretion of the Committee, treated as a dividend described in such Section, or (B) be deemed to be
general earnings of the Trust Fund and used for paying appropriate Plan or Trust related expenditures for the Plan Year, including make-up contributions to inadvertently omitted Eligible Employees under Section 3.6. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, dividends paid on a share of Company Stock may not be used to make payments on a particular Stock Obligation unless the share was acquired with the proceeds of such loan or a refinancing of such loan. 
 Section 8. Adjustments to Accounts. 
 8.1
ESOP Allocations. Amounts available for allocation for a particular Plan Year will be divided into two categories. The first category relates to shares of Company Stock released from the Unallocated Stock Fund attributable to using
cash dividends to make Stock Obligation payments. The second category relates to contributions made by the Employer, shares of Company Stock released from the Unallocated Stock Fund on the basis of Employer contributions (or on the basis of the
complete repayment of the Stock Obligation through the sale or other disposition of Company Stock in the Unallocated Stock Fund) and amounts forfeited from Stock Fund Accounts pursuant to Section 9.5. 
 8.1-1. Shares of Company Stock attributable to the first category will be allocated to the Stock Fund Accounts of eligible Participants as follows:

 (i) first, if dividends paid on shares of Company Stock held in Participants’ Stock Fund Accounts are used to make payments on an
Stock Obligation, there shall be allocated to each such account a number of shares of Company Stock released from the Unallocated Stock Fund with a Fair Market Value (determined as of the Valuation Date coincident with or immediately preceding the
loan payment date) that at least equals the amount of dividends so used, 
 (ii) second, if necessary, any remaining shares of Company
Stock shall be applied to reinstate amounts forfeited from Stock Fund Accounts of former employees who are entitled to a reinstatement under Section 9.5, and 
 (iii) finally, any remaining shares of Company Stock shall be allocated as a general investment gain in proportion to the number of shares held in the Active Participants’ Stock Fund Accounts as of the last
Valuation Date of the Plan Year for which they are allocated in the same manner as described in Section 7.2-2(i). 
 8.1-2. Shares of
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the basis of Employer contributions, and amounts forfeited) will be allocated to the Stock Fund Accounts or Investment Fund Accounts, as the case may be, pro
rata, in proportion to the 415 Compensation of each Active Participant that was earned by such Participant during the period of the Plan Year in which such person participated in the Plan compared to total 415 Compensation for all Active
Participants. 
 8.1-3. Shares of Company Stock or cash attributable to contributions made under Section 4.1-2 shall be allocated
specifically to the Participants on whose behalf such contributions were made. 
 8.1-4 If, in any Plan Year during which an outstanding
Stock Obligation exists, the Employer directs the Trustee to sell or otherwise dispose of a number of shares of Company Stock in the Unallocated Stock Fund sufficient to repay, in its entirety, the Stock Obligations, and following such repayment,
there remains Company Stock or other assets in the Unallocated Stock Fund, such Company Stock or other assets shall be allocated as of the last day of the Plan Year in which the repayment occurred as earnings of the Plan to Active Participants, in
proportion to the number of shares held in Active Participants’ Stock Fund Accounts. 
 8.2 Charges to Accounts. When a
Valuation Date occurs, any distributions made to or on behalf of any Participant or Beneficiary since the last preceding Valuation Date shall be charged to the proper Accounts maintained for that Participant or Beneficiary. 
 8.3 Stock Fund Account. Subject to the provisions of Sections 5 and 8.1, as of the last day of each Plan Year, the Trustee shall
credit to each Participant’s Stock Fund Account: (a) the Participant’s allocable share of Company Stock purchased by the Trustee or contributed by the Employer to the Trust Fund for that year; (b) the Participant’s allocable
share of the Company Stock that is released from the Unallocated Stock Fund for that year; (c) the Participant’s allocable share of any forfeitures of Company Stock arising under the Plan during that year; and (d) any stock dividends
declared and paid during that year on Company Stock credited to the Participant’s Stock Fund Account. 
 8.4 Investment Fund
Account. Subject to the provisions of Sections 5 and 8.1, as of the last day of each Plan Year, the Trustee shall credit to each Participant’s Investment Fund Account: (a) the Participant’s allocable share of any contribution
for that year made by the Employer in cash or in property other than Company Stock that is not used by the Trustee to purchase Company Stock or to make payments due under a Stock Obligation; (b) the Participant’s allocable share of any
forfeitures from the Investment Fund Accounts of other Participants arising under the Plan during that year; (c) any cash dividends paid during that year on Company Stock credited to the Participant’s Stock Fund Account, other than
dividends which are paid directly to the Participant and other than dividends which are used to repay Stock Obligation; and (d) the share of the net income or loss of the Trust Fund properly allocable to that Participant’s Investment Fund
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 8.5 Adjustment to Value of Trust Fund. As of the last day of each Plan Year, the Trustee
shall determine: (i) the net worth of that portion of the Trust Fund which consists of properties other than Company Stock (the “Investment Fund”); and (ii) the increase or decrease in the net worth of the Investment Fund since
the last day of the preceding Plan Year. The net worth of the Investment Fund shall be the fair market value of all properties held by the Trustee under the Trust Agreement other than Company Stock, net of liabilities other than liabilities to
Participants and their beneficiaries. The Trustee shall allocate to the Investment Fund Account of each Participant that percentage of the increase or decrease in the net worth of the Investment Fund equal to the ratio which the balances credited to
the Participant’s Investment Fund Account bear to the total amount credited to all Participants’ Investments Fund Accounts. This allocation shall be made after application of Section 7.2, but before application of Sections 8.1, 8.4
and 5.1. 
 8.6 Participant Statements. Each Plan Year, the Trustee will provide each Participant with a statement of his or
her Account balances as of the last day of the Plan Year. 
 Section 9. Vesting of Participants’ Interests. 
 9.1 Vesting in Accounts. A Participant’s vested interest in his Account shall be based on his Vesting Years in accordance with the
following table, subject to the balance of this Section 9: 
  

				
	 Vesting Years
	  	Percentage of
Interest Vested	 
	 Fewer than 1
	  	0	%
	 1 year
	  	20	%
	 2 years
	  	40	%
	 3 years
	  	60	%
	 4 years
	  	80	%
	 5 years
	  	100	%

 9.2 Computation of Vesting Years. For purposes of this Plan, a “Vesting
Year” means generally a Plan Year in which an Eligible Employee has performed at least 1,000 Hours of Service, beginning with the first Plan Year in which the Eligible Employee has completed an Hour of Service with the Employer, and including
Service with other Employers as provided in the definition of “Service.” Notwithstanding the above, an Employee who was employed with Ben Franklin Bank of Illinois, a federal mutual savings bank (the “Mutual Association”) which
is the predecessor to the Bank, shall receive credit for vesting purposes for each calendar year of continuous employment with the Mutual Bank in which such Employee completed 1,000 Hours of Service. However, a Participant’s Vesting Years shall
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 9.2-1 To the extent applicable, a Participant’s vested interest in his Account accumulated before
five (5) consecutive one year Breaks in Service shall be determined without regard to any Service after such five consecutive Breaks in Service. Further, if a Participant has five (5) consecutive one year Breaks in Service before his
interest in his Account has become vested to some extent, pre-Break in Service years of Service shall not be required to be taken into account for purposes of determining his post-Break in Service vested percentage. 
 9.2-2 To the extent applicable, in the case of a Participant who has five (5) or more consecutive one year Breaks in Service, the Participant’s
pre-Break in Service will count in vesting of the Employer-derived post-Break in Service accrued benefit only if either: 
 (i) such
Participant has any nonforfeitable interest in the accrued benefit attributable to Employer contributions at the time of separation from Service, or 
 (ii) upon returning to Service the number of consecutive one year Breaks in Service is less than the number of years of Service. 
 9.2-3 Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, calculation of service for determining Vesting Years with respect to qualified military service will be provided in accordance with Section 414(u)
of the Code. 
 9.2-4 To the extent applicable, if any amendment changes the vesting schedule, including an automatic change to or from a
top-heavy vesting schedule, any Participant with three (3) or more Vesting Years may, by filing a written request with the Employer, elect to have his vested percentage computed under the vesting schedule in effect prior to the amendment. The
election period must begin not later than the later of sixty (60) days after the amendment is adopted, the amendment becomes effective, or the Participant is issued written notice of the amendment by the Employer or the Committee. 

9.3 Full Vesting Upon Certain Events. 
 9.3-1 Notwithstanding Section 9.1, a Participant’s interest in his Account shall fully vest on the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. The Participant’s interest shall also fully vest in the
event that his Service is terminated by Early Retirement, Disability or by death. 
 9.3-2 The Participant’s interest in his Account
shall also fully vest in the event of a “Change in Control” of the Bank or the Company. For these purposes, “Change in Control” shall mean an event of a nature that (i) would be required to be reported in response to
Item 5.01 of the Current Report on Form 8 K, as in effect on the date hereof, pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”); or (ii) results in a Change in Control of the Bank or
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Owners Loan Act, as amended, and applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder as in effect at the time of the Change in Control (collectively, the
“HOLA”); or (iii) without limitation such a Change in Control shall be deemed to have occurred at such time as (a) any “Person” (as the term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the
“beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Bank or the Company representing 25% or more of the Bank’s or the Company’s outstanding securities except for any
securities purchased by the Bank’s employee stock ownership plan or trust; or (b) individuals who constitute the Board on the date hereof (the “Incumbent Board”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority thereof,
provided, however, that this sub-section (b) shall not apply if the Incumbent Board is replaced by the appointment by a Federal banking agency of a conservator or receiver for the Bank and, provided further that any person
becoming a director subsequent to the date hereof whose election was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors comprising the Incumbent Board or whose nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders was approved by the
same Nominating Committee serving under an Incumbent Board, shall be, for purposes of this clause (b), considered as though he were a member of the Incumbent Board; or (c) a reorganization, merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially
all the assets of the Bank or the Company, or similar transaction in which the Bank or Company is not the surviving institution occurs; or (d) a proxy statement soliciting proxies from stockholders of the Company, by someone other than the
current management of the Company, seeking stockholder approval of a plan of reorganization, merger or consolidation of the Company or similar transaction with one or more corporations as a result of which the outstanding shares of the class of
securities then subject to the Plan are to be exchanged for or converted into cash or property or securities not issued by the Company; or (e) a tender offer is made for 25% or more of the voting securities of the Company and the shareholders
owning beneficially or of record 25% or more of the outstanding securities of the Company have tendered or offered to sell their shares pursuant to such tender offer and such tendered shares have been accepted by the tender offeror. Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, the reorganization of the Bank by way of a second step conversion shall not be considered a “Change in Control.” 
 9.3-3 Upon a Change in Control described in 9.3-2, the Plan shall be terminated and the Plan Administrator shall direct the Trustee to sell a sufficient amount of Company Stock from the Unallocated Stock Fund to repay
any outstanding Stock Obligation in full. The proceeds of such sale shall be used to repay such Stock Obligation. After repayment of the Stock Obligation, all remaining shares in the Unallocated Stock Fund (or the proceeds thereof, if applicable)
shall be deemed to be earnings and shall be allocated in accordance with the requirements of Section 8.1-4. 
 9.4 Full Vesting
Upon Plan Termination. Notwithstanding Section 9.1, a Participant’s interest in his Account shall fully vest upon termination of this Plan or upon the permanent and complete discontinuance of contributions by his Employer. In the
event of a partial termination, the interest of each affected Participant shall fully vest with respect to that part of the Plan which is terminated. 
  

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 9.5 Forfeiture, Repayment, and Restoral. If a Participant’s Service terminates before
his interest in his Account is fully vested, that portion which has not vested shall be forfeited. If a Participant’s Service terminates prior to having any portion of his Account become vested, such Participant shall be deemed to have received
a distribution of his vested interest immediately upon his termination of Service. In all other cases, a forfeiture will occur on the earlier of (i) the date on which the Participant receives a distribution of the Participant’s vested
Account balance, or (ii) the end of the first Plan Year in which the Participant incurs a Break in Service. 
 If a Participant who has
suffered a forfeiture of the nonvested portion of his Account returns to Service before he has five (5) consecutive one-year Break in Service, the nonvested portion shall be restored, provided that, if the Participant had received a
distribution of his vested Account balance, the amount distributed shall be repaid prior to such restoral. The Participant may repay such amount at any time within five years after he has returned to Service. The amount repaid shall be credited to
his Account at the time it is repaid and an additional amount, equal to that portion of his Account which was previously forfeited, shall be restored to his Account at the same time from other Employees’ forfeitures and, if such forfeitures are
insufficient, then from amounts allocated in accordance with Section 8.1-1(ii), and if insufficient, then from a special contribution by his Employer for that year. Upon repayment by the Participant of the amounts that were distributed from his
or her Accounts: (i) there shall be restored to the Participant’s Stock Fund Account that number of shares that have a value equal to the value of the shares that previously were forfeited from his or her Stock Fund Account (determined as
of the date of forfeiture); and (ii) there shall have been restored to the Participant’s Investment Fund Account the amount forfeited from that Account. If the Participant did not receive a distribution of his vested Account balance, any
forfeiture restored shall include earnings that would have been credited to the Account but for the forfeiture. A Participant who was deemed to have received a distribution of his vested interest in the Plan shall have his Account restored as of the
first day on which he performs an Hour of Service after his return. Section 5.1, which imposes limitations on allocations to Participants and imposes limitations on contributions by the Bank, shall not apply to a reinstatement under this
Section. 
 9.6 Accounting for Forfeitures. If a portion of a Participant’s Account is forfeited, Company Stock allocated
to said Participant’s Account shall be forfeited only after other assets are forfeited. If interests in more than one class of Company Stock have been allocated to a Participant’s Account, the Participant must be treated as forfeiting the
same proportion of each class of Company Stock. A forfeiture shall be charged to the Participant’s Account as of the first day of the first Valuation Period in which the forfeiture becomes certain pursuant to Section 9.5. Except as
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3.6, a forfeiture shall be added to the contributions of the terminated Participant’s Employer which are to be credited to other Participants pursuant
to Section 4.1 as of the last day of the Plan Year in which the forfeiture becomes certain. 
 9.7 Vesting and
Nonforfeitability. A Participant’s interest in his Account which has become vested shall be nonforfeitable for any reason. 
 Section 10. Payment of Benefits. 
 10.1 Benefits for Participants. For a Participant whose Service
ends for any reason, distribution will be made to or for the benefit of the Participant or, in the case of the Participant’s death, his Beneficiary, by payment in a lump sum, in accordance with Section 10.2. Notwithstanding any provision
to the contrary, if the value of a Participant’s vested Account balance at the time of any distribution does not exceed $1,000, then such Participant’s vested Account shall be distributed in a lump sum within 60 days after the end of the
Plan Year in which employment terminates without the Participant’s consent. If the value of a Participant’s vested Account balance is in excess of $5,000, then his benefits shall not be paid prior to his Normal Retirement Date unless he
elects an early payment date in a written election filed with the Committee. A Participant may modify such an election at any time, provided any new benefit payment date is at least 30 days after a modified election is delivered to the Committee.
Failure of a Participant to consent to a distribution prior his Normal Retirement Date shall be deemed to be an election to defer commencement of payment of any benefit under this section. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless a Participant elects
to receive a distribution, the Plan administrator shall transfer accounts in excess of $1,000 but less than $5,000 in a direct rollover to an individual retirement plan designated by the Plan administrator in accordance with Code
Section 401(a)(31)(B) and the regulations promulgated thereunder. All distributions of $5,000 or less that are made pursuant to this Section without the Participant’s consent shall be made in cash. 
 10.2 Time for Distribution. 
 10.2-1 If the Participant and, if applicable, with the consent of the Participant’s spouse, elects the distribution of the Participant’s Account balance in the Plan, distribution shall commence as soon as practicable following his
termination of Service, but no later than one year after the close of the Plan Year in which the Participant separates from service following the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date under the Plan, Disability, or death. 
 10.2-2 Unless the Participant elects otherwise, the distribution of the balance of a Participant’s Account shall commence not later than the 60th
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 (ii) occurs the tenth anniversary of the year in which the Participant commenced participation in the
Plan; or 
 (iii) the Participant terminates Service with the Employer. 
 10.2-3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, (1) with respect to a 5-percent owner (as defined in Code Section 416), distribution of a
Participant’s Account shall commence (whether or not he remains in the employ of the Employer) not later than the April 1 of the calendar year next following the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 70 1/2, and (2) with respect to all other Participants, payment of a Participant’s benefit will commence not
later than April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 70 1/2, or, if later, the year in which the Participant retires. A Participant’s benefit from that portion of his Account committed to the Investment Fund shall be calculated on the basis of the most recent Valuation Date before the
date of payment. 
 10.2-4 Distribution of a Participant’s Account balance after the Participant’s death shall comply
with the following requirements: 
 (i) If a Participant dies before distributions have commenced, distribution of his Account to his
Beneficiary shall commence not later than one year after the end of the Plan Year in which the Participant died; however, if the Participant’s Beneficiary is his surviving Spouse, distributions may commence on the date on which the Participant
would have attained age 70 1/2. In either case, distributions shall be completed within five years after
they commence. 
 (ii) If the Participant dies after distribution has commenced pursuant to Section 10.1 but before his entire
interest in the Plan has been distributed to him, then the remaining portion of that interest shall, in accordance with Section 401(a)(9) of the Code, be distributed at least as rapidly as under the method of distribution being used under
Section 10.1 at the date of his death. 
 (iii) If a married Participant dies before benefit payments begin, then the Committee shall
cause the balance in his Account to be paid to his Beneficiary, provided, however, that no election by a married Participant of a different Beneficiary than his surviving Spouse shall be valid unless the election is accompanied by the Spouse’s
written consent, which (i) must acknowledge the effect of the election, (ii) must explicitly provide either that the designated Beneficiary may not subsequently be changed by the Participant without the Spouse’s further consent, or
that it may be changed without such consent, and (iii) must be witnessed by the Committee, its representative, or a notary public. This requirement shall not apply if the Participant establishes to the Committee’s satisfaction that the
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 10.2-5 All distributions under this section shall be determined and made in accordance with Code
Section 401(a)(9) and final Treasury Regulations Sections 1.401(a)(9)-1 through 1.401(a)(9)-9, including the minimum distribution incidental benefit requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9)(G). These provisions override any distribution
options in the Plan inconsistent with Code Section 401(a)(9). 
 10.3 Marital Status. The Committee, the Plan, the
Trustee, and the Employers shall be fully protected and discharged from any liability to the extent of any benefit payments made as a result of the Committee’s good faith and reasonable reliance upon information obtained from a Participant and
his Employer as to his marital status. 
 10.4 Delay in Benefit Determination. If the Committee is unable to determine the
benefits payable to a Participant or Beneficiary on or before the latest date prescribed for payment pursuant to Section 10.1 or 10.2, the benefits shall in any event be paid within 60 days after they can first be determined, with whatever
makeup payments may be appropriate in view of the delay. 
 10.5 Accounting for Benefit Payments. Any benefit payment shall be
charged to the Participant’s Account as of the first day of the Valuation Period in which the payment is made. 
 10.6 Options to
Receive Company Stock. Unless ownership of virtually all Company Stock is restricted to active Employees and qualified retirement plans for the benefit of Employees pursuant to the certificates of incorporation or by-laws of the Employers
issuing Company Stock, a terminated Participant or the Beneficiary of a deceased Participant may instruct the Committee to distribute the Participant’s entire vested interest in his Account in the form of Company Stock. In that event, the
Committee shall apply the Participant’s vested interest in the Investment Fund to purchase sufficient Company Stock from the Stock Fund or from any owner of Company Stock to make the required distribution. In all other cases, other than as
specifically set forth in Section 10.1, the Participant’s vested interest in the Stock Fund shall be distributed in shares of Company Stock, and his vested interest in the Investment Fund shall be distributed in cash. 
 Except in the case of Company Stock that is treated on an established securities market, any Participant who receives Company Stock pursuant to
Section 10.1, and any person who has received Company Stock from the Plan or from such a Participant by reason of the Participant’s death or incompetence, by reason of divorce or separation from the Participant, or by reason of a rollover
contribution described in Section 402(a)(5) of the Code, shall have the right to require the Employer which issued the Company Stock to purchase the Company Stock for its current Fair Market Value (hereinafter referred to as the “put
right”). The put right shall be exercisable by written notice to the Committee during the first 60 days after the Company Stock is distributed by the Plan, and, if not exercised in that period, during the first 60 days in the following Plan
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communicated to the Participant its determination as to the Company Stock’s current Fair Market Value. However, the put right shall not apply to the
extent that the Company Stock, at the time the put right would otherwise be exercisable, may be sold on an established market in accordance with federal and state securities laws and regulations. Similarly, the put option shall not apply with
respect to the portion of a Participant’s Account which the Employee elected to have reinvested under Code Section 401(a)(28)(B). If the put right is exercised, the Trustee may, if so directed by the Committee in its sole discretion,
assume the Employer’s rights and obligations with respect to purchasing the Company Stock. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in the case of a plan established by a bank (as defined in Code Section 581), the put option shall
not apply if prohibited by a federal or state law and Participants are entitled to elect their benefits be distributed in cash. 
 The
Employer or the Trustee, as the case may be, may elect to pay for the Company Stock in equal periodic installments, not less frequently than annually, over a period beginning not later than 30 days after the exercise of the put right and not
exceeding five years, with adequate security and interest at a reasonable rate on the unpaid balance, all such terms to be set forth in a promissory note delivered to the seller with normal terms as to acceleration upon any uncured default.

 Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to obligate any Employer to register any Company Stock under any federal or state securities law
or to create or maintain a public market to facilitate the transfer or disposition of any Company Stock. The put right described herein may only be exercised by a person described in the second preceding paragraph, and may not be transferred with
any Company Stock to any other person. As to all Company Stock purchased by the Plan in exchange for any Stock Obligation, the put right shall be nonterminable. The put right for Company Stock acquired through a Stock Obligation shall continue with
respect to such Company Stock after the Stock Obligation is repaid or the Plan ceases to be an employee stock ownership plan. 
 10.7
Restrictions on Disposition of Company Stock. Except in the case of Company Stock which is traded on an established securities market, a Participant who receives Company Stock pursuant to Section 10.1, and any person who has
received Company Stock from the Plan or from such a Participant by reason of the Participant’s death or incompetence, by reason of divorce or separation from the Participant, or by reason of a rollover contribution described in
Section 402(a)(5) of the Code, shall, prior to any sale or other transfer of the Company Stock to any other person, first offer the Company Stock to the issuing Employer and to the Plan at the greater of (i) its current Fair Market Value,
or (ii) the purchase price offered in good faith by an independent third party purchaser. This restriction shall apply to any transfer, whether voluntary, involuntary, or by operation of law, and whether for consideration or gratuitous. Either
the Employer or the Trustee may accept the offer within 14 days after it is delivered. Any Company Stock distributed by the Plan shall bear a conspicuous legend describing the right of first refusal under this Section 10.7, as well as any other
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 10.8 Continuing Loan Provisions; Creations of Protections and Rights. Except as otherwise
provided in Sections 10.6 and 10.7 and this Section, no shares of Company Stock held or distributed by the Trustee may be subject to a put, call or other option, or buy-sell arrangement. The provisions of this Section shall continue to be applicable
to such Company Stock even if the Plan ceases to be an employee stock ownership plan under Section 4975(e)(7) of the Code. 
 10.9
Direct Rollover of Eligible Distribution. A Participant or distributee may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Trustee or the Committee, to have any portion of an eligible rollover distribution paid directly to an
eligible retirement plan specified by the Participant or distributee in a direct rollover. 
 10.9-1 An “eligible rollover” is any
distribution that does not include: any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) made for the life (or life expectancy) of the distributee or the joint lives (or joint life
expectancies) of the Participant and the Participant’s Beneficiary, or for a specified period of ten years or more; any distribution to the extent such distribution is required under Code Section 401(a)(9); any hardship distribution
described in Section 401(k)(2)(B)(i)(IV) of the Code; and the portion of any distribution that is not included in gross income (determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to employer securities). A
portion of a distribution shall not fail to be an eligible rollover distribution merely because the portion consists of after-tax employee contributions which are not includible in gross income. However, such portion may be transferred only to an
individual retirement account or annuity described in section 408(a) or (b) of the Code, or to a qualified defined contribution plan described in section 401(a) or 403(a) of the Code that agrees to separately accounting for the portion of such
distribution which is includible in gross income and the portion of such distribution which is not so includible. 
 10.9-2 An “eligible
retirement plan” is an individual retirement account described in Code Section 408(a), an individual retirement annuity described in Code Section 408(b), an annuity plan described in Code Section 403(a), or a qualified trust
described in Code Section 401(a), that accepts the distributee’s eligible rollover distribution. An eligible retirement plan shall also include an annuity contract described in Section 403(b) of the Code and an eligible plan under
Section 457(b) of the Code which is maintained by a state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state and which agrees to separately account for amounts transferred into such plan from this Plan. In the case
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 10.9-3 A “direct rollover” is a payment by the Plan to the eligible retirement plan specified
by the distributee. 
 10.9-4 The term “distributee” shall refer to a deceased Participant’s Spouse or a Participant’s
former Spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, as defined in Code Section 414(p). 
 10.10
Waiver of 30-Day Period After Notice of Distribution. If a distribution is one to which Sections 401(a)(11) and 417 of the Code do not apply, such distribution may commence less than 30 days after the notice required under
Section 1.411(a)-11(c) of the Income Tax Regulations is given, provided that: 
 (i) the Trustee or Committee, as applicable, clearly
informs the Participant that the Participant has a right to a period of at least 30 days after receiving the notice to consider the decision of whether or not to elect a distribution (and, if applicable, a particular option), and 
 (ii) the Participant, after receiving the notice, affirmatively elects a distribution. 
 Section 11. Rules Governing Benefit Claims and Review of Appeals. 
 11.1 Claim for
Benefits. Any Participant or Beneficiary who qualifies for the payment of benefits shall file a claim for his benefits with the Committee on a form provided by the Committee. The claim, including any election of an alternative benefit form,
shall be filed at least 30 days before the date on which the benefits are to begin. If a Participant or Beneficiary fails to file a claim by the day before the date on which benefits become payable, he shall be presumed to have filed a claim for
payment for the Participant’s benefits in the standard form prescribed by Sections 10.1 or 10.2. 
 11.2 Notification by
Committee. Within 90 days after receiving a claim for benefits (or within 180 days, if special circumstances require an extension of time and written notice of the extension is given to the Participant or Beneficiary within 90 days after
receiving the claim for benefits), the Committee shall notify the Participant or Beneficiary whether the claim has been approved or denied. If the Committee denies a claim in any respect, the Committee shall set forth in a written notice to the
Participant or Beneficiary: 
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 (iii) a description of any additional material or information which could be submitted by the Participant
or Beneficiary to support his claim, with an explanation of the relevance of such information; and 
 (iv) an explanation of the claims
review procedures set forth in Section 11.3. 
 11.3 Claims Review Procedure. Within 60 days after a Participant or
Beneficiary receives notice from the Committee that his claim for benefits has been denied in any respect, he may file with the Committee a written notice of appeal setting forth his reasons for disputing the Committee’s determination. In
connection with his appeal the Participant or Beneficiary or his representative may inspect or purchase copies of pertinent documents and records to the extent not inconsistent with other Participants’ and Beneficiaries’ rights of privacy.
Within 60 days after receiving a notice of appeal from a prior determination (or within 120 days, if special circumstances require an extension of time and written notice of the extension is given to the Participant or Beneficiary and his
representative within 60 days after receiving the notice of appeal), the Committee shall furnish to the Participant or Beneficiary and his representative, if any, a written statement of the Committee’s final decision with respect to his claim,
including the reasons for such decision and the particular Plan provisions upon which it is based. 
 Section 12. The Committee and its
Functions. 
 12.1 Authority of Committee. The Committee shall be the “plan administrator” within the meaning
of ERISA and shall have exclusive responsibility and authority to control and manage the operation and administration of the Plan, including the interpretation and application of its provisions, except to the extent such responsibility and authority
are otherwise specifically (i) allocated to the Bank, the Employers, or the Trustee under the Plan and Trust Agreement, (ii) delegated in writing to other persons by the Bank, the Employers, the Committee, or the Trustee, or
(iii) allocated to other parties by operation of law. The Committee shall have exclusive responsibility regarding decisions concerning the payment of benefits under the Plan. The Committee shall have no investment responsibility with respect to
the Investment Fund except to the extent, if any, specifically provided in the Trust Agreement. In the discharge of its duties, the Committee may employ accountants, actuaries, legal counsel, and other agents (who also may be employed by an Employer
or the Trustee in the same or some other capacity) and may pay their reasonable expenses and compensation. 
 12.2 Identity of
Committee. The Committee shall consist of the those persons appointed to the Committee by the Bank from time to time. Any individual, including a director, trustee, shareholder, officer, or Employee of an Employer, shall be eligible to serve
as a member of the Committee. The Bank shall have the power to remove any individual serving on the Committee at any time without cause upon 10 days written notice, and any individual may resign from the Committee at any time upon 10 days written
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 12.3 Duties of Committee. The Committee shall keep whatever records may be necessary to
implement the Plan and shall furnish whatever reports may be required from time to time by the Bank. The Committee shall furnish to the Trustee whatever information may be necessary to properly administer the Trust. The Committee shall see to the
filing with the appropriate government agencies of all reports and returns required of the Plan under ERISA and other laws. 
 Further, the
Committee shall have exclusive responsibility and authority with respect to the Plan’s holdings of Company Stock and shall direct the Trustee in all respects regarding the purchase, retention, sale, exchange, and pledge of Company Stock and the
creation and satisfaction of Stock Obligations. The Committee shall at all times act consistently with the Bank’s long-term intention that the Plan, as an employee stock ownership plan, be invested primarily in Company Stock. Subject to the
direction of the board as to the application of Employer contributions to Stock Obligations, and subject to the provisions of Sections 6.4 and 10.6 as to Participants’ rights under certain circumstances to have their Accounts invested in
Company Stock or in assets other than Company Stock, the Committee shall determine in its sole discretion the extent to which assets of the Trust shall be used to repay Stock Obligations, to purchase Company Stock, or to invest in other assets to be
selected by the Trustee or an investment manager. No provision of the Plan relating to the allocation or vesting of any interests in the Stock Fund or the Investment Fund shall restrict the Committee from changing any holdings of the Trust, whether
the changes involve an increase or a decrease in the Company Stock or other assets credited to Participants’ Accounts. In determining the proper extent of the Trust’s investment in Company Stock, the Committee shall be authorized to employ
investment counsel, legal counsel, appraisers, and other agents and to pay their reasonable expenses and compensation. 
 12.4
Compliance with ERISA. The Committee shall perform all acts necessary to comply with ERISA. Each individual member or employee of the Committee shall discharge his duties in good faith and in accordance with the applicable requirements
of ERISA. 
 12.5 Action by Committee. All actions of the Committee shall be governed by the affirmative vote of a number of
members which is a majority of the total number of members currently appointed, including vacancies. 
 12.6 Execution of
Documents. Any instrument executed by the Committee shall be signed by any member or employee of the Committee. 
 12.7
Adoption of Rules. The Committee shall adopt such rules and regulations of uniform applicability as it deems necessary or appropriate for the proper administration and interpretation of the Plan. 
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whatever summary plan descriptions, summary annual reports, and other notices and information may be required under ERISA. The Committee also shall determine
when a Participant or his Beneficiary qualifies for the payment of benefits under the Plan. The Committee shall furnish to each such Participant or Beneficiary whatever information is required under ERISA (or is otherwise appropriate) to enable the
Participant or Beneficiary to make whatever elections may be available pursuant to Sections 6 and 10, and the Committee shall provide for the payment of benefits in the proper form and amount from the assets of the Trust Fund. The Committee may
decide in its sole discretion to permit modifications of elections and to defer or accelerate benefits to the extent consistent with applicable law and the best interests of the individuals concerned. 
 12.9 Alternative Payees in Event of Incapacity. If the Committee finds at any time that an individual qualifying for benefits under this
Plan is a minor or is incompetent, the Committee may direct the benefits to be paid, in the case of a minor, to his parents, his legal guardian, or a custodian for him under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act, or, in the case of an incompetent, to his
spouse, or his legal guardian, the payments to be used for the individual’s benefit. The Committee and the Trustee shall not be obligated to inquire as to the actual use of the funds by the person receiving them under this Section, and any such
payment shall completely discharge the obligations of the Plan, the Trustee, the Committee, and the Employers to the extent of the payment. 
 12.10 Indemnification by Employers. Except as separately agreed in writing, the Committee, and any member or employee of the Committee, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Employer, jointly and severally, to the
fullest extent permitted by ERISA, and subject to and conditioned upon compliance with 12 C.F.R. Section 545.121, to the extent applicable, against any and all costs, damages, expenses, and liabilities reasonably incurred by or imposed upon it
or him in connection with any claim made against it or him or in which it or he may be involved by reason of its or his being, or having been, the Committee, or a member or employee of the Committee, to the extent such amounts are not paid by
insurance. 
 12.11 Nonparticipation by Interested Member. Any member of the Committee who also is a Participant in the Plan
shall take no part in any determination specifically relating to his own participation or benefits, unless his abstention would leave the Committee incapable of acting on the matter. 
 Section 13. Adoption, Amendment, or Termination of the Plan. 
 13.1 Adoption of Plan
by Other Employers. With the consent of the Bank, any entity may become a participating Employer under the Plan by (i) taking such action as shall be necessary to adopt the Plan, (ii) becoming a party to the Trust Agreement
establishing the Trust Fund, and (iii) executing and delivering such instruments and taking such other action as may be necessary or desirable to put the Plan into effect with respect to the entity’s Employees. 
  

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 13.2 Plan Adoption Subject to Qualification. Notwithstanding any other provision of the
Plan, the adoption of the Plan and the execution of the Trust Agreement are conditioned upon their being determined initially by the Internal Revenue Service to meet the qualification requirements of Section 401(a) of the Code, so that the
Employers may deduct currently for federal income tax purposes their contributions to the Trust and so that the Participants may exclude the contributions from their gross income and recognize income only when they receive benefits. In the event
that this Plan is held by the Internal Revenue Service not to qualify initially under Section 401(a), the Plan may be amended retroactively to the earliest date permitted by U.S. Treasury Regulations in order to secure qualification under
Section 401(a). If this Plan is held by the Internal Revenue Service not to qualify initially under Section 401(a) either as originally adopted or as amended, each Employer’s contributions to the Trust under this Plan (including any
earnings thereon) shall be returned to it and this Plan shall be terminated. In the event that this Plan is amended after its initial qualification and the Plan as amended is held by the Internal Revenue Service not to qualify under
Section 401(a), the amendment may be modified retroactively to the earliest date permitted by U.S. Treasury Regulations in order to secure approval of the amendment under Section 401(a). 
 13.3 Right to Amend or Terminate. The Bank intends to continue this Plan as a permanent program. However, each participating Employer
separately reserves the right to suspend, supersede, or terminate the Plan at any time and for any reason, as it applies to that Employer’s Employees, and the Bank reserves the right to amend, suspend, supersede, merge, consolidate, or
terminate the Plan at any time and for any reason, as it applies to the Employees of each Employer. No amendment, suspension, supersession, merger, consolidation, or termination of the Plan shall (i) reduce any Participant’s or
Beneficiary’s proportionate interest in the Trust Fund, (ii) reduce or restrict, either directly or indirectly, the benefit provided any Participant prior to the amendment, or (iii) divert any portion of the Trust Fund to purposes
other than the exclusive benefit of the Participants and their Beneficiaries prior to the satisfaction of all liabilities under the Plan. Moreover, there shall not be any transfer of assets to a successor plan or merger or consolidation with another
plan unless, in the event of the termination of the successor plan or the surviving plan immediately following such transfer, merger, or consolidation, each participant or beneficiary would be entitled to a benefit equal to or greater than the
benefit he would have been entitled to if the plan in which he was previously a participant or beneficiary had terminated immediately prior to such transfer, merger, or consolidation. Following a termination of this Plan by the Bank, the Trustee
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 Section 14. Miscellaneous Provisions. 
 14.1 Plan Creates No Employment Rights. Nothing in this Plan shall be interpreted as giving any Employee the right to be retained as an
Employee by an Employer, or as limiting or affecting the rights of an Employer to control its Employees or to terminate the Service of any Employee at any time and for any reason, subject to any applicable employment or collective bargaining
agreements. 
 14.2 Nonassignability of Benefits. No assignment, pledge, or other anticipation of benefits from the Plan will
be permitted or recognized by the Employer, the Committee, or the Trustee. Moreover, benefits from the Plan shall not be subject to attachment, garnishment, or other legal process for debts or liabilities of any Participant or Beneficiary, to the
extent permitted by law. This prohibition on assignment or alienation shall apply to any judgment, decree, or order (including approval of a property settlement agreement) which relates to the provision of child support, alimony, or property rights
to a present or former spouse, child or other dependent of a Participant pursuant to a state domestic relations or community property law, unless the judgment, decree, or order is determined by the Committee to be a qualified domestic relations
order within the meaning of Section 414(p) of the Code, as more fully set forth in Section 14.12 hereof. 
 14.3 Limit of
Employer Liability. The liability of the Employer with respect to Participants under this Plan shall be limited to making contributions to the Trust from time to time, in accordance with Section 4. 
 14.4 Treatment of Expenses. All expenses incurred by the Committee and the Trustee in connection with administering this Plan and Trust
Fund shall be paid by the Trustee from the Trust Fund to the extent the expenses have not been paid or assumed by the Employer or by the Trustee. The Committee may determine that, and shall inform the Trustee when, reasonable expenses may be charged
directly to the Account or Accounts of a Participant or group of Participants to whom or for whose benefit such expenses are allocable, subject to the guidelines set forth in Field Assistance Bulletin 2003-03, to the extent not superseded, or any
successor directive issued by the Department of Labor. 
 14.5 Number and Gender. Any use of the singular shall be interpreted
to include the plural, and the plural the singular. Any use of the masculine, feminine, or neuter shall be interpreted to include the masculine, feminine, or neuter, as the context shall require. 
 14.6 Nondiversion of Assets. Except as provided in Sections 5.2 and 14.12, under no circumstances shall any portion of the Trust Fund
be diverted to or used for any purpose other than the exclusive benefit of the Participants and their Beneficiaries prior to the satisfaction of all liabilities under the Plan. 
  

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 14.7 Separability of Provisions. If any provision of this Plan is held to be invalid or
unenforceable, the other provisions of the Plan shall not be affected but shall be applied as if the invalid or unenforceable provision had not been included in the Plan. 
 14.8 Service of Process. The agent for the service of process upon the Plan shall be the president of the Bank, or such other person as may be designated from time to time by the Bank. 
 14.9 Governing State Law. This Plan shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois to the extent those laws are
applicable under the provisions of ERISA. 
 14.10 Employer Contributions Conditioned on Deductibility. Employer Contributions
to the Plan are conditioned on deductibility under Code Section 404. In the event that the Internal Revenue Service shall determine that all or any portion of an Employer Contribution is not deductible under that Section, the nondeductible
portion shall be returned to the Employer within one year of the disallowance of the deduction. 
 14.11 Unclaimed Accounts.
Neither the Employer nor the Trustees shall be under any obligation to search for, or ascertain the whereabouts of, any Participant or Beneficiary. The Employer or the Trustees, by certified or registered mail addressed to his last known address of
record with the Employer, shall notify any Participant or Beneficiary that he is entitled to a distribution under this Plan, and the notice shall quote the provisions of this Section. If the Participant or Beneficiary fails to claim his benefits or
make his whereabouts known in writing to the Employer or the Trustees within seven (7) calendar years after the date of notification, the benefits of the Participant or Beneficiary under the Plan will be disposed of as follows: 
 (i) If the whereabouts of the Participant is unknown but the whereabouts of the Participant’s Beneficiary is known to the Trustees, distribution will
be made to the Beneficiary. 
 (ii) If the whereabouts of the Participant and his Beneficiary are unknown to the Trustees, the Plan will
forfeit the benefit, provided that the benefit is subject to a claim for reinstatement if the Participant or Beneficiary make a claim for the forfeited benefit. 
 Any payment made pursuant to the power herein conferred upon the Trustees shall operate as a complete discharge of all obligations of the Trustees, to the extent of the distributions so made. 
 14.12 Qualified Domestic Relations Order. Section 14.2 shall not apply to a “qualified domestic relations order” defined in
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of 1984. Further, to the extent provided under a “qualified domestic relations order,” a former Spouse of a Participant shall be treated as the
Spouse or surviving Spouse for all purposes under the Plan. 
 In the case of any domestic relations order received by the
Plan: 
 (i) The Employer or the Committee shall promptly notify the Participant and any other alternate payee of the receipt of such order
and the Plan’s procedures for determining the qualified status of domestic relations orders, and 
 (ii) Within a reasonable period
after receipt of such order, the Employer or the Committee shall determine whether such order is a qualified domestic relations order and notify the Participant and each alternate payee of such determination. The Employer or the Committee shall
establish reasonable procedures to determine the qualified status of domestic relations orders and to administer distributions under such qualified orders. 
 During any period in which the issue of whether a domestic relations order is a qualified domestic relations order is being determined (by the Employer or Committee, by a court of competent jurisdiction, or
otherwise), the Employer or the Committee shall segregate in a separate account in the Plan or in an escrow account the amounts which would have been payable to the alternate payee during such period if the order had been determined to be a
qualified domestic relations order. If within eighteen (18) months the order (or modification thereof) is determined to be a qualified domestic relations order, the Employer or the Committee shall pay the segregated amounts (plus any interest
thereon) to the person or persons entitled thereto. If within eighteen (18) months it is determined that the order is not a qualified domestic relations order, or the issue as to whether such order is a qualified domestic relations order is not
resolved, then the Employer or the Committee shall pay the segregated amounts (plus any interest thereon) to the person or persons who would have been entitled to such amounts if there had been no order. Any determination that an order is a
qualified domestic relations order which is made after the close of the eighteen (18) month period shall be applied prospectively only. The term “alternate payee” means any Spouse, former Spouse, child or other dependent of a
Participant who is recognized by a domestic relations order as having a right to receive all, or a portion of, the benefit payable under a Plan with respect to such Participant. 
 Section 15. Top-Heavy Provisions. 
 15.1 Top-Heavy Plan. This Plan is
top-heavy if any of the following conditions exist: 
 (i) If the top-heavy ratio for this Plan exceeds sixty percent (60%) and this Plan
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 (ii) If this Plan is a part of a required aggregation group (but is not part of a permissive aggregation
group) and the aggregate top-heavy ratio for the group of Plans exceeds sixty percent (60%); or 
 (iii) If this Plan is a part of a required
aggregation group and part of a permissive aggregation group and the aggregate top-heavy ratio for the permissive aggregation group exceeds sixty percent (60%). 
 15.2 Super Top-Heavy Plan This Plan will be a super top-heavy Plan if any of the following conditions exist: 
 (i) If the top-heavy ratio for this Plan exceeds ninety percent (90%) and this Plan is not part of any required aggregation group or permissive aggregation group. 
 (ii) If this Plan is a part of a required aggregation group (but is not part of a permissive aggregation group) and the aggregate top-heavy ratio for the
group of Plans exceeds ninety percent (90%), or 
 (iii) If this Plan is a part of a required aggregation group and part of a permissive
aggregation group and the aggregate top-heavy ratio for the permissive aggregation group exceeds ninety percent (90%). 
 15.3
Definitions. 
 In making this determination, the Committee shall use the following definitions and principles: 
 15.3-1 The “Determination Date,” with respect to the first Plan Year of any plan, means the last day of that Plan Year, and with respect to each
subsequent Plan Year, means the last day of the preceding Plan Year. If any other plan has a Determination Date which differs from this Plan’s Determination Date, the top-heaviness of this Plan shall be determined on the basis of the other
plan’s Determination Date falling within the same calendar years as this Plan’s Determination Date. 
 15.3-2 A “Key
Employee” means any employee or former employee (including any deceased employee) who at any time during the plan year that includes the determination date was an officer of the employer having annual compensation greater than $135,000 (as
adjusted under section 416(i)(1) of the Code), a 5-percent owner of the employer, or a 1-percent owner of the employer having annual compensation of more than $150,000. For this purpose, annual compensation means compensation within the meaning of
section 415(c)(3) of the Code. The determination of who is a key employee will be made in accordance with section 416(i)(1) of the Code and the applicable regulations and other guidance of general applicability issued thereunder. 
  

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 15.3-3 A “Non-key Employee” means an Employee who at any time during the five years ending on
the top-heavy Determination Date for the Plan Year has received compensation from an Employer and who has never been a Key Employee, and the Beneficiary of any such Employee. 
 15.3-4 A “required aggregation group” includes (a) each qualified Plan of the Employer in which at least one Key Employee participates in
the Plan Year containing the Determination Date and (b) any other qualified Plan of the Employer which enables a Plan described in (a) to meet the requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(4) or 410. For purposes of the preceding sentence, a
qualified Plan of the Employer includes a terminated Plan maintained by the Employer within the period ending on the Determination Date. In the case of a required aggregation group, each Plan in the group will be considered a top-heavy Plan if the
required aggregation group is a top-heavy group. No Plan in the required aggregation group will be considered a top-heavy Plan if the required aggregation group is not a top-heavy group. All Employers aggregated under Code Sections 414(b),
(c) or (m) or (o) (but only after the Code Section 414(o) regulations become effective) are considered a single Employer. 
 15.3-5 A “permissive aggregation group” includes the required aggregation group of Plans plus any other qualified Plan(s) of the Employer that are not required to be aggregated but which, when considered as a group with the
required aggregation group, satisfy the requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(4) and 410 and are comparable to the Plans in the required aggregation group. No Plan in the permissive aggregation group will be considered a top-heavy Plan if the
permissive aggregation group is not a top-heavy group. Only a Plan that is part of the required aggregation group will be considered a top-heavy Plan if the permissive aggregation group is top-heavy. 
 15.4 Top-Heavy Rules of Application. 
 For purposes of determining the value of Account balances and the present value of accrued benefits the following provisions shall apply: 
 15.4-1 The value of Account balances and the present value of accrued benefits will be determined as of the most recent Valuation Date that falls within or ends with the twelve (12) month period ending on the Determination Date.

 15.4-2 For purposes of testing whether this Plan is top-heavy, the present value of an individual’s accrued benefits and an
individual’s Account balances is counted only once each year. 
 15.4-3 The Account balances and accrued benefits of a Participant who
is not presently a Key Employee but who was a Key Employee in a Plan Year beginning on or after January 1, 1984 will be disregarded. 
  

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 15.4-4 Employer contributions attributable to a salary reduction or similar arrangement will be taken
into account. Employer matching contributions also shall be taken into account for purposes of satisfying the minimum contribution requirements of Section 416(c)(2) of the Code and the Plan. 
 15.4-5 When aggregating Plans, the value of Account balances and accrued benefits will be calculated with reference to the Determination Dates that fall
within the same calendar year. 
 15.4-6 The present values of accrued benefits and the amounts of account balances of an employee as of the
determination date shall be increased by the distributions made with respect to the employee under the plan and any plan aggregated with the plan under Section 416(g)(2) of the Code during the 1-year period ending on the determination date. The
preceding sentence shall also apply to distributions under a terminated plan which, had it not been terminated, would have been aggregated with the plan under Section 416(g)(2)(A)(i) of the Code. In the case of a distribution made for a reason
other than separation from service, death, or disability, this provision shall be applied by substituting “five (5) year period” for “one (1) year period.” 
 15.4-7 Accrued benefits and Account balances of an individual shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining the top-heavy ratios if the
individual has performed no services for the Employer during the one (1) year period ending on the applicable Determination Date. Compensation for purposes of this subparagraph shall not include any payments made to an individual by the
Employer pursuant to a qualified or non-qualified deferred compensation plan. 
 15.4-8 The present value of the accrued benefits or the
amount of the Account balances of any Employee participating in this Plan shall not include any rollover contributions or other transfers voluntarily initiated by the Employee except as described below. If this Plan transfers or rolls over funds to
another Plan in a transaction voluntarily initiated by the Employee, then this Plan shall count the distribution for purposes of determining Account balances or the present value of accrued benefits. A transfer incident to a merger or consolidation
of two or more Plans of the Employer (including Plans of related Employers treated as a single Employer under Code Section 414), or a transfer or rollover between Plans of the Employer, shall not be considered as voluntarily initiated by the
Employee. 
 15.5 Minimum Contributions. For any Top-Heavy Year, each Employer shall make a special contribution on behalf of
each Participant to the extent that the total allocations to his Account pursuant to Section 4 is less than the lesser of: 
 (i) three
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 (ii) the highest ratio of such allocation to 415 Compensation received by any Key Employee for that
year. For purposes of the special contribution of this Section 15.2, a Key Employee’s 415 Compensation shall include amounts the Key Employee elected to defer under a qualified 401(k) arrangement. Such a special contribution shall be
made on behalf of each Participant who is employed by an Employer on the last day of the Plan Year, regardless of the number of his Hours of Service, and shall be allocated to his Account. 
 If the Employer maintains a qualified plan in addition to this Plan and more than one such plan is determined to be Top-Heavy, a minimum contribution or
a minimum benefit shall be provided in one of such other plans, including a plan that consists solely of a cash or deferred arrangement which meets the requirements of Section 401(k)(12) of the Code and matching contributions with respect to
which the requirements of Section 401(m)(11) of the Code are met. If the Employer has both a Top-Heavy defined benefit plan and a Top-Heavy defined contribution plan and a minimum contribution is to be provided only in the defined contribution
plan, then the sum of the Employer contributions and forfeitures allocated to the Account of each Non-key Employee shall be equal to at least five percent (5%) of such Non-key Employee’s 415 Compensation for that year. 
 15.6 Top-Heavy Provisions Control in Top-Heavy Plan. In the event this Plan becomes top-heavy and a conflict arises between the top-heavy
provisions herein set forth and the remaining provisions set forth in this Plan, the top-heavy provisions shall control. 
  

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