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      Copy

                    
                    

                    
                    

                  

          

          

        

      

    

    
      SECOND
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT

       

      

       

      among

       

      

       

      

    

    BIMINI
MORTGAGE MANAGEMENT, INC.,

     

    as Depositor

     

    

     

    

     

    JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

     

    as
Property Trustee

     

    

     

    

     

    

     

    

     

    CHASE
BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

     

    as
Delaware Trustee

     

    

     

    and

     

    

     

    

     

    THE
ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN

     

    as
Administrative Trustees

     

    

     

    ________________

     

    

     

    

     

    Dated as
of September 26, 2005

     

    

     

    ________________

     

    

     

    
      BIMINI
CAPITAL TRUST I

    

    
      
        
          
            	
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              ARTICLE I.

            	
              Defined
      Terms 

            	
              1

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      1.1.

            	
              Definitions 

            	
              1

            

    

     

    
      	
              ARTICLE
      II.

            	 The
      Trust	
               11

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      2.1.

            	
              Name 

            	
              11

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      2.2.

            	
              Office
      of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business 

            	
              11

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      2.3.

            	
              Initial
      Contribution of Trust Property; Fees, Costs and
    Expenses 

            	
              11

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      2.4.

            	
              Purposes
      of Trust 

            	
              11

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      2.5.

            	Authorization
      to Enter into Certain Transactions 	
              12

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      2.6.

            	
              Assets
      of Trust 

            	
              14

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      2.7.

            	
              Title
      to Trust Property 

            	
              14

            

    

     

    
      	
              ARTICLE
      III.

            	 Payment
      Account;  Paying Agents 	
              15

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      3.1.

            	
              Payment
      Account 

            	
              15

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      3.2.

            	
              Appointment
      of Paying Agents 

            	
              15

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      ARTICLE IV.

            	 Distributions;
      Redemption 	
              16

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      4.1.

            	
              Distributions 

            	
              16

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      4.2.

            	
              Redemption 

            	
              17

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      4.3.

            	
              Subordination
      of Common Securities 

            	
              19

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      4.4.

            	
              Payment
      Procedures 

            	
              20

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      4.5.

            	
              Withholding
      Tax 

            	
              20

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      4.6.

            	
              Tax
      Returns and Other Reports 

            	
              21

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      4.7.

            	
              Payment
      of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Trust 

            	
              21

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      4.8.

            	
              Payments
      under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions 

            	
              21

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      4.9.

            	
              Exchanges 

            	
              21

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      4.10.	 Calculation
      Agent	
               22

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      4.11.	 Certain
      Accounting Matters	
               23

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      ARTICLE V.

            	 Securities	
               24

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      5.1.

            	
              Initial
      Ownership 

            	
              24

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      5.2.

            	
              Authorized
      Trust Securities 

            	
              24

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      5.3.

            	
              Issuance
      of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of
      Notes 

            	
              24

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      5.4.

            	
              The
      Securities Certificates 

            	
              24

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      5.5.

            	
              Rights
      of Holders 

            	
              25

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      5.6.

            	
              Book-Entry
      Preferred Securities 

            	
              25

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      5.7.

            	
              Registration
      of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities
      Certificates 

            	
              27

            

    

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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              Section
      5.8.

               

              Section
      5.9.

            	
              Mutilated,
      Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities Certificates

               

              Persons
      Deemed Holders 

            	
              28

               

              29

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      5.10.	 Cancellation
      	
              29

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      5.11.	 Ownership
      of Common Securities by Depositor	
               30

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      5.12.	 Restricted
      Legends	
               30

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      5.13.	 Form
      of Certificate of Authentication	
               32

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      ARTICLE VI.

            	 Meetings;
      Voting; Acts of Holders 	
               33

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      6.1.

            	
              Notice
      of Meetings 

            	
              33

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      6.2.

            	 Meetings
      of Holders of the Preferred Securities	
               33

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      6.3.

            	
              Voting
      Rights 

            	
              33

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      6.4.

            	
              Proxies,
      Etc 

            	
              34

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      6.5.

            	
              Holder
      Action by Written Consent 

            	
              34

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      6.6.

            	
              Record
      Date for Voting and Other Purposes 

            	
              34

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      6.7.

            	
              Acts
      of Holders 

            	
              34

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      6.8.

            	
              Inspection
      of Records 

            	
              35

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      6.9.

            	
              Limitations
      on Voting Rights 

            	
              35

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      6.10.	Acceleration
      of Maturity; Rescission of Annulment; Waivers of Past Defaults	
               36

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      ARTICLE VII.

            	 Representations
      and Warranties	
               39

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      7.1.

            	
              Representations
      and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware
      Trustee 

            	
              39

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      7.2.

            	
              Representations
      and Warranties of Depositor 

            	
              40

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      ARTICLE VIII.

            	 The
      Trustees	
               41

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      8.1.

            	
              Number
      of Trustees 

            	
              41

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      8.2.

            	
              Property
      Trustee Required 

            	
              41

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      8.3.

            	
              Delaware
      Trustee Required 

            	
              42

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      8.4.

            	
              Appointment
      of Administrative Trustees 

            	
              42

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      8.5.

            	
              Duties
      and Responsibilities of the Trustees 

            	
              42

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      8.6.

            	
              Notices
      of Defaults and Extensions 

            	
              44

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      8.7.

            	
              Certain
      Rights of Property Trustee 

            	
              44

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      8.8.

            	
              Delegation
      of Power 

            	
              47

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      8.9.

            	
              May
      Hold Securities 

            	
              47

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      8.10.	 Compensation;
      Reimbursement; Indemnity 	
               47

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      8.11.	 Resignation
      and Removal; Appointment of Successor 	
              48

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      8.12.	 Acceptance
      of Appointment by Successor	
               49

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      8.13.	 Merger,
      Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business 	
              50

            

    

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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               Section
      8.14.  

               

               Section
      8.15.

            	
               Not
      Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities

               

              Property
      Trustee May File Proofs of Claim 

            	
              50

               

              50

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      8.16.	 Reports
      to the Property Trustee 	
              51

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      ARTICLE IX.

            	 Termination,
      Liquidation and Merger 	
              52

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      9.1.

            	
              Dissolution
      Upon Expiration Date 

            	
              52

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      9.2.

            	
              Early
      Termination 

            	
              52

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      9.3.

            	
              Termination 

            	
              52

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      9.4.

            	
              Liquidation 

            	
              52

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Section
      9.5.

            	
              Mergers,
      Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of
    Trust 

            	
              54

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      ARTICLE X.

            	 Miscellaneous
      Provisions	
               55

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      10.1.	 Limitation
      of Rights of Holders 	
              55

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      10.2.	 Agreed
      Tax Treatment of Trust and Trust Securities	
               55

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      10.3.	 Amendment	
               56

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      10.4.	 Separability	
               57

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      10.5.	 Governing
      Law 	
              57

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      10.6.	 Successors	
               57

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      10.7.	 Headings	
               58

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      10.8.	 Reports,
      Notices and Demands	
               58

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      10.9.	Agreement
      Not to Petition 	
              58

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	 Section
      10.10.	 Counterparts
      	
              59

            

    

     

    Exhibit
A                      Certificate
of Trust of Bimini Capital Trust I

    Exhibit
B                      Form
of Common Securities Certificate

    Exhibit
C                      Form
of Preferred Securities Certificate

    Exhibit
D                      Junior
Subordinated Indenture

    Exhibit
E                      Form
of Transferee Certificate to be Executed for Transferees

    Exhibit
F                      Form
of Officer’s Financial Certificate of the Depositor

    

    Schedule
A                                Calculation
of LIBOR

    

    
      
        
          
            	
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    This
Second Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of September 26, 2005 (as
amended and restated, the “Trust Agreement”), among
(i) Bimini Mortgage Management, Inc., a Maryland corporation (including any
successors or permitted assigns, the “Depositor”), (ii) JPMorgan
Chase Bank, National Association, a national banking association, as property
trustee (in such capacity, the “Property Trustee”), (iii) Chase Bank USA,
National Association, a national banking association, as Delaware trustee (in
such capacity, the “Delaware
Trustee”), (iv) Jeffrey J. Zimmer, an individual, Robert E. Cauley, an
individual, and Amber K. Luedke, an individual, each of whose address is c/o
Bimini Mortgage Management, Inc., 3305 Flamingo Drive, Vero Beach, FL 32963, as administrative trustees
(in such capacities, each an “Administrative Trustee” and,
collectively, the “Administrative Trustees” and,
together with the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, the “Trustees”) and (v) the
several Holders, as hereinafter defined.

     

    Witnesseth

     

    Whereas,
the Depositor and the Delaware Trustee have heretofore created a Delaware
statutory trust pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by entering into a
Trust Agreement, dated as of May 16, 2005 (the “Original Trust Agreement”),
and by executing and filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware
the Certificate of Trust, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit A;

     

    Whereas,
the Depositor and the Trustees have previously amended and restated the Original
Trust Agreement to provide for, among other things, (i) the issuance of the
Common Securities by the Trust to the Depositor, (ii) the issuance and sale
of the Preferred Securities by the Trust pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and
(iii) the acquisition by the Trust from the Depositor of all of the right,
title and interest in and to the Notes; and

     

    Whereas,
the Depositor desires to execute, and has duly authorized the execution and
delivery of, this Trust Agreement to provide for two separate series of each of
the Trust’s Preferred Securities (“Series A Preferred
Securities” and “Series
B Preferred Securities” and, collectively, the “Preferred Securities”) and
the Trust’s Common Securities (“Series A Common Securities”
and “Series B Common
Securities” and, collectively, the “Common Securities”), the only
difference between each such Series A Trust Securities and Series B Trust
Securities being the difference in certain dates related to each such Series A
Trust Securities or Series B Trust Securities, including, but not limited to,
the Interest Payment Dates, the Expiration Date, the Fixed Rate Period and
the Stated Maturity dates.

     

    Now,
Therefore, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein
and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other parties
and for the benefit of the Holders, hereby amends and restates the Original
Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    ARTICLE
I.

     

    

     

    Defined
Terms

     

    SECTION
1.1.                                Definitions.

     

    For all
purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or
unless the context otherwise requires:

     

    (a)           the
terms defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to them in this
Article I;

     

    (b)           the
words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by
the phrase “without limitation”;

     

    (c)           all
accounting terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to them
in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting
principles;

     

    (d)           unless
the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article”, a “Section”, a
“Schedule” or an “Exhibit” refers to an Article, a Section, a Schedule or
an Exhibit, as the case may be, of or to this Trust Agreement;

     

    (e)           the
words “hereby”, “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar
import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision;

     

    (f)           a
reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and

     

    (g)           the
masculine, feminine or neuter genders used herein shall include the masculine,
feminine and neuter genders.

     

    “Act” has the meaning
specified in Section 6.7.

     

    “Additional Interest” has the
meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the Indenture.

     

    “Additional Interest Amount”
means, with respect to Trust Securities of a given Liquidation Amount and/or a
given period, the amount of Additional Interest paid by the Depositor on a Like
Amount of Notes for such period.

     

    “Additional Taxes” has the
meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the Indenture.

     

    “Additional Tax Sums” has the
meaning specified in Section 10.5 of the Indenture.

     

    “Administrative Trustee” means
each of the Persons identified as an “Administrative Trustee” in
the preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in each such Person’s capacity as
Administrative Trustee of the Trust and not in such Person’s individual
capacity, or any successor Administrative Trustee appointed as herein
provided.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    “Affiliate” of any specified
Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled
by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified
Person.  For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with
respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and
policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership
of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and
“controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

     

    “Applicable Depositary
Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving
a Book-Entry Preferred Security, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for
such Book-Entry Preferred Security, in each case to the extent applicable to
such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

     

    “Bankruptcy Event” means,
with respect to any Person:

     

    (a)  the
entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises (i)
judging such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, (ii) approving as properly filed a
petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjudication or composition of or
in respect of such Person under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, (iii) appointing a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official
of such Person or of any substantial part of its property or (iv) ordering the
winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree
or order unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days;
or

     

    (b)  the
institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency
proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent
seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent by
it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of
such Person or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of
an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of
its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its willingness
to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the taking of corporate action by
such Person in furtherance of any such action.

     

    “Bankruptcy Laws” means all
Federal and state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other similar laws,
including the United States Bankruptcy Code.

     

    “Book-Entry Preferred
Security” means a Preferred Security, the ownership and transfers of
which shall be made through book entries by a Depositary.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    “Business Day” means a day
other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a day on which banking
institutions in the City of New York are authorized or required by law or
executive order to remain closed or (c) a day on which the Corporate Trust
Office is closed for business.

     

    “Calculation Agent” has the
meaning specified in Section
4.10.

     

    “Closing Date” has the
meaning specified in the Purchase Agreement.

     

    “Code” means the United
States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

     

    “Commission” means the
Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created
under the Exchange Act or, if at any time after the execution of this Trust
Agreement such Commission is not existing and performing the duties assigned to
it, then the body performing such duties at such time.

     

    “Common Securities
Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Series A Common
Securities or Series B Common Securities, as the case may be, substantially in
the form attached as Exhibit B.

     

    “Common Security” means both
the Series A Common Securities and the Series B Common Securities, collectively;
provided, however, that except as
expressly provided for in this Trust Agreement, the Series A Common Securities
and Series B Common Securities shall be pari passu in all
respects.

     

    “Corporate Trust Office”
means the principal office of the Property Trustee at which any particular time
its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of
this Trust Agreement is located at 600 Travis, 50th Floor,
Houston, Texas 77002, Attention:  Worldwide Securities Services—
Bimini Capital Trust I.

     

    “Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates” means Preferred Securities issued in certificated, fully
registered form that are not Global Preferred Securities.

     

    “Delaware Statutory Trust Act” means Chapter 38
of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code § 3801 et seq., or any successor
statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.

     

    “Delaware Trustee” means the
Person identified as the “Delaware Trustee” in the
preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of
the Trust and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in
such capacity, or any successor Delaware Trustee appointed as herein
provided.

     

    “Depositary” means an
organization registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act that is
designated as Depositary by the Depositor or any successor
thereto.  DTC will be the initial Depositary.

     

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

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    “Depositor” has the meaning
specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement and any successors and
permitted assigns.

     

    “Depositor Affiliate” has the
meaning specified in Section 4.9.

     

    “Distribution Date” means the
Series A Distribution Date and the Series B Distribution Date, as
applicable.

     

    “Distribution
Period” means  with respect to any Distribution
Date, the period commencing on the immediately preceding Distribution
Date  (or, in the case of the Distribution Period relating to the
first Distribution Date, commencing on the Closing Date) and ending on
the day immediately preceding such Distribution Date; provided, that, with respect
to Series B Securities, for the Distribution Date in October
2005, the Distribution Period shall commence June 30, 2005.

     

    “Distributions” means amounts
payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in Section 4.1.

     

    “DTC” means The Depository
Trust Company, a New York corporation, or any successor thereto.

     

    “Early Termination Event” has
the meaning specified in Section 9.2.

     

    “EDGAR” has the meaning
specified in Section 4.11(c).

     

     “Event of Default”
means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such event and
whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law
or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

     

    (a)  the
occurrence of a Note Event of Default; or

     

    (b)  default
by the Trust in the payment of any Distribution when it becomes due and payable,
and continuation of such default for a period of thirty (30) days;
or

     

    (c)  default
by the Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of any Trust Security when
it becomes due and payable; or

     

    (d)  default
in the performance, or breach, in any material respect of any covenant or
warranty of the Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other than those specified in
clause (b) or (c) above) and continuation of such default or breach for a period
of thirty (30) days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail,
to the Trustees and to the Depositor by the Holders of at least twenty five
percent (25%) in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred
Securities a written notice specifying such

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    default
or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a
“Notice of Default” hereunder;
or

     

    (e)  the
occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property Trustee if a
successor Property Trustee has not been appointed within ninety (90) days
thereof.

     

    “Exchange Act” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and any successor statute thereto, in each case
as amended from time to time.

     

    “Expiration Date” has the
meaning specified in Section 9.1.

     

     “Fiscal Year” shall be
the fiscal year of the Trust, which shall be the calendar year, or such other
period as is required by the Code.

     

    “Fixed Rate Period” shall
mean the period through the Interest Payment Date on, in the case of Series A
Trust Securities, March 30, 2010 and, in the case of Series B Trust Securities,
April 30, 2010.

     

     “Global Preferred
Security” means a Preferred Securities Certificate evidencing ownership
of Book-Entry Preferred Securities.

     

    “Holder” means a Person in
whose name a Trust Security or Trust Securities are registered in the Securities
Register; any such Person shall be deemed to be a beneficial owner within the
meaning of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

     

    “Indemnified Person” has the
meaning specified in Section
8.10(c).

     

    “Indenture” means the Amended
and Restated Junior Subordinated Indenture executed and delivered by the
Depositor and the Note Trustee contemporaneously with the execution and delivery
of this Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the holders of the Notes, a copy of
which is attached hereto as Exhibit D, as amended
or supplemented from time to time.

     

    “Interest Payment Date(s)”
means the Series A Interest Payment Dates and the Series B Interest Payment
Dates, as applicable.

     

    “Interest Payment
Period” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.

     

    “Investment Company Act”
means the Investment Company Act of 1940, or any successor statute thereto, in
each case as amended from time to time.

     

    “Investment Company Event” has
the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the Indenture.

     

    “LIBOR” has the meaning
specified in Schedule
A.

     

    “LIBOR Business Day” has the
meaning specified in Schedule
A.

     

    “LIBOR Determination Date”
has the meaning specified in Schedule
A.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    “Lien” means any lien,
pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of trust, adverse ownership
interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest or preference, priority
or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature
whatsoever.

     

    “Like Amount” means
(a) with respect to a redemption of any Trust Securities, Trust Securities
having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal amount of Notes to be
contemporaneously redeemed or paid at maturity in accordance with the Indenture,
the proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption Price of such Trust
Securities, (b) with respect to a distribution of Notes to Holders of Trust
Securities in connection with a dissolution of the Trust, Notes having a
principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the
Holder to whom such Notes are distributed and (c) with respect to any
distribution of Additional Interest Amounts to Holders of Trust Securities,
Notes having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust
Securities in respect of which such distribution is made.

     

    “Liquidation Amount” means
the stated amount of $1,000 per Trust Security.

     

    “Liquidation Date” means the
date on which assets are to be distributed to Holders in accordance with Section 9.4(a)
hereunder following dissolution of the Trust.

     

    “Liquidation Distribution”
has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d).

     

    “Majority in Liquidation
Amount” means either Series A Common Securities, Series A Preferred
Securities, Series B Common Securities or Series B Preferred Securities, as the
case may be, representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of all (or a specified group of) then Outstanding Common or
Preferred Securities, as the case may be.

     

    “Note Event of Default” means
any “Event of Default” specified
in Section 5.1
of the Indenture.

     

    “Note Redemption Date” means,
with respect to any Notes to be redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for
redemption of such Notes under the Indenture.

     

    “Note Trustee” means the
Person identified as the “Trustee” in the Indenture,
solely in its capacity as Trustee pursuant to the Indenture and not in its
individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor Trustee appointed as provided in the Indenture.

     

    “Notes” means both the Series
A Notes and the Series B Notes, collectively; provided, however, that except as
expressly provided for in the Indenture, the Series A Notes and the Series B
Notes shall be pari
passu in all respects.

     

    “Officers’ Certificate” means
a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or an
Executive Vice President, and by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or an
Assistant Treasurer, of the Depositor, and delivered to the Trustees. Any
Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement (other than the certificate
provided pursuant to Section 8.16 which is
not an Officers’ Certificate) shall include:

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    (a)  a
statement by each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate that such officer
has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating
thereto;

     

    (b)  a
brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation
undertaken by such officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate;

     

    (c)  a
statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in
such officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with; and

     

    (d)  a
statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or
covenant has been complied with.

     

    “Operative Documents” means
the Purchase Agreement, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement, the Notes and the
Trust Securities.

     

    “Opinion of Counsel” means a
written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for, or an employee of, the
Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.

     

    “Optional Note Redemption
Price” means the Series A Optional Note Redemption Price and/or the
Series B Optional Note Redemption Price, as applicable.

     

     “Optional Redemption
Price” means, for all Trust Securities, an amount equal to one hundred
percent (100%) of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security on the
Redemption Date, plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions to the Redemption
Date, plus the related amount of the premium, if any, and/or accrued interest,
including Additional Interest, if any, thereon paid by the Depositor upon the
concurrent redemption or payment at maturity of a Like Amount of
Notes.

     

    “Original Trust Agreement” has the meaning
specified in the recitals to this Trust Agreement.

     

    “Outstanding”, when used with
respect to any Trust Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all
Trust Securities theretofore executed and delivered under this Trust Agreement,
except:

     

    (a)  Trust
Securities theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee or delivered to the
Property Trustee for cancellation;

     

    (b)  Trust
Securities for which payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has
been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or any Paying Agent in
trust for the Holders of such Trust Securities; provided, that if such Trust
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given
pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    (c)  Trust
Securities that have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Trust Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to the provisions of
this Trust Agreement, unless proof satisfactory to the Property Trustee is
presented that any such Trust Securities are held by Holders in whose hands such
Trust Securities are valid, legal and binding obligations of the
Trust;

     

    provided, that in determining
whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding
Preferred Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Preferred Securities owned by the
Depositor, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor or of any Trustee shall
be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that (i) in
determining whether any Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Preferred Securities that such Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded and (ii) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of
the Outstanding Preferred Securities are owned by the Depositor, one or more of
the Trustees and/or any such Affiliate. Preferred Securities so owned that have
been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrative Trustees the pledgee’s
right so to act with respect to such Preferred Securities and that the pledgee
is not the Depositor, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor or of any
Trustee.

     

    “Owner” means each Person who
is the beneficial owner of Book-Entry Preferred Securities as reflected in the
records of the Depositary or, if a Depositary Participant is not the beneficial
owner, then the beneficial owner as reflected in the records of the Depositary
Participant.

     

    “Paying Agent” means any
Person authorized by the Administrative Trustees to pay Distributions or other
amounts in respect of any Trust Securities on behalf of the Trust.

     

    “Payment Account” means a
segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust account maintained by the
Property Trustee for the benefit of the Holders in which all amounts paid in
respect of the Notes will be held and from which the Property Trustee, through
the Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Holders in accordance with Sections 3.1, 4.1 and 4.2.

     

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

     

    “Preferred Security” means
both the Series A Preferred Securities and the Series B Preferred Securities,
collectively; provided,
however, that except as
expressly provided for in this Trust Agreement, the Series A Preferred
Securities and Series B Preferred Securities shall be pari passu in all
respects.

     

    “Preferred Securities
Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Preferred
Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
C.

     

    “Property Trustee” means the
Person identified as the “Property Trustee” in the
preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of
the Trust and not

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    in its
individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor Property Trustee appointed as herein provided.

     

    “Purchase Agreement” means
the Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 17, 2005, executed and delivered by the
Trust, the Depositor, on the one hand, and TABERNA Preferred Funding I, Ltd. and
Merrill Lynch International, as purchasers, as amended from time to
time.

     

    “QIB” means a “qualified
institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended.

     

    “QP” means a “qualified
purchaser” as defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended.

     

    “QIB/QP” means a QIB that is
also a QP.

     

     “Redemption Date”
means, with respect to any Trust Security to be redeemed, the date fixed for
such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement; provided, that each Note
Redemption Date and the stated maturity (or any date of principal repayment upon
early maturity) of the Notes shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of
Trust Securities.

     

    “Redemption Price” means the
Special Redemption Price or Optional Redemption Price, as
applicable.  If the Depositor has redeemed the Notes at the Special
Note Redemption Price, the Trust shall redeem the Trust Securities at the
Special Redemption Price.  If the Depositor has redeemed the Notes at
the Optional Note Redemption Price, the Trust shall redeem the Trust Securities
at the Optional Redemption Price.

     

    “Reference Banks” has the
meaning specified in Schedule
A.

     

    “Responsible Officer” means,
with respect to the Property Trustee, the officer in the Worldwide Securities
Services department of the Property Trustee having direct responsibility for the
administration of this Trust Agreement.

     

    “Securities Act” means the
Securities Act of 1933, and any successor statute thereto, in each case as
amended from time to time.

     

    “Securities Certificate”
means any one of the Common Securities Certificates or the Preferred Securities
Certificates.

     

    “Securities Register” and
“Securities Registrar” have
the respective meanings specified in Section 5.7.

     

    “Series A Common Security”
has the meaning set forth in the third recital hereto and, more specifically,
means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, having a
Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in this
Trust Agreement.

     

     “Series B Common Security” has the
meaning set forth in the third recital hereto and, more specifically, means an
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, having a Liquidation
Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in this Trust
Agreement.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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     “Series A Distribution Date”
has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a)(i)(A).

     

     “Series B Distribution Date”
has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a)(i)(B).

     

    “Series A Interest Payment
Date(s)” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.

     

    “Series B Interest Payment
Date(s)” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.

     

    “Series A Notes” means the
Depositor’s Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Series A Notes issued pursuant to
the Indenture.

     

    “Series B Notes” means the
Depositor’s Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Series B Notes issued pursuant to
the Indenture.

     

     “Series A Optional Note
Redemption Price” means, with respect to any Series A Note to be redeemed
on any Redemption Date under the Indenture, an amount equal to one hundred
percent (100%) of the outstanding principal amount of such Series A Note,
together with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest (to the extent
legally enforceable), thereon through but not including the date fixed as such
Redemption Date.

     

     “Series B Optional Note
Redemption Price” means, with respect to any Series B Note to be redeemed
on any Redemption Date under the Indenture, an amount equal to one hundred
percent (100%) of the outstanding principal amount of such Series B Note,
together with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest (to the extent
legally enforceable), thereon through but not including the date fixed as such
Redemption Date.

     

     “Series A Preferred
Security” has the meaning set forth in the third recital hereto and, more
specifically, means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust,
having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in
this Trust Agreement.

     

    “Series B Preferred Security”
has the meaning set forth in the third recital hereto and, more specifically,
means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, having a
Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in this
Trust Agreement.

     

    “Series A Special Note Redemption
Price” means, with respect to any Series A Note to be redeemed on any
Redemption Date under the Indenture, an amount equal to one hundred seven and
one half percent (107.5%) of the outstanding principal amount of such Series A
Note, together with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest (to the
extent legally enforceable), thereon through but not including the date fixed as
such Redemption Date.

     

    “Series B Special Note Redemption
Price” means, with respect to any Series B Note to be redeemed on any
Redemption Date under the Indenture, an amount equal to one hundred seven and
one half percent (107.5%) of the outstanding principal amount of such Series B
Note, together with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest (to the
extent legally enforceable), thereon through but not including the date fixed as
such Redemption Date.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    “Series A Trust Securities”
means the Series A Common Securities and the Series A Preferred Securities,
collectively.

     

    “Series B Trust Securities”
means the Series B Common Securities and the Series B Preferred Securities,
collectively.

     

    “Special Note Redemption
Price” means the Series A Special Note Redemption Price and/or the Series
B Special Note Redemption Price, as applicable.

     

     “Special Redemption
Price” means, for all Trust Securities, an amount equal to one hundred
seven and one half percent (107.5%) of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust
Security on the Redemption Date, plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions to
the Redemption Date, plus the related amount of the premium, if any, and/or
accrued interest, including Additional Interest, if any, thereon paid by the
Depositor upon the concurrent redemption or payment at maturity of a Like Amount
of Notes.

     

    “Successor Securities” has
the meaning specified in Section 9.5(a).

     

    “Tax Event” has the meaning
specified in Section 1.1 of the Indenture.

     

    “Trust” means the Delaware
statutory trust known as “Bimini Capital Trust I,” which was created on May
16, 2005 under the
Delaware Statutory Trust Act pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement and the
filing of the Certificate of Trust, and continued pursuant to this Trust
Agreement.

     

    “Trust Agreement” means this
Second Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same may be modified,
amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the applicable
provisions hereof, including all Schedules and Exhibits.

     

    “Trustees” means the
Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each as
defined in this Article
I.

     

    “Trust Property” means
(a) the Notes, (b) any cash on deposit in, or owing to, the Payment
Account and (c) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing and any
other property and assets for the time being held or deemed to be held by the
Property Trustee pursuant to the trusts of this Trust Agreement.

     

    “Trust Security” means any
one of the Common Securities or the Preferred Securities.

     

    “Trust Securities” means the
Common Securities and the Preferred Securities, collectively.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    ARTICLE
II.

     

    

     

    The
Trust

     

    SECTION
2.1.                                Name.

     

    The trust
continued hereby shall be known as “Bimini Capital Trust I”, as such name may be
modified from time to time by the Administrative Trustees following written
notice to the Holders of Trust Securities and the other Trustees, in which name
the Trustees may conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts
and other instruments on behalf of the Trust and sue and be sued.

     

    SECTION
2.2.                                Office of the Delaware Trustee;
Office of the Trust.

     

    The
address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is Chase Bank USA,
National Association, 500 Stanton Christiana Road, Building 4 (3rd Floor),
Newark, DE 19713, Attention:  Worldwide Securities Services, or such
other address in the State of Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by
written notice to the Holders, the Depositor, the Property Trustee and the
Administrative Trustees. The principal executive office of the Trust is 3305
Flamingo Drive, Vero Beach, FL 32963, Attention: Jeffrey J. Zimmer, as
such address may be changed from time to time by the Administrative Trustees
following written notice to the Holders and the other Trustees.

     

    SECTION
2.3.                                Initial Contribution of Trust
Property; Fees, Costs and Expenses.

     

    The
Property Trustee acknowledges receipt from the Depositor in connection with the
Original Trust Agreement of the sum of ten dollars ($10), which constituted the
initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay all fees, costs and expenses of
the Trust (except with respect to the Trust Securities) as they arise or shall,
upon request of any Trustee, promptly reimburse such Trustee for any such fees,
costs and expenses paid by such Trustee. The Depositor shall make no claim upon
the Trust Property for the payment of such fees, costs or expenses.

     

    SECTION
2.4.                                Purposes of
Trust.

     

    (a)           The
exclusive purposes and functions of the Trust are to (i) issue and sell
Trust Securities and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the Notes and
(ii)  engage in only those activities necessary or incidental thereto. The
Delaware Trustee, the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees are
trustees of the Trust, and have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent
set forth herein.  The Trustees hereby acknowledge that they are
trustees of the Trust.

     

    (b)           So
long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust (or the Trustees
acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any business, activities or
transaction except as expressly provided herein or contemplated hereby. In
particular, the Trust (or the Trustees acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not
(i) acquire any investments or engage in any activities not authorized by
this Trust Agreement, (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage,
pledge, set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests
therein, including to Holders, except as expressly provided herein,
(iii) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt,
(iv) take or consent to any action that would result in the placement of a
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    any of
the Trust Property, (v) take or consent to any action that would reasonably
be expected to cause the Trust to become taxable as a corporation or classified
as other than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes,
(vi) take or consent to any action that would cause the Notes to be treated as
other than indebtedness of the Depositor for United States federal income tax
purposes or (vii) take or consent to any action that would cause the Trust to be
deemed to be an “investment company” required to be registered under the
Investment Company Act.

     

    SECTION
2.5.                                Authorization to Enter into Certain
Transactions.

     

    (a)           The
Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in accordance with and subject
to the terms of this Trust Agreement. In accordance with the following
provisions (i) and (ii), the Trustees shall have the authority to enter into all
transactions and agreements determined by the Trustees to be appropriate in
exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Trustees,
under this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof,
including the following:

     

    (i)           As
among the Trustees, each Administrative Trustee shall severally have the power
and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect to the following
matters:

     

    (A)           the
issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;

     

    (B)           to
cause the Trust to enter into, and to execute, deliver and perform on behalf of
the Trust, such agreements as may be necessary or desirable in connection with
the purposes and function of the Trust, including, without limitation, a common
securities subscription agreement and a junior subordinated note purchase
agreement;

     

    (C)           assisting
in the sale of the Preferred Securities in one or more transactions exempt from
registration under the Securities Act, and in compliance with applicable state
securities or blue sky laws;

     

    (D)           assisting
in the sending of notices (other than notices of default) and other information
regarding the Trust Securities and the Notes to the Holders in accordance with
this Trust Agreement;

     

    (E)           the
appointment of a Paying Agent and Securities Registrar in accordance with this
Trust Agreement;

     

    (F)           execution
of the Trust Securities on behalf of the Trust in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;

     

    (G)           execution
and delivery of closing certificates, if any, pursuant to the Purchase Agreement
and application for a taxpayer identification number for the Trust;

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    (H)           preparation
and filing of all applicable tax returns and tax information reports that are
required to be filed on behalf of the Trust;

     

    (I)           establishing
a record date with respect to all actions to be taken hereunder that require a
record date to be established, except as provided in Section
6.10(a);

     

    (J)           unless
otherwise required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act to execute on behalf of
the Trust (either acting alone or together with the other Administrative
Trustees) any documents that such Administrative Trustee has the power to
execute pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and

     

    (K)           the
taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as such Administrative Trustee
may from time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to the
terms of this Trust Agreement.

     

    (ii)           As
among the Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the power, duty and
authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect to the following
matters:

     

    (A)           the
receipt and holding of legal title of the Notes;

     

    (B)           the
establishment of the Payment Account;

     

    (C)           the
collection of interest, principal and any other payments made in respect of the
Notes and the holding of such amounts in the Payment Account;

     

    (D)           the
distribution through the Paying Agent of amounts distributable to the Holders in
respect of the Trust Securities;

     

    (E)           the
exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of a holder of the Notes in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;

     

    (F)           the
sending of notices of default and other information regarding the Trust
Securities and the Notes to the Holders in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;

     

    (G)           the
distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with the terms of this Trust
Agreement;

     

    (H)           to
the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding up of the affairs of
and liquidation of the Trust, provided that the Administrative Trustees shall
have the power, duty and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect to
the preparation, execution and filing of the certificate of cancellation of the
Trust with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware; and

     

    (I)           the
taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the Property Trustee may
from time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to the
terms of this Trust Agreement and protect and conserve the Trust
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    for the
benefit of the Holders (without consideration of the effect of any such action
on any particular Holder).

     

    (b)           In
connection with the issue and sale of the Preferred Securities, the Depositor
shall have the right and responsibility to assist the Trust with respect to, or
effect on behalf of the Trust, the following (and any actions taken by the
Depositor in furtherance of the following prior to the date of this Trust
Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects):

     

    (i)           the
negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery of, the Purchase
Agreement providing for the sale of the Preferred Securities in one or more
transactions exempt from registration under the Securities Act, and in
compliance with applicable state securities or blue sky laws; and

     

    (ii)           the
taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to carry out any of the
foregoing activities.

     

    (c)           Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Trustees are authorized and
directed to conduct the affairs of the Trust and authorized to operate the Trust
so that the Trust will not be taxable as a corporation or classified as other
than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes, so that the
Notes will be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States federal
income tax purposes and so that the Trust will not be deemed to be an
“investment company” required to be registered under the Investment Company
Act.  In respect thereof, each Administrative Trustee is authorized to
take any action, not inconsistent with applicable law, the Certificate of Trust
or this Trust Agreement, that such Administrative Trustee determines in his or
her discretion to be necessary or desirable for such purposes, as long as such
action does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the
Holders of the Outstanding Preferred Securities.  In no event shall
the Administrative Trustees be liable to the Trust or the Holders for any
failure to comply with this Section 2.5 to the
extent that such failure results solely from a change in law or regulation or in
the interpretation thereof.

     

    (d)           Any
action taken by a Trustee in accordance with its powers shall constitute the act
of and serve to bind the Trust.  In dealing with any Trustee acting on
behalf of the Trust, no Person shall be required to inquire into the authority
of such Trustee to bind the Trust.  Persons dealing with the Trust are
entitled to rely conclusively on the power and authority of any Trustee as set
forth in this Trust Agreement.

     

    SECTION
2.6.                                Assets of Trust.

     

    The
assets of the Trust shall consist of the Trust Property.

     

    SECTION
2.7.                                Title to Trust
Property.

     

    (a)           Legal
title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee
and shall be held and administered by the Property Trustee in trust for the
benefit of the Trust and the Holders in accordance with this Trust
Agreement.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    (b)           The
Holders shall not have any right or title to the Trust Property other than the
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust conferred by their
Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for any partition or
division of property, profits or rights of the Trust except as described below.
The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only the rights
specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement.

     

     

    ARTICLE
III.

     

     

    

     

     

    Payment
Account;  Paying Agents

     

    SECTION
3.1.                                Payment Account.

     

    (a)           On
or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall establish the Payment
Account. The Property Trustee and the Paying Agent shall have exclusive control
and sole right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose
of making deposits in and withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance
with this Trust Agreement. All monies and other property deposited or held from
time to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the
Payment Account for the exclusive benefit of the Holders and for Distribution as
herein provided.

     

    (b)           The
Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account, promptly upon receipt,
all payments of principal of or interest on, and any other payments with respect
to, the Notes. Amounts held in the Payment Account shall not be invested by the
Property Trustee pending distribution thereof.

     

    SECTION
3.2.                                Appointment of Paying
Agents.

     

    The
Paying Agent shall initially be the Property Trustee. The Paying Agent shall
make Distributions to Holders from the Payment Account and shall report the
amounts of such Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrative
Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from
the Payment Account solely for the purpose of making the Distributions referred
to above. The Administrative Trustees may revoke such power and remove the
Paying Agent in their sole discretion. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall
be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon thirty (30) days’ written notice to
the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee. If the Property Trustee
shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign or
its authority to act be revoked, the Administrative Trustees shall appoint a
successor (which shall be a bank or trust company) to act as Paying
Agent.  Such successor Paying Agent appointed by the Administrative
Trustees shall execute and deliver to the Trustees an instrument in which such
successor Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustees that as Paying Agent, such
successor Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the
Holders in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto until such sums
shall be paid to such Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds
to the Property Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent
shall also return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The
provisions of Article
VIII shall apply to the Property Trustee also in its role as Paying
Agent, for so long as the Property Trustee shall act as Paying Agent and, to the
extent applicable, to any other Paying Agent appointed hereunder.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    Any
reference in this Trust Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any
co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.

     

     

    ARTICLE
IV.

     

     

    

     

     

    Distributions;
Redemption

     

    SECTION
4.1.                                Distributions.

     

    (a)           The
Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in the Trust Property,
and Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts) will be made on
the Trust Securities at the rate and on the dates that payments of interest
(including any Additional Interest) are made on the Notes.
Accordingly:

     

    (i)           Distributions
on the Trust Securities:

     

    (A)           Distributions
on the Series A Trust Securities shall be cumulative, and shall accumulate
whether or not there are funds of the Trust available for the payment of
Distributions.  Distributions shall accumulate from the Closing Date,
and shall be payable quarterly in arrears on March 30, June 30, September 30 and
December 30 of each year.  If any date on which a Distribution is
otherwise payable on the Series A Trust Securities is not a Business Day, then
the payment of such Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding Business
Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect of the amounts  whose
payment is so delayed for the period from and after each such date until the
next succeeding Business Day), except that, if such Business Day falls in the
next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same force and effect as if made
on such date (each date on which Distributions are payable in accordance with
this Section 4.1(a)(i)(A),
a “Series A Distribution
Date”);

     

    (B)           Distributions
on the Series B Trust Securities shall be cumulative, and shall accumulate
whether or not there are funds of the Trust available for the payment of
Distributions.  Distributions shall accumulate from the Closing Date,
and shall be payable quarterly in arrears on January 30, April 30, July 30 and
October 30 of each year; provided that in the case of
the Distribution payable on October 30, 2005 only, such distribution shall
accumulate from June 30, 2005.  If any date on which a Distribution is
otherwise payable on the Series B Trust Securities is not a Business Day, then
the payment of such Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding Business
Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect of the amounts  whose
payment is so delayed for the period from and after each such date until the
next succeeding Business Day), except that, if such Business Day falls in the
next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same force and effect as if made
on such date (each date on which Distributions are payable in accordance with
this Section 4.1(a)(i)(B),
a “Series B Distribution
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    (ii)           Reserved.

     

    (iii)           Distributions
shall accumulate in respect of the Trust Securities at a fixed rate equal
to 7.61% per annum
through the Interest Payment Date on, in the case of Series A Securities,
March  30, 2010 and, in the case of Series B Securities, April 30,
2010 and thereafter at a variable rate equal to
LIBOR plus 3.30% per annum of the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities,
such rate being the rate of interest payable on the Notes.  LIBOR
shall be determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with Schedule
A.  During the Fixed Rate Period, the  amount of
Distributions payable for any period less than a full Distribution Period shall
be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the
amount payable for any partial period shall be computed on the basis of the
number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months.  Upon expiration of the Fixed Rate Period, the amount of
interest payable for any interest Distribution Period will be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed in the relevant
Distribution Period. The amount of
Distributions payable for any period shall include any Additional Interest
Amounts in respect of such period; and

     

    (iv)           Distributions
on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Paying Agent from the Payment
Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that
the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the
payment of such Distributions.

     

    (b)           Distributions
on the Trust Securities with respect to a Distribution Date shall be payable to
the Holders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust
Securities at the close of business on the relevant record date, which shall be
at the close of business on the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day)
preceding the relevant Distribution Date, except that Distributions and any
Additional Interest Amounts payable on the stated maturity (or any date of
principal repayment upon early maturity) of the principal of a Trust Security or
on a Redemption Date shall be paid to the Person to whom principal is
paid.    Distributions payable on any Trust Securities that
are not punctually paid on any Distribution Date as a result of the Depositor
having failed to make an interest payment under the Notes will cease to be
payable to the Person in whose name such Trust Securities are registered on the
relevant record date, and such defaulted Distributions and any Additional
Interest Amounts will instead be payable to the Person in whose name such Trust
Securities are registered on the special record date, or other specified date
for determining Holders entitled to such defaulted Distribution and Additional
Interest Amount, established in the same manner, and on the same date, as such
is established with respect to the Notes under the Indenture.

     

    (c)           As
a condition to the payment of any principal of or interest on the Trust
Securities without the imposition of withholding tax, the Administrative
Trustees shall require the previous delivery of properly completed and signed
applicable U.S. federal income tax certifications (generally, an Internal
Revenue Service Form W-9 (or applicable successor form) in the case of a person
that is a "United States person" within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of
the Code or an Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 (or applicable successor form)
in the case of a person that is not a "United States person" within the meaning
of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and any other certification acceptable to it
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    Agent to
determine their respective duties and liabilities with respect to any taxes or
other charges that they may be required to pay, deduct or withhold in respect of
such Trust Securities.

     

    

    SECTION
4.2.                                Redemption.

     

    (a)           On
each Note Redemption Date and on the stated maturity (or any date of principal
repayment upon early maturity) of the Notes and on each other date on (or in
respect of) which any principal on the Notes is repaid, the Trust will be
required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust Securities of the corresponding Series
at the Redemption Price.

     

    (b)           Notice
of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, mailed not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days
prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed,
at such Holder’s address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of
redemption shall state:

     

    (i)           the
Redemption Date;

     

    (ii)           the
Redemption Price or, if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to the
time the notice is required to be sent, the estimate of the Redemption Price
provided pursuant to the Indenture, as calculated by the Depositor, together
with a statement that it is an estimate and that the actual Redemption Price
will be calculated by the Calculation Agent on the fifth Business Day prior to
the Redemption Date (and if an estimate is provided, a further notice shall be
sent of the actual Redemption Price on the date that such Redemption Price is
calculated);

     

    (iii)           if
less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective amounts)
and Liquidation Amounts of the particular Trust Securities to be
redeemed;

     

    (iv)           that
on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon
each such Trust Security, or portion thereof, to be redeemed and that
Distributions thereon will cease to accumulate on such Trust Security or such
portion, as the case may be, on and after said date, except as provided in Section
4.2(d);

     

    (v)           the
place or places where the Trust Securities are to be surrendered for the payment
of the Redemption Price; and

     

    (vi)           such
other provisions as the Property Trustee deems relevant.

     

    (c)           The
Trust Securities (or portion thereof) redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be
redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous
redemption or payment at maturity of Notes. Redemptions of the Trust Securities
(or portion thereof) shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on
each Redemption Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand
and available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption
Price.  Under the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed by the
Depositor on any Interest Payment Date, at the Depositor’s option, on or after,
in the case of Series A Notes, March 30, 2010 and,  in the case of
Series B Notes, April 30, 2010, in whole or in part,
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    time to
time at the Optional Note Redemption Price.  The Notes may also be
redeemed by the Depositor, at its option pursuant to the terms of the Indenture,
in whole but not in part, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an
Investment Company Event or a Tax Event, at the Special Note Redemption
Price.

     

    (d)           If
the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of any Preferred
Securities, then by 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Redemption Date, the
Depositor shall deposit sufficient funds with the Property Trustee to pay the
Redemption Price.  If such deposit has been made by such time, then by
12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, the Property Trustee
will, with respect to Book-Entry Preferred Securities, irrevocably deposit with
the Depositary for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities, to the extent available
therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give
such Depositary irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption
Price to the Holders of the Preferred Securities. With respect to Preferred
Securities that are not Book-Entry Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee
will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent, to the extent available
therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give
the Paying Agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption
Price to the Holders of the Preferred Securities upon surrender of their
Preferred Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions
payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities (or portion
thereof) called for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust
Securities as they appear on the Securities Register on the relevant record
dates for the related Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall have
been given and funds deposited as required, then upon the date of such deposit,
all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities (or portion thereof) so called
for redemption will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive the
Redemption Price and any Distribution payable in respect of the Trust Securities
on or prior to the Redemption Date, but without interest, and, in the case of a
partial redemption, the right of such Holders to receive a new Trust Security or
Securities of authorized denominations, in aggregate Liquidation Amount equal to
the unredeemed portion of such Trust Security or Securities, and such Securities
(or portion thereof) called for redemption will cease to be Outstanding. In the
event that any date on which any Redemption Price is payable is not a Business
Day, then payment of the Redemption Price payable on such date will be made on
the next succeeding Business Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect of the
amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period from and after each such date
until the next succeeding Business Day), except that, if such Business Day falls
in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the
immediately preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same force and effect
as if made on such date. In the event that payment of the Redemption Price in
respect of any Trust Securities (or portion thereof) called for redemption is
improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by the Trust, Distributions
on such Trust Securities (or portion thereof) will continue to accumulate, as
set forth in Section
4.1, from the Redemption Date originally established by the Trust for
such Trust Securities (or portion thereof) to the date such Redemption Price is
actually paid, in which case the actual payment date will be the date fixed for
redemption for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price.

     

    (e)           Subject
to Section 4.3(a),
if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed on a
Redemption Date, then the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be
redeemed shall be allocated pro rata to the Common
Securities and the Preferred Securities based upon the relative aggregate
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    Preferred
Securities.  Upon such a partial redemption, the Preferred Securities
to be redeemed from each holder of Preferred Securities shall be selected on a
pro rata basis based
upon the respective Liquidation Amounts of the Preferred Securities then held by
each Holder of the Preferred Securities not more than sixty (60) days prior to
the Redemption Date by the Property Trustee from the Outstanding Preferred
Securities not previously called for redemption; provided, that with respect
to Holders that would be required to hold less than one hundred (100) but more
than zero (0) Trust Securities as a result of such redemption, the Trust shall
redeem Trust Securities of each such Holder so that after such redemption such
Holder shall hold either one hundred (100) Trust Securities or such Holder no
longer holds any Trust Securities, and shall use such method (including, without
limitation, by lot) as the Trust shall deem fair and appropriate; and provided, further, that so long as the
Preferred Securities are Book-Entry Preferred Securities, such selection shall
be made in accordance with the Applicable Depositary Procedures for the
Preferred Securities by such Depositary. The Property Trustee shall promptly
notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the Preferred Securities (or
portion thereof) selected for redemption and, in the case of any Preferred
Securities selected for partial redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be
redeemed. For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Preferred Securities
shall relate, in the case of any Preferred Securities redeemed or to be redeemed
only in part, to the portion of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred
Securities that has been or is to be redeemed.

     

    (f)           The
Trust in issuing the Trust Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally
in use), and, if so, the Property Trustee shall indicate the “CUSIP” numbers of
the Trust Securities in notices of redemption and related materials as a
convenience to Holders; provided, that any such
notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such
numbers either as printed on the Trust Securities or as contained in any notice
of redemption and related materials.

     

    SECTION
4.3.                                Subordination of Common
Securities.

     

    (a)           Payment
of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts) on, the Redemption
Price of and the Liquidation Distribution in respect of, the Trust Securities,
as applicable, shall be made, pro rata among the Common
Securities and the Preferred Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of the
respective Trust Securities; provided, that if on any
Distribution Date, Redemption Date or Liquidation Date an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, no payment of any Distribution (including any
Additional Interest Amounts) on, Redemption Price of or Liquidation Distribution
in respect of, any Common Security, and no other payment on account of the
redemption, liquidation or other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made
unless payment in full in cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions
(including any Additional Interest Amounts) on all Outstanding Preferred
Securities for all Distribution Periods terminating on or prior thereto, or in
the case of payment of the Redemption Price the full amount of such Redemption
Price on all Outstanding Preferred Securities then called for redemption, or in
the case of payment of the Liquidation Distribution the full amount of such
Liquidation Distribution on all Outstanding Preferred Securities, shall have
been made or provided for, and all funds immediately available to the Property
Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full in cash of all
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    Interest
Amounts) on, or the Redemption Price of or the Liquidation Distribution in
respect of, the Preferred Securities then due and payable.

     

    (b)           In
the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default, the Holders of the Common
Securities shall have no right to act with respect to any such Event of Default
under this Trust Agreement until all such Events of Default with respect to the
Preferred Securities have been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated. Until all
such Events of Default under this Trust Agreement with respect to the Preferred
Securities have been so cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property
Trustee shall act solely on behalf of the Holders of the Preferred Securities
and not on behalf of the Holders of the Common Securities, and only the Holders
of all the Preferred Securities will have the right to direct the Property
Trustee to act on their behalf.

     

    SECTION
4.4.                                Payment
Procedures.

     

    Payments
of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts), the Redemption
Price, Liquidation Amount or any other amounts in respect of the Preferred
Securities shall be made by wire transfer at such place and to such account at a
banking institution in the United States as may be designated in writing at
least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment by the Person
entitled thereto unless proper written transfer instructions have not been
received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments shall be made
by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall appear in
the Securities Register.  If any Preferred Securities are held by a
Depositary, such Distributions thereon shall be made to the Depositary in
immediately available funds. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall
be made in such manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property Trustee
and the Holder of all the Common Securities.

     

    SECTION
4.5.                                Withholding Tax.

     

    (a)           The
Trust and the Administrative Trustees shall comply with all withholding and
backup withholding tax requirements under United States federal, state and local
law.  The Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall
request, and the Holders shall provide to the Trust, such forms or certificates
as are necessary to establish an exemption from withholding and backup
withholding tax with respect to each Holder and any representations and forms as
shall reasonably be requested by the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the
Trust to assist it in determining the extent of, and in fulfilling, its
withholding and backup withholding tax obligations.  The
Administrative Trustees shall file required forms with applicable jurisdictions
and, unless an exemption from withholding and backup withholding tax is properly
established by a Holder, shall remit amounts withheld with respect to the Holder
to applicable jurisdictions.  To the extent that the Trust is required
to withhold and pay over any amounts to any jurisdiction with respect to
Distributions or allocations to any Holder, the amount withheld shall be deemed
to be a Distribution in the amount of the withholding to the
Holder.  In the event of any claimed overwithholding, Holders shall be
limited to an action against the applicable jurisdiction.  If the
amount required to be withheld was not withheld from actual Distributions made,
the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust may reduce subsequent
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    SECTION
4.6.                                Tax Returns and Other
Reports.

     

    The
Administrative Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared) at the principal
office of the Trust in the United States, as defined for purposes of Treasury
regulations section 301.7701-7, at the Depositor’s expense, and file, all United
States federal, state and local tax and information returns and reports required
to be filed by or in respect of the Trust.  The Administrative
Trustees shall prepare at the principal office of the Trust in the United
States, as defined for purposes of Treasury regulations section 301.7701-7, and
furnish (or cause to be prepared and furnished), by January 31 in each taxable
year of the Trust to each Holder all Internal Revenue Service forms and returns
required to be provided by the Trust. The Administrative Trustees shall provide
the Depositor, Taberna Capital Management, LLC and the Property Trustee with a
copy of all such returns and reports promptly after such filing or
furnishing.

     

    SECTION
4.7.                                Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of
the Trust.

     

    Upon
receipt under the Notes of Additional Tax Sums and upon the written direction of
the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee shall promptly pay, solely out
of monies on deposit pursuant to this Trust Agreement, any Additional Taxes
imposed on the Trust by the United States or any other taxing
authority.

     

    SECTION
4.8.                                Payments under Indenture or Pursuant
to Direct Actions.

     

    Any
amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Preferred Securities shall be reduced
by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or any Owner with
respect thereto) has directly received pursuant to Section 5.8 of the
Indenture or Section 6.10(b)
of this Trust Agreement.

     

    SECTION
4.9.                                Exchanges.

     

    (a)           If
at any time the Depositor or any of its Affiliates (in either case, a “Depositor Affiliate”) is the
Owner or Holder of any Preferred Securities, such Depositor Affiliate shall have
the right to deliver to the Property Trustee all or such portion of its
Preferred Securities as it elects and, subject to compliance with Sections 2.2
and 3.5 of the Indenture, receive, in exchange therefor, a Like Amount of
Notes.  Such election shall be exercisable effective on any
Distribution Date by such Depositor Affiliate delivering to the Property Trustee
(i) at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the Distribution Date on which such
exchange is to occur, the registration instructions and the documentation, if
any, required pursuant to Sections 2.2 and 3.5 of the Indenture to enable the
Indenture Trustee to issue the requested Like Amount of Notes, (ii) a written
notice of such election specifying the Liquidation Amount of Preferred
Securities with respect to which such election is being made and the
Distribution Date on which such exchange shall occur, which Distribution Date
shall be not less than ten (10) Business Days after the date of receipt by the
Property Trustee of such election notice and (iii) shall be conditioned upon
such Depositor Affiliate having delivered or caused to be delivered to the
Property Trustee or its designee the Preferred Securities that are the subject
of such election by 10:00 A.M. New York time, on the Distribution Date on which
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    Preferred
Securities will be canceled and will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and
all rights of the Depositor Affiliate with respect to such Preferred Securities
will cease.

     

    (b)           In
the case of an exchange described in Section 4.9(a), the
Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust will, on the date of such exchange,
exchange Notes having a principal amount equal to a proportional amount of the
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Common Securities, based on the
ratio of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities exchanged
pursuant to Section
4.9(a) divided by the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities Outstanding immediately prior to such exchange, for such proportional
amount of Common Securities held by the Depositor (which contemporaneously shall
be canceled and no longer be deemed to be Outstanding); provided, that the Depositor
delivers or causes to be delivered to the Property Trustee or its designee the
required amount of Common Securities to be exchanged by 10:00 A.M. New York
time, on the Distribution Date on which such exchange is to occur.

     

    SECTION
4.10.                                           Calculation
Agent.

     

    (a)           The
Calculation Agent may be removed by the Administrative Trustees at any
time.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Property Trustee shall
initially, and, for so long as it holds any of the Notes, be the Calculation
Agent for purposes of determining LIBOR for each Distribution
Date.  If the Calculation Agent is unable or unwilling to act as such
or is removed by the Administrative Trustees, the Administrative Trustees will
promptly appoint as a replacement Calculation Agent the London office of a
leading bank which is engaged in transactions in three/-month Eurodollar
deposits in the international Eurodollar market and which does not control or is
not controlled by or under common control with the Administrative Trustee or its
Affiliates.  The Calculation Agent may not resign its duties without a
successor having been duly appointed.

     

    (b)           The
Calculation Agent shall be required to agree that, as soon as possible after
11:00 a.m. (London time) on each LIBOR Determination Date, but in no event later
than 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Business Day immediately following each
LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will calculate the interest rate
(rounded to the nearest cent, with half a cent being rounded upwards) for the
related Distribution Date, and will communicate such rate and amount to the
Depositor, the Administrative Trustees, the Note Trustee, each Paying Agent and
the Depositary. The Calculation Agent will also specify to the Administrative
Trustee the quotations upon which the foregoing rates and amounts are based and,
in any event, the Calculation Agent shall notify the Administrative Trustees
before 5:00 p.m. (London time) on each LIBOR Determination Date that
either:  (i) it has determined or is in the process of
determining the foregoing rates and amounts or (ii) it has not determined
and is not in the process of determining the foregoing rates and amounts,
together with its reasons therefor.  The Calculation Agent’s
determination of the foregoing rates and amounts for any Distribution Date will
(in the absence of manifest error) be final and binding upon all
parties.  For the sole purpose of calculating the interest rate for
the Trust Securities, “Business Day” shall be defined as any day on which
dealings in deposits in Dollars are transacted in the London interbank
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    SECTION
4.11.                                           Certain
Accounting Matters.

     

    (a)           At
all times during the existence of the Trust, the Administrative Trustees shall
keep, or cause to be kept at the principal office of the Trust in the United
States, as defined for purposes of Treasury Regulations section 301.7701-7, full
books of account, records and supporting documents, which shall reflect in
reasonable detail each transaction of the Trust.  The books of account
shall be maintained on the accrual method of accounting, in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied.

     

    (b)           The
Administrative Trustees shall either (i) if the Depositor is then subject to
such reporting requirements, cause each Form 10-K and Form 10-Q prepared by the
Depositor and filed with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act to
be delivered to each Holder, with a copy to the Property Trustee, within thirty
(30) days after the filing thereof or (ii) cause to be prepared at the
principal office of the Trust in the United States, as defined for purposes of
Treasury Regulations section 301.7701-7, and delivered to each of the Holders,
with a copy to the Property Trustee, within ninety (90) days after the end of
each Fiscal Year, annual financial statements of the Trust, including a balance
sheet of the Trust as of the end of such Fiscal Year, and the related statements
of income or loss.

     

    (c)           If
the Depositor intends to file its annual and quarterly information with the
Commission in electronic form pursuant to Regulation S-T of the Commission using
the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (“EDGAR”) system, the
Administrative Trustees shall notify the Property Trustee in the manner
prescribed herein of each such annual and quarterly filing.  The
Property Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to access the EDGAR system
for purposes of retrieving the financial information so
filed.  Compliance with the foregoing shall constitute delivery by the
Administrative Trustees of its financial statements to the Property Trustee in
compliance with the provisions of Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, if
applicable.  The Property Trustee shall have no duty to search for or
obtain any electronic or other filings that the Depositor makes with the
Commission, regardless of whether such filings are periodic, supplemental or
otherwise.  Delivery of reports, information and documents to the
Property Trustee pursuant to this Section 4.11(c) shall
be solely for purposes of compliance with this Section 4.11 and, if
applicable, with Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.  The
Property Trustee’s receipt of such reports, information and documents shall not
constitute notice to it of the content thereof or any matter determinable from
the content thereof, including the Depositor’s compliance with any of its
covenants hereunder, as to which the Property Trustee is entitled to rely upon
Officers’ Certificates.

     

    (d)           The
Trust shall maintain one or more bank accounts in the United States, as defined
for purposes of Treasury Regulations section 301.7701-7, in the name and for the
sole benefit of the Trust; provided, however, that all
payments of funds in respect of the Notes held by the Property Trustee shall be
made directly to the Payment Account and no other funds of the Trust shall be
deposited in the Payment Account.  The sole signatories for such
accounts (including the Payment Account) shall be designated by the Property
Trustee.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    ARTICLE
V.

     

    

     

    Securities

     

    SECTION
5.1.                                Initial
Ownership.

     

    Upon the
creation of the Trust and the contribution by the Depositor referred to in Section 2.3 and
until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at any time during which no
Trust Securities are Outstanding, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficial
owner of the Trust.

     

    SECTION
5.2.                                Authorized Trust
Securities.

     

    The Trust
shall be authorized to issue two series of Preferred Securities having an
aggregate Liquidation Amount of $50,000,000 (made up of Series A Preferred
Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $970,000 and Series B
Preferred Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $49,030,000) and
two series of Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of
$1,550,000 (made up of Series A Common Securities having an aggregate
Liquidation Amount of $31,000 and Series B Common Securities having an aggregate
Liquidation Amount of $1,519,000).

     

    SECTION
5.3.                                Issuance of the Common Securities;
Subscription and Purchase of Notes.

     

    (a)           On
the Closing Date, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, executed
and delivered to the Depositor Common Securities Certificates, registered in the
name of the Depositor, evidencing an aggregate of One Thousand Five Hundred
Fifty (1,550) Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of One
Million Five Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars, ($1,550,000) against receipt by the Trust
of the aggregate purchase price of such Common Securities of One Million Five
Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars, ($1,550,000).  Contemporaneously
therewith and with the sale by the Trust to the Holders of an aggregate of Fifty
Thousand (50,000) Preferred Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of
Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000), an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the
Trust, purchased from the Depositor Notes, registered in the name of the
Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust and having an aggregate principal amount
equal to Fifty One Million Five Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars, ($51,550,000), and, in satisfaction of the
purchase price for such Notes, the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Trust,
delivered to the Depositor the sum of Fifty One Million Five Hundred Fifty
Thousand Dollars, ($51,550,000) (being the aggregate amount
paid by the Holders for the Preferred Securities, and the amount paid by the
Depositor for the Common Securities).

     

    (b)           As
of the date hereof, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall
execute and deliver to the Depositor (i) a Series A Common Securities
Certificate, registered in the name of the Depositor, evidencing an aggregate of
Thirty One (31) Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of
Thirty One Thousand Dollars, ($31,000) and (ii) a
Series B Common Securities Certificate, registered in the name of the Depositor,
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    (1,519)
Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of One Million Five
Hundred Nineteen Thousand Dollars, ($1,519,000) against
receipt by the Trust of the Common Securities Certificate, registered in the
name of the Depositor, evidencing an aggregate of One Thousand Five Hundred
Fifty (1,550) Common Securities, which was issued on the Closing
Date.

     

    (c)           As
of the date hereof, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall
execute and deliver to the Depositor (i) a Series A Preferred Securities
Certificate, registered in the name of Sigler & Co., evidencing an aggregate
of Nine Hundred Seventy (970) Preferred Securities having an aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Nine Hundred Seventy Thousand Dollars, ($970,000), (ii) a
Series B Preferred Securities Certificate, registered in the name of Sigler
& Co., evidencing an aggregate of Thirty Seven Thousand Five Hundred
(37,500) Preferred Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of Thirty
Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($37,500,000), and (iii)
a Series B Preferred Securities Certificate, registered in the name of Sigler
& Co., evidencing an aggregate of Eleven Thousand Five Hundred Thirty
(11,530) Preferred Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of Eleven
Million Five Hundred Thirty Thousand Dollars ($11,530,000) against
receipt by the Trust of the three (3) Preferred Securities Certificates,
evidencing an aggregate of Fifty Thousand (50,000) Preferred
Securities.

     

    SECTION
5.4.                                The Securities
Certificates.

     

    (a)           The
Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of
$100,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof,
and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations
of  $10,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in
excess thereof.  The Securities Certificates shall be executed on
behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of at least one
Administrative Trustee.  Securities Certificates bearing the
signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have
been affixed, authorized to sign such Securities Certificates on behalf of the
Trust shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this Trust
Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have
ceased to be so authorized prior to the delivery of such Securities Certificates
or did not have such authority at the date of delivery of such Securities
Certificates.

     

    (b)           On
the Closing Date, upon the written order of an authorized officer of the
Depositor, the Administrative Trustees shall cause Securities Certificates to be
executed on behalf of the Trust and delivered, without further corporate action
by the Depositor, in authorized denominations.

     

    (c)           The
Preferred Securities issued to QIBs/QPs shall be, except as provided in Section 5.6,
Book-Entry Preferred Securities issued in the form of one or more Global
Preferred Securities registered in the name of the Depositary, or its nominee
and deposited with the Depositary or a custodian for the Depositary for credit
by the Depositary to the respective accounts of the Depositary Participants
thereof (or such other accounts as they may direct).  The Preferred
Securities issued to a Person other than a QIB/QP shall be issued in the form of
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    (d)           A
Preferred Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual
signature of an authorized signatory of the Property Trustee.  Such
signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Preferred Security has been
authenticated under this Trust Agreement.  Upon written order of the
Trust signed by one Administrative Trustee, the Property Trustee shall
authenticate the Preferred Securities for original issue.  The
Property Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent that is a U.S. Person
acceptable to the Trust to authenticate the Preferred Securities.  A
Common Security need not be so authenticated and shall be valid upon execution
by one or more Administrative Trustees.  The form of this certificate
of authentication can be found in Section
5.13.

     

    SECTION
5.5.                                Rights of
Holders.

     

    The Trust
Securities shall have no preemptive or similar rights and when issued and
delivered to Holders against payment of the purchase price therefor will be
fully paid and non-assessable by the Trust.  Except as provided in
Section
5.11(b), the Holders of the Trust Securities, in their capacities as
such, shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to
stockholders of private corporations for profit organized under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

     

    SECTION
5.6.                                Book-Entry Preferred
Securities.

     

    (a)           A
Global Preferred Security may be exchanged, in whole or in part, for Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the names of the Owners only if
such exchange complies with Section 5.7 and
(i) the Depositary advises the Administrative Trustees and the Property
Trustee in writing that the Depositary is no longer willing or able properly to
discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Global Preferred Security,
and no qualified successor is appointed by the Administrative Trustees within
ninety (90) days of receipt of such notice, (ii) the Depositary ceases to
be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and the Administrative
Trustees fail to appoint a qualified successor within ninety (90) days of
obtaining knowledge of such event, (iii) the Administrative Trustees at their
option advise the Property Trustee in writing that the Trust elects to terminate
the book-entry system through the Depositary or (iv) a Note Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing. Upon the occurrence of any event
specified in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) above, the Administrative Trustees
shall notify the Depositary and instruct the Depositary to notify all Owners of
Book-Entry Preferred Securities, the Delaware Trustee and the Property Trustee
of the occurrence of such event and of the availability of the Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates to Owners of the Preferred Securities
requesting the same. Upon the issuance of Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates, the Trustees shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates as Holders.  Notwithstanding the
foregoing, if an Owner of a beneficial interest in a Global Preferred Security
wishes at any time to transfer an interest in such Global Preferred Security to
a Person other than a QIB/QP, such transfer shall be effected, subject to the
Applicable Depositary Procedures, in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 5.6 and
Section 5.7,
and the transferee shall receive a Definitive Preferred Securities Certificate
in connection with such transfer.    A holder of a
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificate that is a QIB/QP may, upon request
and in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.6 and Section 5.7, exchange
such Definitive Preferred Securities Certificate for a beneficial interest in a
Global Preferred Security.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    (b)           If
any Global Preferred Security is to be exchanged for Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificates or canceled in part, or if any Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificate is to be exchanged in whole or in part for any Global
Preferred Security, then either (i) such Global Preferred Security shall be so
surrendered for exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article V or (ii) the
aggregate Liquidation Amount represented by such Global Preferred Security shall
be reduced, subject to Section 5.4, or
increased by an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount represented by that
portion of the Global Preferred Security to be so exchanged or canceled, or
equal to the Liquidation Amount represented by such Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificates to be so exchanged for any Global Preferred Security, as
the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of
the Securities Registrar, whereupon the Property Trustee, in accordance with the
Applicable Depositary Procedures, shall instruct the Depositary or its
authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records.
Upon any such surrender to the Administrative Trustees or the Securities
Registrar of any Global Preferred Security or Securities by the Depositary,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Administrative Trustees, or any
one of them, shall execute the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates in
accordance with the instructions of the Depositary.  None of the
Securities Registrar or the Trustees shall be liable for any delay in delivery
of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected
in relying on, such instructions.

     

    (c)           Every
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificate executed and delivered upon
registration or transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global
Preferred Security or any portion thereof shall be executed and delivered in the
form of, and shall be, a Global Preferred Security, unless such Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificate is registered in the name of a Person other
than the Depositary for such Global Preferred Security or a nominee
thereof.

     

    (d)           The
Depositary or its nominee, as registered owner of a Global Preferred Security,
shall be the Holder of such Global Preferred Security for all purposes under
this Trust Agreement and the Global Preferred Security, and Owners with respect
to a Global Preferred Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the
Applicable Depositary Procedures. The Securities Registrar and the Trustees
shall be entitled to deal with the Depositary for all purposes of this Trust
Agreement relating to the Global Preferred Securities (including the payment of
the Liquidation Amount of and Distributions on the Book-Entry Preferred
Securities represented thereby and the giving of instructions or directions by
Owners of Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented thereby and the giving of
notices) as the sole Holder of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented
thereby and shall have no obligations to the Owners thereof.  None of
the Trustees nor the Securities Registrar shall have any liability in respect of
any transfers effected by the Depositary.

     

    (e)           The
rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities shall be exercised
only through the Depositary and shall be limited to those established by law,
the Applicable Depositary Procedures and agreements between such Owners and the
Depositary and/or the Depositary Participants; provided, that solely for the
purpose of determining whether the Holders of the requisite amount of Preferred
Securities have voted on any matter provided for in this Trust Agreement, to the
extent that Preferred Securities are represented by a Global Preferred Security,
the Trustees may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying
on, any written instrument (including a proxy) delivered to the Property Trustee
by the Depositary setting forth the Owners’ votes or assigning the right to vote
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    other
Persons either in whole or in part.  To the extent that Preferred
Securities are represented by a Global Preferred Security, the initial
Depositary will make book-entry transfers among the Depositary Participants and
receive and transmit payments on the Preferred Securities that are represented
by a Global Preferred Security to such Depositary Participants, and none of the
Depositor or the Trustees shall have any responsibility or obligation with
respect thereto.

     

    (f)           To
the extent that a notice or other communication to the Holders is required under
this Trust Agreement, for so long as Preferred Securities are represented by a
Global Preferred Security,  the Trustees shall give all such notices
and communications to the Depositary, and shall have no obligations to the
Owners.

     

    SECTION
5.7.                                Registration of Transfer and
Exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates.

     

    (a)           The
Property Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept, at the Corporate Trust Office,
a register or registers (the “Securities Register”) in
which the registrar and transfer agent with respect to the Trust Securities (the
“Securities Registrar”),
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for
the registration of Preferred Securities Certificates and Common Securities
Certificates and registration of transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities
Certificates as herein provided. The Person acting as the Property Trustee shall
at all times also be the Securities Registrar.  The provisions of
Article VIII
shall apply to the Property Trustee in its role as Securities
Registrar.

     

    (b)           Subject
to Section 5.7(d), upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred
Securities Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.7(f),
the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute by manual or
facsimile signature and deliver to the Property Trustee, and the Property
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee
or transferees, one or more new Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized
denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount as may be required by this
Trust Agreement dated the date of execution by such Administrative Trustee or
Trustees.  At the option of a Holder, Preferred Securities
Certificates may be exchanged for other Preferred Securities Certificates in
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount upon
surrender of the Preferred Securities Certificate to be exchanged at the office
or agency maintained pursuant to Section
5.7(f).  Whenever any Preferred Securities Certificates are so
surrendered for exchange, the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall
execute by manual or facsimile signature and deliver to the Property Trustee,
and the Property Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Preferred
Securities Certificates that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.

     

    (c)           The
Securities Registrar shall not be required, (i) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange any Preferred Security during a period beginning at the
opening of business fifteen (15) days before the day of selection for redemption
of such Preferred Securities pursuant to Article IV and ending
at the close of business on the day of mailing of the notice of redemption or
(ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Preferred Security so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any such
Preferred Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be
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    (d)           Every
Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Securities Registrar duly
executed by the Holder or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and
accompanied by a certificate of the transferee substantially in the form set
forth as Exhibit
E hereto.

     

    (e)           No
service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of
Preferred Securities Certificates, but the Property Trustee on behalf of the
Trust may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of
Preferred Securities Certificates.

     

    (f)           The
Administrative Trustees shall designate an office or offices or agency or
agencies where Preferred Securities Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and initially designate the Corporate Trust
Office as its office and agency for such purposes. The Administrative Trustees
shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, the Property Trustee and to
the Holders of any change in the location of any such office or
agency.

     

    (g)           The
Preferred Securities may only be transferred to a “Qualified Purchaser” as such
term is defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the Investment Company Act.

     

    (h)           Neither
the Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall be responsible for ascertaining
whether any transfer hereunder complies with the registration provisions of or
any exemptions from the Securities Act, applicable state securities laws or the
applicable laws of any other jurisdiction, ERISA, the Code or the Investment
Company Act; provided, that if a certificate is specifically required by the
express terms of this Section 5.7 to be
delivered to the Trustee or the Securities Registrar by a Holder or transferee
of a Security, the Trustee and the Securities Registrar shall be under a duty to
receive and examine the same to determine whether or not the certificate
substantially conforms on its face to the requirements of this Indenture and
shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate does not
comply with such terms.

     

    SECTION
5.8.                                Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Securities Certificates.

     

    (a)           If
any mutilated Securities Certificate shall be surrendered to the Securities
Registrar together with such security or indemnity as may be required by the
Securities Registrar to save each of the Trustees harmless, the Administrative
Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute and make
available for delivery in exchange therefor a new Securities Certificate of like
class, tenor and denomination.

     

    (b)           If
the Securities Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Securities Certificate and there shall be
delivered to the Securities Registrar such security or indemnity as may be
required by it to save each of the Trustees harmless, then in the absence of
notice that such Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a protected
purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the
Trust, shall execute and make available for delivery, and, with respect to
Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee shall authenticate, in exchange for
or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Securities Certificate, a new
Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    (c)           In
connection with the issuance of any new Securities Certificate under this Section 5.8, the
Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection therewith.

     

    (d)           Any
duplicate Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 5.8
shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in the
assets of the Trust corresponding to that evidenced by the mutilated, lost,
stolen or destroyed Securities Certificate, as if originally issued, whether or
not the lost, stolen or destroyed Securities Certificate shall be found at any
time.

     

    (e)           If
any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities Certificate has become
or is about to become due and payable, the Depositor in its discretion may
provide the Administrative Trustee with the funds to pay such Trust Security and
upon receipt of such funds, the Administrative Trustee shall pay such Trust
Security instead of issuing a new Securities Certificate.

     

    (f)           The
provisions of this Section 5.8 are
exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and
remedies with respect to the replacement of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Securities Certificates.

     

    SECTION
5.9.                                Persons Deemed
Holders.

     

    The
Trustees and the Securities Registrar shall each treat the Person in whose name
any Securities Certificate shall be registered in the Securities Register as the
owner of such Securities Certificate for the purpose of receiving Distributions
and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Trustees and the
Securities Registrar shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.

     

    SECTION
5.10.                              Cancellation.

     

    All
Preferred Securities Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange or for payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the
Property Trustee, be delivered to the Property Trustee, and any such Preferred
Securities Certificates and Preferred Securities Certificates surrendered
directly to the Property Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly canceled
by it.  The Administrative Trustees may at any time deliver to the
Property Trustee for cancellation any Preferred Securities Certificates
previously delivered hereunder that the Administrative Trustees may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Preferred Securities Certificates so
delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Property Trustee.  No
Preferred Securities Certificates shall be executed and delivered in lieu of or
in exchange for any Preferred Securities Certificates canceled as provided in
this Section
5.10, except as expressly permitted by this Trust
Agreement.  All canceled Preferred Securities Certificates shall be
retained by the Property Trustee in accordance with its customary
practices.

     

    SECTION
5.11.                              Ownership of Common Securities by
Depositor.

     

    (a)           On
the Closing Date, the Depositor shall acquire, and thereafter shall retain,
beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. Neither the Depositor
nor any successor Holder of the Common Securities may transfer less than all the
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    and the
Depositor or any such successor Holder may transfer the Common Securities only
(i) in connection with a consolidation or merger of the Depositor into
another Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person (in which event
such Common Securities will be transferred to such surviving entity, transferee
or lessee, as the case may be), pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Indenture or
(ii) to the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor, in each such case
in compliance with applicable law (including the Securities Act, and applicable
state securities and blue sky laws). To the fullest extent permitted by law, any
attempted transfer of the Common Securities other than as set forth in the
immediately preceding sentence shall be void. The Administrative Trustees shall
cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Depositor to contain a
legend stating substantially “THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN
COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE TRUST
AGREEMENT.”

     

    (b)           Any
Holder of the Common Securities shall be liable for the debts and obligations of
the Trust in the manner and to the extent set forth with respect to the
Depositor and agrees that it shall be subject to all liabilities to which the
Depositor may be subject and, prior to becoming such a Holder, shall deliver to
the Administrative Trustees an instrument of assumption satisfactory to such
Trustees.

     

    SECTION
5.12.                                           Restricted
Legends.

     

    (a)           Each
Preferred Security Certificate shall bear a legend in substantially the
following form:

     

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

     

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

     

    THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN, MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF
SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM.  EACH
PURCHASER OF ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT.

     

    THE
HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES
MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE TRUST OR (II) TO
A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED)
AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES FROM IT
OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE.

     

    THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING
AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES, OR ANY
INTEREST THEREIN,  IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT
OF LESS THAN $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED
TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW, ANY SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH
PREFERRED SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT
OF PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST ON SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN, AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST
WHATSOEVER IN SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES.

     

    THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN,  BY ITS ACCEPTANCE
HEREOF OR THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT
SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS
AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR
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    ENTITY
WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT
IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR
HOLD THIS PREFERRED SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF
THE PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE
REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON
BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING
THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH
PURCHASE.”

     

    (b)           The
above legend shall not be removed from any of the Preferred Securities
Certificates unless there is delivered to the Property Trustee and the Depositor
satisfactory evidence, which may include an opinion of counsel, as may be
reasonably required to ensure that any future transfers thereof may be made
without restriction under the provisions of the Securities Act and other
applicable law.  Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence, one or
more of the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall execute and
deliver to the Property Trustee, and the Property Trustee shall deliver, at the
written direction of the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor, Preferred
Securities Certificates that do not bear the legend.

     

    SECTION
5.13.                                           Form of Certificate of
Authentication.

     

    The
Property Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the
following form:

     

    This is
one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Trust
Agreement.

     

    
      	
              Dated:

            	
              JPMorgan
      Chase Bank, National Association, not in its individual capacity, but
      solely as Property Trustee

            

    

    

    

    By:           ________________________________

    Authorized signatory

     

    ARTICLE
VI.

     

     

    

     

     

    Meetings;
Voting; Acts of Holders

     

    SECTION
6.1.                                Notice of
Meetings.

     

    Notice of
all meetings of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, stating the time, place
and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the Property Trustee pursuant to
Section 10.8
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    each
Holder of Preferred Securities, at such Holder’s registered address, at least
fifteen (15) days and not more than ninety (90) days before the meeting. At any
such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so considered
whether or not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be
held as adjourned without further notice.

     

    SECTION
6.2.                                Meetings of Holders of the Preferred
Securities.

     

    (a)           No
annual meeting of Holders is required to be held. The Property Trustee, however,
shall call a meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities to vote on any
matter upon the written request of the Holders of at least twenty five percent
(25%) in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities
and the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee may, at any time in
their discretion, call a meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities to
vote on any matters as to which such Holders are entitled to vote.

     

    (b)           The
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any
meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.

     

    (c)           If
a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Holders present, in
person or by proxy, holding Preferred Securities representing at least a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities held by the Holders
present, either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the
action of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, unless this Trust Agreement
requires a lesser or greater number of affirmative votes.

     

    SECTION
6.3.                                Voting Rights.

     

    Holders
shall be entitled to one vote for each $10,000 of Liquidation Amount represented
by their Outstanding Trust Securities in respect of any matter as to which such
Holders are entitled to vote.

     

    SECTION
6.4.                                Proxies, Etc.

     

    At any
meeting of Holders, any Holder entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided, that no proxy shall
be voted at any meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the
Administrative Trustees, or with such other officer or agent of the Trust as the
Administrative Trustees may direct, for verification prior to the time at which
such vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a resolution of the Property Trustee,
proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or one or more
officers of the Property Trustee. Only Holders of record shall be entitled to
vote. When Trust Securities are held jointly by several Persons, any one of them
may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust
Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present at such meeting in
person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so present disagree
as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in respect of such
Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a Holder
shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the
burden of proving invalidity shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be
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    SECTION
6.5.                                Holder Action by Written
Consent.

     

    Any
action that may be taken by Holders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting
and without prior notice if Holders holding at least a Majority in Liquidation
Amount of all Preferred Securities entitled to vote in respect of such action
(or such lesser or greater proportion thereof as shall be required by any other
provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to the action in writing; provided, that notice of such
action is promptly provided to the Holders of Preferred Securities that did not
consent to such action.  Any action that may be taken by the Holders
of all the Common Securities may be taken without a meeting and without prior
notice if such Holders shall consent to the action in writing.

     

    SECTION
6.6.                                Record Date for Voting and Other
Purposes.

     

    Except as
provided in Section
6.10(a), for the purposes of determining the Holders who are entitled to
notice of and to vote at any meeting or to act by written consent, or to
participate in any distribution on the Trust Securities in respect of which a
record date is not otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the
purpose of any other action, the Administrative Trustees may from time to time
fix a date, not more than ninety (90) days prior to the date of any meeting of
Holders or the payment of a Distribution or other action, as the case may be, as
a record date for the determination of the identity of the Holders of record for
such purposes.

     

    SECTION
6.7.                                Acts of Holders.

     

    (a)           Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be given, made or taken
by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent
thereof duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments
are delivered to an Administrative Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and
the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred
to as the “Act” of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of
a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Trust Agreement and conclusive in favor of the Trustees, if made in the manner
provided in this Section
6.7.

     

    (b)           The
fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing
may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a
certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take
acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument
or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by
a signer acting in a capacity other than such signer’s individual capacity, such
certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of such signer’s
authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing,
or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any
other manner that any Trustee receiving the same deems sufficient.

     

    (c)           The
ownership of Trust Securities shall be proved by the Securities
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    (d)           Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act
of the Holder of any Trust Security shall bind every future Holder of the same
Trust Security and the Holder of every Trust Security issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustees, the
Administrative Trustees or the Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.

     

    (e)           Without
limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder
with regard to any particular Trust Security may do so with regard to all or any
part of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security or by one or more duly
appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with
regard to all or any part of such Liquidation Amount.

     

    (f)           If
any dispute shall arise among the Holders or the Trustees with respect to the
authenticity, validity or binding nature of any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of such Holder or Trustee under
this Article
VI, then the determination of such matter by the Property Trustee shall
be conclusive with respect to such matter.

     

    SECTION
6.8.                                Inspection of
Records.

     

    Upon
reasonable written notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property
Trustee, the records of the Trust shall be open to inspection by any Holder
during normal business hours for any purpose reasonably related to such Holder’s
interest as a Holder.

     

    SECTION
6.9.                                Limitations on Voting
Rights.

     

    (a)           Except
as expressly provided in this Trust Agreement and in the Indenture and as
otherwise required by law, no Holder of Preferred Securities shall have any
right to vote or in any manner otherwise control the administration, operation
and management of the Trust or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall
anything herein set forth, or contained in the terms of the Securities
Certificates, be construed so as to constitute the Holders from time to time as
partners or members of an association.

     

    (b)           So
long as any Notes are held by the Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust, the
Property Trustee shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Note Trustee, or
exercise any trust or power conferred on the Property Trustee with respect to
the Notes, (ii) waive any past default that may be waived under
Section 5.13 of the Indenture or waive compliance with any covenant or
condition under Section 10.7 of the Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to
rescind or annul a declaration that the principal of all the Notes shall be due
and payable or (iv) consent to any amendment, modification or termination
of the Indenture or the Notes, where such consent shall be required, without, in
each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities; provided, that where a consent
under the Indenture would require the consent of each holder of Notes (or each
Holder of Preferred Securities) affected thereby, no such consent shall be given
by the Property Trustee without the prior written consent of each Holder of
Preferred Securities. The Property Trustee shall not revoke any action
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    authorized
or approved by a vote of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, except by a
subsequent vote of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.  In
addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Property Trustee
shall, at the expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced
in such matters to the effect that such action shall not cause the Trust to be
taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust for United
States federal income tax purposes.

     

    (c)           If
any proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for, or the Trustees
otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would adversely affect in
any material respect the powers, preferences or special rights of the Preferred
Securities, whether by way of amendment to the Trust Agreement or otherwise or
(ii) the dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Trust, other than
pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, then the Holders of Outstanding
Preferred Securities as a class will be entitled to vote on such amendment or
proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective except with the
approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, no amendment to this Trust Agreement may be made if, as a result of
such amendment, it would cause the Trust to be taxable as a corporation or
classified as other than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax
purposes.

     

    SECTION
6.10.                                           Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission
of Annulment; Waivers of Past Defaults.

     

    (a)           For
so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, if, upon a Note Event of
Default, the Note Trustee fails or the holders of not less than twenty five
percent (25%) in principal amount of the outstanding Notes fail to declare the
principal of all of the Notes to be immediately due and payable, the Holders of
at least twenty five percent (25%) in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities then Outstanding shall have the right to make such declaration by a
notice in writing to the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the Note
Trustee.  At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect
to the Notes has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the
money due has been obtained by the Note Trustee as provided in the Indenture,
the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the
Note Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences
if:

     

    (i)           the
Depositor has paid or deposited with the Note Trustee a sum sufficient to
pay:

     

    (A)           all
overdue installments of interest on all of the Notes;

     

    (B)           any
accrued Additional Interest on all of the Notes;

     

    (C)           the
principal of and any premium, if any, on any Notes that have become due
otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest and Additional
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    (D)           all
sums paid or advanced by the Note Trustee under the Indenture and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Note Trustee, the
Property Trustee and their agents and counsel; and

     

    (ii)           all
Note Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the principal of the Notes
that has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as
provided in Section 5.13 of the Indenture.

     

    Upon
receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice requesting such an
acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of any part of the
Preferred Securities, a record date shall be established for determining Holders
of Outstanding Preferred Securities entitled to join in such notice, which
record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Property Trustee
receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated
proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice,
whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that, unless such
declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be,
shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having joined
in such notice prior to the day that is ninety (90) days after such record date,
such notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the
case may be, shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be
canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a
Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such ninety
(90)-day period, a new written notice of declaration of acceleration, or
rescission and annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a
written notice that has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding
sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 6.10(a).

     

    (b)           For
so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent
permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the
Indenture, upon a Note Event of Default specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of
Section 5.1 of the Indenture, any Holder of Preferred Securities shall have
the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor, pursuant to
Section 5.8 of the Indenture, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of
any amounts payable in respect of Notes having an aggregate principal amount
equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities of such
Holder.  Except as set forth in Section 6.10(a)
and this Section 6.10(b),
the Holders of Preferred Securities shall have no right to exercise directly any
right or remedy available to the holders of, or in respect of, the
Notes.

     

    (c)           Notwithstanding
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6.10, the
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any Note
Event of Default, except any Note Event of Default arising from the failure to
pay any principal of or any premium, if any, or interest on (including any
Additional Interest) the Notes (unless such Note Event of Default has been cured
and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and all
principal and premium, if any, on all Notes due otherwise than by acceleration
has been deposited with the Note Trustee) or a Note Event of Default in respect
of a covenant or provision that under the Indenture cannot be modified or
amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding
Note.  Upon any such waiver, such Note Event of Default shall cease to
exist and any Note Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have
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waiver shall affect any subsequent Note Event of Default or impair any right
consequent thereon.

     

    (d)           Notwithstanding
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6.10, the
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any past
Event of Default and its consequences.  Upon such waiver, any such
Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising
therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Trust
Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event of
Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

     

    (e)           The
Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities shall
have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Property Trustee in respect of this Trust
Agreement or the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the
Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement; provided, that, subject to Sections 8.5 and
8.7, the
Property Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if
the Property Trustee being advised by counsel determines that the action so
directed may not lawfully be taken, or if the Property Trustee in good faith
shall, by an officer or officers of the Property Trustee, determine that the
proceedings so directed would be illegal or involve it in personal liability or
be unduly prejudicial to the rights of Holders not party to such direction, and
provided, further, that nothing in this
Trust Agreement shall impair the right of the Property Trustee to take any
action deemed proper by the Property Trustee and which is not inconsistent with
such direction.

     

     

    ARTICLE
VII.

     

     

    

     

     

    Representations
and Warranties

     

    SECTION
7.1.                                Representations and Warranties of
the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee.

     

    The
Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on behalf of and as to
itself, hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Depositor and the
Holders that:

     

    (a)           the
Property Trustee is a national banking association, duly organized and validly
existing under the laws of the United States;

     

    (b)           the
Property Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute,
deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken all
necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of
this Trust Agreement;

     

    (c)           the
Delaware Trustee is a national banking association, duly formed and validly
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    (d)           the
Delaware Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute,
deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken all
necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of
this Trust Agreement;

     

    (e)           this
Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Property
Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and constitutes the legal, valid and binding
agreement of each of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee enforceable
against each of them in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of
equity;

     

    (f)           the
execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate or other action on the part of the
Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and do not require any approval of
stockholders of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and such
execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate the Restated
Organization Certificate or Articles of Association, as applicable, or By-laws
of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, (ii) violate any provision of,
or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or
result in the imposition of any lien on any properties included in the Trust
Property pursuant to the provisions of any indenture, mortgage, credit
agreement, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee is a party or by which it is bound, or
(iii) violate any applicable law, governmental rule or regulation of the
United States or the State of Delaware, as the case may be, governing the
banking, trust or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee
or any order, judgment or decree applicable to the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee;

     

    (g)           neither
the authorization, execution or delivery by the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions
by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee contemplated herein requires the
consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the
taking of any other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency
under any existing law of the United States or the State of Delaware governing
the banking, trust or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee, as the case may be; and

     

    (h)           to
the best of each of the Property Trustee’s and the Delaware Trustee’s knowledge,
there are no proceedings pending or threatened against or affecting the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee in any court or before any governmental
authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal that, individually or in the
aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the Trust or would question the
right, power and authority of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as
the case may be, to enter into or perform its obligations as one of the Trustees
under this Trust Agreement.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    SECTION
7.2.                                Representations and Warranties of
Depositor.

     

    The
Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Holders and the
Trustees that:

     

    (a)           the
Depositor is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of its state of incorporation;

     

    (b)           the
Depositor has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute,
deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement, the Indenture
and the Notes dated of even date herewith issued pursuant to the terms of the
Indenture (the “Replacement
Notes”), and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement, the Indenture and the
Replacement Notes;

     

    (c)           each
of this Trust Agreement, the Indenture and each Replacement Note has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Depositor and constitutes the legal,
valid and binding agreement of the Depositor enforceable against the Depositor
in accordance with its respective terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general
principles of equity;

     

    (d)           the
Securities Certificates issued on the date hereof have been duly authorized by
the Trust and will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will
represent undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust entitled to
the benefits of this Trust Agreement, enforceable against the Trust in
accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and
similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of
equity; the issuance of the Securities is not subject to any preemptive or other
similar rights; on the date hereof, all of the issued and outstanding Common
Securities will be directly owned by the Company free and clear of any pledge,
security interest, claim, lien or other encumbrance of any kind;

     

    (e)           the
execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement, the Indenture and
the Replacement Notes have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or
other action on the part of the Depositor and do not require any approval of
stockholders of the Depositor and such execution, delivery and performance will
not (i) violate the articles or certificate of incorporation or by-laws (or
other organizational documents) of the Depositor or (ii) violate any
applicable law, governmental rule or regulation governing the Depositor or any
material portion of its property or any order, judgment or decree applicable to
the Depositor or any material portion of its property;

     

    (f)           neither
(i) the authorization, execution or delivery by the Depositor of this Trust
Agreement, the Indenture or the Replacement Notes nor (ii) the consummation of
any of the transactions by the Depositor contemplated herein requires the
consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the
taking of any other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency
under any existing law governing the Depositor or any material portion of its
property; and

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    (g)           there
are no proceedings pending or, to the best of the Depositor’s knowledge,
threatened against or affecting the Depositor or any material portion of its
property in any court or before any governmental authority, agency or
arbitration board or tribunal that, individually or in the aggregate, would
materially and adversely affect the Trust or would question the right, power and
authority of the Depositor, as the case may be, to enter into or perform its
obligations under this Trust Agreement, the Indenture or the Replacement
Notes.

     

     

    ARTICLE
VIII.

     

     

    

     

     

    The
Trustees

     

    SECTION
8.1.                                Number of
Trustees.

     

    The
number of Trustees shall be five (5); provided, that the Property
Trustee and the Delaware Trustee may be the same Person, in which case the
number of Trustees shall be four (4).  The number of Trustees may be
increased or decreased by Act of the Holder of the Common Securities subject to
Sections 8.2,
8.3, and 8.4.  The
death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence or incapacity
to perform the duties of a Trustee shall not operate to annul, dissolve or
terminate the Trust.

     

    SECTION
8.2.                                Property Trustee
Required.

     

    There
shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust
Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a corporation organized and doing
business under the laws of the United States or of any state thereof, authorized
to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at
least fifty million dollars ($50,000,000), subject to supervision or examination
by federal or state authority and having an office within the United
States.  If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least
annually pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes of this Section 8.2, the
combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. If at any time the Property Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 8.2, it shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in
this Article
VIII.

     

    SECTION
8.3.                                Delaware Trustee
Required.

     

    (a)           If
required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, there shall at all times be a
Delaware Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities. The Delaware Trustee
shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a
resident of the State of Delaware or (ii) a legal entity that has its
principal place of business in the State of Delaware, otherwise meets the
requirements of applicable Delaware law and shall act through one or more
persons authorized to bind such entity.  If at any time the Delaware
Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 8.3, it
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    effect
hereinafter specified in this Article
VIII.  The Delaware Trustee shall have the same rights,
privileges and immunities as the Property Trustee.

     

    (b)           The
Delaware Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the
Delaware Trustee have any of the duties and responsibilities, of the Property
Trustee or the Administrative Trustees set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee
shall be one of the trustees of the Trust for the sole and limited purpose of
fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust
Act and for taking such actions as are required to be taken by a Delaware
trustee under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.  The duties (including
fiduciary duties), liabilities and obligations of the Delaware Trustee shall be
limited to (a) accepting legal process served on the Trust in the State of
Delaware and (b) the execution of any certificates required to be filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware that the Delaware Trustee is
required to execute under Section 3811 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and
there shall be no other duties (including fiduciary duties) or obligations,
express or implied, at law or in equity, of the Delaware Trustee.

     

    SECTION
8.4.                                Appointment of Administrative
Trustees.

     

    (a)           There
shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees hereunder with respect
to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee shall be either a natural
person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal entity that shall act through
one or more persons authorized to bind that entity.  Each of the
individuals identified as an “Administrative Trustee” in
the preamble of this Trust Agreement hereby accepts his or her appointment as
such.

     

    (b)           Except
where a requirement for action by a specific number of Administrative Trustees
is expressly set forth in this Trust Agreement, any act required or permitted to
be taken by, and any power of the Administrative Trustees may be exercised by,
or with the consent of, any one such Administrative Trustee.  Whenever
a vacancy in the number of Administrative Trustees shall occur, until such
vacancy is filled by the appointment of an Administrative Trustee in accordance
with Section 8.11,
the Administrative Trustees in office, regardless of their number (and
notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement), shall have all the
powers granted to the Administrative Trustees and shall discharge all the duties
imposed upon the Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement.

     

    SECTION
8.5.                                Duties and Responsibilities of the
Trustees.

     

    (a)           The
rights, immunities, duties and responsibilities of the Trustees shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement and there shall be no other duties (including
fiduciary duties) or obligations, express or implied, at law or in equity, of
the Trustees; provided,
however, that if an Event of Default known to the Property Trustee has
occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall, prior to the receipt of
directions, if any, from the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Preferred Securities, exercise such of the rights and powers
vested in it by this Trust Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill
in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own
affairs.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Trust
Agreement shall require any of the Trustees to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties
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    powers,
if it or they shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such
funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured to it. Whether or not herein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Trust Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section
8.5.  Nothing in this Trust Agreement shall be construed to
release any Administrative Trustee from liability for his or her own negligent
action, negligent failure to act; or his or her own willful
misconduct.  To the extent that, at law or in equity, a Trustee has
duties and liabilities relating to the Trust or to the Holders, such Trustee
shall not be liable to the Trust or to any Holder for such Trustee’s good faith
reliance on the provisions of this Trust Agreement. The provisions of this Trust
Agreement, to the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the
Trustees otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Depositor and
the Holders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the
Trustees.

     

    (b)           All
payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in respect of the Trust
Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds from the Trust
Property and only to the extent that there shall be sufficient revenue or
proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a Paying
Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each Holder, by its
acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it will look solely to the revenue
and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally available for
distribution to it as herein provided and that the Trustees are not personally
liable to it for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security or
for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This Section 8.5(b)
does not limit the liability of the Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in
this Trust Agreement.

     

    (c)           No
provisions of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Property
Trustee from liability with respect to matters that are within the authority of
the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement for its own negligent action,
negligent failure to act or willful misconduct, except that:

     

    (i)           the
Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error or judgment made in good
faith by an authorized officer of the Property Trustee, unless it shall be
proved that the Property Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts;

     

    (ii)           the
Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted
to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders
of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Property Trustee hereunder or under the Indenture, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this
Trust Agreement;

     

    (iii)           the
Property Trustee’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safe keeping and
physical preservation of the Notes and the Payment Account shall be to deal with
such Property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee deals with similar
property for its own account, subject to the protections and limitations on
liability afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust
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    (iv)           the
Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any money received by
it except as it may otherwise agree in writing with the Depositor; and money
held by the Property Trustee need not be segregated from other funds held by it
except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by the Property Trustee
pursuant to Section 3.1 and
except to the extent otherwise required by law; and

     

    (v)           the
Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the
Administrative Trustees or the Depositor with their respective duties under this
Trust Agreement, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for the default or
misconduct of any other Trustee or the Depositor.

     

    SECTION
8.6.                                Notices of Defaults and
Extensions.

     

    (a)           Within
ninety (90) days after the occurrence of a default actually known to the
Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall transmit notice of such default to
the Holders, the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor, unless such default
shall have been cured or waived.  For the purpose of this Section 8.6, the term
“default” means any
event that is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event
of Default.

     

    (b)           Reserved.

     

    (c)           The
Property Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Event of Default
unless either (i) a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee shall have
actual knowledge or (ii) the Property Trustee shall have received written notice
thereof from the Depositor, an Administrative Trustee or a Holder.

     

    (d)           The
Property Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Preferred Securities of any
notice of default received with respect to the Notes.

     

    SECTION
8.7.                                Certain Rights of Property
Trustee.

     

    Subject
to the provisions of Section 8.5:

     

    (a)           the
Property Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith and in accordance with the terms hereof
upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written representation of
a Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors or any other resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness
or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed
or presented by the proper party or parties;

     

    (b)           if
(i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the Property
Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action,
(ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee finds a provision ambiguous or inconsistent with any other
provisions contained herein or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the
application of any provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any
matter as to which the Holders of the Preferred Securities are entitled to vote
under the terms of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a
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    to the
Depositor requesting the Depositor’s written instruction as to the course of
action to be taken and the Property Trustee shall take such action, or refrain
from taking such action, as the Property Trustee shall be instructed in writing
to take, or to refrain from taking, by the Depositor; provided, that if the
Property Trustee does not receive such instructions of the Depositor within ten
(10) Business Days after it has delivered such notice or such reasonably shorter
period of time set forth in such notice, the Property Trustee may, but shall be
under no duty to, take such action, or refrain from taking such action, as the
Property Trustee shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the Holders,
in which event the Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct;

     

    (c)           any
direction or act of the Depositor contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be
sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate unless otherwise expressly
provided herein;

     

    (d)           any
direction or act of an Administrative Trustee contemplated by this Trust
Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by a certificate executed by such
Administrative Trustee and setting forth such direction or act;

     

    (e)           the
Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording, filing or
registration of any instrument (including any financing or continuation
statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) or any re-recording,
re-filing or re-registration thereof;

     

    (f)           the
Property Trustee may consult with counsel (which counsel may be counsel to the
Property Trustee, the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of
its employees) and the advice of such counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and in accordance with
such advice; the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek
instructions concerning the administration of this Trust Agreement from any
court of competent jurisdiction;

     

    (g)           the
Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or
powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or direction of any
of the Holders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, unless such Holders shall have
offered to the Property Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the
costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) and
liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction, including reasonable advances as may be requested by the Property
Trustee; provided,
however, that nothing contained in this Section 8.7(g) shall
be construed to relieve the Property Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default, of its obligation to exercise the rights and powers in it vested by
this Trust Agreement; provided, further, that nothing contained in this Section 8.7(g) shall
prevent the Property Trustee from exercising its rights under Section 8.11
hereof;

     

    (h)           the
Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or
matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture,
note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, unless
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    by one or
more Holders, but the Property Trustee may make such further inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Property
Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall be
entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Depositor, personally
or by agent or attorney;

     

    (i)           the
Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform
any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents, attorneys,
custodians or nominees and the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for any
negligence or misconduct on the part of any such agent, attorney, custodian or
nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder;

     

    (j)           whenever
in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall deem it
desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right
hereunder, the Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the
Holders (which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same
proportion in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities as would be entitled to
direct the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement in respect of such
remedy, right or action), (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or
right or taking such other action until such instructions are received and
(iii) shall be protected in acting in accordance with such
instructions;

     

    (k)           except
as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee
shall not be under any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under
the provisions of this Trust Agreement;

     

    (l)           without
prejudice to any other rights available to the Property Trustee under applicable
law, when the Property Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection
with a Bankruptcy Event, such expenses (including legal fees and expenses of its
agents and counsel) and the compensation for such services are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy law or law relating
to creditors rights generally; and

     

    (m)           whenever
in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall deem it
desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or
omitting any action hereunder, the Property Trustee (unless other evidence be
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
request and rely on an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such
request, shall be promptly delivered by the Depositor.

     

    No
provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or
obligation on any Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right,
power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in
which it shall be illegal, or in which such Person shall be unqualified or
incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts,
or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    SECTION
8.8.                                Delegation of
Power.

     

    Any
Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent with applicable law, delegate to
any other natural person over the age of 21 its, his or her power for the
purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section 2.5.  The
Trustees shall have power to delegate from time to time to the Depositor the
doing of such things and the execution of such instruments either in the name of
the Trust or the names of the Trustees or otherwise as the Trustees may deem
expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited by applicable law or
contrary to the provisions of this Trust Agreement.

     

    SECTION
8.9.                                May Hold
Securities.

     

    Any
Trustee or any other agent of any Trustee or the Trust, in its individual or any
other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and except
as provided in the definition of the term “Outstanding” in Article I, may
otherwise deal with the Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not
an Trustee or such other agent.

     

    SECTION
8.10.                          
  Compensation;
Reimbursement; Indemnity.

     

    The
Depositor agrees:

     

    (a)           to
pay to the Trustees from time to time such reasonable compensation for all
services rendered by them hereunder as may be agreed by the Depositor and the
Trustees from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust);

     

    (b)           to
reimburse the Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements
and advances incurred or made by the Trustees in accordance with any provision
of this Trust Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses
and disbursements of their agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to their gross negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct; and

     

    (c)           to
the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and hold harmless
(i) each Trustee, (ii) any Affiliate of any Trustee, (iii) any
officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative or agent of any Trustee
or any Affiliate of any Trustee and (iv) any employee or agent of the Trust
(referred to herein as an “Indemnified Person”) from
and against any loss, damage, liability, tax (other than income, franchise or
other taxes imposed on amounts paid pursuant to Section 8.10(a) or
(b) hereof),
penalty, expense or claim of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred without
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of the Trust hereunder,
including the advancement of funds to cover the costs and expenses of defending
itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or
performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.

     

    The Trust
shall have no payment, reimbursement or indemnity obligations to the Trustees
under this Section
8.10.  The provisions of this Section 8.10
shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement and the earlier removal or
resignation of any Trustee.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    No
Trustee may claim any Lien on any Trust Property whether before or after
termination of the Trust as a result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 8.10.

     

    To the
fullest extent permitted by law, in no event shall the Property Trustee and the
Delaware Trustee be liable for any indirect, special, punitive or consequential
loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including, but not limited to, lost
profits, even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or
damage and regardless of the form of action.

     

    In no
event shall the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee be liable for any
failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder because of
circumstances beyond its control, including, but not limited to, acts of God,
flood, war (whether declared or undeclared), terrorism, fire, riot, embargo,
government action, including any laws, ordinances, regulations, governmental
action or the like which delay, restrict or prohibit the providing of the
services contemplated by this Trust Agreement.

     

    SECTION
8.11.                                           Resignation and Removal; Appointment
of Successor.

     

    (a)           No
resignation or removal of any Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article VIII shall
become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 8.12.

     

    (b)           A
Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Depositor
and, in the case of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, to the
Holders.

     

    (c)           Unless
an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee
or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed (with or without cause)
at any time by Act of the Holder of Common Securities.  If an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed (with or without cause) at
such time by Act of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of
the Preferred Securities, delivered to the removed Trustee (in its individual
capacity and on behalf of the Trust).  An Administrative Trustee may
be removed (with or without cause) only by Act of the Holder of the Common
Securities at any time.

     

    (d)           If
any Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Trustee,
or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of any Trustee for any reason, at a
time when no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holder
of the Common Securities, by Act of the Holder of the Common Securities, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees, and such successor Trustee and
the retiring Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section
8.12.  If the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall
resign, be removed or become incapable of continuing to act as the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, at a time when an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holders of the Preferred
Securities, by Act of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities, shall promptly appoint a successor Property Trustee or
Delaware Trustee, and such successor Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee and
the retiring Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section
8.12.  If an Administrative Trustee shall resign, be removed or
become incapable of acting as Administrative Trustee, at a time when an Event of
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    continuing,
the Holder of the Common Securities by Act of the Holder of Common Securities
shall promptly appoint a successor Administrative Trustee and such successor
Administrative Trustee and the retiring Administrative Trustee shall comply with
the applicable requirements of Section
8.12.  If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by
the Holder of the Common Securities or Holders of the Preferred Securities, as
the case may be, and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.12 within
thirty (30) days after the giving of a notice of resignation by a Trustee, the
removal of a Trustee, or a Trustee becoming incapable of acting as such Trustee,
any Holder who has been a Holder of Preferred Securities for at least six (6)
months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, and any
resigning Trustee may, in each case, at the expense of the Depositor, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.

     

    (e)           The
Depositor shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee and each appointment of a successor Property
Trustee or Delaware Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in Section
10.8.  Each notice shall include the name of the successor
Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust
Office if it is the Property Trustee.

     

    (f)           Notwithstanding
the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust Agreement, in the event any
Administrative Trustee or a Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or
becomes, in the opinion of the Holder of Common Securities, incompetent or
incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may
be filled by (i) the unanimous act of the remaining Administrative Trustees if
there are at least two of them or (ii) otherwise by the Holder of the Common
Securities (with the successor in each case being a Person who satisfies the
eligibility requirement for Administrative Trustees or Delaware Trustee, as the
case may be, set forth in Sections 8.3 and
8.4).

     

    (g)           Upon
the appointment of a successor Delaware Trustee, such successor Delaware Trustee
shall file a Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Trust in accordance
with Section 3810 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.

     

    SECTION
8.12.                                           Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor.

     

    (a)           In
case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee, each successor Trustee
shall execute and deliver to the Depositor and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and each such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of
the Trust or any successor Trustee such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of
its charges, duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all
Trust Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust.

     

    (b)           Upon
request of any such successor Trustee, the Trust (or the retiring Trustee if
requested by the Depositor) shall execute any and all instruments for more fully
and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such
rights, powers and trusts referred to in the preceding paragraph.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    (c)           No
successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this
Article
VIII.

     

    SECTION
8.13.                                           Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business.

     

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

     

    SECTION
8.14.                                           Not Responsible for Recitals
Issuance of Securities
and Representations.

     

    The
recitals contained herein and in the Securities Certificates shall be taken as
the statements of the Trust and the Depositor, and the Trustees do not assume
any responsibility for their correctness.  The Trustees make no
representations as to the title to, or value or condition of, the property of
the Trust or any part thereof, nor as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Trust Agreement, the Notes or the Trust Securities.  The Trustees
shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of the
proceeds of the Notes.  It is expressly understood and agreed by the
parties hereto that insofar as any document, agreement or certificate is
executed on behalf of the Trust by any Trustee (i) such document, agreement or
certificate is executed and delivered by such Trustee, not in its individual
capacity but solely as Trustee under this Trust Agreement in the exercise of the
powers and authority conferred and vested in it, (ii) each of the
representations, undertakings and agreements made on the part of the Trust is
made and intended not as representations, warranties, covenants, undertakings
and agreements by any Trustee in its individual capacity but is made and
intended for the purpose of binding only the Trust and (iii) under no
circumstances shall any Trustee in its individual capacity be personally liable
for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Trust or be liable for
the breach or failure of any obligation, representation, warranty or covenant
made or undertaken by the Trust under this Trust Agreement or any other
document, agreement or certificate.

    

     

    SECTION
8.15.                                           Property Trustee May File Proofs of
Claim.

     

    (a)           In
case of any Bankruptcy Event (or event that with the passage of time would
become a Bankruptcy Event) relative to the Trust or any other obligor upon the
Trust Securities or the property of the Trust or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions on
the Trust Securities shall then be due and payable and irrespective of whether
the Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the Trust for the payment of
any past due Distributions) shall be entitled and empowered, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise:

     

    (i)           to
file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any Distributions owing and
unpaid in respect of the Trust Securities and to file such other papers or
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    may be
necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Property Trustee
(including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements
and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders
allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

     

    (ii)           to
collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any
such claims and to distribute the same;

     

    and any
custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other
similar official in any such proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to
make such payments to the Property Trustee and, in the event the Property
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
pay to the Property Trustee first any amount due it for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its
agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Property Trustee.

     

    (b)           Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Property Trustee to authorize
or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or compensation affecting the Trust
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Property
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding.

     

    SECTION
8.16.                                           Reports to the Property
Trustee.

     

    (a)           The
Depositor and the Administrative Trustees shall deliver to the Property Trustee,
not later than forty five (45) days after the end of each of the first three
fiscal quarters of the Depositor and not later than ninety (90) days after the
end of each fiscal year of the Trust ending after the date of this Trust
Agreement, an Officers’ Certificate covering the preceding fiscal year, stating
whether or not to the knowledge of the signers thereof the Depositor and the
Trust are in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms,
provisions and conditions of this Trust Agreement (without regard to any period
of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Depositor or
the Trust shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and
status thereof of which they have knowledge.

     

    (b)           The
Depositor shall furnish (i) to the Property Trustee; (ii) Taberna Capital
Management, LLC, 450 Park, 23rd Floor,
New York, NY 10022 or such other address as designated by Taberna Capital
Management, LLC); and (iii) any Owner of the Preferred Securities reasonably
identified to the Depositor and the Trust (which identification may be made
either by such Owner or by Taberna Capital Management, LLC) a duly completed and
executed certificate substantively and substantially in the form attached hereto
as Exhibit G,
including the financial statements referenced in such Exhibit, which certificate
and financial statements shall be so furnished by the Depositor not later than
forty five (45) days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of
each fiscal year of the Depositor and not later than ninety (90) days after the
end of each fiscal year of the Depositor.

     

    The
Property Trustee shall obtain all reports, certificate and information, which it
is entitled to obtain under each of the Operative Documents.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    ARTICLE
IX.

     

    

     

    Termination,
Liquidation and Merger

     

    SECTION
9.1.                                Dissolution Upon Expiration
Date.

     

    Unless
earlier dissolved, the Trust shall automatically dissolve on July 30, 2040 (the
“Expiration Date”), and the
Trust Property shall be liquidated in accordance with Section 9.4.

     

    SECTION
9.2.                                Early
Termination.

     

    The first
to occur of any of the following events is an “Early Termination Event”,
upon the occurrence of which the Trust shall be dissolved:

     

    (a)           the
occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the dissolution or
liquidation of, the Depositor, in its capacity as the Holder of the Common
Securities, unless the Depositor shall have transferred the Common Securities as
provided by Section
5.11, in which case this provision shall refer instead to any such
successor Holder of the Common Securities;

     

    (b)           the
written direction to the Property Trustee from the Holder of the Common
Securities at any time to dissolve the Trust and, after satisfaction of any
liabilities of the Trust as required by applicable law, to distribute the Notes
to Holders in exchange for the Preferred Securities (which direction is optional
and wholly within the discretion of the Holder of the Common
Securities);

     

    (c)           the
redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in connection with the payment at
maturity or redemption of all the Notes; and

     

    (d)           the
entry of an order for dissolution of the Trust by a court of competent
jurisdiction.

     

    SECTION
9.3.                                Termination.

     

    (a)           The
respective obligations and responsibilities of the Trustees and the Trust shall
terminate upon the latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution
by the Property Trustee to Holders of all amounts required to be distributed
hereunder upon the liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or
upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2;
(b) the satisfaction of any expenses owed by the Trust; and (c) the
discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrative Trustees, including
the performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the Trust or
the Holders.

     

    (b)           As
soon as practicable thereafter, and after satisfaction of liabilities to
creditors of the Trust as required by applicable law, including Section 3808 of
the Statutory Trust Act, the Delaware Trustee, when notified in writing of the
completion of the winding up of the Trust in accordance with the Delaware
Statutory Trust Act, shall terminate the Trust by filing, at the expense of the
Depositor, a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    SECTION
9.4.                                Liquidation.

     

    (a)           If
an Early Termination Event specified in Section 9.2(a), (b) or (d) occurs or upon
the Expiration Date, the Trust shall be liquidated by the Property Trustee as
expeditiously as the Property Trustee shall determine to be possible by
distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as
provided by applicable law, to each Holder a Like Amount of Notes, subject to
Section 9.4(d).
Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee not less than
thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days prior to the Liquidation Date to each
Holder of Trust Securities at such Holder’s address appearing in the Securities
Register. All such notices of liquidation shall:

     

    (i)           state
the Liquidation Date;

     

    (ii)           state
that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust Securities will no longer be
deemed to be Outstanding and (subject to Section 9.4(d)) any
Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent
a Like Amount of Notes; and

     

    (iii)           provide
such information with respect to the mechanics by which Holders may exchange
Securities Certificates for Notes, or if Section 9.4(d)
applies, receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the Property Trustee shall deem
appropriate.

     

    (b)           Except
where Section
9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in
order to effect the liquidation of the Trust and distribution of the Notes to
Holders, the Property Trustee, either itself acting as exchange agent or through
the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish a record date for
such distribution (which shall not be more than forty five (45) days prior to
the Liquidation Date nor prior to the date on which notice of such liquidation
is given to the Holders) and establish such procedures as it shall deem
appropriate to effect the distribution of Notes in exchange for the Outstanding
Securities Certificates.

     

    (c)           Except
where Section
9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after
the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to
be Outstanding, (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Notes will
be issued to Holders of Securities Certificates, upon surrender of such
Certificates to the exchange agent for exchange, (iii) the Depositor shall use
its best efforts to have the Notes listed on the New York Stock Exchange or on
such other exchange, interdealer quotation system or self-regulatory
organization on which the Preferred Securities are then listed, if any, (iv)
Securities Certificates not so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to
represent a Like Amount of Notes bearing accrued and unpaid interest in an
amount equal to the accumulated and unpaid Distributions on such Securities
Certificates until such certificates are so surrendered (and until such
certificates are so surrendered, no payments of interest or principal will be
made to Holders of Securities Certificates with respect to such Notes) and (v)
all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities will cease, except the right of
such Holders to receive Notes upon surrender of Securities
Certificates.

     

    (d)           Notwithstanding
the other provisions of this Section 9.4, if
distribution of the Notes in the manner provided herein is determined by the
Property Trustee not to be permitted or practical, the Trust Property shall be
liquidated, and the Trust shall be wound up by the Property

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    Trustee
in such manner as the Property Trustee determines.  In such event,
Holders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Trust available for
distribution to Holders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the
Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount
per Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date
of payment (such amount being the “Liquidation Distribution”).
If, upon any such winding up the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in
part because the Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the
aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding
sentence, the amounts payable by the Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid
on a pro rata basis
(based upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holder of the Common Securities will be
entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such winding up pro rata (based upon
Liquidation Amounts) with Holders of all Trust Securities, except that, if an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Preferred Securities shall
have a priority over the Common Securities as provided in Section
4.3.

     

    SECTION
9.5.                                Mergers, Consolidations,
Amalgamations or Replacements of Trust.

     

    The Trust
may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
to, any Person except pursuant to this Article IX. At the
request of the Holders of the Common Securities, without the consent of the
Holders of the Preferred Securities, the Trust may merge with or into,
consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such
under the laws of any State; provided, that:

     

    (a)            such
successor entity either (i) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the
Trust under this Trust Agreement with respect to the Preferred Securities or
(ii) substitutes for the Preferred Securities other securities having
substantially the same terms as the Preferred Securities (such other Securities,
the “Successor
Securities”) so long as the Successor Securities have the same priority
as the Preferred Securities with respect to distributions and payments upon
liquidation, redemption and otherwise;

     

    (b)            a
trustee of such successor entity possessing substantially the same powers and
duties as the Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Notes;

     

    (c)           if
the Preferred Securities or the Notes are rated, such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not cause the
Preferred Securities or the Notes (including any Successor Securities) to be
downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization that
then assigns a rating to the Preferred Securities or the Notes;

     

    (d)           the
Preferred Securities are listed, or any Successor Securities will be listed upon
notice of issuance, on any national securities exchange or interdealer quotation
system on which the Preferred Securities are then listed, if any;

     

    (e)           such
merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease
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    Holders
of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material
respect;

     

    (f)           such
successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the
Trust;

     

    (g)           prior
to such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer
or lease, the Depositor has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
(i) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance,
transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and
privileges of the Holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor
Securities) in any material respect; (ii) following such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither
the Trust nor such successor entity will be required to register as an
“investment company” under the Investment Company Act and (iii) following such
merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease,
the Trust (or the successor entity) will continue to be classified as a grantor
trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes; and

     

    (h)           the
Depositor or its permitted transferee owns all of the common securities of such
successor entity.

     

    Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Trust shall not, except with the consent of Holders of all of
the Preferred Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be
replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially
as an entirety to any other Person or permit any other entity to consolidate,
amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace, the Trust if such consolidation,
amalgamation, merger, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would cause the
Trust or the successor entity to be taxable as a corporation or classified as
other than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes or
cause the Notes to be treated as other than indebtedness of the Depositor for
United States federal income tax purposes.

     

     

    ARTICLE
X.

     

     

    

     

     

    Miscellaneous
Provisions

     

    SECTION
10.1.                                           Limitation of Rights of
Holders.

     

    Except as
set forth in Section
9.2, the death, bankruptcy, termination, dissolution or incapacity of any
Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall
not operate to terminate this Trust Agreement, nor annul, dissolve or terminate
the Trust nor entitle the legal representatives or heirs of such Person or any
Holder for such Person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any
proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of the arrangements
contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations and
liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    SECTION
10.2.                                           Agreed Tax Treatment of Trust and
Trust Securities.

     

    The
parties hereto and, by its acceptance or acquisition of a Trust Security or a
beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a
beneficial interest in, such Trust Security intend and agree to treat the Trust
as a grantor trust for United States federal, state and local tax purposes, and
to treat the Trust Securities (including all payments and proceeds with respect
to such Trust Securities) as undivided beneficial ownership interests in the
Trust Property (and payments and proceeds therefrom, respectively) for United
States federal, state and local tax purposes and to treat the Notes as
indebtedness of the Depositor for United States federal, state and local tax
purposes.  The provisions of this Trust Agreement shall be interpreted
to further this intention and agreement of the parties set forth in this Section
10.2.

     

    SECTION
10.3.                                           Amendment.

     

    (a)           This
Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Property Trustee, the
Administrative Trustees and the Holder of all the Common Securities, without the
consent of any Holder of the Preferred Securities, (i) to cure any
ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein that may be defective or
inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make or amend any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust
Agreement, which shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this
Trust Agreement, (ii) to modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this
Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Trust
will neither be taxable as a corporation nor be classified as other than a
grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes at all times that
any Trust Securities are Outstanding or to ensure that the Notes are treated as
indebtedness of the Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes, or
to ensure that the Trust will not be required to register as an “investment
company” under the Investment Company Act or (iii) to add to the covenants,
restrictions or obligations of the Depositor; provided, that in the case of
clauses (i), (ii) or (iii), such action shall not adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of any Holder.

     

    (b)           Except
as provided in Section 10.3(c),
any provision of this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Property Trustee,
the Administrative Trustees and the Holder of all of the Common Securities and
with (i) the consent of Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Preferred Securities and (ii) receipt by the Trustees of an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment or the exercise of any
power granted to the Trustees in accordance with such amendment will not cause
the Trust to be taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor
trust for United States federal income tax purposes or affect the treatment of
the Notes as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States federal income tax
purposes or affect the Trust’s exemption from status (or from any requirement to
register) as an “investment company” under the Investment Company
Act.

     

    (c)           Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Trust Agreement, without the consent of each Holder,
this Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the accrual rate,
amount, currency or timing of any Distribution on or the redemption price of the
Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of any Distribution or
other payment required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a
specified date, (ii) restrict or impair the right of a Holder to institute
suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date, (iii) reduce
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    percentage
of aggregate Liquidation Amount of Outstanding Preferred Securities, the consent
of whose Holders is required for any such amendment, or the consent of whose
Holders is required for any waiver of compliance with any provision of this
Trust Agreement or of defaults hereunder and their consequences provided for in
this Trust Agreement; (iv) impair or adversely affect the rights and interests
of the Holders in the Trust Property, or permit the creation of any Lien on any
portion of the Trust Property; or (v) modify the definition of “Outstanding,”
this Section
10.3(c), Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.10(e) or Article
IX.

     

    (d)           Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Trust Agreement, no Trustee shall enter into or
consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement that would cause the Trust to
be taxable as a corporation or to be classified as other than a grantor trust
for United States federal income tax purposes or that would cause the Notes to
fail or cease to be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States
federal income tax purposes or that would cause the Trust to fail or cease to
qualify for the exemption from status (or from any requirement to register) as
an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act.

     

    (e)           If
any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made, the Administrative Trustees or
the Property Trustee shall promptly provide to the Depositor and the Note
Trustee a copy of such amendment.

     

    (f)           No
Trustee shall be required to enter into any amendment to this Trust Agreement
that affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust
Agreement.  The Trustees shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of
Counsel and an Officers’ Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust
Agreement is in compliance with this Trust Agreement and all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such action have been
met.

     

    (g)           No
amendment or modification to this Trust Agreement that adversely affects in any
material respect the rights, duties, liabilities, indemnities or immunities of
the Delaware Trustee hereunder shall be permitted without the prior written
consent of the Delaware Trustee.

     

    SECTION
10.4.                                           Separability.

     

    If any
provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Securities Certificates shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby,
and there shall be deemed substituted for the provision at issue a valid, legal
and enforceable provision as similar as possible to the provision at
issue.

     

    SECTION
10.5.                                           Governing Law.

     

    THIS
TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE HOLDERS, THE
TRUST, THE DEPOSITOR AND THE TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND
THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND
GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICTS
OF LAWS PROVISIONS.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    SECTION
10.6.                                           Successors.

     

    This
Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of any
successor to the Depositor, the Trust and any Trustee, including any successor
by operation of law. Except in connection with a transaction involving the
Depositor that is permitted under Article VIII of the
Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the
Depositor’s obligations hereunder, the Depositor shall not assign its
obligations hereunder.

     

    SECTION
10.7.                                           Headings.

     

    The
Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not affect
the construction of this Trust Agreement

     

    SECTION
10.8.                                           Reports, Notices and
Demands.

     

    (a)           Any
report, notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this
Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon any
Holder or the Depositor may be given or served in writing delivered in person,
or by reputable, overnight courier, by telecopy or by deposit thereof,
first-class postage prepaid, in the United States mail, addressed, (a) in
the case of a Holder of Preferred Securities, to such Holder as such Holder’s
name and address may appear on the Securities Register; and (b) in the case
of the Holder of all the Common Securities or the Depositor, to Bimini Mortgage
Management, Inc., 3305 Flamingo Drive, Vero Beach, FL 32963,
Attention:  Jeffrey J. Zimmer, or to such other address as may be
specified in a written notice by the Holder of all the Common Securities or the
Depositor, as the case may be, to the Property Trustee. Such report, notice,
demand or other communication to or upon a Holder or the Depositor shall be
deemed to have been given when received in person, within one (1) Business Day
following delivery by overnight courier, when telecopied with receipt confirmed,
or within three (3) Business Days following delivery by mail, except that if a
notice or other document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a
changed address of which no notice was given, such notice or other document
shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date of such refusal or inability
to deliver.

     

    (b)           Any
notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this Trust
Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon the Property
Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees or the Trust shall be
given in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the U.S.
mail, personal delivery or facsimile transmission, addressed to such Person as
follows: (i) with respect to the Property Trustee to JPMorgan Chase Bank,
National Association, 600 Travis, 50th Floor,
Houston, Texas 77002, Attention: Worldwide Securities Services—Bimini Capital
Trust I,  facsimile no. (713) 216-2101, (ii) with respect to the
Delaware Trustee, to Chase Bank USA, National Association, c/o JPMorgan Chase
Bank, National Association, 500 Stanton Christiana Road, Building 4 (3rd Floor),
Newark, Delaware 19713, Attention: Worldwide Securities Services— Bimini Capital
Trust I, facsimile no. (302) 552-6280;
(iii) with respect to the Administrative Trustees, to them at the address
above for notices to the Depositor, marked “Attention: Administrative Trustees
of Bimini Capital Trust I”, and (iv) with respect to the Trust, to its principal
executive office specified in Section 2.2, with a
copy to the Property Trustee. Such notice, demand or other communication to or
upon the Trust, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall be
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    sufficiently
given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the Trust, the Property
Trustee or the Administrative Trustees.

     

    SECTION
10.9.                                           Agreement Not to
Petition.

     

    Each of
the Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the Holders that, until
at least one year and one day after the Trust has been terminated in accordance
with Article
IX, they shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the
Trust under any Bankruptcy Law or otherwise join in the commencement of any
proceeding against the Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. If the Depositor takes
action in violation of this Section 10.9,
the Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Holders, that at the expense of
the Depositor, it shall file an answer with the applicable bankruptcy court or
otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the Depositor against
the Trust or the commencement of such action and raise the defense that the
Depositor has agreed in writing not to take such action and should be estopped
and precluded therefrom and such other defenses, if any, as counsel for the
Property Trustee or the Trust may assert.

     

    SECTION
10.10.                                           Counterparts.  This
instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so
executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument.

     

    

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    IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Second Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement as of the day and year first above
written.

     

    
      	 
      	
              Bimini
      Mortgage Management, Inc.,

            
	 
      	
              as
      Depositor

            
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	
              By:       ________________________________

            
	 
      	
              Name:  Jeffrey J.
      Zimmer

            
	 
      	
              Title:  Chief Executive
      Officer

            
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	
              JPMorgan
      Chase Bank, National Association, in its individual as Property
      Trustee

            	
              Chase
      Bank USA, National Association, as Delaware Trustee

            
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	
                    
                By:      _________________________________                                                         

              

            	
              By:      _________________________________

            
	
              Name:

            	
              Name:

            
	
              Title:

            	
              Title:

            
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	
              ________________________________

            	
              _______________________________________

            
	
                  Administrative
      Trustee

            	
                  Administrative
      Trustee

            
	
                  Name:  Jeffrey
      J. Zimmer

            	
                  Name:  Robert
      E. Cauley

            
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	
              ________________________________

            	 
      
	
                  Administrative
      Trustee

            	 
      
	
                  Name:  Amber
      K. Luedke

            	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	 
      

    

    
      
        
          
            	
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                    Exhibit
      A

                    
                    

                  

          

          

        

      

    

    CERTIFICATE
OF TRUST

     

    

     

    OF

     

    

     

    BIMINI
CAPITAL TRUST I

     

    This
Certificate of Trust of Bimini Capital Trust I  (the “Trust”) is being duly
executed and filed on behalf of the Trust by the undersigned, as trustees, to
form a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12 Del. C. §3801 et seq.) (the “Act”).

     

    1.           Name.  The
name of the statutory trust formed by this Certificate of Trust
is  Bimini Capital Trust I.

     

    2.           Delaware
Trustee.  The name and business address of the trustee of the
Trust with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware are Chase
Bank USA, National Association c/o JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association,
500 Stanton Christiana Road, Building 4 (3rd Floor),
Newark, Delaware 19713, Attention: Worldwide Securities Services.

     

    3.           Effective
Date.  This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon its
filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

     

    IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have duly executed this Certificate of Trust in
accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.

     

    
      	 
      	
              Chase
      Bank USA, National Association, not in its individual capacity, but
      solely as Delaware Trustee

            
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	
              By:

            	 
      	 
      
	 
      	 
      	
              Name:

            	 
      
	 
      	 
      	
              Title:

            	 
      

    

    

    
      
        
          
            	
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                    Exhibit B

                    
                    

                  

          

          

        

      

    

    [FORM
OF COMMON SECURITIES CERTIFICATE]

     

    THIS
COMMON SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS
AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT PURSUANT
TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION.  THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT
TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE
TRUST AGREEMENT

     

    
      	
              Certificate
      Number

            	
              Number
      of Common Securities

            
	 
      
	 
      	
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    Certificate
Evidencing [Series A/Series B] Common Securities

     

    

     

    of

     

    

     

    Bimini
Capital Trust I

     

    

     

    Floating
Rate [Series A/Series B] Common Securities

     

    

     

    (liquidation
amount $1,000 per Common Security)

     

    Bimini
Capital Trust I, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of
Delaware (the “Trust”),
hereby certifies that Bimini Mortgage Management, Inc., a
Maryland corporation (the “Holder”), is the registered
owner of [Amount (#)] [Series A/Series B] common securities of the Trust
representing undivided common beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust
and designated the Bimini Capital Trust I Floating
Rate [Series A/Series B] Common Securities (liquidation amount $1,000 per Common
Security) (the “Common
Securities”). Except in accordance with Section 5.11 of
the Trust Agreement (as defined below), the Common Securities are not
transferable and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer
hereof other than in accordance therewith shall be void. The designations,
rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of
the Common Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Common
Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to
the terms and provisions of, the Second Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of
the Trust, dated as of September 26, 2005 as the same may be amended from time
to time (the “Trust
Agreement”), among Bimini Mortgage Management, Inc., as Depositor, JPMorgan Chase
Bank, National Association, as Property Trustee, Chase Bank USA, National
Association, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees named therein and
the Holders, from time to time, of the Trust Securities. The Trust will furnish
a copy of the Trust Agreement to the Holder without charge upon written request
to the Trust at its principal place of business or registered
office.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    Upon
receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is
entitled to the benefits thereunder.

     

    This
Common Securities Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of Delaware.

     

    Terms
used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Trust
Agreement.

     

    In
Witness Whereof, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has executed on
behalf of the Trust this certificate this __  day of _______________,
200__.

     

    
      	 
      	 
      
	 
      	
              Bimini
      Capital Trust I

            
	 
      	 
      
	 
      	
              By:

            	 
      	 
      
	 
      	 
      	
              Name:  Jeffrey
      J. Zimmer

            	 
      
	 
      	 
      	
              Administrative
      Trustee

            	 
      

    

    

    
      
        
          
            	
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                    Exhibit C

                    
                    

                  

          

          

        

      

    

    [FORM
OF PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE]

     

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

     

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

     

    THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES
ACT”), AND SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN MAY NOT BE
OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN
APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM.  EACH PURCHASER OF ANY PREFERRED
SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES MAY BE
RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT
PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

     

    THE
HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES
MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE TRUST OR (II) TO
A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED,
AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES FROM IT
OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE.

     

    THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING
AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    $100,000.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF PREFERRED
SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN,  IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE
LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS
THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED
NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST ON SUCH PREFERRED
SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE
DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES.

     

    THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN,  BY ITS ACCEPTANCE
HEREOF OR THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT
SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS
AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS
AMENDED (THE “CODE”) (EACH A “PLAN”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS
INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO
PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS PREFERRED
SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED
SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS
PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE
MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS
APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE.

     

    
      	
              Certificate
      Number

               

              P-

            	
              Aggregate
      Liquidation Amount

               Preferred
      Securities

              $_________________

            
	 
      

    

    

     

    

     

    _______________

     

    

     

    Certificate
Evidencing [Series A/Series B] Preferred Securities

     

    

     

    of

     

    

     

    Bimini Capital Trust
I

     

    

     

    Floating
Rate [Series A/Series B] Preferred Securities

     

    (liquidation
amount $1,000 per Preferred Security)

     

    Bimini
Capital Trust I, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of
Delaware (the “Trust”),
hereby certifies that _____________, a _________ (the “Holder”) is the registered
owner of [Amount (#)] [Series A/Series B]
Preferred Securities [if the
Preferred Security is a Global Security, then insert – or such other
number of Preferred Securities represented hereby as may be set forth in the
records of the Securities Registrar hereinafter referred to in accordance with
the Trust Agreement (as defined below)] of the Trust representing an undivided
preferred beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust and designated the
Bimini Capital
Trust I Floating Rate [Series A/Series B] Preferred Securities, (liquidation
amount $1,000 per Preferred Security) (the “Preferred Securities”).
Subject to the terms of the Trust Agreement (as defined below), the Preferred
Securities are transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person or
by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed
and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.7 of
the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges,
restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Preferred
Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Preferred Securities
represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms
and provisions of, the Second Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust,
dated as of September 26, 2005, as the same may be amended from time to time
(the “Trust
Agreement”), among Bimini Mortgage Management, Inc., as Depositor,
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Property Trustee, Chase Bank USA,
National Association, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees named
therein and the Holders, from time to time, of the Trust
Securities.  The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to
the Holder without charge upon written request to the Property Trustee at its
Corporate Trust Office.

     

    Upon
receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is
entitled to the benefits thereunder.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    This
Preferred Securities Certificate shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware.

     

    All
capitalized terms used but not defined in this Preferred Securities Certificate
are used with the meanings specified in the Trust Agreement, including the
Schedules and Exhibits thereto.

     

    In
Witness Whereof, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has executed on
behalf of the Trust this certificate this __ day of __________,
2005.

     

    Bimini
Capital Trust I

    

    By:                                                                         

            Name:  Jeffrey
J. Zimmer

            Administrative
Trustee

    

    This is
one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Trust
Agreement.

     

    Dated:

    JPMorgan
Chase Bank, National Association, not in its individual capacity, but solely as
Property Trustee

     

    By:           ____________________________

    Authorized signatory

    
      
        
          
            	
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    [FORM
OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

     

    The Trust
promises to pay Distributions from May 17, 2005, or from the most recent date on
and to which Distributions have been paid or duly provided for, quarterly in
arrears on [for Series A Preferred Securities, March 30, June 30, September 30
and December 30/ for Series B Preferred Securities, January 30, April 30, July
30 and October 30] of each year, at a fixed rate equal to 7.61% per annum
through the Interest Payment Date on [in the case of Series A Securities, March
30, 2010/in the case of Series B Securities, April 30, 2010] and thereafter at a
variable rate equal to LIBOR plus 3.30% per annum of the Liquidation Amount of
the Preferred Securities represented by this Preferred Securities Certificate,
together with any Additional Interest Amounts, in respect to such
period.

     

    Distributions
on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Paying Agent from the Payment
Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that
the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the
payment of such Distributions.

     

    Distributions
on the Securities must be paid on the dates payable to the extent that the Trust
has funds available for the payment of such Distributions in the Payment Account
of the Trust.  The Trust’s funds available for Distribution to the
Holders of the Preferred Securities will be limited to payments received from
the Depositor.

     

    During
any Event of Default, the Depositor shall not (i) declare or pay any dividends
or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment
with respect to, any of the Depositor’s capital stock or (ii) make any payment
of principal of or any interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or
redeem any debt securities of the Depositor that rank pari passu in all respects
with or junior in interest to the Notes (other than (a) repurchases, redemptions
or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Depositor in connection
with (1) any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with
or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors or
consultants, (2) a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or
(3) the issuance of capital stock of the Depositor (or securities convertible
into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition
transaction entered into prior to the applicable Event of Default, (b) as a
result of an exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Depositor’s
capital stock (or any capital stock of a Subsidiary (as defined in the
Indenture) of the Depositor) for any class or series of the Depositor’s capital
stock or of any class or series of the Depositor’s indebtedness for any class or
series of the Depositor’s capital stock, (c) the purchase of fractional
interests in shares of the Depositor’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion
or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or
exchanged, (d) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any Rights Plan
(as defined in the Indenture), the issuance of rights, stock or other property
under any Rights Plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant
thereto or (e) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other
rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of such
warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the
dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to
such stock).

     

    On each
Note Redemption Date, on the stated maturity (or any date of principal repayment
upon early maturity) of the Notes and on each other date on (or in respect of)
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    any
principal on the Notes is repaid, the Trust will be required to redeem a Like
Amount of Trust Securities of a corresponding Series at the Redemption
Price.  Under the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed by the
Depositor on any Interest Payment Date, at the Depositor’s option, on or after
[in the case of Series A Notes, March 30, 2010/in the case of Series B Notes,
April 30, 2010] in whole or in part from time to time at the Optional Note
Redemption Price of the principal amount thereof or the redeemed portion
thereof, as applicable, together, in the case of any such redemption, with
accrued interest, including any Additional Interest, to but excluding the date
fixed for redemption.  The Notes may also be redeemed by the
Depositor, at its option, at any time, in whole but not in part, upon the
occurrence of an Investment Company Event or a Tax Event at the Special Note
Redemption Price; provided, that such
Investment Company Event or a Tax Event is continuing on the Redemption
Date.

     

    The Trust
Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption
Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous redemption or payment at
maturity of Notes. Redemptions of the Trust Securities (or portion thereof)
shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date
only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the
Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.

     

    Payments
of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts), the Redemption
Price, Liquidation Amount or any other amounts in respect of the Preferred
Securities shall be made by wire transfer at such place and to such account at a
banking institution in the United States as may be designated in writing at
least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment by the Person
entitled thereto unless proper written transfer instructions have not been
received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments shall be made
by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall appear in
the Security Register.  If any Preferred Securities are held by a
Depositary, such Distributions shall be made to the Depositary in immediately
available funds.

     

    The
indebtedness evidenced by the Notes is, to the extent provided in the Indenture,
subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all
Senior Debt (as defined in the Indenture), and this Security is issued subject
to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    ASSIGNMENT

     

    For Value
Received, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred Securities
Certificate to:

     

    
      	 
      
	
              (Insert
      assignee’s social security or tax identification
number)

            
	 
      
	
              (Insert
      address and zip code of assignee)

            
	 
      
	
              and
      irrevocably appoints

            
	 
      

    

    agent to
transfer this Preferred Securities Certificate on the books of the Trust. The
agent may substitute another to act for him or her.

     

    
      	
              Date:  _______________________

            
	 
      
	
              Signature:

            	 
      	 
      
	 
      	
              (Sign
      exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Preferred
      Securities Certificate)

            	 
      
	 
      	 
      	 
      

    

    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 D

                    
                    

                  

          

          

        

      

    

    Junior
Subordinated Indenture

    

    

    

    

    
      
        
          
            	
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                    Exhibit E

                    
                    

                  

          

          

        

      

    

    Form
of Transferee Certificate

    to
be Executed by Transferees

    

    

     

    __________,
[     ]

     

    JPMorgan
Chase Bank, National Association

     

    600
Travis, 50th
Floor

     

    Houston,
Texas 77002

     

    Attention:  Worldwide
Securities Services

     

    

    Bimini
Mortgage Management, Inc.

    Bimini
Capital Trust I

    3305
Flamingo Drive

    Vero
Beach, FL 32963

    

    
      	
               
      

            	
              Re:

            	
              Purchase
      of $____________ stated liquidation amount of Floating Rate Preferred Securities (the
      “Preferred Securities”) of Bimini Capital Trust
      I

            

    

     

    Ladies
and Gentlemen:

     

    In
connection with our purchase of the Preferred Securities we confirm
that:

     

    1.           We
understand that the Floating Rate Preferred Securities (the “Preferred
Securities”) of Bimini Capital Trust I (the “Trust”) of Bimini Mortgage
Management, Inc. (the “Company”) executed in connection therewith) and the
Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2035 of the Company (the
“Subordinated Notes”) (the entire amount of the Trust’s outstanding Preferred
Securities and the Subordinated Notes together being referred to herein as the
“Offered Securities”), have not been registered under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and may not be offered or sold except
as permitted in the following sentence. We agree on our own behalf and on behalf
of any investor account for which we are purchasing the Offered Securities that,
if we decide to offer, sell or otherwise transfer any such Offered Securities,
(i) such offer, sale or transfer will be made only (a) to the Trust, (b) to a
person we reasonably believe is a “qualified purchaser” (a “QP”) (as defined in
section 2(a)(51) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended). We
understand that the certificates for any Offered Security that we receive will
bear a legend substantially to the effect of the foregoing.

     

    2.           We
are a “qualified purchaser” within the meaning of section 2(a)(51) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and are purchasing for our own
account or for the account of such a “qualified purchaser,” and we have such
knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of
evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the Offered Securities, and
we and any account for which we are acting are each able to bear the economic
risks of our or its investment.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    3.           We
are acquiring the Offered Securities purchased by us for our own account (or for
one or more accounts as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion
and have authority to make, and do make, the statements contained in this
letter) and not with a view to any distribution of the Offered Securities,
subject, nevertheless, to the understanding that the disposition of our property
will at all times be and remain within our control.

     

    4.           In
the event that we purchase any Preferred Securities or any Subordinated Notes,
we will acquire such Preferred Securities having an aggregate stated liquidation
amount of not less than $100,000 or such Subordinated Notes having an aggregate
principal amount not less than $100,000, for our own account and for each
separate account for which we are acting.

     

    5.           We
acknowledge that we are not a fiduciary of (i) an employee benefit, individual
retirement account or other plan or arrangement subject to Title I of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), or
Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) (each
a “Plan”); or (ii) an entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” by
reason of any Plan’s investment in the entity, and are not purchasing any of the
Offered Securities on behalf of or with “plan assets” by reason of any Plan’s
investment in the entity.

     

    6.           We
acknowledge that the Trust and the Company and others will rely upon the truth
and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments, representations, warranties and
agreements and agree that if any of the acknowledgments, representations,
warranties and agreements deemed to have been made by our purchase of any of the
Offered Securities are no longer accurate, we shall promptly notify the
Company.  If we are acquiring any Offered Securities as a fiduciary or
agent for one or more investor accounts, we represent that we have sole
discretion with respect to each such investor account and that we have full
power to make the foregoing acknowledgments, representations and agreement on
behalf of each such investor account.

     

    

    

    (Name of
Purchaser)

    

    By:                                                                

    Date:

    

     

    Upon transfer, the Preferred Securities
(having a stated liquidation amount of $_____________) would be registered in
the name of the new beneficial owner as follows.

     

    Name:

     

    Address:                                                                           

     

    Taxpayer
ID
Number:                                                      

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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                    Exhibit F

                    
                    

                  

          

          

        

      

    

    Officer’s
Financial Certificate

     

    The
undersigned, the [Chairman/Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer/President/Vice
President/Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer/Assistant Treasurer], hereby
certifies pursuant to Section 8.16(b) of the Second Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement, dated as of September [__], 2005 (the “Trust Agreement”), among
Bimini Mortgage Management, Inc. (the “Company”), JPMorgan Chase Bank, National
Association, as property trustee, Chase Bank USA, National Association, as
Delaware trustee, and the administrative trustees named therein, that, as of
[date], [20__], the Company had the following ratios and balances:

     

    As of
[Quarterly/Annual Financial Date], 20__

    

    
      	 
      	 
      
	
              Senior
      secured indebtedness for borrowed money (“Debt”)

            	
              $_____

            
	
              Senior
      unsecured Debt

            	
              $_____

            
	
              Subordinated
      Debt

            	
              $_____

            
	
              Total
      Debt

            	
              $
      _____

            
	
              Ratio
      of (x) senior secured and unsecured Debt to (y) total Debt

            	
                _____%

            

    

    

    * A table
describing the officer’s financial certificate calculation procedures is
provided on page 3

     

    [FOR
FISCAL YEAR END: Attached hereto are the audited consolidated financial
statements (including the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash
flows, and notes thereto, together with the report of the independent
accountants thereon) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the
three years ended _______, 20___].]

     

    [FOR
FISCAL QUARTER END: Attached hereto are the unaudited consolidated and
consolidating financial statements (including the balance sheet and income
statement) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the fiscal
quarter ended [date], 20__.]

     

    The
financial statements fairly present in all material respects, in accordance with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), the financial position
of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, and the results of operations
and changes in financial condition as of the date, and for the [quarter] [annual] period ended [date], 20__, and such
financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently
applied throughout the period involved (expect as otherwise noted
therein).

     

    IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Officer’s Financial
Certificate as of this _____ day of _____________, 20__.

     

    
      
        
          
            	
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    BIMINI
MORTGAGE MANAGEMENT, INC.

     

    

    

    By:                                                                         

    Name:                                                                         

    

    Bimini
Mortgage Management, Inc.

    3305
Flamingo Drive

    Vero
Beach, FL 32963

    772-231-1400

    
      
        
          
            	
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          Schedule
A

        

      

    

    DETERMINATION
OF LIBOR

    With
respect to the Trust Securities, the London interbank offered rate (“LIBOR”) shall be determined
by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the following provisions (in each
case rounded to the nearest .000001%):

     

    (1)           On
the second LIBOR Business Day (as defined below) prior to a Distribution Date
(except with respect to the first Distribution Period, such date shall be May
13, 2005) (each
such day, a “LIBOR
Determination Date”), LIBOR for any given security shall for the
following Distribution Period equal the rate, as obtained by the Calculation
Agent from Bloomberg Financial Markets Commodities News, for three-month
Eurodollar deposits that appears on Dow Jones Telerate Page 3750 (as defined in
the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. 2000 Interest Rate and
Currency Exchange Definitions), or such other page as may replace such Page
3750, as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such LIBOR Determination
Date.

     

    (2)           If,
on any LIBOR Determination Date, such rate does not appear on Dow Jones Telerate
Page 3750 or such other page as may replace such Page 3750, the Calculation
Agent shall determine the arithmetic mean of the offered quotations of the
Reference Banks (as defined below) to leading banks in the London interbank
market for three-month Eurodollar deposits in an amount determined by the
Calculation Agent by reference to requests for quotations as of approximately
11:00 a.m. (London time) on the LIBOR Determination Date made by the Calculation
Agent to the Reference Banks.  If, on any LIBOR Determination Date, at
least two of the Reference Banks provide such quotations, LIBOR shall equal such
arithmetic mean of such quotations.  If, on any LIBOR Determination
Date, only one or none of the Reference Banks provide such quotations, LIBOR
shall be deemed to be the arithmetic mean of the offered quotations that leading
banks in the City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent are quoting on
the relevant LIBOR Determination Date for three-month Eurodollar deposits in an
amount determined by the Calculation Agent by reference to the principal London
offices of leading banks in the London interbank market; provided, that if the
Calculation Agent is required but is unable to determine a rate in accordance
with at least one of the procedures provided above, LIBOR shall be LIBOR as
determined on the previous LIBOR Determination Date.

     

    (3)           As
used herein: “Reference
Banks” means four major banks in the London interbank market selected by
the Calculation Agent; and “LIBOR Business Day” means a
day on which commercial banks are open for business (including dealings in
foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in London.bmnm10q09302008ex10_19.htm

    
       

      
        
          Exhibit
10.19

        

      

    

    

    

    

    

    

    BIMINI
MORTGAGE MANAGEMENT, INC.,

    as
Issuer

    

    

    

    

    

    

    INDENTURE

    Dated
as of October 5, 2005

    

     

    WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY,

    as
Trustee

    

    

    

    

    FIXED/FLOATING
RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES

    
 

    

    DUE
2035

    

    
      
        
          

          1235483.1

          Bimini
Mortgage Management, Inc./Indenture

        

         

      

      
         

        
          

        

      

      
         

      

    

    TABLE OF
CONTENTS

    Page

    
      	
              ARTICLE
      I. DEFINITIONS1

            	
              1

            
	
              Section
      1.1.

            	
              Definitions.

            	
              1

            
	
              ARTICLE
      II. DEBENTURES

            	
              7

            
	
              Section
      2.1.

            	
              Authentication
      and Dating.

            	
              7

            
	
              Section
      2.2.

            	
              Form
      of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.

            	
              8

            
	
              Section
      2.3.

            	
              Form
      and Denomination of Debentures.

            	
              8

            
	
              Section
      2.4.

            	
              Execution
      of Debentures.

            	
              8

            
	
              Section
      2.5.

            	
              Exchange
      and Registration of Transfer of Debentures.

            	
              9

            
	
              Section
      2.6.

            	
              Mutilated,
      Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Debentures.

            	
              11

            
	
              Section
      2.7.

            	
              Temporary
      Debentures.

            	
              11

            
	
              Section
      2.8.

            	
              Payment
      of Interest and Additional Interest.

            	
              12

            
	
              Section
      2.9.

            	
              Cancellation
      of Debentures Paid, etc.

            	
              13

            
	
              Section
      2.10.

            	
              Computation
      of Interest.

            	
              13

            
	
              Section
      2.11.

            	
              Reserved.

            	
              14

            
	
              Section
      2.12.

            	
              CUSIP
      Numbers.

            	
              14

            
	
              ARTICLE
      III. PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

            	
              15

            
	
              Section
      3.1.

            	
              Payment
      of Principal, Premium and Interest; Agreed Treatment of the
      Debentures.

            	
              15

            
	
              Section
      3.2.

            	
              Offices
      for Notices and Payments, etc.

            	
              15

            
	
              Section
      3.3.

            	
              Appointments
      to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office.

            	
              15

            
	
              Section
      3.4.

            	
              Provision
      as to Paying Agent.

            	
              16

            
	
              Section
      3.5.

            	
              Certificate
      to Trustee.

            	
              16

            
	
              Section
      3.6.

            	
              Additional
      Sums.

            	
              17

            
	
              Section
      3.7.

            	
              Compliance
      with Consolidation Provisions.

            	
              17

            
	
              Section
      3.8.

            	
              Limitation
      on Dividends.

            	
              17

            
	
              Section
      3.9.

            	
              Covenants
      as to the Trust.

            	
              17

            
	
              ARTICLE
      IV. SECURITYHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE
      TRUSTEE

            	
              18

            
	
              Section
      4.1.

            	
              Securityholders’
      Lists.

            	
              18

            
	
              Section
      4.2.

            	
              Preservation
      and Disclosure of Lists.

            	
              18

            
	
              ARTICLE
      V. REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS UPON AN EVENT OF
      DEFAULT

            	
              19

            
	
              Section
      5.1.

            	
              Events
      of Default.

            	
              19

            
	
              Section
      5.2.

            	
              Payment
      of Debentures on Default; Suit Therefor.

            	
              20

            
	
              Section
      5.3.

            	
              Application
      of Moneys Collected by Trustee.

            	
              22

            
	
              Section
      5.4.

            	
              Proceedings
      by Securityholders.

            	
              22

            
	
              Section
      5.5.

            	
              Proceedings
      by Trustee.

            	
              23

            
	
              Section
      5.6.

            	
              Remedies
      Cumulative and Continuing; Delay or Omission Not a Waiver.

            	
              23

            
	
              Section
      5.7.

            	
              Direction
      of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of
      Securityholders.

            	
              23

            
	
              Section
      5.8.

            	
              Notice
      of Defaults.

            	
              24

            
	
              Section
      5.9.

            	
              Undertaking
      to Pay Costs.

            	
              24

            
	
              ARTICLE
      VI. CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE

            	
              24

            
	
              Section
      6.1.

            	
              Duties
      and Responsibilities of Trustee.

            	
              24

            
	
              Section
      6.2.

            	
              Reliance
      on Documents, Opinions, etc.

            	
              25

            
	
              Section
      6.3.

            	
              No
      Responsibility for Recitals, etc.

            	
              26

            
	
              Section
      6.4.

            	
              Trustee,
      Authenticating Agent, Paying Agents, Transfer Agents or Registrar May Own
      Debentures.

            	
              26

            
	
              Section
      6.5.

            	
              Moneys
      to be Held in Trust.

            	
              26

            
	
              Section
      6.6.

            	
              Compensation
      and Expenses of Trustee.

            	
              26

            
	
              Section
      6.7.

            	
              Officers’
      Certificate as Evidence.

            	
              27

            
	
              Section
      6.8.

            	
              Eligibility
      of Trustee.

            	
              27

            
	
              Section
      6.9.

            	
              Resignation
      or Removal of Trustee

            	
              28

            
	
              Section
      6.10.

            	
              Acceptance
      by Successor Trustee.

            	
              29

            
	
              Section
      6.11.

            	
              Succession
      by Merger, etc.

            	
              29

            
	
              Section
      6.12.

            	
              Authenticating
      Agents.

            	
              30

            
	
              ARTICLE
      VII. CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS

            	
              31

            
	
              Section
      7.1.

            	
              Action
      by Securityholders.

            	
              31

            
	
              Section
      7.2.

            	
              Proof
      of Execution by Securityholders.

            	
              31

            
	
              Section
      7.3.

            	
              Who
      Are Deemed Absolute Owners.

            	
              31

            
	
              Section
      7.4.

            	
              Debentures
      Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding.

            	
              32

            
	
              Section
      7.5.

            	
              Revocation
      of Consents; Future Holders Bound.

            	
              32

            
	
              ARTICLE
      VIII. SECURITYHOLDERS’ MEETINGS

            	
              32

            
	
              Section
      8.1.

            	
              Purposes
      of Meetings.

            	
              32

            
	
              Section
      8.2.

            	
              Call
      of Meetings by Trustee.

            	
              33

            
	
              Section
      8.3.

            	
              Call
      of Meetings by Company or Securityholders.

            	
              33

            
	
              Section
      8.4.

            	
              Qualifications
      for Voting.

            	
              33

            
	
              Section
      8.5.

            	
              Regulations.

            	
              33

            
	
              Section
      8.6.

            	
              Voting.

            	
              33

            
	
              Section
      8.7.

            	
              Quorum;
      Actions.

            	
              34

            
	
              ARTICLE
      IX. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

            	
              34

            
	
              Section
      9.1.

            	
              Supplemental
      Indentures without Consent of Securityholders.

            	
              34

            
	
              Section
      9.2.

            	
              Supplemental
      Indentures with Consent of Securityholders.

            	
              36

            
	
              Section
      9.3.

            	
              Effect
      of Supplemental Indentures.

            	
              36

            
	
              Section
      9.4.

            	
              Notation
      on Debentures.

            	
              37

            
	
              Section
      9.5.

            	
              Evidence
      of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be Furnished to
      Trustee.

            	
              37

            
	
              ARTICLE
      X. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES

            	
              37

            
	
              Section
      10.1.

            	
              Optional
      Redemption.

            	
              37

            
	
              Section
      10.2.

            	
              Special
      Event Redemption.

            	
              37

            
	
              Section
      10.3.

            	
              Notice
      of Redemption; Selection of Debentures.

            	
              37

            
	
              Section
      10.4.

            	
              Payment
      of Debentures Called for Redemption.

            	
              38

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

            	
              38

            
	
              Section
      11.1.

            	
              Company
      May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms.

            	
              38

            
	
              Section
      11.2.

            	
              Successor
      Entity to be Substituted.

            	
              39

            
	
              Section
      11.3.

            	
              Opinion
      of Counsel to be Given to Trustee.

            	
              39

            
	
              ARTICLE
      XII. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE

            	
              39

            
	
              Section
      12.1.

            	
              Discharge
      of Indenture.

            	
              39

            
	
              Section
      12.2.

            	
              Deposited
      Moneys to be Held in Trust by Trustee.

            	
              40

            
	
              Section
      12.3.

            	
              Paying
      Agent to Repay Moneys Held.

            	
              40

            
	
              Section
      12.4.

            	
              Return
      of Unclaimed Moneys.

            	
              40

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

            	
              40

            
	
              Section
      13.1.

            	
              Indenture
      and Debentures Solely Corporate Obligations.

            	
              40

            
	
              ARTICLE
      XIV. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

            	
              41

            
	
              Section
      14.1.

            	
              Successors.

            	
              41

            
	
              Section
      14.2.

            	
              Official
      Acts by Successor Entity.

            	
              41

            
	
              Section
      14.3.

            	
              Surrender
      of Company Powers.

            	
              41

            
	
              Section
      14.4.

            	
              Addresses
      for Notices, etc.

            	
              41

            
	
              Section
      14.5.

            	
              Governing
      Law.

            	
              41

            
	
              Section
      14.6.

            	
              Evidence
      of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.

            	
              41

            
	
              Section
      14.7.

            	
              Table
      of Contents, Headings, etc.

            	
              42

            
	
              Section
      14.8.

            	
              Execution
      in Counterparts.

            	
              42

            
	
              Section
      14.9.

            	
              Separability.

            	
              42

            
	
              Section
      14.10.

            	
              Assignment.

            	
              42

            
	
              Section
      14.11.

            	
              Acknowledgment
      of Rights.

            	
              42

            
	
              ARTICLE
      XV. SUBORDINATION OF DEBENTURES

            	
              42

            
	
              Section
      15.1.

            	
              Agreement
      to Subordinate.

            	
              42

            
	
              Section
      15.2.

            	
              Default
      on Senior Indebtedness.

            	
              43

            
	
              Section
      15.3.

            	
              Liquidation,
      Dissolution, Bankruptcy.

            	
              43

            
	
              Section
      15.4.

            	
              Subrogation.

            	
              44

            
	
              Section
      15.5.

            	
              Trustee
      to Effectuate Subordination.

            	
              45

            
	
              Section
      15.6.

            	
              Notice
      by the Company.

            	
              45

            
	
              Section
      15.7.

            	
              Rights
      of the Trustee; Holders of Senior Indebtedness.

            	
              45

            
	
              Section
      15.8.

            	
              Subordination
      May Not Be Impaired.

            	
              46

            
	 
      	 
      	 
      
	
              Exhibit
      A

            	
              Form
      of Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debenture

            	 
      
	
              Exhibit
      B

            	
              Form
      of Certificate to Trustee

            	 
      

    

    

    
      
        
           

          1235483.1

          Bimini
Mortgage Management, Inc./Indenture

        

         

      

      
         

        
          

        

      

      
         

      

    

    THIS
INDENTURE, dated as of October 5, 2005, between Bimini Mortgage Management,
Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), and
Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as debenture trustee
(the “Trustee”).

     

    WITNESSETH:

     

    WHEREAS,
for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issuance
of its Fixed/Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debentures due 2035 (the “Debentures”) under
this Indenture to provide, among other things, for the execution and
authentication, delivery and administration thereof, and the Company has duly
authorized the execution of this Indenture; and

     

    WHEREAS,
all acts and things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement according
to its terms, have been done and performed;

     

    NOW,
THEREFORE, This Indenture Witnesseth:

     

    In
consideration of the premises, and the purchase of the Debentures by the holders
thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee for the equal and
proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of the
Debentures as follows:

     

    ARTICLE
I.

     

    DEFINITIONS

     

    Section
1.1.                                Definitions.  

     

    The terms
defined in this Section 1.1 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided
or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and
of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings
specified in this Section 1.1.  All accounting terms used herein
and not expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and the term “generally
accepted accounting principles” means such accounting principles as are
generally accepted in the United States at the time of any
computation.  The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other
words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.

     

    “Additional Interest”
means the interest, if any, that shall accrue on any amounts payable on the
Debenture, the payment of which has not been made on the applicable Interest
Payment Date or otherwise and which shall accrue at the rate per annum specified
or determined as set forth in Section 2.8, in each case to the extent
legally enforceable.

     

    “Additional Sums” has
the meaning set forth in Section 3.6.

     

    “Affiliate” has the
same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 of the Securities Act or any
successor rule thereunder.

     

    “Authenticating Agent”
means any agent or agents of the Trustee which at the time shall be appointed
and acting pursuant to Section 6.12.

     

    “Bankruptcy Law” means
Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar federal or state law for the relief of
debtors.

     

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

     

    “Board Resolution”
means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and
to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification and delivered
to the Trustee.

     

    “Business Day” means
any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which banking
institutions in New York City or Wilmington, Delaware are permitted or required
by any applicable law or executive order to close.

     

    
      
        
           

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

     

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

     

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

     

    “Company” means Bimini
Mortgage Management, Inc., a Maryland corporation, and, subject to the
provisions of Article XI, shall include its successors and
assigns.

     

    “Comparable Treasury
Issue” means with respect to any Special Redemption Date the United
States Treasury security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity
comparable to the Fixed Rate Period Remaining Life that would be utilized, at
the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in
pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the
Fixed Rate Period Remaining Life.  If no United States Treasury
security has a maturity which is within a period from three months before to
three months after the Interest Payment Date in December 2010, the two most
closely corresponding fixed, non-callable United States Treasury securities, as
selected by the Quotation Agent, shall be used as the Comparable Treasury Issue,
and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated on a straight-line
basis, rounding to the nearest month using such securities.

     

    “Comparable Treasury
Price” means (a) the average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations
for such Special Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest such
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (b) if the Quotation Agent obtains
fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all
such Quotations.

     

    “Coupon Rate” has the
meaning set forth in Section 2.8.

     

    “Debenture” or “Debentures” has the
meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture.

     

    “Debenture Register”
has the meaning specified in Section 2.5.

     

    “Declaration” means
the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of the Trust, as amended or
supplemented from time to time.

     

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

     

    “Defaulted Interest”
has the meaning set forth in Section 2.8.

     

    “Distribution Period”
means (i) with respect to interest paid on the first Interest Payment Date,
the period beginning on (and including) the date of original issuance and ending
on (but excluding) the Interest Payment Date in December 2005 and
(ii) thereafter, with respect to interest paid on each successive Interest
Payment Date, the period beginning on (and including) the preceding Interest
Payment Date and ending on (but excluding) such current Interest Payment
Date.

     

    “Determination Date”
has the meaning set forth in Section 2.10.

     

    “Event of Default”
means any event specified in Section 5.1, continued for the period of time,
if any, and after the giving of the notice, if any, therein
designated.

     

    
      
        
           

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    “Fixed Rate Period Remaining
Life” means, with respect to any Debenture, the period from the Special
Redemption Date for such Debenture to the Interest Payment Date in December
2010.

     

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

     

    “Institutional
Trustee” has the meaning set forth in the Declaration.

     

    “Interest Payment
Date” means March 15, June 15, September 15 and
December 15 of each year during the term of this Indenture, or if such day
is not a Business Day, then the next succeeding Business Day, commencing in
December 2005.

     

    “Interest Rate” means
for the Distribution Period beginning on (and including) the date of original
issuance and ending on (but excluding) the Interest Payment Date in December
2010 the rate per annum of 7.8575%, and for each Distribution Period beginning
on or after the Interest Payment Date in December 2010, the Coupon Rate for such
Distribution Period.

     

    “Investment Company
Event” means the receipt by the Company and the Trust of an opinion of
counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of the
occurrence of a change in law or regulation or written change (including any
announced prospective change) in interpretation or application of law or
regulation by any legislative body, court, governmental agency or regulatory
authority, there is more than an insubstantial risk that the Trust is or, within
90 days of the date of such opinion will be considered an “investment company”
that is required to be registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended which change or prospective change becomes effective or would become
effective, as the case may be, on or after the date of the issuance of the
Debentures.

     

    “Liquidation Amount”
means the stated amount of $1,000.00 per Trust Security.

     

    “Maturity Date” means
December 15, 2035.

     

    “Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, the
Chief Executive Officer, the Vice Chairman, the President, any Managing Director
or any Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the
Comptroller, an Assistant Comptroller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.  Each such certificate
shall include the statements provided for in Section 14.6 if and to the
extent required by the provisions of such Section.

     

    “Opinion of Counsel”
means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of
or counsel to the Company, or may be other counsel reasonably satisfactory to
the Trustee.  Each such opinion shall include the statements provided
for in Section 14.6 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such
Section.

     

    The term
“outstanding,”
when used with reference to Debentures, means, subject to the provisions of
Section 7.4, as of any particular time, all Debentures authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent under this Indenture,
except:

     

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

     

    (b)           Debentures,
or portions thereof, for the payment or redemption of which moneys in the
necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any
paying agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set aside and
segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own paying
agent); provided, however, that, if
such Debentures, or portions thereof, are to be redeemed prior to maturity
thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been given as provided in
Section 10.3 or provision satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made
for giving such notice; and

     

    (c)           Debentures
paid pursuant to Section 2.6 or in lieu of or in substitution for which
other Debentures shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the
terms of Section 2.6 unless proof satisfactory to the Company and the
Trustee is presented that any such Debentures are held by bona fide holders in
due course.

     

    
      
        
           

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    “Person” means any
individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

     

    “Predecessor Security”
of any particular Debenture means every previous Debenture evidencing all or a
portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Debenture; and,
for purposes of this definition, any Debenture authenticated and delivered under
Section 2.6 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Debenture shall be
deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen
Debenture.

     

    “Primary Treasury
Dealer” means either a nationally recognized primary United States
Government securities dealer or an entity of recognized standing in matters
pertaining to the quotation of treasury securities that is reasonably acceptable
to the Company and the Trustee.

     

    “Principal Office of the
Trustee,” or other similar term, means the office of the Trustee, at
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally
administered, which at the time of the execution of this Indenture shall be
Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington,
Delaware  19890-1600, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration.

     

    “Quotation Agent”
means a designee of the Institutional Trustee who shall be a Primary Treasury
Dealer.

     

    “Redemption Date” has
the meaning set forth in Section 10.1.

     

    “Redemption Price”
means 100% of the principal amount of the Debentures being redeemed, plus
accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) on such
Debentures to the Redemption Date.

     

    “Reference Treasury
Dealer” means (i) the Quotation Agent and (ii) any other Primary Treasury
Dealer selected by the Trustee after consultation with the Company.

     

    “Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any
Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Quotation Agent, of the bid
and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a
percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Quotation Agent by
such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third
Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

     

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

     

    “Securities Act” means
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time or any successor
legislation.

     

    “Securityholder,”
“holder of Debentures,” or other similar terms, means any Person in whose name
at the time a particular Debenture is registered on the register kept by the
Company or the Trustee for that purpose in accordance with the terms
hereof.

     

    “Senior Indebtedness”
means, with respect to the Company, (i) the principal, premium, if any, and
interest in respect of (A) indebtedness of the Company for all borrowed and
purchased money and (B) indebtedness evidenced by securities, debentures,
notes, bonds or other similar instruments issued by the Company; (ii) all
capital lease obligations of the Company; (iii) all obligations of the
Company issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all
conditional sale obligations of the Company and all obligations of the Company
under any title retention agreement; (iv) all obligations of the Company
for the reimbursement of any letter of credit, any banker’s acceptance, any
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    facility,
any repurchase agreement or similar arrangement, any interest rate swap, any
other hedging arrangement, any obligation under options or any similar credit or
other transaction; (v) all obligations of the Company associated with
derivative products such as interest and foreign exchange rate contracts,
commodity contracts, and similar arrangements; (vi) all obligations of the
type referred to in clauses (i) through (v) above of other Persons for the
payment of which the Company is responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or
otherwise including, without limitation, similar obligations arising from
off-balance sheet guarantees and direct credit substitutes; and (vii) all
obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (vi) above of
other Persons secured by any lien on any property or asset of the Company
(whether or not such obligation is assumed by the Company), whether incurred on
or prior to the date of this Indenture or thereafter
incurred.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Senior Indebtedness” shall
not include (1) Debentures issued pursuant to this Indenture and guarantees
in respect of such Debentures, (2) obligations with respect to which in the
instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is
outstanding, it is provided that such obligations are pari passu, junior or
otherwise not superior in right of payment to the Debentures, (3) trade amounts
payable or other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business,
or (4) obligations issued to any trust other than the Trust (or a trustee of any
such trust) in connection with the issuance by such trust of trust preferred
securities and the issuance of debentures by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries pursuant to an instrument that, by its terms, rank pari passu with or junior in
right of payment to this Indenture.  Senior Indebtedness shall
continue to be Senior Indebtedness and be entitled to the subordination
provisions irrespective of any amendment, modification or waiver of any term of
such Senior Indebtedness.

     

    “Special Event” means
either an Investment Company Event or a Tax Event.

     

    “Special Redemption
Date” has the meaning set forth in Section
10.2.

     

    “Special Redemption
Price” means (a) if the Special Redemption Date occurs before the
Interest Payment Date in December 2010, the greater of (i) 107.5% of the
principal amount of the Debentures, plus accrued and unpaid interest (including
Additional Interest) on the Debentures to the Special Redemption Date, or
(ii) as determined by the Quotation Agent, (A) the sum of the present
values of the scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Debentures
during the Fixed Rate Period Remaining Life of the Debentures (assuming the
Debentures matured on the Interest Payment Date in December 2010) discounted to
the Special Redemption Date on a quarterly basis (assuming a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate, plus (B) accrued
and unpaid interest (including Additional Interest) on the Debentures to such
Special Redemption Date, or (b) if the Special Redemption Date occurs on or
after the Interest Payment Date in December 2010, 100% of the principal amount
of the Debentures being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest (including
any Additional Interest) on such Debentures to the Special Redemption
Date.

     

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

     

    “Tax Event” means the
receipt by the Company and the Trust of an opinion of counsel experienced in
such matters to the effect that, as a result of any amendment to or change
(including any announced prospective change) in the laws or any regulations
thereunder of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority
thereof or therein, or as a result of any official administrative

     

    
      
        
           

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    pronouncement
(including any private letter ruling, technical advice memorandum, field service
advice, regulatory procedure, notice or announcement, including any notice or
announcement of intent to adopt such procedures or regulations) (an “Administrative
Action”) or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or
regulations, regardless of whether such Administrative Action or judicial
decision is issued to or in connection with a proceeding involving the Company
or the Trust and whether or not subject to review or appeal, which amendment,
clarification, change, Administrative Action or decision is enacted, promulgated
or announced, in each case on or after the date of original issuance of the
Debentures, there is more than an insubstantial risk
that:  (i) the Trust is, or will be within 90 days of the
date of such opinion, subject to United States federal income tax with respect
to income received or accrued on the Debentures; (ii) interest payable by
the Company on the Debentures is not, or within 90 days of the date of such
opinion, will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in part, for United
States federal income tax purposes; or (iii) the Trust is, or will be
within 90 days of the date of such opinion, subject to more than a de
minimis amount of other taxes, duties or other governmental
charges.

     

    “3-Month LIBOR” has
the meaning set forth in Section 2.10.

     

    “Telerate Page 3750”
has the meaning set forth in Section 2.10.

     

    “Treasury Rate” means
(i) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the week
immediately prior to the date of calculation, appearing in the most recently
published statistical release designated H.15 (519) or any successor publication
which is published weekly by the Federal Reserve and which establishes yields on
actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity
under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding
to the Fixed Rate Period Remaining Life (if no maturity is within three months
before or after the Fixed Rate Period Remaining Life, yields for the two
published maturities most closely corresponding to the Fixed Rate Period
Remaining Life shall be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated
or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the
nearest month) or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not
published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain
such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to
maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the
Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount)
equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Special Redemption
Date.  The Treasury Rate shall be calculated by the Quotation Agent on
the third Business Day preceding the Special Redemption Date.

     

    “Trust” shall mean
Bimini Capital Trust II, a Delaware statutory trust, or any other similar
trust created for the purpose of issuing Capital Securities in connection with
the issuance of Debentures under this Indenture, of which the Company is the
sponsor.

     

    “Trust Securities”
means Common Securities and Capital Securities of the Trust.

     

    “Trustee” means
Wilmington Trust Company, and, subject to the provisions of Article VI
hereof, shall also include its successors and assigns as Trustee
hereunder.

     

    ARTICLE
II.

     

    DEBENTURES

     

    Section
2.1.                                Authentication and
Dating.  

     

    Upon the
execution and delivery of this Indenture, or from time to time thereafter,
Debentures in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of $51,547,000.00 may
be executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and
the Trustee, upon receipt of a written authentication order from the Company,
shall thereupon authenticate and make available for delivery said Debentures to
or upon the written order of the Company, signed by its Chairman of the Board of
Directors, Chief Executive Officer, Vice Chairman, the President, Chief
Financial Officer, one of its Managing Directors or one of its Vice Presidents
without any further action by the Company hereunder.  Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, the Trustee shall be fully protected
in relying upon the aforementioned authentication order and written order in
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    said
Debentures.  In authenticating such Debentures, and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Debentures,
the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 6.1)
shall be fully protected in relying upon:

     

    (a)           a
copy of any Board Resolution or Board Resolutions relating thereto and, if
applicable, an appropriate record of any action taken pursuant to such
resolution, in each case certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of
the Company, as the case may be; and

     

    (b)           an
Opinion of Counsel prepared in accordance with Section 14.6 which shall
also state:

     

    (1)           that
such Debentures, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by
the Company in each case in the manner and subject to any conditions specified
in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding
obligations of the Company, subject to or limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, conservatorship, receivership, moratorium and other
statutory or decisional laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights or the
reorganization of financial institutions (including, without limitation,
preference and fraudulent conveyance or transfer laws), heretofore or hereafter
enacted or in effect, affecting the rights of creditors generally;
and

     

    (2)           that
all laws and requirements in respect of the execution and delivery by the
Company of the Debentures have been materially complied with and that
authentication and delivery of the Debentures by the Trustee will not violate
the terms of this Indenture.

     

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

     

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

     

    Section
2.2.                                Form of Trustee’s
Certificate of Authentication.  

     

    The
Trustee’s certificate of authentication on all Debentures shall be in
substantially the following form:

     

    This is
one of the Debentures referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

     

    WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee

     

    By                                                                

     

    Authorized
Signer

     

    Section
2.3.                                Form and Denomination of
Debentures.  

     

    The
Debentures shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached
hereto.  The Debentures shall be in registered, certificated form
without coupons and in minimum denominations of $100,000.00 and any multiple of
$1,000.00 in excess thereof.  Any attempted transfer of the Debentures
in a block having an aggregate principal amount of less than $100,000.00 shall
be deemed to be void and of no legal effect whatsoever.  Any such
purported transferee shall be deemed not to be a holder of such Debentures for
any purpose, including, but not limited to the receipt of payments on such
Debentures, and such purported transferee shall be deemed to have no interest
whatsoever in such Debentures.  The Debentures shall be numbered,
lettered, or otherwise distinguished in such manner or in accordance with such
plans as the officers executing the same may determine with the approval of the
Trustee as evidenced by the execution and authentication thereof.

     

    Section
2.4.                                Execution of
Debentures.  

     

    The
Debentures shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the
manual or facsimile signature of its Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief
Executive Officer, Vice Chairman, President, Chief Financial Officer, one of its
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    Executive
Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents or Vice Presidents.  Only such
Debentures as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially
in the form herein before recited, executed by the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent by the manual signature of an authorized signer, shall be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any
purpose.  Such certificate by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent
upon any Debenture executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the
Debenture so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder
and that the holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

     

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

     

    Every
Debenture shall be dated the date of its authentication.

     

    Section
2.5.                                Exchange and Registration of
Transfer of Debentures.  

     

    The
Company shall cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained for the
purpose of registration of transfer and for exchange as provided in
Section 3.2, a register (the “Debenture Register”)
for the Debentures issued hereunder in which, subject to such reasonable
regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration
and transfer of all Debentures as in this Article II
provided.  The Debenture Register shall be in written form or in any
other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable
time.

     

    Debentures
to be exchanged may be surrendered at the Principal Office of the Trustee or at
any office or agency to be maintained by the Company for such purpose as
provided in Section 3.2, and the Company shall execute, the Company or the
Trustee shall register and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall
authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange therefor the Debenture
or Debentures which the Securityholder making the exchange shall be entitled to
receive.  Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of any
Debenture at the Principal Office of the Trustee or at any office or agency of
the Company maintained for such purpose as provided in Section 3.2, the
Company shall execute, the Company or the Trustee shall register and the Trustee
or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery
in the name of the transferee or transferees a new Debenture for a like
aggregate principal amount.  Registration or registration of transfer
of any Debenture by the Trustee or by any agent of the Company appointed
pursuant to Section 3.2, and delivery of such Debenture, shall be deemed to
complete the registration or registration of transfer of such
Debenture.

     

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

     

    No
service charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of transfer of
Debentures, but the Company or the Trustee may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax, fee or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection therewith.

     

    The
Company or the Trustee shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer
of any Debenture for a period of 15 days next preceding the date of
selection of Debentures for redemption.

     

    Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, Debentures may not be transferred except in
compliance with the restricted securities legend set forth below, unless
otherwise determined by the Company, upon the advice of counsel expert in
securities law, in accordance with applicable law:

     

    
      
        
           

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    THIS
SECURITY IS NOT A SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR DEPOSIT AND IT IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED
STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT
INSURANCE CORPORATION.

     

    THIS
SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE “SECURITIES ACT”), ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE
SECURITIES LAW.  NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED,
ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR
UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS.  THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO
OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY,
(B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY
BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE
REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A SO LONG AS THIS SECURITY IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE
PURSUANT TO RULE 144A IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144A, (D) TO A
NON-U.S. PERSON IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 903 OR
RULE 904 (AS APPLICABLE) OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF
SUBPARAGRAPH (A) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS
ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN
INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW
TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF
THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM
THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY’S
RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN
OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE INDENTURE, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE
COMPANY.

     

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

     

    THIS SECURITY WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE
TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN
$100,000.00 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000.00 IN EXCESS THEREOF.  ANY
ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000.00 SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL
EFFECT WHATSOEVER.

     

    THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT
IT WILL COMPLY WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

     

    Section
2.6.                                Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost
or Stolen Debentures.  

     

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

     

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

     

    Every
substituted Debenture issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.6
by virtue of the fact that any such Debenture is destroyed, lost or stolen shall
constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not
the destroyed, lost or stolen Debenture shall be found at any time, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Debentures duly issued hereunder.  All Debentures
shall be held and owned upon the express condition that, to the extent permitted
by applicable law, the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Debentures and
shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or
statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the
replacement or payment of negotiable instruments or other securities without
their surrender.

     

    Section
2.7.                                Temporary
Debentures.  

     

    Pending
the preparation of definitive Debentures, the Company may execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery temporary Debentures
that are typed, printed or lithographed.  Temporary Debentures shall
be issuable in any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the
definitive Debentures in lieu of which they are issued but with such omissions,
insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Debentures, all as
may be determined by the Company.  Every such temporary Debenture
shall be executed by the Company and be authenticated by the Trustee upon the
same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect,
as the definitive Debentures.  Without unreasonable delay the Company
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    deliver
to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent definitive Debentures and thereupon
any or all temporary Debentures may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at the
principal corporate trust office of the Trustee or at any office or agency
maintained by the Company for such purpose as provided in Section 3.2, and
the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make available
for delivery in exchange for such temporary Debentures a like aggregate
principal amount of such definitive Debentures.  Such exchange shall
be made by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor except
that in case of any such exchange involving a registration of transfer the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto.  Until so
exchanged, the temporary Debentures shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Debentures authenticated and
delivered hereunder.

     

    Section
2.8.                                Payment of Interest and
Additional Interest.  

     

    Interest
at the Interest Rate and any Additional Interest on any Debenture that is
payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date for Debentures shall be paid to the Person in whose name said Debenture (or
one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on
the regular record date for such interest installment except that interest and
any Additional Interest payable on the Maturity Date shall be paid to the Person
to whom principal is paid.

     

    Each
Debenture shall bear interest for the period beginning on (and including) the
date of original issuance and ending on (but excluding) the Interest Payment
Date in December 2010 at a rate per annum of 7.8575%, and shall bear interest
for each successive Distribution Period beginning on or after the Interest
Payment Date in December 2010 at a rate per annum equal to the 3-Month LIBOR,
determined as described in Section 2.10, plus 3.50% (the “Coupon Rate”),
applied to the principal amount thereof, until the principal thereof becomes due
and payable; provided, however, that any
overdue principal, premium, if any, or Additional Sums and any overdue
installment of interest shall bear Additional Interest at the Interest Rate in
effect for each applicable period, compounded quarterly, from the dates such
amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such
interest shall be payable on demand.  Interest shall be payable
quarterly in arrears on each Interest Payment Date with the first installment of
interest to be paid on the Interest Payment Date in December 2005.

     

    Any
interest on any Debenture, including Additional Interest, that is payable, but
is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date
(herein called “Defaulted Interest”)
shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered holder on the relevant
regular record date by virtue of having been such holder; and such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid by the Company to the Persons in whose names such
Debentures (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the
close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner: the Company shall notify
the Trustee in writing at least 25 days prior to the date of the proposed
payment of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such
Debenture and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company
shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount
proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of
the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause
provided.  Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a special record date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall not be more than 15 nor less
than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days
after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed
payment.  The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
special record date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall
cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the special
record date therefor to be mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each
Securityholder at its address as it appears in the Debenture Register, not less
than 10 days prior to such special record date.  Notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor
having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the
Persons in whose names such Debentures (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered on such special record date and shall be no longer
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    The
Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on any Debentures in any
other lawful manner after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the
proposed payment method; provided, however, the Trustee
in its reasonable discretion deems such payment method to be
practical.

     

    The term
“regular record date” as used in this Section shall mean the close of business
on the 15th Business Day preceding the applicable Interest Payment
Date.

     

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

     

    Section
2.9.                                Cancellation of Debentures
Paid, etc.  

     

    All
Debentures surrendered for the purpose of payment, redemption, exchange or
registration of transfer, shall, if surrendered to the Company or any paying
agent, be surrendered to the Trustee and promptly canceled by it, or, if
surrendered to the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent, shall be promptly
canceled by it, and no Debentures shall be issued in lieu thereof except as
expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture.  All
Debentures canceled by any Authenticating Agent shall be delivered to the
Trustee.  The Trustee shall destroy all canceled Debentures unless the
Company otherwise directs the Trustee in writing.  If the Company
shall acquire any of the Debentures, however, such acquisition shall not operate
as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such
Debentures unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for
cancellation.

     

    Section
2.10.                                Computation of
Interest.  

     

    The
amount of interest payable (i) for any Distribution Period commencing on or
after the date of original issuance but before the Interest Payment Date in
December 2010 will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months, and (ii) for the Distribution Period commencing on the Interest
Payment Date in December 2010 and each succeeding Distribution Period will be
calculated by applying the Interest Rate to the principal amount outstanding at
the commencement of the Distribution Period on the basis of the actual number of
days in the Distribution Period concerned divided by 360.  All
percentages resulting from any calculations on the Debentures will be rounded,
if necessary, to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point, with
five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward (e.g., 9.876545% (or
..09876545) being rounded to 9.87655% (or .0987655), and all dollar amounts used
in or resulting from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest cent (with
one-half cent being rounded upward)).

     

    (a)           “3-Month LIBOR” means
the London interbank offered interest rate for three-month, U.S. dollar deposits
determined by the Trustee in the following order of priority:

     

    (1)           the
rate (expressed as a percentage per annum) for U.S. dollar deposits having a
three-month maturity that appears on Telerate Page 3750 as of
11:00 a.m. (London time) on the related Determination Date (as defined
below).  “Telerate Page 3750” means the display designated as
“Page 3750” on the Moneyline Telerate Service or such other page as may
replace Page 3750 on that service or such other service or services as may
be nominated by the British Bankers’ Association as the information vendor for
the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates for U.S. dollar
deposits;

     

    (2)           if
such rate cannot be identified on the related Determination Date, the Trustee
will request the principal London offices of four leading banks in the London
interbank market to provide such banks’ offered quotations (expressed as
percentages per annum) to prime banks in the London interbank market for U.S.
dollar deposits having a three-month maturity as of 11:00 a.m. (London
time) on such Determination Date.  If at least two quotations are
provided, 3-Month LIBOR will be the arithmetic mean of such
quotations;

     

    (3)           if
fewer than two such quotations are provided as requested in clause (2)
above, the Trustee will request four major New York City banks to provide such
banks’ offered quotations (expressed as percentages per annum) to leading
European banks for loans in U.S.

     

    
      
        
           

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    dollars
as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Determination Date.  If at
least two such quotations are provided, 3-Month LIBOR will be the arithmetic
mean of such quotations; and

     

    (4)           if
fewer than two such quotations are provided as requested in clause (3)
above, 3-Month LIBOR will be a 3-Month LIBOR determined with respect to the
Distribution Period immediately preceding such current Distribution
Period.

     

    If the
rate for U.S. dollar deposits having a three-month maturity that initially
appears on Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the
related Determination Date is superseded on the Telerate Page 3750 by a
corrected rate by 12:00 noon (London time) on such Determination Date, then
the corrected rate as so substituted on the applicable page will be the
applicable 3-Month LIBOR for such Determination Date.

     

    (b)           The
Interest Rate for any Distribution Period will at no time be higher than the
maximum rate then permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by
United States law.

     

    (c)           “Determination Date”
means the date that is two London Banking Days (i.e., a business day in which
dealings in deposits in U.S. dollars are transacted in the London interbank
market) preceding the commencement of the particular Distribution Period for
which a Coupon Rate is being determined.

     

    (d)           The
Trustee shall notify the Company, the Institutional Trustee and any securities
exchange or interdealer quotation system on which the Capital Securities are
listed, of the Coupon Rate and the Determination Date for each Distribution
Period, in each case as soon as practicable after the determination thereof but
in no event later than the thirtieth (30th) day of the relevant Distribution
Period.  Failure to notify the Company, the Institutional Trustee or
any securities exchange or interdealer quotation system, or any defect in said
notice, shall not affect the obligation of the Company to make payment on the
Debentures at the applicable Coupon Rate.  Any error in the
calculation of the Coupon Rate by the Trustee may be corrected at any time by
notice delivered as above provided.  Upon the request of a holder of a
Debenture, the Trustee shall provide the Coupon Rate then in effect and, if
determined, the Coupon Rate for the next Distribution Period.

     

    (e)           Subject
to the corrective rights set forth above, all certificates, communications,
opinions, determinations, calculations, quotations and decisions given,
expressed, made or obtained for the purposes of the provisions relating to the
payment and calculation of interest on the Debentures and distributions on the
Capital Securities by the Trustee or the Institutional Trustee will (in the
absence of willful default, bad faith and manifest error) be final, conclusive
and binding on the Trust, the Company and all of the holders of the Debentures
and the Capital Securities, and no liability shall (in the absence of willful
default, bad faith or manifest error) attach to the Trustee or the Institutional
Trustee in connection with the exercise or non-exercise by either of them or
their respective powers, duties and discretion.

     

    Section
2.11.                                Reserved.  

     

    

     

    Section
2.12.                                CUSIP
Numbers.  

     

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

     

    PARTICULAR
COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY

     

    Section
3.1.                                Payment
of Principal, Premium and Interest; Agreed Treatment of the
Debentures.

     

    (a)           The
Company covenants and agrees that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be
paid the principal of and premium, if any, and interest and any Additional
Interest and other payments on the Debentures at the place, at the respective
times and in the manner provided in this Indenture and the Debentures. Each
installment of interest on the Debentures may be paid (i) by mailing checks
for such interest payable to the order of the holders of Debentures entitled
thereto as they appear on the registry books of the Company if a request for a
wire transfer has not been received by the Company or (ii) by wire transfer
to any account with a banking institution located in the United States
designated in writing by such Person to the paying agent no later than the
related record date.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the
holder of this Debenture is the Institutional Trustee, the payment of the
principal of and interest on this Debenture will be made in immediately
available funds at such place and to such account as may be designated by the
Institutional Trustee.

     

    (b)           The
Company will treat the Debentures as indebtedness, and the amounts payable in
respect of the principal amount of such Debentures as interest, for all United
States federal income tax purposes.  All payments in respect of such
Debentures will be made free and clear of United States withholding tax to any
beneficial owner thereof that has provided an Internal Revenue Service Form W-9
or W8 BEN (or any substitute or successor form) establishing its entitlement to
a complete exemption from United States federal withholding tax.

     

    Section
3.2.                                Offices for Notices and
Payments, etc.  

     

    So long
as any of the Debentures remain outstanding, the Company will maintain in
Wilmington, Delaware, an office or agency where the Debentures may be presented
for payment, an office or agency where the Debentures may be presented for
registration of transfer and for exchange as in this Indenture provided and an
office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of
the Debentures or of this Indenture may be served.  The Company will
give to the Trustee written notice of the location of any such office or agency
and of any change of location thereof.  Until otherwise designated
from time to time by the Company in a notice to the Trustee, or specified as
contemplated by Section 2.5, such office or agency
for all of the above purposes shall be the office or agency of the
Trustee.  In case the Company shall fail to maintain any such office
or agency in Wilmington, Delaware, or shall fail to give such notice of the
location or of any change in the location thereof, presentations and demands may
be made and notices may be served at the Principal Office of the
Trustee.

     

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

     

    Section
3.3.                                Appointments to Fill
Vacancies in Trustee’s Office.  

     

    The
Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee,
will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 6.9, a Trustee, so that
there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.

     

    Section
3.4.                                Provision
as to Paying Agent.

     

    (a)           If
the Company shall appoint a paying agent other than the Trustee, it will cause
such paying agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which
such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provision of this
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    (1)           that
it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal
of and premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the Debentures (whether such
sums have been paid to it by the Company or by any other obligor on the
Debentures) in trust for the benefit of the holders of the
Debentures;

     

    (2)           that
it will give the Trustee prompt written notice of any failure by the Company (or
by any other obligor on the Debentures) to make any payment of the principal of
and premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the Debentures when the same shall
be due and payable; and

     

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

     

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

     

    Whenever
the Company shall have one or more paying agents for the Debentures, it will, on
or prior to each due date of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest,
if any, on the Debentures, deposit with a paying agent a sum sufficient to pay
the principal, premium, interest or other payments so becoming due, such sum to
be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless
such paying agent is the Trustee) the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee
in writing of its action or failure to act.

     

    (c)           Anything
in this Section 3.4 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may, at
any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge with respect
to the Debentures, or for any other reason, pay, or direct any paying agent to
pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or any such paying
agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein
contained.

     

    (d)           Anything
in this Section 3.4 to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to hold
sums in trust as provided in this Section 3.4 is subject to
Sections 12.3 and 12.4.

     

    Section
3.5.                                Certificate to
Trustee.  

     

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

     

    Section
3.6.                                Additional
Sums.  

     

    If and
for so long as the Trust is the holder of all Debentures and the Trust is
required to pay any additional taxes (including withholding taxes), duties,
assessments or other governmental charges as a result of a Tax Event, the
Company will pay such additional amounts (“Additional Sums”) on
the Debentures as shall be required so that the net amounts received and
retained by the Trust after paying such taxes (including withholding taxes),
duties, assessments or other governmental charges will be equal to the amounts
the Trust would have received if no such taxes, duties, assessments or other
governmental charges had been imposed.  Whenever in this Indenture or
the Debentures there is a reference in any context to the payment of principal
of or interest on the Debentures, such mention shall be deemed to include
mention of payments of the Additional Sums provided for in this paragraph to the
extent that, in such context, Additional Sums are, were or would be payable in
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    thereof
pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph and express mention of the payment
of Additional Sums (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be
construed as excluding Additional Sums in those provisions hereof where such
express mention is not made.

     

    Section
3.7.                                Compliance with
Consolidation Provisions.  

     

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

     

    Section
3.8.                                Limitation on
Dividends.  

     

    If
Debentures are initially issued to the Trust or a trustee of such Trust in
connection with the issuance of Trust Securities by the Trust (regardless of
whether Debentures continue to be held by such Trust) and there shall have
occurred and be continuing an Event of Default, then the Company shall not, and
shall not allow any Affiliate of the Company to, (x) declare or pay any
dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire, or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company’s capital stock or its
Affiliates’ capital stock (other than payments of dividends or distributions to
the Company) or make any guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing or
(y) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or
repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company or any Affiliate
that rank pari passu in
all respects with or junior in interest to the Debentures (other than, with
respect to clauses (x) and (y) above, (1) repurchases, redemptions or other
acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any
employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the
benefit of one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in
connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in
connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Company (or securities
convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an
acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable default, if any,
(2) as a result of any exchange or conversion of any class or series of the
Company’s capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of the Company)
for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock or of any class or series
of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital
stock, (3) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s
capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital
stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (4) any declaration of
a dividend in connection with any stockholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of
rights, stock or other property under any stockholders’ rights plan, or the
redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (5) any dividend in
the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or
the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is
the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to
such stock and any cash payments in lieu of fractional shares issued in
connection therewith).

     

    Section
3.9.                                Covenants as to the
Trust.  

     

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

     

    ARTICLE
IV.

     

    SECURITYHOLDERS’ LISTS AND
REPORTS

     

    BY THE COMPANY AND THE
TRUSTEE

     

    Section
4.1.                                Securityholders’
Lists.  

     

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

     

    
      
        
           

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    (a)           on
each regular record date for the Debentures, a list, in such form as the Trustee
may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Securityholders of the
Debentures as of such record date; and

     

    (b)           at
such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days
after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and
content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is
furnished;

     

    except
that no such lists need be furnished under this Section 4.1 so long as the
Trustee is in possession thereof by reason of its acting as Debenture
registrar.

     

    Section
4.2.                                Preservation
and Disclosure of Lists.

     

    (a)           The
Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, all
information as to the names and addresses of the holders of Debentures
(1) contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in
Section 4.1 or (2) received by it in the capacity of Debentures
registrar (if so acting) hereunder.  The Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in Section 4.1 upon receipt of a new list so
furnished.

     

    (b)           In
case three or more holders of Debentures (hereinafter referred to as
“applicants”) apply in writing to the Trustee and furnish to the Trustee
reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Debenture for a period of
at least 6 months preceding the date of such application, and such application
states that the applicants desire to communicate with other holders of
Debentures with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under such
Debentures and is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other
communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall
within 5 Business Days after the receipt of such application, at its election,
either:

     

    (1)           afford
such applicants access to the information preserved at the time by the Trustee
in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this
Section 4.2, or

     

    (2)           inform
such applicants as to the approximate number of holders of Debentures whose
names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the time by the
Trustee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this
Section 4.2, and as to the approximate cost of mailing to such
Securityholders the form of proxy or other communication, if any, specified in
such application.

     

    If the
Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such information,
the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants, mail to each
Securityholder whose name and address appear in the information preserved at the
time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of
this Section 4.2 a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which
is specified in such request with reasonable promptness after a tender to the
Trustee of the material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the
payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within five days after
such tender, the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, if permitted or required by applicable law,
together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written statement to the
effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to
the best interests of the holders of all Debentures, as the case may be, or
would be in violation of applicable law.  Such written statement shall
specify the basis of such opinion.  If said Commission, as permitted
or required by applicable law, after opportunity for a hearing upon the
objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an order
refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an order
sustaining one or more of such objections, said Commission shall find, after
notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained have
been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of
such material to all such Securityholders with reasonable promptness after the
entry of such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall
be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
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    (c)           Each
and every holder of Debentures, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with
the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any
paying agent shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such
information as to the names and addresses of the holders of Debentures in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section 4.2,
regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the
Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant
to a request made under said subsection (b).

     

    ARTICLE
V.

     

    REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND
SECURITYHOLDERS

     

    UPON AN EVENT OF
DEFAULT

     

    Section
5.1.                                Events of
Default.  

     

    “Event of
Default,” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever
the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):

     

    (a)           the
Company defaults in the payment of any interest upon any Debenture, including
any Additional Interest in respect thereof, following the nonpayment of any such
interest for twenty or more consecutive Distribution Periods; or

     

    (b)           the
Company defaults in the payment of all or any part of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Debentures as and when the same shall become due and
payable either at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration of acceleration or
otherwise; or

     

    (c)           the
Company defaults in any material respect in the performance of, or breaches in
any material respect, any of its covenants or agreements in this Indenture or in
the terms of the Debentures established as contemplated in this Indenture (other
than a covenant or agreement a default in whose performance or whose breach is
elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), and continuance of such
default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company
and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of
the outstanding Debentures, a written notice specifying such default or breach
and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of
Default” hereunder; or

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

    If an
Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the Debentures, then,
and in each and every such case, unless the principal of the Debentures shall
have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the holders of not
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    then
outstanding hereunder, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee
if given by Securityholders), may declare the entire principal of the Debentures
and the interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable immediately, and
upon any such declaration the same shall become immediately due and
payable.

     

    The
foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the condition that if, at any time
after the principal of the Debentures shall have been so declared due and
payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due
shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, (i) the
Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all
matured installments of interest upon all the Debentures and the principal of
and premium, if any, on the Debentures which shall have become due otherwise
than by acceleration (with interest upon such principal and premium, if any, and
Additional Interest) and such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable
compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other amounts due to the Trustee pursuant
to Section 6.6, if any, and (ii) all Events of Default under this
Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on
Debentures which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured,
waived or otherwise remedied as provided herein -- then and in every such
case the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures
then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive
all defaults and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences, but no
such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any
subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent thereon.

     

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

     

    Section
5.2.                                Payment of Debentures on
Default; Suit Therefor.  

     

    The
Company covenants that upon the occurrence of an Event of Default then, upon
demand of the Trustee, the Company will pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of
the holders of the Debentures the whole amount that then shall have become due
and payable on all Debentures for principal and premium, if any, or interest, or
both, as the case may be, with Additional Interest accrued on the Debentures (to
the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law
and, if the Debentures are held by the Trust or a trustee of such Trust, without
duplication of any other amounts paid by the Trust or a trustee in respect
thereof); and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient
to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including a reasonable
compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and any other
amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.6.  In case the
Company shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Trustee,
in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and
empowered to institute any actions or proceedings at law or in equity for the
collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or
proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or
final decree against the Company or any other obligor on such Debentures and
collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any
other obligor on such Debentures wherever situated the moneys adjudged or
decreed to be payable.

     

    In case
there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization
of the Company or any other obligor on the Debentures under Bankruptcy Law, or
in case a receiver or trustee shall have been appointed for the property of the
Company or such other obligor, or in the case of any other similar judicial
proceedings relative to the Company or other obligor upon the Debentures, or to
the creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee,
irrespective of whether the principal of the Debentures shall then be due and
payable as therein expressed or by declaration of acceleration or otherwise and
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    the
provisions of this Section 5.2, shall be entitled and empowered, by
intervention in such proceedings or otherwise,

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (i)

            	
              to
      file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and
      interest owing and unpaid in respect of the
  Debentures,

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (ii)

            	
              in
      case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other
      papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the
      claims of the Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to
      the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their respective agents,
      attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all other amounts due to
      the Trustee under Section 6.6), and of the Securityholders allowed in
      such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor on
      the Debentures, or to the creditors or property of the Company or such
      other obligor, unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to
      vote on behalf of the holders of the Debentures in any election of a
      trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation
      or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or Person performing similar
      functions in comparable
proceedings,

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (iii)

            	
              to
      collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on
      any such claims, and

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (iv)

            	
              to
      distribute the same after the deduction of its charges and
      expenses.

            

    

     

    Any
receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization is hereby
authorized by each of the Securityholders to make such payments to the Trustee,
and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments
directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as shall be
sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each predecessor
Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other
amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.6.

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

    Section
5.3.                                Application of Moneys
Collected by Trustee.  

     

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

     

    First:  To
the payment of costs and expenses incurred by, and reasonable fees of, the
Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and of all other amounts due to the
Trustee under Section 6.6;

     

    Second:  To
the payment of all Senior Indebtedness of the Company if and to the extent
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    Third:  To
the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon Debentures for principal
(and premium, if any), and interest on the Debentures, in respect of which or
for the benefit of which money has been collected, ratably, without preference
or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due on such Debentures
(including Additional Interest); and

     

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

     

    Section
5.4.                                Proceedings by
Securityholders.  

     

    No holder
of any Debenture shall have any right to institute any suit, action or
proceeding for any remedy hereunder, unless such holder previously shall have
given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default with respect to the
Debentures and unless the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Debentures then outstanding shall have given the Trustee a written
request to institute such action, suit or proceeding and shall have offered to
the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs,
expenses and liabilities to be incurred thereby, and the Trustee for
60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity
shall have failed to institute any such action, suit or proceeding.

     

    Notwithstanding
any other provisions in this Indenture, however, the right of any holder of any
Debenture to receive payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest,
on such Debenture when due, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such holder
and by accepting a Debenture hereunder it is expressly understood, intended and
covenanted by the taker and holder of every Debenture with every other such
taker and holder and the Trustee, that no one or more holders of Debentures
shall have any right in any manner whatsoever by virtue or by availing itself of
any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
the holders of any other Debentures, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority
over or preference to any other such holder, or to enforce any right under this
Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and
common benefit of all holders of Debentures.  For the protection and
enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each and every Securityholder and
the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in
equity.

     

    Section
5.5.                                Proceedings by
Trustee.  

     

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

     

    Section
5.6.                                Remedies Cumulative and
Continuing; Delay or Omission Not a Waiver.  

     

    Except as
otherwise provided in Section 2.6, all powers and remedies given by this
Article V to the Trustee or to the Securityholders shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any other powers and
remedies available to the Trustee or the holders of the Debentures, by judicial
proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the
covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture or otherwise established
with respect to the Debentures, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of
any holder of any of the Debentures to exercise any right, remedy or power
accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall
impair any such right, remedy or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of
any such default or an acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of
Section 5.4, every power and remedy given by this Article V or by law
to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised from time to time, and
as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee (in accordance with its
duties under Section 6.1) or by the Securityholders.

     

    Section
5.7.                                Direction of Proceedings and
Waiver of Defaults by Majority of
Securityholders.  

     

    The
holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures affected
(voting as one class) at the time outstanding shall have the right to direct the
time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to
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    respect
to such Debentures; provided, however, that
(subject to the provisions of Section 6.1) the Trustee shall have the right
to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee shall determine that the
action so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the holders not taking part
in such direction or if the Trustee being advised by counsel determines that the
action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken or if a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee shall determine that the action or proceedings so
directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability.

     

    The
holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures at the
time outstanding may on behalf of the holders of all of the Debentures waive (or
modify any previously granted waiver of) any past default or Event of Default,
and its consequences, except a default (a) in the payment of principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on any of the Debentures, (b) in respect of
covenants or provisions hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the
consent of the holder of each Debenture affected, or (c) in respect of the
covenants contained in Section 3.9; provided, however, that if the
Debentures are held by the Trust or a trustee of such trust, such waiver or
modification to such waiver shall not be effective until the holders of a
majority in Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities of the Trust shall have
consented to such waiver or modification to such waiver, provided, further, that if the
consent of the holder of each outstanding Debenture is required, such waiver
shall not be effective until each holder of the Trust Securities of the Trust
shall have consented to such waiver.  Upon any such waiver, the
default covered thereby shall be deemed to be cured for all purposes of this
Indenture and the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Debentures shall
be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no
such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default
or impair any right consequent thereon.  Whenever any default or Event
of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section, said
default or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Debentures and this
Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing.

     

    Section
5.8.                                Notice of
Defaults.  

     

    The
Trustee shall, within 90 days after the actual knowledge by a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee of the occurrence of a default with respect to the
Debentures, mail to all Securityholders, as the names and addresses of such
holders appear upon the Debenture Register, notice of all defaults with respect
to the Debentures known to the Trustee, unless such defaults shall have been
cured before the giving of such notice (the term “defaults” for the purpose of
this Section 5.8 being hereby defined to be the events specified in
clauses (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of Section 5.1, not including
periods of grace, if any, provided for therein); provided, however, that, except
in the case of default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on any of the Debentures, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding
such notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith
determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the
Securityholders.

     

    Section
5.9.                                Undertaking to Pay
Costs.  

     

    All
parties to this Indenture agree, and each holder of any Debenture by his
acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or
omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and
expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the
merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant;
provided, however, that the
provisions of this Section 5.9 shall not apply to any suit instituted by
the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder, or group of
Securityholders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of
the Debentures outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Securityholder for
the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Debenture against the Company on or after the same shall have
become due and payable.

     

    
      
        
           

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    ARTICLE
VI.

     

    CONCERNING
THE TRUSTEE

     

    Section
6.1.                                Duties and Responsibilities
of Trustee.  

     

    With
respect to the holders of Debentures issued hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the
occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to the Debentures and after the
curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred, with respect
to the Debentures, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants shall be read
into this Indenture against the Trustee.  In case an Event of Default
with respect to the Debentures has occurred (which has not been cured or
waived), the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it
by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise,
as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct
of his own affairs.

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

    (c)           the
Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be
taken by it in good faith, in accordance with the direction of the
Securityholders pursuant to Section 5.7, relating to the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this
Indenture.

     

    None of
the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend
or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or
powers, if there is ground for believing that the repayment of such funds or
liability is not assured to it under the terms of this Indenture or indemnity
satisfactory to the Trustee against such risk is not reasonably assured to
it.

     

    Section
6.2.                                Reliance on Documents,
Opinions, etc.  

     

    Except as
otherwise provided in Section 6.1:

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

    (h)           with
the exceptions of defaults under Sections 5.1(a) or (b), the Trustee shall not
be charged with knowledge of any Default or Event of Default with respect to the
Debentures unless a written notice of such Default or Event of Default shall
have been given to the Trustee by the Company or any other obligor on the
Debentures or by any holder of the Debentures.

     

    Section
6.3.                                No Responsibility for
Recitals, etc.  

     

    The
recitals contained herein and in the Debentures (except in the certificate of
authentication of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent) shall be taken as the
statements of the Company, and the Trustee and the Authenticating Agent assume
no responsibility for the correctness of the same.  The Trustee and
the Authenticating Agent make no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Debentures.  The Trustee and
the Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by
the Company of any Debentures or the proceeds of any Debentures authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture.

     

    Section
6.4.                                Trustee, Authenticating
Agent, Paying Agents, Transfer Agents or Registrar May Own
Debentures.  

     

    The
Trustee or any Authenticating Agent or any paying agent or any transfer agent or
any Debenture registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
owner or pledgee of Debentures with the same rights it would have if it were not
Trustee, Authenticating Agent, paying agent, transfer agent or Debenture
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    Section
6.5.                                Moneys to be Held in
Trust.  

     

    Subject
to the provisions of Section 12.4, all moneys received by the Trustee or
any paying agent shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in
trust for the purpose for which they were received, but need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law.  The Trustee
and any paying agent shall be under no liability for interest on any money
received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the
Company.  So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, all interest allowed on any such moneys shall be paid from time to
time upon the written order of the Company, signed by the Chairman of the Board
of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial
Officer, a Managing Director, a Vice President, the Treasurer or an Assistant
Treasurer of the Company.

     

    Section
6.6.                                Compensation and Expenses of
Trustee.  

     

    The
Company covenants and agrees to pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request
for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the
Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including
the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel
and of all Persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence or willful
misconduct.  For purposes of clarification, this Section 6.6 does
not contemplate the payment by the Company of acceptance or annual
administration fees owing to the Trustee pursuant to the services to be provided
by the Trustee under this Indenture or the fees and expenses of the Trustee’s
counsel in connection with the closing of the transactions contemplated by this
Indenture.  The Company also covenants to indemnify each of the
Trustee or any predecessor Trustee (and its officers, agents, directors and
employees) for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss, damage,
claim, liability or expense including taxes (other than taxes based on the
income of the Trustee) incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on the
part of the Trustee and arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this trust, including the costs and expenses of defending
itself against any claim of liability.  The obligations of the Company
under this Section 6.6 to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and to pay
or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall
constitute additional indebtedness hereunder.  Such additional
indebtedness shall be secured by a lien prior to that of the Debentures upon all
property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held
in trust for the benefit of the holders of particular Debentures.

     

    Without
prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law,
when the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event
of Default specified in Section 5.1(d), (e) or (f), the expenses (including
the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the
services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any
applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
law.

     

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

     

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

     

    Section
6.7.                                Officers’ Certificate as
Evidence.  

     

    Except as
otherwise provided in Sections 6.1 and 6.2, whenever in the administration
of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or
desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or omitting any
action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or willful
misconduct on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and
established by an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such
certificate, in the absence of negligence or willful misconduct on the part of
the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or
omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith
thereof.

     

    Section
6.8.                                Eligibility of
Trustee.  

     

    The
Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing
business under the laws of the United States of America or any state or
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    District
of Columbia or a corporation or other Person authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers, having (or whose obligations under this
Indenture are guaranteed by an affiliate having) a combined capital and surplus
of at least 50 million U.S. dollars ($50,000,000.00) and subject to
supervision or examination by federal, state, territorial, or District of
Columbia authority.  If such corporation publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the
aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this
Section 6.8 the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
records of condition so published.

     

    The
Company may not, nor may any Person directly or indirectly controlling,
controlled by, or under common control with the Company, serve as
Trustee.

     

    In case
at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 6.8, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the
manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.9.

     

    If the
Trustee has or shall acquire any “conflicting interest” within the meaning of §
310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Trustee shall either eliminate
such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner described by this
Indenture.

     

    Section
6.9.                                Resignation or Removal of
Trustee

     

    (a)           The
Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at any time resign
by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company and by mailing
notice thereof, at the Company’s expense, to the holders of the Debentures at
their addresses as they shall appear on the Debenture Register.  Upon
receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a
successor trustee or trustees by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by
order of its Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered
to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor Trustee.  If no
successor Trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment
within 30 days after the mailing of such notice of resignation to the affected
Securityholders, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee, or any Securityholder
who has been a bona fide holder of a Debenture or Debentures for at least six
months may, subject to the provisions of Section 5.9, on behalf of himself
and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment
of a successor Trustee.  Such court may thereupon, after such notice,
if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor
Trustee.

     

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

     

    (1)           the
Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of Section 6.8 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Securityholder who has been a
bona fide holder of a Debenture or Debentures for at least 6 months,
or

     

    (2)           the
Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
Section 6.8 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the
Company or by any such Securityholder, or

     

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

     

    then, in
any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor
Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of
Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so
removed and one copy to the successor Trustee, or, subject to the provisions of
Section 5.9, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a
Debenture or Debentures for at least 6 months may, on behalf of himself and
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    jurisdiction
for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor
Trustee.  Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it
may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint successor
Trustee.

     

    (c)           Upon
prior written notice to the Company and the Trustee, the holders of a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures at the time outstanding may at
any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor Trustee, which shall be
deemed appointed as successor Trustee unless within 10 Business Days after such
nomination the Company objects thereto, in which case, or in the case of a
failure by such holders to nominate a successor Trustee, the Trustee so removed
or any Securityholder, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in
subsection (a) of this Section 6.9 provided, may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor.

     

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

     

    Section
6.10.                                Acceptance by Successor
Trustee.  

     

    Any
successor Trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.9 shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation
or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor
Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights, powers, duties and obligations with respect to the Debentures of
its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Trustee
herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the
successor Trustee, the Trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amounts
then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6, execute and deliver
an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights and powers
of the Trustee so ceasing to act and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to
such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee
thereunder.  Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company
shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly
vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights and
powers.  Any Trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a lien
upon all property or funds held or collected by such Trustee to secure any
amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6.

     

    If a
successor Trustee is appointed, the Company, the retiring Trustee and the
successor Trustee shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto
which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to
confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee
with respect to the Debentures as to which the predecessor Trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the predecessor Trustee, and shall add
to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
provide for or facilitate the administration of the Trust hereunder by more than
one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental
indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that
each such Trustee shall be Trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and
apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such
Trustee.

     

    No
successor Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section unless at
the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be eligible under the
provisions of Section 6.8.

     

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

     

    Upon
acceptance of appointment by a successor Trustee as provided in this
Section 6.10, the Company shall mail notice of the succession of such
Trustee hereunder to the holders of Debentures at their addresses as they shall
appear on the Debenture Register.  If the Company fails to mail such
notice within 10 Business Days after the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Trustee, the successor Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at
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    Section
6.11.                                Succession by Merger,
etc.  

     

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

     

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

     

    Section
6.12.                                Authenticating
Agents.  

     

    There may
be one or more Authenticating Agents appointed by the Trustee upon the request
of the Company with power to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in
the authentication and delivery of Debentures issued upon exchange or
registration of transfer thereof as fully to all intents and purposes as though
any such Authenticating Agent had been expressly authorized to authenticate and
deliver Debentures; provided, however, that the
Trustee shall have no liability to the Company for any acts or omissions of the
Authenticating Agent with respect to the authentication and delivery of
Debentures.  Any such Authenticating Agent shall at all times be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or
of any state or territory thereof or of the District of Columbia authorized
under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and
surplus of at least $50,000,000.00 and being subject to supervision or
examination by federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia
authority.  If such corporation publishes reports of condition at
least annually pursuant to law or the requirements of such authority, then for
the purposes of this Section 6.12 the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth
in its most recent report of condition so published.  If at any time
an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect herein specified in this Section.

     

    Any
corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
consolidation or conversion to which any Authenticating Agent shall be a party,
or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of any Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor of such
Authenticating Agent hereunder, if such successor corporation is otherwise
eligible under this Section 6.12 without the execution or filing of any
paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or such
Authenticating Agent.

     

    Any
Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of
resignation to the Trustee and to the Company.  The Trustee may at any
time terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent with respect to the
Debentures by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent
and to the Company.  Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or
upon such a termination, or in case at any time any Authenticating Agent shall
cease to be eligible under this Section 6.12, the Trustee may, and upon the
request of the Company shall, promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent
eligible under this Section 6.12, shall give written notice of such
appointment to the Company and shall mail notice of such appointment to all
holders of Debentures as the names and addresses of such holders appear on the
Debenture Register.  Any successor Authenticating Agent upon
acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all rights,
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    respect
to the Debentures of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as Authenticating Agent herein.

     

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

     

    ARTICLE
VII.

     

    CONCERNING THE
SECURITYHOLDERS

     

    Section
7.1.                                Action by
Securityholders.  

     

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

     

    If the
Company shall solicit from the Securityholders any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation
of the same, the Company may, at its option, as evidenced by an Officers’
Certificate, fix in advance a record date for such Debentures for the
determination of Securityholders entitled to give such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation
of the same, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so.  If
such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation of the same may be given
before or after the record date, but only the Securityholders of record at the
close of business on the record date shall be deemed to be Securityholders for
the purposes of determining whether Securityholders of the requisite proportion
of outstanding Debentures have authorized or agreed or consented to such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action or revocation of the same, and for that purpose the outstanding
Debentures shall be computed as of the record date; provided, however, that no such
authorization, agreement or consent by such Securityholders on the record date
shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the
provisions of this Indenture not later than 6 months after the record
date.

     

    Section
7.2.                                Proof of Execution by
Securityholders.  

     

    Subject
to the provisions of Section 6.1, 6.2 and 8.5, proof of the execution of
any instrument by a Securityholder or his agent or proxy shall be sufficient if
made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee.  The ownership of Debentures shall be proved by the Debenture
Register or by a certificate of the Debenture registrar.  The Trustee
may require such additional proof of any matter referred to in this Section as
it shall deem necessary.

     

    The
record of any Securityholders’ meeting shall be proved in the manner provided in
Section 8.6.

     

    Section
7.3.                                Who Are Deemed Absolute
Owners.  

     

    Prior to
due presentment for registration of transfer of any Debenture, the Company, the
Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any paying agent, any transfer agent and any
Debenture registrar may deem the Person in whose name such Debenture shall be
registered upon the Debenture Register to be, and may treat him as, the absolute
owner of such Debenture (whether or not such Debenture shall be overdue) for the
purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of, premium, if
any, and interest on such Debenture and for all other purposes; and neither the
Company nor the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent nor any paying agent nor
any transfer agent nor any Debenture registrar shall be affected by any notice
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    holder
for the time being or upon his order shall be valid, and, to the extent of the
sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys
payable upon any such Debenture.

     

    Section
7.4.                                Debentures Owned by Company
Deemed Not Outstanding.  

     

    In
determining whether the holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of
Debentures have concurred in any direction, consent or waiver under this
Indenture, Debentures which are owned by the Company or any other obligor on the
Debentures or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by
or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or any other obligor
on the Debentures shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the
purpose of any such determination; provided, however, that for the
purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any
such direction, consent or waiver, only Debentures which a Responsible Officer
of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so
disregarded.  Debentures so owned which have been pledged in good
faith may be regarded as outstanding for the purposes of this Section 7.4
if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s
right to vote such Debentures and that the pledgee is not the Company or any
such other obligor or Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by
or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or any such other
obligor.  In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision by
the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full protection to the
Trustee.

     

    Section
7.5.                                Revocation of Consents;
Future Holders Bound.  

     

    At any
time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in
Section 7.1, of the taking of any action by the holders of the percentage
in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures specified in this Indenture in
connection with such action, any holder (in cases where no record date has been
set pursuant to Section 7.1) or any holder as of an applicable record date
(in cases where a record date has been set pursuant to Section 7.1) of a
Debenture (or any Debenture issued in whole or in part in exchange or
substitution therefor) the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be
included in the Debentures the holders of which have consented to such action
may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at the Principal Office of the
Trustee and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 7.2, revoke such
action so far as concerns such Debenture (or so far as concerns the principal
amount represented by any exchanged or substituted Debenture).  Except
as aforesaid any such action taken by the holder of any Debenture shall be
conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon all future holders and owners
of such Debenture, and of any Debenture issued in exchange or substitution
therefor or on registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether or not
any notation in regard thereto is made upon such Debenture or any Debenture
issued in exchange or substitution therefor.

     

    ARTICLE
VIII.

     

    SECURITYHOLDERS’
MEETINGS

     

    Section
8.1.                                Purposes of
Meetings.  

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

    (c)           to
consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto
pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.2; or

     

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

     

    
      
        
           

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    Section
8.2.                                Call of Meetings by
Trustee.  

     

    The
Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Securityholders to take any action
specified in Section 8.1, to be held at such time and at such place as the
Trustee shall determine.  Notice of every meeting of the
Securityholders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in
general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be mailed
to holders of Debentures affected at their addresses as they shall appear on the
Debentures Register and, if the Company is not a holder of Debentures, to the
Company.  Such notice shall be mailed not less than 20 nor more than
180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.

     

    Section
8.3.                                Call of Meetings by Company
or Securityholders.  

     

    In case
at any time the Company, or the holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal
amount of the Debentures, as the case may be, then outstanding, shall have
requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Securityholders, by written request
setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the
meeting, and the Trustee shall not have mailed the notice of such meeting within
20 days after receipt of such request, then the Company or such
Securityholders may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may
call such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 8.1, by mailing
notice thereof as provided in Section 8.2.

     

    Section
8.4.                                Qualifications for
Voting.  

     

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

     

    Section
8.5.                                Regulations.  

     

    Notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable
regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Securityholders, in
regard to proof of the holding of Debentures and of the appointment of proxies,
and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the
submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the
right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as
it shall think fit.

     

    The
Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the
meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Company or by
Securityholders as provided in Section 8.3, in which case the Company or
the Securityholders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like
manner appoint a temporary chairman.  A permanent chairman and a
permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by majority vote of the
meeting.

     

    Subject
to the provisions of Section 7.4, at any meeting each holder of Debentures
with respect to which such meeting is being held or proxy therefor shall be
entitled to one vote for each $1,000.00 principal amount of Debentures held or
represented by him; provided, however, that no vote
shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Debenture challenged
as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not
outstanding.  The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote
other than by virtue of Debentures held by him or instruments in writing as
aforesaid duly designating him as the Person to vote on behalf of other
Securityholders.  Any meeting of Securityholders duly called pursuant
to the provisions of Section 8.2 or 8.3 may be adjourned from time to time
by a majority of those present, whether or not constituting a quorum, and the
meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.

     

    Section
8.6.                                Voting.  

     

    The vote
upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of holders of Debentures with
respect to which such meeting is being held shall be by written ballots on which
shall be subscribed the signatures of such holders or of their representatives
by proxy and the serial number or numbers of the Debentures held or represented
by them.  The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two
inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against
any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting
their verified written reports in triplicate of all votes cast at the
meeting.  A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of
Securityholders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there
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    the
inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or
more Persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of
the meeting and showing that said notice was mailed as provided in
Section 8.2.  The record shall show the serial numbers of the
Debentures voting in favor of or against any resolution.  The record
shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and
secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the
Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter
to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.

     

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

     

    Section
8.7.                                Quorum;
Actions.  

     

    The
Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Debentures then
outstanding shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Securityholders; provided, however, that if any
action is to be taken at such meeting with respect to a consent, waiver,
request, demand, notice, authorization, direction or other action which may be
given by the holders of not less than a specified percentage in principal amount
of the Debentures then outstanding, the Persons holding or representing such
specified percentage in principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding will
constitute a quorum.  In the absence of a quorum within
30 minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall,
if convened at the request of Securityholders, be dissolved.  In any
other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than
10 days as determined by the permanent chairman of the meeting prior to the
adjournment of such meeting.  In the absence of a quorum at any such
adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period
of not less than 10 days as determined by the permanent chairman of the
meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting.  Notice of
the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in
Section 8.2, except that such notice need be given only once not less than
5 days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be
reconvened.  Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall
state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of
the Debentures then outstanding which shall constitute a quorum.

     

    Except as
limited by the provisos in the first paragraph of Section 9.2, any
resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which
a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote of the
holders of a majority in principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding;
provided, however, that, except
as limited by the provisos in the first paragraph of Section 9.2, any
resolution with respect to any consent, waiver, request, demand, notice,
authorization, direction or other action which this Indenture expressly provides
may be given by the holders of not less than a specified percentage in principal
amount of the Debentures then outstanding may be adopted at a meeting or an
adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid
only by the affirmative vote of the holders of a not less than such specified
percentage in principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding.

     

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

     

    ARTICLE
IX.

     

    SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES

     

    Section
9.1.                                Supplemental Indentures
without Consent of Securityholders.  

     

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

     

    (a)           to
evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, or successive
successions, and the assumption by the successor Person of the covenants,
agreements and obligations of the Company, pursuant to Article XI
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    (b)           to
add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants, restrictions or
conditions for the protection of the holders of Debentures as the Board of
Directors shall consider to be for the protection of the holders of such
Debentures, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a
default in any of such additional covenants, restrictions or conditions a
default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the
several remedies provided in this Indenture as herein set forth; provided, however, that in
respect of any such additional covenant restriction or condition such
supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after
default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of
other defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such default or
may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such default;

     

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

     

    (d)           to
add to, delete from, or revise the terms of Debentures, including, without
limitation, any terms relating to the issuance, exchange, registration or
transfer of Debentures, including to provide for transfer procedures and
restrictions substantially similar to those applicable to the Capital Securities
as required by Section 2.5 (for purposes of assuring that no registration
of Debentures is required under the Securities Act); provided, however, that any
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the holders of the
Debentures then outstanding (it being understood, for purposes of this proviso,
that transfer restrictions on Debentures substantially similar to those that
were applicable to Capital Securities shall not be deemed to materially
adversely affect the holders of the Debentures);

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

    The
Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution of any
such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements and
stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the conveyance,
transfer and assignment of any property thereunder, but the Trustee shall not be
obligated to, but may in its discretion, enter into any such supplemental
indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under
this Indenture or otherwise.

     

    Any
supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section 9.1 may
be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent of the holders of
any of the Debentures at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the
provisions of Section 9.2.

     

    Section
9.2.                                Supplemental Indentures with
Consent of Securityholders.  

     

    With the
consent (evidenced as provided in Section 7.1) of the holders of not less
than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures at the time
outstanding affected by such supplemental indenture (voting as a class), the
Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may from time to
time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto
for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental
indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the
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    that no
such supplemental indenture shall without the consent of the holders of each
Debenture then outstanding and affected thereby (i) change the fixed
maturity of any Debenture, or reduce the principal amount thereof or any premium
thereon, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest thereon,
or reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof or make the principal thereof
or any interest or premium thereon payable in any coin or currency other than
that provided in the Debentures, or impair or affect the right of any
Securityholder to institute suit for payment thereof or impair the right of
repayment, if any, at the option of the holder, or (ii) reduce the
aforesaid percentage of Debentures the holders of which are required to consent
to any such supplemental indenture; provided further, however, that if the
Debentures are held by a trust or a trustee of such trust, such supplemental
indenture shall not be effective until the holders of a majority in Liquidation
Amount of Trust Securities shall have consented to such supplemental indenture;
provided further, however, that if the
consent of the Securityholder of each outstanding Debenture is required, such
supplemental indenture shall not be effective until each holder of the Trust
Securities shall have consented to such supplemental indenture.

     

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

     

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

     

    It shall
not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders under this
Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof.

     

    Section
9.3.                                Effect of Supplemental
Indentures.  

     

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

     

    Section
9.4.                                Notation on
Debentures.  

     

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

     

    Section
9.5.                                Evidence of Compliance of
Supplemental Indenture to be Furnished to
Trustee.  

     

    The
Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, shall, in
addition to the documents required by Section 14.6, receive an Officers’
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any
supplemental indenture executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements
of this Article IX.  The Trustee shall receive an Opinion of
Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant
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    Article IX
and that it is proper for the Trustee under the provisions of this
Article IX to join in the execution thereof.

     

    ARTICLE
X.

     

    REDEMPTION OF
SECURITIES

     

    Section
10.1.                                Optional
Redemption.  

     

    The
Company shall have the right to redeem the Debentures, in whole or in part, but
in all cases in a principal amount with integral multiples of $1,000.00, on any
Interest Payment Date on or after the Interest Payment Date in December 2010
(the “Redemption
Date”), at the Redemption Price.

     

    Section
10.2.                                Special Event
Redemption.  

     

    If a
Special Event shall occur and be continuing, the Company shall have the right to
redeem the Debentures in whole, but not in part, at any Interest Payment Date,
within 120 days following the occurrence of such Special Event (the “Special Redemption
Date”) at the Special Redemption Price.  If the Special Event
redemption occurs prior to the Interest Payment Date in December 2010, the
Company shall appoint a Quotation Agent, which shall be a designee of the
Institutional Trustee, for the purpose of performing the services contemplated
in, or by reference in, the definition of Special Redemption
Price.  Any error in the calculation of the Special Redemption Price
by the Quotation Agent or the Trustee may be corrected at any time by notice
delivered to the Company and the holders of the Debentures.  Subject
to the corrective rights set forth above, all certificates, communications,
opinions, determinations, calculations, quotations and decisions given,
expressed, made or obtained for the purposes of the provisions relating to the
payment and calculation of the Special Redemption Price on the Debentures by the
Trustee or the Quotation Agent, as the case may be, shall (in the absence of
willful default, bad faith or manifest error) be final, conclusive and binding
on the holders of the Debentures and the Company, and no liability shall attach
(except as provided above) to the Trustee or the Quotation Agent in connection
with the exercise or non-exercise by any of them of their respective powers,
duties and discretion.

     

    Section
10.3.                                Notice of Redemption;
Selection of Debentures.  

     

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

     

    Each such
notice of redemption shall specify the CUSIP number, if any, of the Debentures
to be redeemed, the Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, as
applicable, the Redemption Price or the Special Redemption Price, as applicable,
at which Debentures are to be redeemed, the place or places of payment, that
payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Debentures, that
interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in
said notice, and that on and after said date interest thereon or on the portions
thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue.  If less than all the
Debentures are to be redeemed the notice of redemption shall specify the numbers
of the Debentures to be redeemed.  In case the Debentures are to be
redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption shall state the portion of the
principal amount thereof to be redeemed and shall state that on and after the
date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of such Debenture, a new Debenture or
Debentures in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be
issued.

     

    Prior to
10:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date or Special Redemption Date,
as applicable, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more
paying agents an amount of money sufficient to redeem on the Redemption Date or
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Debentures so called for redemption at the appropriate Redemption Price or
Special Redemption Price.

     

    If all,
or less than all, the Debentures are to be redeemed, the Company will give the
Trustee notice not less than 45 nor more than 60 days, respectively, prior
to the Redemption Date or Special Redemption Date, as applicable, as to the
aggregate principal amount of Debentures to be redeemed and the Trustee shall
select, in such manner as in its sole discretion it shall deem appropriate and
fair, the Debentures or portions thereof (in integral multiples of $1,000.00) to
be redeemed.

     

    Section
10.4.                                Payment of Debentures Called
for Redemption.  

     

    If notice
of redemption has been given as provided in Section 10.3, the Debentures or
portions of Debentures with respect to which such notice has been given shall
become due and payable on the Redemption Date or Special Redemption Date, as
applicable, and at the place or places stated in such notice at the applicable
Redemption Price or Special Redemption Price and on and after said date (unless
the Company shall default in the payment of such Debentures at the Redemption
Price or Special Redemption Price, as applicable) interest on the Debentures or
portions of Debentures so called for redemption shall cease to
accrue.  On presentation and surrender of such Debentures at a place
of payment specified in said notice, such Debentures or the specified portions
thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption
Price or Special Redemption Price.

     

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

     

    ARTICLE
XI.

     

    CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE,
CONVEYANCE AND LEASE

     

    Section
11.1.                                Company May Consolidate,
etc., on Certain Terms.  

     

    Nothing
contained in this Indenture or in the Debentures shall prevent any consolidation
or merger of the Company with or into any other Person (whether or not
affiliated with the Company) or successive consolidations or mergers in which
the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall
prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of the property of
the Company or its successor or successors as an entirety, or substantially as
an entirety, to any other Person (whether or not affiliated with the Company, or
its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, that the
Company hereby covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger
(where the Company is not the surviving corporation), sale, conveyance, transfer
or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on all of the Debentures in accordance with their
terms, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and
observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be kept or
performed by the Company, shall be expressly assumed by supplemental indenture
satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the
entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been
merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such property.

     

    Section
11.2.                                Successor Entity to be
Substituted.  

     

    In case
of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other
disposition and upon the assumption by the successor entity, by supplemental
indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the
Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if
any, and interest on all of the Debentures and the due and punctual performance
and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be
performed or observed by the Company, such successor entity shall succeed to and
be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named
herein as the Company, and thereupon the predecessor entity shall be relieved of
any further liability or obligation hereunder or upon the
Debentures.  Such successor entity thereupon may cause to be signed,
and may issue in its own name, any or all of the Debentures issuable hereunder
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    Company
and delivered to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent; and, upon the order of
such successor entity instead of the Company and subject to all the terms,
conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver any Debentures which
previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company,
to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for authentication, and any
Debentures which such successor entity thereafter shall cause to be signed and
delivered to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for that
purpose.  All the Debentures so issued shall in all respects have the
same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Debentures theretofore
or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though
all of such Debentures had been issued at the date of the execution
hereof.

     

    Section
11.3.                                Opinion of Counsel to be
Given to Trustee.  

     

    The
Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, shall receive,
in addition to the Opinion of Counsel required by Section 9.5, an Opinion
of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any consolidation, merger, sale,
conveyance, transfer or other disposition, and any assumption, permitted or
required by the terms of this Article XI complies with the provisions of
this Article XI.

     

    ARTICLE
XII.

     

    SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
OF INDENTURE

     

    Section
12.1.                                Discharge of
Indenture.  

     

    When

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (a)

            	
              the
      Company shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all Debentures
      theretofore authenticated (other than any Debentures which shall have been
      destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as
      provided in Section 2.6) and not theretofore canceled,
    or

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              (b)

            	
              all
      the Debentures not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for
      cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms to
      become due and payable within 1 year or are to be called for redemption
      within 1 year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the
      giving of notice of redemption, and the Company shall deposit with the
      Trustee, in trust, funds, which shall be immediately due and payable,
      sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption all of the Debentures
      (other than any Debentures which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen
      and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in
      Section 2.6) not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for
      cancellation, including principal and premium, if any, and interest due or
      to become due to such date of maturity or redemption date, as the case may
      be, but excluding, however, the amount of any moneys for the payment of
      principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on the Debentures
      (1) theretofore repaid to the Company in accordance with the
      provisions of Section 12.4, or (2) paid to any state or to the
      District of Columbia pursuant to its unclaimed property or similar
      laws,

            

    

     

    and if in
the case of either clause (a) or clause (b) the Company shall also pay
or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then this
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect except for the provisions of
Sections 2.5, 2.6, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 6.6, 6.8, 6.9 and 12.4 hereof shall
survive until such Debentures shall mature and be paid.  Thereafter,
Sections 6.6 and 12.4 shall survive, and the Trustee, on demand of the
Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each
stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with, and at the
cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture.  The Company agrees to
reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and
properly incurred by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the
Debentures.

     

    Section
12.2.                                Deposited Moneys to be Held
in Trust by Trustee.  

     

    Subject
to the provisions of Section 12.4, all moneys deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 12.1 shall be held in trust in a non-interest bearing
account and applied by it to the payment, either directly or through any paying
agent (including

     

    
      
        
           

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    the
Company if acting as its own paying agent), to the holders of the particular
Debentures for the payment of which such moneys have been deposited with the
Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal, and premium,
if any, and interest.

     

    Section
12.3.                                Paying Agent to Repay Moneys
Held.  

     

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

     

    Section
12.4.                                Return of Unclaimed
Moneys.  

     

    Any
moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any paying agent for payment of
the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on Debentures and not applied
but remaining unclaimed by the holders of Debentures for 2 years after the date
upon which the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on such
Debentures, as the case may be, shall have become due and payable, shall,
subject to applicable escheatment laws, be repaid to the Company by the Trustee
or such paying agent on written demand; and the holder of any of the Debentures
shall thereafter look only to the Company for any payment which such holder may
be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Trustee or such paying agent
with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease.

     

    ARTICLE
XIII.

     

    IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS,
STOCKHOLDERS,

     

    OFFICERS AND
DIRECTORS

     

    Section
13.1.                                Indenture and Debentures
Solely Corporate Obligations.  

     

    No
recourse for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
any Debenture, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof,
and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the
Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture, or in any such
Debenture, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby,
shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, employee, officer or
director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor
Person of the Company, either directly or through the Company or any successor
Person of the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of
law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, it being
expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and
released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this
Indenture and the issue of the Debentures.

     

    ARTICLE
XIV.

     

    MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS

     

    Section
14.1.                                Successors.  

     

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

     

    Section
14.2.                                Official Acts by Successor
Entity.  

     

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

     

    Section
14.3.                                Surrender of Company
Powers.  

     

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

     

    Section
14.4.                                Addresses for Notices,
etc.  

     

    Any
notice, consent, direction, request, authorization, waiver or demand which by
any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given, made,
furnished or served by the Trustee or by the Securityholders on or to the
Company may be given or served in writing by being deposited postage prepaid by
registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed (until
another address is filed by the Company, with the Trustee for the purpose) to
the Company, 3305 Flamingo Drive, Vero Beach, Florida 32963,
Attention:  Jeffrey J. Zimmer.  Any notice, consent,
direction, request, authorization, waiver or demand by any Securityholder or the
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    Trustee
shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if
given or made in writing at the office of the Trustee, addressed to the Trustee,
Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington,
Delaware  19890-1600, Attention:  Corporate Trust
Administration.  Any notice, consent, direction, request,
authorization, waiver or demand on or to any Securityholder shall be deemed to
have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or made in
writing at the address set forth in the Debenture Register.

     

    Section
14.5.                                Governing
Law.  

     

    This
Indenture and each Debenture shall be deemed to be a contract made under the law
of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the law of said State, without regard to conflict
of laws principles thereof.

     

    Section
14.6.                                Evidence of Compliance with
Conditions Precedent.  

     

    Upon any
application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any
of the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate stating that in the opinion of the signers all conditions
precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed
action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied
with.

     

    Each
certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and delivered to the
Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in
this Indenture shall include (1) a statement that the person making such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition; (2) a brief
statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon
which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are
based; (3) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he has made
such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with; and (4) a statement as to whether or not in the opinion of
such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

     

    Section
14.7.                                Table of Contents, Headings,
etc.  

     

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

     

    Section
14.8.                                Execution in
Counterparts.  

     

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

     

    Section
14.9.                                Separability.  

     

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

     

    Section
14.10.                                Assignment.  

     

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

     

    Section
14.11.                                Acknowledgment of
Rights.  

     

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

     

    ARTICLE
XV.

     

    SUBORDINATION OF
DEBENTURES

     

    Section
15.1.                                Agreement to
Subordinate.  

     

    The
Company covenants and agrees, and each holder of Debentures by such
Securityholder’s acceptance thereof likewise covenants and agrees, that all
Debentures shall be issued subject to the provisions of this Article XV;
and each holder of a Debenture, whether upon original issue or upon transfer or
assignment thereof, accepts and agrees to be bound by such
provisions.

     

    The
payment by the Company of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on
all Debentures shall, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth, be
subordinated and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all
Senior Indebtedness of the Company, whether outstanding at the date of this
Indenture or thereafter incurred; provided, however, that the
Debentures shall rank pari
passu in right of payment with the Company’s Junior Subordinated
Securities due March 30, 2035 issued pursuant to an Indenture dated as of May
17, 2005 by and between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National
Association.

     

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

     

    Section
15.2.                                Default on Senior
Indebtedness.  

     

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

     

    In the
event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment shall be received by the
Trustee when such payment is prohibited by the preceding paragraph of this
Section 15.2, such payment shall, subject to Section 15.7, be held in
trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders of
Senior Indebtedness or their respective representatives, or to the trustee or
trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, but only to the
extent that the holders of the Senior Indebtedness (or their representative or
representatives or a trustee) notify the Trustee in writing within 90 days
of such payment of the amounts then due and owing on the Senior Indebtedness and
only the amounts specified in such notice to the Trustee shall be paid to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness.

     

    Section
15.3.                                Liquidation, Dissolution,
Bankruptcy.  

     

    Upon any
payment by the Company or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or securities, to creditors upon any
dissolution or winding-up or liquidation or reorganization of the Company,
whether voluntary or involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or
other proceedings, all amounts due upon all Senior Indebtedness of the Company
shall first be paid in full, or payment thereof provided for in money in
accordance with its terms, before any payment is made by the Company, on account
of the principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the
Debentures.  Upon any such dissolution or winding-up or liquidation or
reorganization, any payment by the Company, or distribution of assets of the
Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to
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    would be
entitled to receive from the Company, except for the provisions of this
Article XV, shall be paid by the Company, or by any receiver, trustee in
bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other Person making such payment or
distribution, or by the Securityholders or by the Trustee under this Indenture
if received by them or it, directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness (pro rata to such holders on
the basis of the respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held by such holders,
as calculated by the Company) or their representative or representatives, or to
the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any instruments
evidencing such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective
interests may appear, to the extent necessary to pay such Senior Indebtedness in
full, in money or money’s worth, after giving effect to any concurrent payment
or distribution to or for the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, before any
payment or distribution is made to the Securityholders or to the
Trustee.

     

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

     

    For
purposes of this Article XV, the words “cash, property or securities” shall
not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as reorganized or
readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation provided for
by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which is
subordinated at least to the extent provided in this Article XV with
respect to the Debentures to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness, that may at
the time be outstanding, provided that (i) such Senior Indebtedness is
assumed by the new corporation, if any, resulting from any such reorganization
or readjustment, and (ii) the rights of the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness are not, without the consent of such holders, altered by such
reorganization or readjustment.  The consolidation of the Company
with, or the merger of the Company into, another corporation or the liquidation
or dissolution of the Company following the conveyance or transfer of its
property as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to another corporation
upon the terms and conditions provided for in Article XI of this Indenture
shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization for
the purposes of this Section if such other corporation shall, as a part of such
consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the conditions stated
in Article XI of this Indenture.  Nothing in Section 15.2 or
in this Section shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or
pursuant to Section 6.6 of this Indenture.

     

    Section
15.4.                                Subrogation.  

     

    Subject
to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the Securityholders shall be
subrogated to the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive
payments or distributions of cash, property or securities of the Company,
applicable to such Senior Indebtedness until the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on the Debentures shall be paid in full.  For the
purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the
Securityholders or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of
this Article XV, and no payment over pursuant to the provisions of this
Article XV to or for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness
by Securityholders or the Trustee, shall, as between the Company, its creditors
other than holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and the holders of the
Debentures be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Company to or on
account of such Senior Indebtedness.  It is understood that the
provisions of this Article XV are and are intended solely for the purposes
of defining the relative rights of the holders of the Securities, on the one
hand, and the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, on the other
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    Nothing
contained in this Article XV or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the
Debentures is intended to or shall impair, as between the Company, its creditors
other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the holders of the
Debentures, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional,
to pay to the holders of the Debentures the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Debentures as and when the same shall become due and payable
in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative
rights of the holders of the Debentures and creditors of the Company, other than
the holders of Senior Indebtedness, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent
the Trustee or the holder of any Debenture from exercising all remedies
otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject
to the rights, if any, under this Article XV of the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company, received
upon the exercise of any such remedy.

     

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

     

    Section
15.5.                                Trustee to Effectuate
Subordination.  

     

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

     

    Section
15.6.                                Notice by the
Company.  

     

    The
Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
at the Principal Office of the Trustee of any fact known to the Company that
would prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee in
respect of the Debentures pursuant to the provisions of this
Article XV.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this
Article XV or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not
be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts that would prohibit the
making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee in respect of the
Debentures pursuant to the provisions of this Article XV, unless and until
a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Principal Office of the Trustee
shall have received written notice thereof from the Company or a holder or
holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and before the
receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
Article VI of this Indenture, shall be entitled in all respects to assume
that no such facts exist; provided, however, that if the
Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section at least
2 Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may
become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of
the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Debenture), then,
anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall
have full power and authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the
purposes for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any notice
to the contrary that may be received by it within 2 Business Days prior to such
date.

     

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

     

    Section
15.7.                                Rights of the Trustee;
Holders of Senior Indebtedness.  

     

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

     

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

     

    Nothing
in this Article XV shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee
under or pursuant to Section 6.6.

     

    Section
15.8.                                Subordination May Not Be
Impaired.  

     

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

     

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

     

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

    

    BIMINI
MORTGAGE MANAGEMENT, INC.

    

    

    By

    Name:

    Title:

    

    

    WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee

    

    

    By

    Name:

    Title:

    
      
        
           

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    EXHIBIT
A

     

    FORM
OF FIXED/FLOATING RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURE

     

    [FORM OF
FACE OF SECURITY]

     

    THIS
SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE “SECURITIES ACT”), ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE
SECURITIES LAW.  NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED,
ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR
UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES
LAWS.  THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO
OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY,
(B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY
BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE
REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A SO LONG AS THIS SECURITY IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE
PURSUANT TO RULE 144A IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144A, (D) TO A
NON-U.S. PERSON IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 903 OR
RULE 904 (AS APPLICABLE) OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF
SUBPARAGRAPH (A) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS
ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN
INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW
TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF
THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM
THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY’S
RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN
OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE INDENTURE, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE
COMPANY.

     

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

     

    THIS
SECURITY WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING AN
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000.00 AND MULTIPLES OF
$1,000.00 IN EXCESS THEREOF.  ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY
IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000.00 SHALL
BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER.

     

    THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT WILL COMPLY WITH THE FOREGOING
RESTRICTIONS.

     

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

     

    Fixed/Floating
Rate Junior Subordinated Debenture

     

    of

     

    Bimini
Mortgage Management, Inc.

     

    October
5, 2005

     

    Bimini
Mortgage Management, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company” which term
includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for
value received promises to pay to Wilmington Trust Company, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Institutional Trustee for Bimini Capital
Trust II (the “Holder”) or registered assigns, the principal sum of fifty
one million five hundred forty seven thousand dollars ($51,547,000.00) on
December 15, 2035, and to pay interest on said principal sum from October 5,
2005, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date (as defined below) to which
interest has been paid or duly provided for, quarterly in arrears on
March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year
or if such day is not a Business Day, then the next succeeding Business Day
(each such date, an “Interest Payment Date”) (it being understood that interest
accrues for any such non-Business Day during the applicable Distribution Period,
beginning on or after December 15, 2010), commencing on the Interest
Payment Date in December 2005, at an annual rate equal to 7.8575% beginning on
(and including) the date of original issuance and ending on (but excluding) the
Interest Payment Date in December 2010 and at an annual rate for each successive
period beginning on (and including) the Interest Payment Date in December 2010,
and each succeeding Interest Payment Date, and ending on (but excluding) the
next succeeding Interest Payment Date (each a “Distribution Period”), equal to
3-Month LIBOR, determined as described below, plus 3.50% (the “Coupon Rate”),
applied to the principal amount hereof, until the principal hereof is paid or
duly provided for or made available for payment; provided, however, that any
overdue principal, premium, if any, or Additional Sums and any overdue
installment of interest shall bear Additional Interest at the Interest Rate in
effect for each applicable period, compounded quarterly, from the dates such
amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment and such
interest shall be payable on demand.  The amount of interest payable
(i) for any Distribution Period commencing on or after the date of original
issuance but before the Interest Payment Date in December 2010 will be computed
on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months, and (ii) for the
Distribution Period commencing on the Interest Payment Date in December 2010 and
each succeeding Distribution Period will be computed on the basis of the actual
number of days in the Distribution Period concerned divided by
360.  The interest installment so payable, and punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture,
be paid to the Person in whose name this Debenture (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date
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    Business
Days prior to the day on which the relevant Interest Payment Date
occurs.  Any such interest installment not so punctually paid or duly
provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such regular
record date and may be paid to the Person in whose name this Debenture (or one
or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a
special record date.

     

    “3-Month
LIBOR” as used herein, means the London interbank offered interest rate for
three-month U.S. dollar deposits determined by the Trustee in the following
order of priority:  (i) the rate (expressed as a percentage per annum)
for U.S. dollar deposits having a three-month maturity that appears on Telerate
Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the related Determination Date
(“Telerate Page 3750” means the display designated as “Page 3750” on the
Moneyline Telerate Service or such other page as may replace Page 3750 on that
service or such other service or services as may be nominated by the British
Bankers’ Association as the information vendor for the purpose of displaying
London interbank offered rates for U.S. dollar deposits); (ii) if such rate
cannot be identified on the related Determination Date, the Trustee will request
the principal London offices of four leading banks in the London interbank
market to provide such banks’ offered quotations (expressed as percentages per
annum) to prime banks in the London interbank market for U.S. dollar deposits
having a three-month maturity as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such
Determination Date.  If at least two quotations are provided, 3-Month
LIBOR will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations; (iii) if fewer than
two such quotations are provided as requested in clause (ii) above, the Trustee
will request four major New York City banks to provide such banks’ offered
quotations (expressed as percentages per annum) to leading European banks for
loans in U.S. dollars as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Determination
Date.  If at least two such quotations are provided, 3-Month LIBOR
will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations; and (iv) if fewer than two
such quotations are provided as requested in clause (iii) above, 3-Month LIBOR
will be a 3-Month LIBOR determined with respect to the Distribution Period
immediately preceding such current Distribution Period.  If the rate
for U.S. dollar deposits having a three-month maturity that initially appears on
Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the related Determination
Date is superseded on the Telerate Page 3750 by a corrected rate by 12:00 noon
(London time) on such Determination Date, then the corrected rate as so
substituted on the applicable page will be the applicable 3-Month LIBOR for such
Determination Date.  As used herein, “Determination Date” means the
date that is two London Banking Days (i.e., a business day in which dealings in
deposits in U.S. dollars are transacted in the London interbank market)
preceding the commencement of the relevant Distribution Period.

     

    The
Interest Rate for any Distribution Period will at no time be higher than the
maximum rate then permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by
United States law.

     

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

     

    The
principal of and interest on this Debenture shall be payable at the office or
agency of the Trustee (or other paying agent appointed by the Company)
maintained for that purpose in any coin or currency of the United States of
America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts; provided, however, that payment
of interest may be made by check mailed to the registered holder at such address
as shall appear in the Debenture Register if a request for a wire transfer by
such holder has not been received by the Company or by wire transfer to an
account appropriately designated by the holder
hereof.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the holder of this
Debenture is the Institutional Trustee, the payment of the principal of and
interest on this Debenture will be made in immediately available funds at such
place and to such account as may be designated by the Trustee.

     

    The
indebtedness evidenced by this Debenture is, to the extent provided in the
Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in
full of all Senior Indebtedness, and this

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

    BIMINI
MORTGAGE MANAGEMENT, INC.

     

    

    

    By

    Name:

    Title:

    

    CERTIFICATE OF
AUTHENTICATION

    

    This is
one of the Debentures referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

    

    WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee

    

    

    By:

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    [FORM OF
REVERSE OF DEBENTURE]

    

    This
Debenture is one of the fixed/floating rate junior subordinated debentures of
the Company, all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to the Indenture
dated as of October 5, 2005 (the “Indenture”), duly executed and delivered
between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture reference is hereby made
for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and
immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the holders of the
Debentures.  The Debentures are limited in aggregate principal amount
as specified in the Indenture.

     

    Upon the
occurrence and continuation of a Special Event prior to the Interest Payment
Date in December 2010, the Company shall have the right to redeem the Debentures
in whole, but not in part, at any Interest Payment Date, within 120 days
following the occurrence of such Special Event, at the Special Redemption
Price.

     

    In
addition, the Company shall have the right to redeem the Debentures, in whole or
in part, but in all cases in a principal amount with integral multiples of
$1,000.00, on any Interest Payment Date on or after the Interest Payment Date in
December 2010, at the Redemption Price.

     

    Prior to
10:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date or Special Redemption Date,
as applicable, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more
paying agents an amount of money sufficient to redeem on the Redemption Date or
the Special Redemption Date, as applicable, all the Debentures so called for
redemption at the appropriate Redemption Price or Special Redemption
Price.

     

    If all,
or less than all, the Debentures are to be redeemed, the Company will give the
Trustee notice not less than 45 nor more than 60 days, respectively, prior
to the Redemption Date or Special Redemption Date, as applicable, as to the
aggregate principal amount of Debentures to be redeemed and the Trustee shall
select, in such manner as in its sole discretion it shall deem appropriate and
fair, the Debentures or portions thereof (in integral multiples of $1,000.00) to
be redeemed.

     

    Notwithstanding
the foregoing, any redemption of Debentures by the Company shall be subject to
the receipt of any and all required regulatory approvals.

     

    In case
an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, upon demand of the
Trustee, the principal of all of the Debentures shall become due and payable in
the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the
Indenture.

     

    The
Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee, with the
consent of the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Debentures at the time outstanding, to execute supplemental indentures
for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental
indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the
Debentures; provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture shall without the consent of the holders of each
Debenture then outstanding and affected thereby (i) change the fixed
maturity of any Debenture, or reduce the principal amount thereof or any premium
thereon, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest thereon,
or reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof or make the principal thereof
or any interest or premium thereon payable in any coin or currency other than
that provided in the Debentures, or impair or affect the right of any
Securityholder to institute suit for payment thereof or impair the right of
repayment, if any, at the option of the holder, or (ii) reduce the
aforesaid percentage of Debentures the holders of which are required to consent
to any such supplemental indenture.

     

    The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debentures at the time outstanding on behalf
of the holders of all of the Debentures to waive (or modify any previously
granted waiver of) any past default or Event of Default, and its consequences,
except a default (a) in the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on any of the Debentures, (b) in respect of covenants or
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    modified
or amended without the consent of the holder of each Debenture affected, or
(c) in respect of the covenants contained in Section 3.9 of the
Indenture; provided, however, that if the
Debentures are held by the Trust or a trustee of such trust, such waiver or
modification to such waiver shall not be effective until the holders of a
majority in Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities of the Trust shall have
consented to such waiver or modification to such waiver, provided, further, that if the
consent of the holder of each outstanding Debenture is required, such waiver
shall not be effective until each holder of the Trust Securities of the Trust
shall have consented to such waiver.  Upon any such waiver, the
default covered thereby shall be deemed to be cured for all purposes of the
Indenture and the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Debentures shall
be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no
such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default
or impair any right consequent thereon.  Whenever any default or Event
of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by the Indenture, said
default or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Debentures and the
Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing.

     

    No
reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Debenture or of the
Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute
and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest,
including Additional Interest, on this Debenture at the time and place and at
the rate and in the money herein prescribed.

     

    The
Company has agreed that if Debentures are initially issued to the Trust or a
trustee of such Trust in connection with the issuance of Trust Securities by the
Trust (regardless of whether Debentures continue to be held by such Trust) and
there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default, then the
Company shall not, and shall not allow any Affiliate of the Company to,
(x) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase,
acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company’s
capital stock or its Affiliates’ capital stock (other than payments of dividends
or distributions to the Company) or make any guarantee payments with respect to
the foregoing or (y) make any payment of principal of or interest or
premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the
Company or any Affiliate that rank pari passu in all respects
with or junior in interest to the Debentures (other than, with respect to
clauses (x) and (y) above,  (1) repurchases, redemptions or other
acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any
employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the
benefit of one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in
connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in
connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Company (or securities
convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an
acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable default, if any,
(2) as a result of any exchange or conversion of any class or series of the
Company’s capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of the Company)
for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock or of any class or series
of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital
stock, (3) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s
capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital
stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (4) any declaration of
a dividend in connection with any stockholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of
rights, stock or other property under any stockholders’ rights plan, or the
redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (5) any dividend in
the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or
the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is
the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to
such stock and any cash payments in lieu of fractional shares issued in
connection therewith).

     

    The
Debentures are issuable only in registered, certificated form without coupons
and in minimum denominations of $100,000.00 and any multiple of $1,000.00 in
excess thereof.  As provided in the Indenture and subject to the
transfer restrictions and limitations as may be contained herein and therein
from time to time, this Debenture is transferable by the holder hereof on the
Debenture Register of the Company.  Upon due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Debenture at the Principal Office of the Trustee
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    Section 3.2
of the Indenture, the Company shall execute, the Company or the Trustee shall
register and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make
available for delivery in the name of the transferee or transferees a new
Debenture for a like aggregate principal amount.  All Debentures
presented for registration of transfer or for exchange or payment shall (if so
required by the Company or the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent) be duly
endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of
transfer in form satisfactory to, the Company and the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent duly executed by the holder or his attorney duly authorized
in writing.  No service charge shall be made for any exchange or
registration of transfer of Debentures, but the Company or the Trustee may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection therewith.

     

    Prior to
due presentment for registration of transfer of any Debenture, the Company, the
Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any paying agent, any transfer agent and any
Debenture registrar may deem the Person in whose name such Debenture shall be
registered upon the Debenture Register to be, and may treat him as, the absolute
owner of such Debenture (whether or not such Debenture shall be overdue) for the
purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of, premium, if
any, and interest on such Debenture and for all other purposes; and neither the
Company nor the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent nor any paying agent nor
any transfer agent nor any Debenture registrar shall be affected by any notice
to the contrary.  All such payments so made to any holder for the time
being or upon his order shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so
paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys payable upon
any such Debenture.

     

    No
recourse for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
any Debenture, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof,
and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the
Company in the Indenture or in any supplemental indenture, or in any such
Debenture, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby,
shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, employee, officer or
director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor
Person of the Company, either directly or through the Company or any successor
Person of the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of
law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, it being
expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and
released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of the
Indenture and the issue of the Debentures.

     

    Capitalized
terms used and not defined in this Debenture shall have the meanings assigned in
the Indenture dated as of the date of original issuance of this Debenture
between the Trustee and the Company.

     

    THE
INDENTURE AND THE DEBENTURES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAW
PRINCIPLES THEREOF.

     

    
      
        
          A-

          1235483.1

          Bimini
Mortgage Management, Inc./Indenture

        

         

      

      
         

        
          

        

      

      
         

      

    

    EXHIBIT
B

    

    FORM
OF CERTIFICATE TO TRUSTEE

    

    Pursuant to Section 3.5 of the
Indenture between Bimini Mortgage Management, Inc., as the Company (the
“Company”), and Wilmington Trust Company, as Trustee, dated as of October 5,
2005 (the “Indenture”), the undersigned hereby certifies as
follows:

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              1.

            	
              In
      my capacity as an officer of the Company, I would normally have knowledge
      of any default by the Company during the last fiscal year in the
      performance of any covenants of the Company contained in the
      Indenture.

            

    

     

    
      	
               
      

            	
              2.

            	
              [To
      my knowledge, the Company is not in default in the performance of any
      covenants contained in the
Indenture.

            

    

     

    or,
alternatively:

     

    I am
aware of the default(s) in the performance of covenants in the Indentures, as
specified below.]

     

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

     

    IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has
executed this Certificate.

     

    

     

    Date:

    

    

    ______________________________

    Name:

    Title:

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