Execution and Authentication At least one Officer must sign the Notes for the Company by manual or facsimile signature. If an Officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at the time a Note is authenticated, the Note will nevertheless be valid. A Note will not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of the Trustee. The signature will be conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture. The Trustee will, upon receipt of a written order of the Company signed by an Officer (an “Authentication Order”), authenticate Notes for original issue that may be validly issued under this Indenture, including any Additional Notes. The aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed the aggregate principal amount of Notes authorized for issuance by the Company pursuant to one or more Authentication Orders, except as provided in Section 2.07 hereof. The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Notes. An authenticating agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with Holders or an Affiliate of the Company.
Certificate of Authentication Only such Securities as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form hereinbefore recited, executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. The execution of such certificate by the Trustee upon any Security executed by the Issuer shall be conclusive evidence that the Security so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Form of Certificate of Authentication The Property Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form: This represents Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Trust Agreement. Dated: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Property Trustee By: Authorized officer
Execution, Authentication and Delivery and Dating The Notes shall be executed on behalf of each Issuer by two Officers of such Issuer. The signature of such Officers on the Notes may be manual or facsimile. Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signature of an individual who was at any time a proper Officer of an Issuer shall bind such Issuer, notwithstanding that such individual has ceased to hold such office prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such office at the date of such Notes. At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Issuers may deliver Notes executed by the Issuers to the Trustee for authentication; and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (i) Initial Notes (other than Additional Dividend Notes) for original issue in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed $450,000,000 and (ii) Additional Notes (other than Additional Dividend Notes) from time to time for original issue in aggregate principal amounts specified by the Issuers, (iii) Exchange Notes from time to time for issue in exchange for a like principal amount of Initial Notes or Initial Additional Notes (including Additional Dividend Notes), and (iv) to the extent required by Section 4.08, Additional Dividend Notes in respect thereof from time to time for original issue in an aggregate principal amount specified by the Issuers, in each case specified in clauses (i) through (iv) above, upon a written order of the Issuers in the form of an Officers' Certificate executed by two Officers of each Issuer (an "Authentication Order"), and in the case of clause (ii), upon receipt by the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel confirming that the Holders of the Outstanding Notes will be subject to federal income tax in the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Additional Notes were not issued. Such Officers' Certificates shall specify the amount of Notes to be authenticated and the date on which the Notes are to be authenticated, whether the Notes are to be Initial Notes, Additional Notes, Exchange Notes and/or Additional Dividend Notes, that, in the case of Additional Notes, the issuance of such Notes does not contravene any provision of Article 4 of this Indenture, whether the Notes are to be issued as one or more Global Notes or Physical Notes, the name or names of the Initial Holder or Holders and such other information as the Issuers may include or the Trustee may reasonably request. All Notes shall be dated the date of their authentication. No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Authentication of Notes If, at the time the successor by merger or consolidation to the Indenture Trustee succeeds to the trusts created by this Indenture, Notes have been authenticated but not delivered, the successor Indenture Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of a predecessor Indenture Trustee and deliver the Notes so authenticated. If at that time any Notes have not been authenticated, the successor Indenture Trustee may authenticate the Notes. In each of those cases, the certificates will have the same force and effect provided in the Notes or in this Indenture as the certificate of the predecessor Indenture Trustee.
Registrar, Paying Agent and Authenticating Agent; Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust (a) The Company may appoint one or more Registrars and one or more Paying Agents, and the Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent, in which case each reference in this Indenture to the Trustee in respect of the obligations of the Trustee to be performed by that Agent will be deemed to be references to the Agent. The Company may act as Registrar or (except for purposes of Article 8)