EXHIBIT 4(A)(98)
SUPPLEMENTAL MORTGAGE
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Supplemental Indenture
DATED
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SUPPLEMENTAL TO
FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE
DATED AUGUST 1, 1924
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PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY
TO
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
TRUSTEE
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
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PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUE OF
$ FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE BONDS,
% SERIES DUE
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RECORD IN MORTGAGE BOOK AND RETURN TO:
▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇, ESQ.
80 PARK PLAZA, T5B
▇.▇. ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
PREPARED BY
( , Esq.)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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RECITALS.............................................................................. 1
FORM OF BOND [FACE]................................................................... 3
FORMS OF CERTIFICATES OF AUTHENTICATION............................................... 5
FORM OF BOND [REVERSE]................................................................ 6
GRANTING CLAUSES...................................................................... 9
ARTICLE I.
BONDS OF THE SERIES
DESCRIPTION OF SERIES................................................................... 11
ARTICLE II.
REDEMPTION OF BONDS -- SINKING OR IMPROVEMENT FUND --
OF SERIES
SECTION 2.01. Redemption -- Redemption Prices................................... 12
SECTION 2.02. Sinking or Improvement Fund --
Sinking or Improvement Fund Redemptions --
Redemptions Pursuant to Section 4C of
Article Eight of the Indenture.................................. 12
SECTION 2.03. Redemption at Election of Company................................. 14
SECTION 2.04. Called Bonds to be Surrendered -- Interest to Cease............... 15
SECTION 2.05. Bonds Called in Part.............................................. 16
SECTION 2.06. Provisions of Indenture Not Applicable............................ 16
ARTICLE III.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SECTION 3.01. Authentication of Bonds of Series................................. 16
SECTION 3.02. Authenticating Agent.............................................. 16
SECTION 3.03. Additional Restrictions on Authentication of Additional Bonds
Under Indenture................................................. 17
SECTION 3.04. Restriction on Dividends.......................................... 18
SECTION 3.05. Use of Facsimile Seal and Signatures.............................. 18
SECTION 3.06. Time for Making of Payment........................................ 18
SECTION 3.07. Effective Period of Supplemental Indenture........................ 19
SECTION 3.08. Effect of Approval of Board of Public Utilities of the State of
New Jersey...................................................... 19
SECTION 3.09. Execution in Counterparts......................................... 19
Acknowledgments........................................................................ 20
Certificate of Residence............................................................... 21
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated the day of for convenience
of reference and effective from the time of execution and delivery hereof,
between PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY, a corporation organized under
the laws of the State of New Jersey, hereinafter called the "Company", party of
the first part, and FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, a national banking association
organized under the laws of the United States of America, as Trustee under the
indenture dated August 1, 1924, below mentioned, hereinafter called the
"Trustee", party of the second part.
WHEREAS, on July 25, 1924, the Company executed and delivered to FIDELITY
UNION TRUST COMPANY (now known as FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK), a certain
indenture dated August 1, 1924 (hereinafter called the "Indenture"), to secure
and to provide for the issue of First and Refunding Mortgage Gold Bonds of the
Company; and
WHEREAS, the Indenture has been recorded in the following counties of the
State of New Jersey, in the offices, and therein in the books and at the pages,
as follows:
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COUNTY OFFICE BOOK NUMBER NUMBER
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Atlantic Clerk's 1955 of Mortgages 160
Bergen Clerk's 94 of Chattel Mortgages 123 etc.
693 of Mortgages 85 etc.
Burlington Clerk's 52 of Chattel Mortgages Folio 8, etc.
177 of Mortgages Folio 354, etc.
Camden Register's 45 of Chattel Mortgages 184 etc.
239 of Mortgages 1 etc.
Cumberland Clerk's 786 of Mortgages 638 & c.
Essex Register's 437 of Chattel Mortgages 1-48
T-51 of Mortgages 341-392
Gloucester Clerk's 34 of Chattel Mortgages 123 etc.
142 of Mortgages 7, etc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Register's 453 of Chattel Mortgages 9, etc.
1245 of Mortgages 484, etc.
Hunterdon Clerk's 151 of Mortgages 344
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Clerk's 67 of Chattel Mortgages 1 etc.
384 of Mortgages 1 etc.
Middlesex Clerk's 113 of Chattel Mortgages 3 etc.
437 of Mortgages 294, etc.
Monmouth Clerk's 951 of Mortgages 291 & ▇.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Clerk's N-3 of Chattel Mortgages 446 etc.
F-10 of Mortgages 269 etc.
Ocean Clerk's 1809 of Mortgages 40
Passaic Register's M-6 of Chattel Mortgages 178, etc.
R-13 of Mortgages 268 etc.
Salem Clerk's 267 of Mortgages 249 & c.
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COUNTY OFFICE BOOK NUMBER NUMBER
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Somerset Clerk's 46 of Chattel Mortgages 207 etc.
N-10 of Mortgages I etc.
Sussex Clerk's 123 of Mortgages 10 & c.
Union Register's 128 of Chattel Mortgages 28 & c.
664 of Mortgages 259 etc.
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Clerk's 124 of Mortgages 141 etc.
and
WHEREAS, the Indenture has also been recorded in the following counties of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the offices, and therein in the books and
at the pages, as follows:
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COUNTY OFFICE BOOK NUMBER NUMBER
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▇▇▇▇▇ Recorder's 22 of Mortgages 105
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Recorder's 208 of Mortgages 381
Bedford Recorder's 90 of Mortgages 917
▇▇▇▇▇ Recorder's 671 of Mortgages 430
Cambria Recorder's 407 of Mortgages 352
Cumberland Recorder's 500 of Mortgages 136
Franklin Recorder's 285 of Mortgages 373
Huntingdon Recorder's 128 of Mortgages 47
Indiana Recorder's 197 of Mortgages 281
Lancaster Recorder's 984 of Mortgages 1
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Recorder's 5053 of Mortgages 1,221
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Recorder's 1281 of Mortgages 198
York Recorder's 31-V of Mortgages 446
and
WHEREAS, the Indenture granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised,
released, conveyed, confirmed, assigned, transferred and set over unto the
Trustee certain property of the Company, more fully set forth and described in
the Indenture, then owned or which might thereafter be acquired by the Company;
and
WHEREAS, the Company, by various supplemental indentures, supplemental to
the Indenture, the last of which was dated , has granted, bargained,
sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed, confirmed, assigned, transferred and
set over unto the Trustee certain property of the Company acquired by it after
the execution and delivery of the Indenture; and
WHEREAS, since the execution and delivery of said supplemental indenture
dated , the Company has acquired property which, in accordance with the
provisions
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of the Indenture, is subject to the lien thereof and the Company desires to
confirm such lien; and
WHEREAS, the Indenture has been amended or supplemented from time to time;
and
WHEREAS, it is provided in the Indenture that no bonds other than those of
the 5 1/2% Series due 1959 therein authorized may be issued thereunder unless a
supplemental indenture providing for the issue of such additional bonds shall
have been executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustee; and
WHEREAS, the Company desires to provide for the issue of $
principal amount of bonds secured by said Indenture of a series to be designated
as "First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, % Series due " (hereinafter
sometimes called "Series "); and
WHEREAS, the text of the bonds of the Series and of the certificates
of authentication to be borne by the bonds of the Series shall be
substantially of the following tenor:
[FORM OF BOND]
[FACE]
REGISTERED REGISTERED
NUMBER AMOUNT
RU $
PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY
FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE BOND,
% SERIES DUE .
Public Service Electric and Gas Company (hereinafter called the "Company"),
a corporation of the State of New Jersey, for value received, hereby promises to
pay to , or registered assigns, on the surrender hereof, the
principal sum of
Dollars, on and to pay interest thereon from the date hereof, at the rate
of % per annum, and until payment of said principal sum, such interest to
be payable and in each year.
Both the principal hereof and interest hereon shall be paid at the
corporate trust office of First Union National Bank, in the City of Newark,
State of New Jersey, or (at the option of the registered owner) at the corporate
trust office of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Guaranty Trust Company of New York, in the Borough of
Manhattan, City and State of New York, in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment shall constitute legal tender for
the payment of public and private debts.
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Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Bond set forth
on the reverse hereof and such further provisions shall for all purposes have
the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.
This Bond shall not be entitled to any security or benefit under the
indenture mentioned on the reverse hereof, as amended and supplemented, and
shall not become valid or obligatory for any purpose, until the certificate of
authentication, hereon endorsed, shall have been signed by or on behalf of First
Union National Bank, as Trustee, or by or on behalf of its successor in trust
under said indenture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Bond to be duly executed by
its proper officers under its corporate seal.
Dated
PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS
COMPANY,
By ..................................
(Vice) President
(Seal)
Attest:
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(Assistant) Secretary
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[FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION]
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This Bond is one of the Bonds of the series designated therein which are
described in the within-mentioned indenture and supplemental indenture dated
, as secured thereby.
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE
By ..................................
Authorized Signatory
[FORM OF ALTERNATE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION]
ALTERNATE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This Bond is one of the Bonds of the series designated therein which are
described in the within-mentioned indenture and supplemental indenture dated
, as secured thereby.
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, TRUSTEE
By ..................................
Authenticating Agent
By ..................................
Authorized Signatory
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[FORM OF BOND]
[REVERSE]
PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY
FIRST AND REFUNDING MORTGAGE BOND,
% SERIES DUE
This Bond is one of the First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds of the Company
issued and to be issued under and pursuant to, and all equally secured by, an
indenture of mortgage or deed of trust dated August 1, 1924, as supplemented and
amended by supplemental indentures thereto, including supplemental indentures
dated March 1, 1942, June 1, 1949, May 1, 1950, October 1, 1953, May 1, 1954,
November 1, 1956, September 1, 1957, August 1, 1958, June 1, 1959, September 1,
1960, August 1, 1962, June 1, 1963, September 1, 1964, September 1, 1965, June
1, 1967, June 1, 1968, April 1, 1969, March 1, 1970, May 15, 1971, November 15,
1971, April 1, 1972, March 1, 1974, October 1, 1974. April 1, 1976, September 1,
1976, October 1, 1976, June 1, 1977, September 1, 1977, November 1, 1978, July
1, 1979, September 1, 1979 (No. 1), September 1, 1979 (No. 2), November 1, 1979,
June 1, 1980, August 1, 1981, April 1, 1982, September 1, 1982, December 1,
1982, June 1, 1983, August 1, 1983, July 1, 1984, September 1, 1984, November 1,
1984 (No. 1), November 1, 1984 (No. 2), July 1, 1985, January 1, 1986, March 1,
1986, April 1, 1986 (No. 1), April 1, 1986 (No. 2), March 1, 1987, July 1, 1987
(No. 1), July 1, 1987 (No. 2), May 1, 1988, September 1, 1988, July 1, 1989,
July 1, 1990 (No. 1), July ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. ▇), ▇▇▇▇ ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. 1), June ▇, ▇▇▇▇
(▇▇. ▇), ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. 1), November ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. ▇), ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇, ▇▇▇▇
(▇▇. 3), February 1, 1992 (No. 1), February ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. ▇), ▇▇▇▇ ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇.
1), June ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. ▇), ▇▇▇▇ ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. 3), January 1, 1993 (No. 1), January
1, 1993 (No. 2), March 1, 1993, May 1, 1993, May ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. ▇), ▇▇▇ ▇, ▇▇▇▇
(▇▇. 3), July 1, 1993, August 1, 1993, September 1, 1993, September 1, 1993 (No.
2), November 1, 1993, February 1, 1994, March 1, 1994 (No. 1), March 1, 1994
(No. 2), May 1, 1994, June 1, 1994, August 1, 1994, October ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. ▇),
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. 2), October ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. ▇), ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. 2),
January ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. ▇), ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇, ▇▇▇▇ (▇▇. 2), December 1, 1996 and April 1,
1997, each duly executed by the Company and First Union National Bank (formerly
known as Fidelity Union Trust Company), a national banking association organized
under the laws of the United States of America, as Trustee. This Bond is one of
the % Series due , which series is limited to aggregate principal amount
of and is issued pursuant to said supplemental indenture dated
. Reference is hereby made to said indenture and all supplements
thereto for a specification of the principal amount of Bonds from time to time
issuable thereunder, and for a description of the properties mortgaged and
conveyed or assigned to said Trustee or its successors, the nature and
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extent of the security, and the rights of the holders of said Bonds and any
coupons appurtenant thereto, and of the Trustee in respect of such security.
In and by said indenture, as amended and supplemented, it is provided that
with the written approval of the Company and the Trustee, any of the provisions
of said indenture may from time to time be eliminated or modified and other
provisions may be added thereto provided the change does not alter the annual
interest rate, redemption price or date, date of maturity or amount payable on
maturity of any then outstanding Bond or conflict with the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 as then in effect, and provided the holders of 85% in principal amount
of the Bonds secured by said indenture and then outstanding (including, if such
change affect the Bonds of one or more series but less than all series then
outstanding, a like percentage of the then outstanding Bonds of each series
affected by such change, and excluding Bonds owned or controlled by the Company
or by the parties owning at least 10% of the outstanding voting stock of the
Company, as more fully specified in said indenture) consent in writing thereto,
all as more fully set forth in said indenture, as amended and supplemented.
First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds issuable under said indenture are
issuable in series, and the Bonds of any series may be for varying principal
amounts and in the form of coupon bonds and of registered bonds without coupons,
and the Bonds of any one series may differ from the Bonds of any other series as
to date, maturity, interest rate and otherwise, all as in said indenture
provided and set forth. The Bonds of the % Series due , in
which this Bond is included, are designated "First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds,
% Series due ".
In case of the happening of an event of default as specified in said
indenture and said supplemental indenture dated March 1, 1942, the principal sum
of the Bonds of this series my be declared or may become due and payable
forthwith, in the manner and with the effect in said indenture provided.
Said supplemental indenture dated provides for a sinking or
improvement fund the requirements of which may be satisfied, at the option of
the Company, in whole or in part by payment of cash, by delivery of Bonds of
this Series, or by utilization of additions or improvements, all as more fully
provided therein.
As more fully provided in said supplemental indenture dated ,
the Bonds of this series are subject to redemption prior to maturity, on notice
given as below provided, (a) as a whole at any time or in part on any interest
payment date, at the election of the Company (subject to the approval of the
Board of Public Utilities of the State of New Jersey first applied for and
obtained), upon payment of the percentages of the principal amount thereof
specified below under "Regular Redemption Price" during the respective 12-month
periods beginning of each of the years mentioned below, provided, however,
that prior to no Bonds of this series may be so redeemed, and (b) on
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of each year, beginning in , by operation of said sinking or
improvement fund, or at any time by the application of proceeds of released
property or other money held by the Trustee and which, pursuant to the
provisions of said indenture, as amended ant supplemented, is applied to the
redemption of Bonds of this series, upon payment of the percentages of the
principal amount thereof specified below under "Special Redemption Price" during
such respective 12-month periods:
12-MONTH 12-MONTH
PERIOD REGULAR SPECIAL PERIOD REGULAR SPECIAL
BEGINNING REDEMPTION REDEMPTION BEGINNING REDEMPTION REDEMPTION
1 PRICE PRICE 1 PRICE PRICE
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% % % %
together in each case with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption.
Notice of any such redemption shall be given by mailing the same to the
respective registered owners of the Bonds of this series so called for
redemption, not less than 30 nor more than 40 days in advance of the date fixed
for redemption. In the case of redemption of Bonds of this series at the
election of the Company, the notice of redemption may be conditioned upon the
deposit of the total regular redemption price of all the Bonds so called, with
accrued interest thereon to the redemption date, with the Trustee on or before
the date fixed for redemption.
If this Bond or any portion thereof be called for redemption and payment be
duly provided therefor, interest shall cease to accrue on this Bond or such
portion on the date fixed for such redemption.
This Bond is transferable, but only as provided in said indenture, upon
surrender hereof, by the registered owner in person or by attorney duly
authorized in writing, at either of said offices where the principal hereof and
interest hereon are payable; upon any such transfer a new Bond similar hereto
will be issued to the transferee. No service charge shall be made for any such
transfer, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto. The
Company and the Trustee and any paying agent may deem and treat the person in
whose name this Bond is registered as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose
of receiving payment of or on account of the principal hereof and the interest
hereon and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor
any paying agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
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The Bonds of this series are issuable only in fully registered form, in
denominations of $1,000 and any multiple of $1,000. Such fully registered Bonds
of the several denominations may be exchanged for fully registered Bonds of
other authorized denominations, but only as provided in said indenture, upon
surrender thereof, by the registered owner in person or by attorney duly
authorized in writing, at either of said offices where the principal thereof and
interest thereon are payable. No service charge shall all be made for any such
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that my be imposed in relation thereto.
The Company shall not be required to issue or make transfers or exchanges
of Bonds of this series for a period of ten days next preceding any interest
payment date or next preceding the date of any drawing of such Bonds to be
redeemed, and the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges
of any such Bonds drawn in whole or in part for such redemption.
No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained
in said indenture or in any indenture supplemental thereto, or in any Bond or
coupon issued thereunder, or because of any indebtedness arising thereunder,
shall be had against any incorporator, or against any past, present or future
stockholder, officer, or director, as such, of the Company or of any successor
corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor
corporation, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by
the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or
otherwise, it being expressly agreed and understood that said indenture, any
indenture supplemental thereto and the obligations issued thereunder, are solely
corporate obligations, and that no personal liability whatever shall attach to,
or be incurred by, such incorporators, stockholders, officers or directors, as
such, of the Company, or of any successor corporation, or any of them, because
of the incurring of the indebtedness thereby authorized, or under or by reason
of any of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the indenture or
in any indenture supplemental thereto or in any of the Bonds or coupons issued
thereunder, or implied therefrom.
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WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this supplemental indenture have
been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company; and
WHEREAS, the Company represents that all things necessary to make the bonds
of the series hereinafter described, when duly authenticated by or on behalf of
the Trustee and issued by the Company, valid, binding and legal obligations of
the Company, and to make this supplemental indenture a valid and binding
agreement supplemental to the Indenture, have been done and performed;
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH that the Company, in
consideration of the premises and the execution and delivery by the Trustee of
this
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supplemental indenture, and in pursuance of the covenants and agreements
contained in the Indenture and for other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, has granted, bargained, sold, aliened,
remised, released, conveyed, confirmed, assigned, transferred and set over, and
by these presents does grant, bargain, sell, alien, remise, release, convey,
confirm, assign, transfer and set over unto the Trustee, its successors and
assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest of the Company in and to all
property of every kind and description (except cash, accounts and bills
receivable and all merchandise bought, sold or manufactured for sale in the
ordinary course of the Company's business, stocks, bonds or other corporate
obligations or securities, other than such as are described in Part V of the
Granting Clauses of the Indenture, not acquired with the proceeds of bonds
secured by the Indenture, and except as in the Indenture and herein otherwise
expressly excluded) acquired by the Company since the execution and delivery of
the supplemental indenture dated subsequent to the Indenture
(except any such property duly released from, or disposed of, free from the lien
of the Indenture, in accordance with the provisions thereof) and all such
property which at any time hereafter may be acquired by the Company;
All of which property it is intended shall be included in and granted by
this supplemental indenture and covered by the lien of the Indenture as
heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented;
UNDER AND SUBJECT to any encumbrances or mortgages existing on property
acquired by the Company at the time of such acquisition and not heretofore
discharged of record; and
SUBJECT also, to the exceptions, reservations and provisions in the
Indenture and in this supplemental indenture recited, and to the liens,
reservations, exceptions, limitations, conditions and restrictions imposed by or
contained in the several deeds, grants, franchises and contracts or other
instruments through which the Company acquired or claims title to the aforesaid
property; and SUBJECT, also, to the existing leases, to liens on easements or
rights of way, to liens for taxes, assessments and governmental charges not in
default or the payment of which is deferred, pending appeal or other contest by
legal proceedings, pursuant to Section 4 of Article Five of the Indenture, or
the payment of which is deferred pending billing, transfer of title or final
determination of amount, to easements for alleys, streets, highways, rights of
way and railroads that may run across or encroach upon the said property, to
joint pole and similar agreements, to undetermined liens and charges, if any,
incidental to construction, and other encumbrances permitted by the Indenture as
heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented;
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the property hereby conveyed or assigned, or intended
to be conveyed or assigned, unto the Trustee, its successor or successors and
assigns, forever;
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IN TRUST, NEVERTHELESS, upon the terms, conditions and trusts set forth in
the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented, to the end that
the said property shall be subject to the lien of the Indenture as heretofore
and hereby amended and supplemented, with the same force and effect as though
said property had been included in the Granting Clauses of the Indenture at the
time of the execution and delivery thereof;
AND THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE FURTHER WITNESSETH that for the
considerations aforesaid, it is hereby covenanted between the Company and the
Trustee as follows:
ARTICLE I.
BONDS OF THE SERIES
The series of bonds authorized by this supplemental indenture to be issued
under and secured by the Indenture shall be designated "First and Refunding
Mortgage Bonds, % Series due "; shall be limited to the aggregate
principal amount of $ ; shall mature ; shall bear
interest at the rate of % per annum, payable on and of
each year; shall be payable as to both principal and interest in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall
constitute legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the
corporate trust office of First Union National Bank, in the City of Newark,
State of New Jersey, or, as may be desired by the persons entitled to receive
such principal and interest respectively, at the corporate trust office of
▇▇▇▇▇▇ Guaranty Trust Company of New York, in the Borough of Manhattan, City and
State of New York; shall be issuable only in the form of fully registered bonds
in the denominations of $1,000 and any multiple of $1,000; and the several
denominations shall be interchangeable. The date of each bond of the Series
shall be the semi-annual interest payment date next preceding the date of
authentication, unless such date of authentication be an interest payment date,
in which case the date shall be the date of authentication, or unless such date
of authentication be prior to the first semi-annual interest payment date, in
which case the date shall be .
The Company shall not be required to issue or make transfers or exchanges
of bonds of the Series for a period of ten days next preceding any interest
payment date or next preceding the date of any drawing of such bonds to be
redeemed, and the Company shall not be required to make transfers or exchanges
of any such bonds drawn in whole or in part for such redemption.
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ARTICLE II.
REDEMPTION OF BONDS -- SINKING OR IMPROVEMENT FUND -- OF SERIES .
SECTION 2.01. REDEMPTION -- REDEMPTION PRICES. Bonds of the Series
shall be subject to redemption
(a) as a whole at any time or in part on any interest payment date, at
the election of the Company (subject to the approval of the Board of Public
Utilities of the State of New Jersey first applied for and obtained) as
provided in Section 2.03 hereof, upon payment of the percentages of the
principal amount thereof specified under "Regular Redemption Price" in the
tabulation in the Form of Bond hereinbefore set forth during the respective
12-month periods beginning , of each of the years
mentioned in said tabulation, provided, however, that prior to
no bonds of the Series may be so redeemed, and
(b) on of each year, beginning in , by
operation of the sinking or improvement fund as provided in Section 2.02
hereof, or at any time by the application of any proceeds of released
property or other money held by the Trustee and which, pursuant to Section
4C of Article Eight of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, is
applied to the redemption of bonds of the Series , upon payment of the
percentages of the principal amount thereof specified under "Special
Redemption Price" in the tabulation in the Form of Bond hereinbefore set
forth during the respective 12-month periods beginning of each of
the years mentioned in said tabulation, together in each case with accrued
interest to the date fixed for redemption. The amounts specified in said
tabulation under said heading (exclusive of accrued interest) are herein
referred to, respectively, as "regular redemption prices" and "special
redemption prices".
SECTION 2.02. SINKING OR IMPROVEMENT FUND -- SINKING OR IMPROVEMENT FUND
REDEMPTIONS -- REDEMPTIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 4C OF ARTICLE EIGHT OF THE
INDENTURE. The Company covenants to pay to the Trustee for a sinking or
improvement fund on of each year, commencing on , an amount equal
to the special redemption price, in effect on such , of % of the
maximum principal amount of bonds of the Series outstanding at any one time
prior to the date of such payment, the amount of such payment, however, to be
reduced by any credit to which the Company may be entitled under the next
succeeding paragraph of this Section.
The Company may, at any time not later than prior to the due date of
each sinking or improvement fund installment, elect to satisfy such installment,
in whole or in part, as provided in the following subdivision (a) or as provided
in the following subdivision (b), or partly as provided in said subdivision (a)
and partly as provided in said subdivision (b):
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(a) by delivering to the Trustee outstanding bonds of the Series ,
in negotiable form or registered in the name of the Company, not later than
prior to the due date of such installment, upon receipt of which the
Trustee shall credit the same against such installment at the special
redemption price applicable upon the due date of such installment, or
(b) by delivering to the Trustee not later than the prior to
the due date of such installment, a certificate signed by the President or
a Vice President and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of the
Company which shall state the following items:
(1) an amount (to the extent the Company shall elect to include the
same) equal to the cost of any additions or improvements acquired or
constructed by the Company to its property after December 31, 1948,
which shall not have formed the basis for any authentication of bonds,
withdrawal of cash, or release of property under the Indenture, as
supplemented and amended, and which shall not have been included in any
maintenance certificate filed under any indenture supplemental to the
Indenture, or in any certificate filed with the Trustee pursuant to any
sinking or improvement fund under any indenture supplemental to the
Indenture, after deducing from such cost the cost (or the estimated cost
if the actual cost is not ascertainable) of property retired after
December 31, 1948, and which shall not theretofore have been deducted
upon any authentication of bonds, withdrawal of cash, or release of
property under the Indenture, as supplemented and amended, or in any
such maintenance certificate or in any such certificate filed pursuant
to any sinking or improvement fund, and
(2) an amount equal to 60% of the amount stated in item (1) above.
Upon the receipt of such certificate the Trustee shall credit against such
installment an amount determined by multiplying the amount set forth in item (2)
thereof by the percentage specified as the special redemption price applicable
upon the due date of such installment. No additions or improvements included in
item (1) of any such certificate shall thereafter be available as the basis for
authentication of bonds or the withdrawal of cash or the release of property
under any provisions of the Indenture, as supplemented and amended, or be
included in any maintenance certificate filed under any indenture supplemental
to the Indenture, or in any certificate filed with the Trustee pursuant to any
sinking or improvement fund under any Indenture supplemental to the Indenture,
and no retirements deducted in such item (1) shall thereafter be required to be
deducted under Section 7C(3) of Article Two of the Indenture.
The Company shall, not later than prior to the due date of each
sinking or improvement fund installment, deliver to the Trustee a certificate
signed by its President or a Vice President and by its Treasurer or an Assistant
Treasurer specifying the amount,
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if any, which the Company will pay to the Trustee on the following
pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.02.
The Trustee, not later than 30 days prior to the due date of each sinking
or improvement fund installment, shall draw by lot according to such method as
it shall deem proper, from all the bonds of the Series then outstanding, such
principal amount thereof as the balance of such sinking or improvement fund
installment (after crediting against the same any credits to which the Company
shall be entitled under the second paragraph of this Section) shall, at the
special redemption price prevailing on the next ensuing interest payment date,
suffice to redeem.
After such drawing the Trustee shall, beginning not later than 30 nor
earlier than 40 days in advance of the next ensuing interest payment date, give,
in the name of the Company, notice by mail that bonds of the Series bearing
the serial numbers specified have been called for redemption through the sinking
or improvement fund, that they will be due and payable on the next ensuing
interest payment date, at the corporate trust office of the Trustee in Newark,
New Jersey, or (at the option of the holder) at the office or agency of the
Company in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, at a stated
amount (which shall be the special redemption price applicable upon such
redemption date), and that all interest thereon will cease to accrue after said
date. Such notice shall be mailed to the several registered owners of the bonds
so called, at their respective addresses as the same may appear on the registry
books. Failure duly to give such notice of redemption to the registered owner of
any bond called for redemption in whole or in part shall not affect the validity
of the proceedings for the redemption of any other bond.
If, pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture, as amended
and supplemented, any proceeds of released property or other money then held by
the Trustee shall be applied to the redemption of bonds of the Series , such
redemption shall be effected in the manner provided in the next two preceding
paragraphs of this Section in respect of redemption of bonds of said series
through the sinking or improvement fund. Bonds of said series so redeemed shall
be cancelled.
All bonds of the Series delivered to the Trustee as a credit against any
sinking or improvement fund installment or redeemed by operation of the sinking
or improvement fund shall be cancelled and such bonds shall not be made the
basis for the authentication and delivery of bonds under the provisions of
Section 5 of Article Three of the Indenture.
SECTION 2.03. REDEMPTION AT ELECTION OF COMPANY. The election of the
Company to redeem any of the bonds of the Series shall be evidenced by a
resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company calling for redemption on a
stated date all or a stated principal amount thereof. Any such call may be
conditioned upon the deposit with the Trustee, on or before such redemption
date, of the total regular redemption price of the bonds so called, with accrued
interest thereon to the redemption date. At least 40 days prior to such
redemption date (or at such later time as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee)
the Company
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shall file with the Trustee a certified copy of such resolution. Unless such
call shall be conditioned upon the deposit of the regular redemption price and
accrued interest with the Trustee on or before the redemption date and unless
the notice below provided for shall so state, the Company shall on or before
such redemption date deposit with the Trustee the total regular redemption price
of all the bonds so called, with accrued interest thereon to the redemption
date.
If the Company elects to redeem less than all of the bonds of the Series
, the particular bonds or portions thereof to be redeemed shall, upon request
of the Company, be drawn by lot by the Trustee, according to such method as it
shall deem proper, from the bonds of said series then outstanding. The Trustee
shall certify to the Company the serial numbers of the bonds so drawn.
The Company shall thereupon give notice of such redemption, in the manner
and substantially in the form provided in Section 2.02 hereof to be given in the
case of bonds of the Series called through the sinking or improvement fund,
except that (1) such notice shall state that the bonds specified have been
called for redemption at the election of the Company, and that they will be
payable on the date specified in the resolution of the Board of Directors of the
Company at a stated amount (which shall be the regular redemption price
applicable upon such redemption date), (2) if all the bonds of the Series be
called, the notice shall so state and may omit the serial numbers thereof, (3)
if the date fixed for redemption be other than an interest payment date, the
notice shall state that the bonds will be payable at the stated redemption
price, plus accrued interest to the redemption date, (4) the mailing of such
notice to registered owners of bonds of said series shall take place not less
than 30 nor more than 40 days in advance of the date fixed for redemption, but
failure duly to give such notice of redemption to the registered owner of any
bond called for redemption in whole or in part shall not affect the validity of
the proceedings for the redemption of any other bond, and (5) if the call of
such bonds for redemption shall have been conditioned upon the deposit of the
regular redemption price and accrued interest with the Trustee on or before the
redemption date, as above permitted, the notice shall so state, and shall state
that unless such deposit is made on or before such date the call for redemption
and the notice shall be of no effect.
Before any money shall be applied by the Trustee to the redemption of bonds
under this Section, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a certificate or
opinion by the President or a Vice President of the Company and an opinion of
counsel, stating that all conditions precedent provided for herein (including
any covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) relating
to such redemption have been complied with.
SECTION 2.04. CALLED BONDS TO BE SURRENDERED -- INTEREST TO CEASE. Each
bond or portion thereof the Series so called under either Sections 2.02 or
2.03 hereof shall be due and payable (upon surrender thereof) at the places and
price and on the date specified
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in such notice, anything herein or in such bond to the contrary notwithstanding,
except that if the call of any bonds or portions thereof under Section 2.03
hereof shall have been conditioned upon the deposit of the redemption price with
the Trustee on or before the redemption date specified in such notice, with
accrued interest thereon to the redemption date, such bonds or such portions
thereof shall not be due and payable on the specified redemption date unless
such deposit shall have been so made with the Trustee on or before such date.
From and after the date when each bond or portion thereof of the Series shall
be due and payable as aforesaid (unless upon said date the full amount due
thereon shall not be held by the Trustee and be immediately available for
payment), all further interest shall cease to accrue on such bond or on such
portion thereof, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.05. BONDS CALLED IN PART. If only a portion of any bond of the
Series shall be drawn by lot by the Trustee pursuant to Sections 2.02 or 2.03
hereof, the notice of redemption hereinbefore provided for shall specify the
serial number of such bond and the portion of the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed. Upon surrender of such bond for partial redemption and upon payment of
the portion so called for redemption, a new bond or bonds of the Series , in
aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of such surrendered
bond, shall be executed by the Company, authenticated by or on behalf of the
Trustee, and delivered to the registered owner thereof, without expense to such
owner.
SECTION 2.06. PROVISIONS OF INDENTURE NOT APPLICABLE. The provisions of
Article Four of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, shall not apply to
the administration of the sinking or improvement fund provided for in this
Article or to the procedure for the exercise of any right of redemption reserved
by the Company in this Article in respect of the bonds of the Series .
ARTICLE III.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SECTION 3.01. AUTHENTICATION OF BONDS OF SERIES . None of the bonds of
the Series , the issue of which is provided for by this supplemental
indenture, shall be authenticated by or on behalf of the Trustee except in
accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented,
and this supplemental indenture, and upon compliance with the conditions in that
behalf therein contained.
SECTION 3.02. AUTHENTICATING AGENT. As long as any of the bonds of the
Series remain outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent to
act on its behalf and subject to its direction in connection with the
authentication of bonds of the Series . Such authenticating agent shall be
appointed by the Trustee by an instrument in writing and shall have no
responsibility or liability for any action taken by it at the direction
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of the Trustee. 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 or of the District of Columbia authorized under such laws to act as
authenticating agent, having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$5,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by Federal, State,
Territorial, or District of Columbia authority and, if there be such a
corporation willing and able to act as authenticating agent on reasonable and
customary terms, having its principal office and place of business in The City
of New York. 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 3.02 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.
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, conversion, or consolidation to which any authenticating agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency business
of any authenticating agent, shall continue to be the authenticating agent
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
the Trustee or the 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 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 in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 3.02, the Trustee may appoint a successor
authenticating agent. The Trustee shall give written notice of such appointment
to the Company and shall mail notice of such appointment to all registered
owners of the bonds of the Series , at their respective addresses as the same
may appear on the registry books. Any successor authenticating agent, upon
acceptance of its appointment, shall become vested with all the rights, powers,
duties and responsibilities of its predecessor, with like effect as if
originally appointed authenticating agent. No successor authenticating agent
shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section 3.02.
The Trustee agrees to pay to the authenticating agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services, and the Trustee shall be entitled to
be reimbursed for such payments as provided in the Indenture.
SECTION 3.03. ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON AUTHENTICATION OF ADDITIONAL BONDS
UNDER INDENTURE. The Company covenants that from and after the date of execution
of this supplemental indenture, no additional bonds (as defined in Section 1 of
Article Two of the Indenture) shall be authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee under Subdivision A of
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Section 4 of said Article Two on account of additions or improvements to the
mortgaged property:
(1) unless the net earnings of the Company for the period required by
Subdivision C of Section 6 of said Article Two shall have been at least
twice the fixed charges (in lieu of 1 3/4 times such fixed charges, as
required by said Subdivision C); and for the purpose of this condition (a)
such fixed charges shall in each case include interest on the bonds applied
for, notwithstanding the parenthetical provision contained in clause (4) of
said Subdivision C, and (b) in computing such net earnings there shall be
included in expenses of operation (under paragraph (c) of said Subdivision
C) all charges against earnings for depreciation, renewals or replacements,
and all certificates with respect to net earnings delivered to the Trustee
in connection with any authentication of additional bonds under said
Article Two shall so state; and
(2) except to the extent of 60% (in lieu of 75% as permitted by
Subdivision A of Section 7 of said Article Two) of the cost or fair value
to the Company of the additions or improvements forming the basis for such
authentication of additional bonds.
SECTION 3.04. RESTRICTION ON DIVIDENDS. The Company will not declare or pay
any dividend on any shares of its common stock (other than dividends payable in
shares of its common stock) or make any other distribution on any such shares,
or purchase or otherwise acquire any such shares (except shares acquired without
cost to the Company) whenever such action would reduce the earned surplus of the
Company to an amount less than $10,000,000 or such lesser amount as may remain
after deducting from said $10,000,000 all amounts appearing in the books of
account of the Company on December 31, 1948, which shall thereafter, pursuant to
any order or rule of any regulatory body entered after said date, be required to
be removed, in whole or in part, from the books of account of the Company by
charges to earned surplus.
SECTION 3.05. USE OF FACSIMILE SEAL AND SIGNATURES. The seal of the Company
and any or all signatures of the officers of the Company upon any of the bonds
of the Series may be facsimiles.
SECTION 3.06. TIME FOR MAKING PAYMENT. All payments of principal or
redemption price of, interest on and sinking or improvement fund installments
for, the bonds of the Series shall be made either prior to the due date
thereof, or on the due date thereof in immediately available funds. In any case
where the date of any such payment shall be a Saturday or Sunday or a legal
holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the city of payment are
authorized by law to close, then such payment need not be made on such date but
may be made on the next succeeding business day with the same force and effect
as if made on the due date, and no interest on such payment shall accrue for the
period after such date.
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SECTION 3.07. EFFECTIVE PERIOD OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE. The preceding
provisions of Articles I, II and III of this supplemental indenture shall remain
in effect only so long as any of the bonds of the Series shall remain
outstanding.
SECTION 3.08. EFFECT OF APPROVAL OF BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES OF THE STATE
OF NEW JERSEY. The approval of the Board of Public Utilities of the State of New
Jersey of the execution and delivery of these presents and of the issue of any
bonds of the Series shall not be construed as approval of said Board of any
other act, matter or thing which requires approval of said Board under the laws
of the State of New Jersey.
SECTION 3.09. EXECUTION IN COUNTERPARTS. For the purpose of facilitating
the recording hereof, this supplemental indenture has been executed in several
counterparts, each of which shall be and shall be taken to be an original, and
all collectively but one instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Public Service Electric and Gas Company, party hereto
of the first part, after due corporate and other proceedings, has caused this
supplemental indenture to be signed and acknowledged or proved by its President
or one of its Vice Presidents and its corporate seal hereunto to be affixed and
to be attested by the signature of its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary; and
First Union National Bank, as Trustee, party hereto of the second part, has
caused this supplemental indenture to be signed and acknowledged or proved by
one of its Vice Presidents and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and to
be attested by the signature of one of its Vice Presidents, Executed and
delivered this day of .
PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS
COMPANY
By ..................................
( )
Vice President
Attest:
....................................
( )
Assistant Secretary
(CORPORATE SEAL)
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
By ..................................
( )
Vice President
Attest:
....................................
( )
Vice President
(CORPORATE SEAL)
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▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ss.:)
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this day of , before me, the subscriber,
a Notary Public of the State of New Jersey, personally appeared
who, I am satisfied, is a Vice President of PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS
COMPANY, one of the corporations named in and which executed the foregoing
instrument, and is the person who signed the said instrument as such officer,
for and on behalf of such corporation, and I having first made known to him the
contents thereof, he did acknowledge that he signed the said instrument as such
officer, that the said instrument was made by such corporation and sealed with
its corporate seal, that the said instrument is the voluntary act and deed of
such corporation, made by virtue of authority from its Board of Directors, and
that said corporation, the mortgagor, has received a true copy of said
instrument.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
COUNTY OF ESSEX ss.:)
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this day of , before me, the subscriber,
a Notary Public of the State of New Jersey, personally appeared
who, I am satisfied, is a Vice President of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, one of
the corporations named in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and is
the person who signed the said instrument as such officer, for and on behalf of
such corporation, and I having first made known to him the contents thereof, he
did acknowledge that he signed the said instrument as such officer, that the
said instrument was made by such corporation and sealed with its corporate seal,
and that the said instrument is the voluntary act and deed of such corporation,
made by virtue of authority from its Board of Directors.
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CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCE
First Union National Bank, Mortgagee and Trustee within named, hereby
certifies that its precise residence is ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇.
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
By ..................................
( )
VICE PRESIDENT
