ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC (successor to Entergy Louisiana, Inc.) TO THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (formerly The Bank of New York) (successor to Harris Trust Company of New York) AND STEPHEN J. GIURLANDO (successor to Mark F. McLaughlin) As Trustees under...

Exhibit 4(a)

ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
(successor to Entergy Louisiana, Inc.)
TO

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

(formerly The Bank of New York)
(successor to Xxxxxx Trust Company of New York)

AND

XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXX
(successor to Xxxx X. XxXxxxxxxx)

As Trustees under Entergy Louisiana, LLC's Mortgage and Deed of Trust
dated as of April 1, 1944

________________

Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture

Providing among other things for

First Mortgage Bonds, 6.50% Series due September 1, 2018
(Seventieth Series)

Dated as of August 1, 2008

SIXTY-FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Indenture, dated as of August 1, 2008, between ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, a limited liability company of the State of Texas (hereinafter sometimes called the "Company"), successor to ENTERGY LOUISIANA, INC., a corporation of the State of Louisiana converted to a corporation of the State of Texas on December 31, 2005 (hereinafter sometimes called the "Louisiana Company"), which was the successor by merger to LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Florida), whose post office address is 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, a New York banking corporation (successor to XXXXXX TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK) whose principal office is located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 (hereinafter sometimes called "Corporate Trustee"), and XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXX (successor to Xxxx X. XxXxxxxxxx), whose address is 00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 (said Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx being hereinafter sometimes called "Co-Trustee" and the Corporate Trustee and the Co-Trustee being hereinafter together sometimes called the "Trustees"), as Trustees under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of April 1, 1944 (hereinafter called the "Mortgage"), which Mortgage was executed and delivered by Louisiana Power & Light Company, a corporation of the State of Florida (hereinafter sometimes called the "Florida Company"), to secure the payment of bonds issued or to be issued under and in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, reference to which Mortgage is hereby made, this Indenture (hereinafter called the "Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture") being supplemental thereto;

WHEREAS, the Mortgage was recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana, which Parishes are the same Parishes in which this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture is to be recorded; and

WHEREAS, by the Mortgage, the Florida Company covenanted that it would execute and deliver such supplemental indenture or indentures and such further instruments and do such further acts as might be necessary or proper to carry out more effectually the purposes of the Mortgage and to make subject to the lien of the Mortgage any property thereafter acquired and intended to be subject to the lien thereof; and

WHEREAS, the Florida Company executed and delivered the following supplemental indentures:

Designation	Dated as of
First Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1948
Second Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 1950
Third Supplemental Indenture	September 1, 1953
Fourth Supplemental Indenture	October 1, 1954
Fifth Supplemental Indenture	January 1, 1957
Sixth Supplemental Indenture	April 1, 1960
Seventh Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 1964
Eighth Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1966
Ninth Supplemental Indenture	February 1, 1967
Tenth Supplemental Indenture	September 1, 1967
Eleventh Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1968
Twelfth Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 1969
Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1969
Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 1970
Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture	April 1, 1971
Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture	January 1, 1972
Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 1972
Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 1973
Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1974
Twentieth Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 1974

which supplemental indentures were recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana; and

WHEREAS, the Florida Company was merged into the Louisiana Company on February 28, 1975, and the Louisiana Company thereupon executed and delivered a Twenty-first Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 1, 1975, pursuant to which the Louisiana Company, among other things, assumed and agreed duly and punctually to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds at the time issued and outstanding under the Mortgage, as then supplemented, in accordance with the provisions of said bonds and of any appurtenant coupons and of the Mortgage as so supplemented, and duly and punctually to observe, perform and fulfill all of the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage, as so supplemented, to be kept or performed by the Florida Company, and said Twenty-first Supplemental Indenture was recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana; and

WHEREAS, the Louisiana Company has succeeded to and has been substituted for the Florida Company under the Mortgage with the same effect as if it had been named as mortgagor corporation therein; and

WHEREAS, the Louisiana Company executed and delivered the following supplemental indentures:

Designation	Dated as of
Twenty-second Supplemental Indenture	September 1, 1975
Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1976
Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture	January 1, 1978
Twenty-fifth Supplemental Indenture	July 1, 1978
Twenty-sixth Supplemental Indenture	May 1, 1979
Twenty-seventh Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 1979
Twenty-eighth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1980
Twenty-ninth Supplemental Indenture	April 1, 1981
Thirtieth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1981
Thirty-first Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1983
Thirty-second Supplemental Indenture	September 1, 1983
Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture	August 1, 1984
Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 1984
Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1984
Thirty-sixth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1985
Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture	April 1, 1986
Thirty-eighth Supplemental Indenture	November 1, 1986
Thirty-ninth Supplemental Indenture	May 1, 1988
Fortieth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1988
Forty-first Supplemental Indenture	April 1, 1990
Forty-second Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 1991
Forty-third Supplemental Indenture	April 1, 1992
Forty-fourth Supplemental Indenture	July 1, 1992
Forty-fifth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1992
Forty-sixth Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1993
Forty-seventh Supplemental Indenture	May 1, 1993
Forty-eighth Supplemental Indenture	December 1, 1993
Forty-ninth Supplemental Indenture	July 1, 1994
Fiftieth Supplemental Indenture	September 1, 1994
Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1996
Fifty-second Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1998
Fifty-third Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 1999
Fifty-fourth Supplemental Indenture	June 1, 1999
Fifty-fifth Supplemental Indenture	May 15, 2000
Fifty-sixth Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 2002
Fifty-seventh Supplemental Indenture	March 1, 2004
Fifty-eighth Supplemental Indenture	October 1, 2004
Fifty-ninth Supplemental Indenture 9;	October 15, 2004
Sixtieth Supplemental Indenture	May 1, 2005
Sixty-first Supplemental Indenture	August 1, 2005
Sixty-second Supplemental Indenture	October 1, 2005
Sixty-third Supplemental Indenture	December 15, 2005

which supplemental indentures were recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana; and

WHEREAS, the Louisiana Company converted into a Texas corporation and, pursuant to a Plan of Merger by which the Company and Entergy Louisiana Properties, LLC were created (the "Merger Documents"), underwent a merger by division pursuant to which, among other things, all the Mortgaged and Pledged Property, subject to the Lien of the Mortgage, and all of the rights, obligations and duties of the Louisiana Company under the Mortgage, were allocated to the Company on December 31, 2005, and the Company thereupon executed and delivered a Sixty-fourth Supplemental Indenture, effective as of January 1, 2006, pursuant to which the Company, among other things, assumed and agreed duly and punctually to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds at the time issued and outstanding under the Mortgage, as then supplemented, in accordance with the provisions of said bonds and of any appurtenant coupons and of the Mortgage as so supplemented, and duly and punctually to observe, perform and fulfill all of the covenants and conditions of the Mortgage, as so supplemented, to be kept or performed by the Louisiana Company, and said Sixty-fourth Supplemental Indenture was recorded in various Parishes in the State of Louisiana; and

WHEREAS, effective July 1, 2008, The Bank of New York changed its name to The Bank of New York Mellon; and

WHEREAS, in addition to the property described in the Mortgage, as supplemented, the Company has acquired certain other property, rights and interests in property; and

WHEREAS, the Florida Company or the Louisiana Company has heretofore issued, in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, as supplemented, the following series of bonds:

Series	Principal Amount Issued	Principal Amount Outstanding
3% Series due 1974	$ 17,000,000	None
3 1/8% Series due 1978	10,000,000	None
3% Series due 1980	10,000,000	None
4% Series due 1983	12,000,000	None
3 1/8% Series due 1984	18,000,000	None
4 3/4% Series due 1987	20,000,000	None
5% Series due 1990	20,000,000	None
4 5/8% Series due 1994	25,000,000	None
5 3/4% Series due 1996	35,000,000	None
5 5/8% Series due 1997	16,000,000	None
6 1/2% Series due September 1, 1997	18,000,000	None
7 1/8% Series due 1998	35,000,000	None
9 3/8% Series due 1999	25,000,000	None
9 3/8% Series due 2000	20,000,000	None
7 7/8% Series due 2001	25,000,000	None
7 1/2% Series due 2002	25,000,000	None
7 1/2% Series due November 1, 2002	25,000,000	None
8% Series due 2003	45,000,000	None
8 3/4% Series due 2004	45,000,000	None
9 1/2% Series due November 1, 1981	50,000,000	None
9 3/8% Series due September 1, 1983	50,000,000	None
8 3/4% Series due December 1, 2006	40,000,000	None
9% Series due January 1, 1986	75,000,000	None
10% Series due July 1, 2008	60,000,000	None
10 7/8% Series due May 1, 1989	45,000,000	None
13 1/2% Series due November 1, 2009	55,000,000	None
15 3/4% Series due December 1, 1988	50,000,000	None
16% Series due April 1, 1991	75,000,000	None
16 1/4% Series due December 1, 1991	100,000,000	None
12% Series due March 1, 1993	100,000,000	None
13 1/4% Series due March 1, 2013	100,000,000	None
13% Series due September 1, 2013	50,000,000	None
16% Series due August 1, 1994	100,000,000	None
14 3/4% Series due November 1, 2014	55,000,000	None
15 1/4% Series due December 1, 2014	35,000,000	None
14% Series due December 1, 1992	60,000,000	None
14 1/4% Series due December 1, 1995	15,000,000	None
10 1/2% Series due April 1, 1993	200,000,000	None
10 3/8% Series due November 1, 2016	280,000,000	None
Series 1988A due September 30, 1988	13,334,000	None
Series 1988B due September 30, 1988	10,000,000	None
Series 1988C due September 30, 1988	6,667,000	None
10.36% Series due December 1, 1995	75,000,000	None
10 1/8% Series due April 1, 2020	100,000,000	None
Environmental Series A due June 1, 2021	52,500,000	None
Environmental Series B due April 1, 2022	20,940,000	None
7.74% Series due July 1, 2002	179,000,000	None
8 1/2% Series due July 1, 2022	90,000,000	None
Environmental Series C due December 1, 2022	25,120,000	None
6% Series due March 1, 2000	100,000,000	None
Environmental Series D due May 1, 2023	34,364,000	None
Environmental Series E due December 1,2023	25,991,667	None
Environmental Series F due July 1, 2024	21,335,000	None
Collateral Series 1994-A, due July 2, 2017	117,805,000	109,290,000
Collateral Series 1994-B, due July 2, 2017	58,865,000	54,630,000
Collateral Series 1994-C, due July 2, 2017	31,575,000	29,290,000
8 3/4% Series due March 1, 2026	115,000,000	None
6 1/2% Series due March 1, 2008	115,000,000	None
5.80% Series due March 1, 2002	75,000,000	None
Environmental Series G due June 1, 2030	67,200,000	67,200,000
8 1/2% Series due June 1, 2003	150,000,000	None
7.60% Series due April 1, 2032	150,000,000	150,000,000
5.50% Series due April 1, 2019	100,000,000	100,000,000
6.40% Series due October 1, 2034	70,000,000	70,000,000
5.09% Series due November 1, 2014	115,000,000	115,000,000
4.67% Series due June 1, 2010	55,000,000	55,000,000
5.56% Series due September 1, 2015	100,000,000	100,000,000
6.30% Series due September 1, 2035	100,000,000	100,000,000
5.83% Series due November 1, 2010	150,000,000	150,000,000

which bonds are also hereinafter sometimes called bonds of the First through Sixty-ninth Series, respectively; and

WHEREAS, in the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, the Louisiana Company reserved the right to make certain amendments to the Mortgage without any further consent or other action of the holders of the Fifty-ninth Series (8 3/4% Series due March 1, 2026) or any subsequently created series of bonds; and

WHEREAS, all series of bonds created after the Fifty-ninth Series have either been retired or have consented to the amendments described in Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture; and

WHEREAS, Section 8 of the Mortgage provides that the form of each series of bonds (other than the First Series) issued thereunder and of the coupons to be attached to coupon bonds of such series shall be established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company and that the form of such series, as established by said Board of Directors, shall specify the descriptive title of the bonds and various other terms thereof, and may also contain such provisions not inconsistent with the provisions of the Mortgage as the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, cause to be inserted therein expressing or referring to the terms and conditions upon which such bonds are to be issued and/or secured under the Mortgage; and

WHEREAS, Section 120 of the Mortgage provides, among other things, that any power, privilege or right expressly or impliedly reserved to or in any way conferred upon the Company by any provision of the Mortgage, whether such power, privilege or right is in any way restricted or is unrestricted, may be in whole or in part waived or surrendered or subjected to any restriction if at the time unrestricted or to additional restrictions if already restricted, and the Company may enter into any further covenants, limitations or restrictions for the benefit of any one or more series of bonds issued thereunder, or the Company may cure any ambiguity contained therein, or in any supplemental indenture, or may establish the terms and provisions of any series of bonds (other than the First Series) by an instrument in writing executed and acknowledged by the Company in such manner as would be necessary to entitle a conveyance of real estate to record in all of the states in which any property at the time subject to the lien of the Mortgage shall be situated; and

WHEREAS, the Company now desires to create a new series of bonds and to add to its covenants and agreements contained in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, certain other covenants and agreements to be observed by it and to alter and amend in certain respects the covenants and provisions contained in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented; and

WHEREAS, the execution and delivery by the Company of this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture, and the terms of the bonds of the Seventieth Series, hereinafter referred to, have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company by appropriate Resolutions of said Board of Directors;

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

That the Company, in consideration of the premises and of One Dollar to it duly paid by the Trustees at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in further evidence of assurance of the estate, title and rights of the Trustees and in order further to secure the payment both of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds from time to time issued under the Mortgage, according to their tenor and effect and the performance of all the provisions of the Mortgage (including any instruments supplemental thereto and any modification made as in the Mortgage provided) and of said bonds, hereby grants, bargains, sells, releases, conveys, assigns, transfers, mortgages, hypothecates, affects, pledges, sets over and confirms (subject, however, to Excepted Encumbrances as defined in Section 6 of the Mortgage) unto Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx and (to the extent of its legal capacity to hold the same for the purpose hereof) to The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustees under the Mortgage, and to their successor or successors in said trust, and to said Trustees and their successors and assigns forever, (a) all of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property acquired by the Company from the Louisiana Company pursuant to the allocations in the Merger Documents, and improvements, extensions and additions thereto and renewals and replacements thereof, (b) the property made and used by the Company as the basis under any of the provisions of the Mortgage, as supplemented, for the authentication and delivery of additional bonds or the withdrawal of cash or the release of property or a credit under Section 39 of the Mortgage, and (c) such franchises, repairs and additional property as may be acquired, made or constructed by the Company (1) to maintain, renew and preserve the franchises covered by this Mortgage, as supplemented, or (2) to maintain the property mortgaged and intended to be mortgaged under the Mortgage, as supplemented, as an operating system or systems in good repair, working order and condition, or (3) in rebuilding or renewal of property, subject to the Lien of the Mortgage, as supplemented, damaged or destroyed, or (4) in replacement of or substitution for machinery, apparatus, equipment, frames, towers, poles, wire, pipe, tools, implements and furniture, subject to the Lien of the Mortgage, as supplemented, which shall have become old, inadequate, obsolete, worn out, unfit, unadapted, unserviceable, undesirable or unnecessary for use in the operation of the property mortgaged and intended to be mortgaged under the Mortgage, as supplemented.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD ALL such properties, real, personal and mixed, granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, hypothecated, affected, pledged, set over or confirmed by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx and (to the extent of its legal capacity to hold the same for the purposes hereof) to The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustees, respectively, and their successors and assigns forever.

IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, for the same purposes and upon the same terms, trusts and conditions and subject to and with the same provisos and covenants as are set forth in the Mortgage, as supplemented, this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture being supplemental thereto.

AND IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED by the Company that all the terms, conditions, provisos, covenants and provisions contained in the Mortgage, as supplemented, shall affect and apply to the property hereinbefore described and conveyed and to the estate, rights, obligations and duties of the Company and the Trustees and the beneficiaries of the trust with respect to said property, and to the Trustees and their successors as Trustees of said property in the same manner and with the same effect as if said property had been owned by the Florida Company at the time of the execution of the Mortgage, and had been specifically and at length described in and conveyed to said Trustees by the Mortgage as a part of the property therein stated to be conveyed.

The Company further covenants and agrees to and with the Trustees and their successor or successors in said trust under the Mortgage as follows:

SEVENTIETH SERIES BONDS
1. There shall be a series of bonds designated "6.50% Series due September 1, 2018" (herein sometimes called the "Seventieth Series"), each of which shall also bear the descriptive title "First Mortgage Bond", and the form thereof, which shall be established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, shall contain suitable provisions with respect to the matters hereinafter in this Section specified. Bonds of the Seventieth Series (which shall be initially issued in the aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000) shall be dated as in Section 10 of the Mortgage provided, shall mature on September 1, 2018, shall be issued as fully registered bonds in any integral multiple or multiples of One Thousand Dollars, and shall bear interest at the rate of 6.50% per annum, the first interest payment to be made on March 1, 2009, for the period from August 18, 2008 to March 1, 2009 with subsequent interest payments payable semi-annually on March 1 and September 1 of each year (each an "Interest Payment Date"), the principal of and interest on each said bond to be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts.
Interest on the bonds of the Seventieth Series will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, redemption date or maturity of any bond of the Seventieth Series shall not be a Business Day, then payment of interest or principal and premium, if any, need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day, with the same force and effect, and in the same amount, as if made on the corresponding Interest Payment Date or redemption date, or at maturity, as the case may be, and, if such payment is made or duly provided for on such Business Day, no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, redemption date or maturity, as the case may be, to such Business Day. "Business Day" means any day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed or a day on which the corporate trust office of the Corporate Trustee is closed for business.

So long as all of the bonds of the Seventieth Series are held by The Depository Trust Company or its nominee, or a successor thereof, the record date for the payment of interest on the bonds of the Seventieth Series shall be the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the corresponding Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that the record date for the payment of interest which is paid after such Interest Payment Date, shall be the Business Day immediately preceding the date on which such interest is paid. Interest on the bonds of the Seventieth Series shall be paid to the Person in whose name such bonds of the Seventieth Series are registered at the close of business on the record date for the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

The Company reserves the right to establish, at any time, by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, a form of coupon bond, and of appurtenant coupons, for the Seventieth Series and to provide for exchangeability of such coupon bonds with the bonds of said Series issued hereunder in fully registered form and to make all appropriate provisions for such purpose.

(I) The bonds of the Seventieth Series shall be redeemable at the option of the Company, in whole or in part, upon notice, as provided in Section 52 of the Mortgage, mailed not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption, at any time prior to maturity, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of such bonds of the Seventieth Series to be redeemed and (ii) as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, the sum of the present value of the remaining scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the bonds of the Seventieth Series to be redeemed (excluding the portion of any such interest accrued to the redemption date), discounted (for purposes of determining such present values) to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 0.40%, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.

As used herein, the following defined terms shall have the respective meanings specified unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

The term "Adjusted Treasury Rate" shall mean, with respect to any redemption date:

(1) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated "H.15(519)" or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which 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 Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the bonds of the Seventieth Series, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue shall be determined and the Adjusted Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month); or

(2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date for the Adjusted Treasury Rate 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 redemption date.

The Adjusted Treasury Rate shall be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date.

The term "Comparable Treasury Issue" shall mean the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the bonds of the Seventieth Series that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the bonds of the Seventieth Series.

The term "Comparable Treasury Price" shall mean, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations or (ii) if the Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations.

The term "Independent Investment Banker" shall mean one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Company appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time, or, if any of such firms is unwilling or unable to select the Comparable Treasury Issue, an independent investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the Company.

The term "Reference Treasury Dealer" shall mean (i) Xxxxxx Brothers Inc., a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City ("Primary Treasury Dealer") selected by KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., and a Primary Treasury Dealer selected by Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer, and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Independent Investment Banker after consultation with the Company.

The term "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" shall mean, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker at 5:00 p.m. on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

(II) At the option of the registered owner, any bonds of the Seventieth Series, upon surrender thereof for cancellation at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, shall be exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of the Seventieth Series of other authorized denominations.

Bonds of the Seventieth Series shall be transferable, upon the surrender thereof for cancellation, together with a written instrument of transfer in form approved by the registrar duly executed by the registered owner or by his duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York.

Upon any exchange or transfer of bonds of the Seventieth Series, the Company may make a charge therefor sufficient to reimburse it for any tax or taxes or other governmental charge, as provided in Section 12 of the Mortgage, but the Company hereby waives any right to make a charge in addition thereto for any exchange or transfer of bonds of said Series.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
1. The holders of the bonds of the Seventieth Series shall be deemed to have consented and agreed that the Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the holders of the bonds of the Seventieth Series entitled to consent to any amendment or supplement to the Mortgage or the waiver of any provision thereof or any act to be performed thereunder. If a record date is fixed, those persons who were holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those persons, shall be entitled to consent to such amendment, supplement or waiver or to revoke any consent previously given, whether or not such persons continue to be holders after such record date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 90 days after such record date.
2. Subject to any amendments provided for in this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture, the terms defined in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, shall, for all purposes of this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture, have the meanings specified in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented.
3. So long as any bonds of the Seventieth Series shall remain Outstanding, in each Net Earning Certificate made pursuant to Section 7 of the Mortgage there shall be included in operating expenses for the twelve (12) months period with respect to which such certificate is made an amount, if any (not otherwise included), equal to the provisions for amortization of any amounts included in utility plant acquisition adjustment accounts for such period.
4. So long as any bonds of the Seventieth Series shall remain Outstanding, subdivision (2) of Section 7(A) of the Mortgage is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words "provided, further, that the amount so included in such operating expenses in lieu of the amounts actually appropriated out of income for retirement of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property used primarily and principally in the electric, gas, steam and/or hot water utility business and the Company's automotive equipment used in the operation of such property shall not be less than the amounts so actually appropriated out of income".
5. The Trustees hereby accept the trusts herein declared, provided, created or supplemented and agree to perform the same upon the terms and conditions herein and in the Mortgage, as heretofore amended, set forth and upon the following terms and conditions:
  
  The Trustees shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made by the Company solely. In general, each and every term and condition contained in Article XVII of the Mortgage, as heretofore amended, shall apply to and form part of this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture with the same force and effect as if the same were herein set forth in full with such omissions, variations and insertions, if any, as may be appropriate to make the same conform to the provisions of this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture.
6. Whenever in this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture either of the parties hereto is named or referred to, this shall, subject to the provisions of Articles XVI and XVII of the Mortgage, as heretofore amended, be deemed to include the successors and assigns of such party, and all covenants and agreements in this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company, or by or on behalf of the Trustees, or either of them, shall, subject as aforesaid, bind and inure to the respective benefits of the respective successors and assigns of such parties, whether so expressed or not.
7. Nothing in this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture, expressed or implied, is intended, or shall be construed, to confer upon, or give to, any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and the holders of the bonds and coupons Outstanding under the Mortgage, any right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture or any covenant, condition, stipulation, promise or agreement hereof, and all the covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto, and of the holders of the bonds and coupons Outstanding under the Mortgage.
8. It is the intention and it is hereby agreed that, so far as concerns that portion of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property situated within the State of Louisiana, the general language of conveyance contained in this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture is intended and shall be construed as words of hypothecation and not of conveyance, and that, so far as the said Louisiana property is concerned, this Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture shall be considered as an act of mortgage and pledge under the laws of the State of Louisiana, and the Trustees herein named are named as mortgagee and pledgee in trust for the benefit of themselves and of all present and future holders of bonds and coupons issued and to be issued under the Mortgage, and are irrevocably appointed special agents and representatives of the holders of the bonds and coupons issued and to be issued under the Mortgage and vested with full power in their behalf to effect and enforce the mortgage and pledge hereby constituted for their benefit, or otherwise to act as herein provided for.
9. This Sixty-fifth Supplemental Indenture shall be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

AMENDMENTS OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE MORTGAGE

Amendment of Releases of Mortgaged and Pledged Property.

(a) Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 3 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the consent of the holder of all outstanding bonds of the Collateral Series 1994-A, due July 2, 2017, of the Collateral Series 1994-B, due July 2, 2017, and of the Collateral Series 1994-C, due July 2, 2017 (the "Bondholder Consent"), the Company hereby amends clause (c) of subdivision (4) of Section 59 of the Mortgage to read as set forth in Section 3 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.

(b) Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 4 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends Section 60 of the Mortgage to insert (I) before the word "Unless" in the first line thereof and to add a subsection (II) at the end of Section 60 as set forth in the second paragraph of Section 4 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.

(c) Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 4 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends clause (a) of subdivision (3) of Section 59 of the Mortgage to read as set forth in the third paragraph of Section 4 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.

(d) Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 4 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends clause (b) of subdivision (4) of Section 59 of the Mortgage to delete the words set forth in the fourth paragraph of Section 4 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.
Amendment of Meetings of Bondholders.

Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 5 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends Article XIX of the Mortgage to read as set forth in Section 5 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.
Amendment of Funded Property.

Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 6 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends Section 5 of the Mortgage to replace the first two paragraphs thereof with the three paragraphs set forth in Section 6 of Article III of the Fifty-seventh Supplemental Indenture, effective upon the delivery of a Funded Property Certificate to the Corporate Trustee.
Amendment of Bonding Ratio for Issuance of Bonds Upon the Basis of Property Additions.

Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 7 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends Section 25 of the Mortgage to change the words "sixty per centum (60%)" to "eighty per centum (80%)" as set forth in Section 7 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.
Amendment of Net Earning Certificate.

(a) Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 8 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends subparagraph (A) of the first paragraph of Section 7 of the Mortgage to substitute the words "eighteen (18)" for the words "fifteen (15)" in the second line thereof as set forth in the second paragraph of Section 8 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.

(b) Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 8 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends clause (1) of clause (A) of Section 7 of the Mortgage to add after the word "revenues" the text set forth in the third paragraph of Section 8 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.

(c) Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 8 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends clause (8) of subparagraph (A) of the first paragraph of Section 7 of the Mortgage to add after the word "(net)" the text set forth in the fourth paragraph of Section 8 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.

(d) Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 8 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends the second paragraph of Section 7 of the Mortgage to add at the end of the first sentence of such paragraph the text set forth in the fifth paragraph of Section 8 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.

(e) Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 8 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends Section 7 of the Mortgage to add a new paragraph at the end of such Section 7 to read as set forth in the sixth paragraph of Section 8 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.
Amendment of Right of Successor Corporation.

Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 9 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends Section 86 of the Mortgage to add a new paragraph at the end of such Section 86 to read as set forth in Section 9 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.
Amendment of Supplemental Indentures without the Consent of Bondholders.

Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 10 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent and Section 120 of the Mortgage, the Company hereby amends Section 120 of the Mortgage to read as set forth in Section 10 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.
Amendment of Engineer's Certificate and Purchase Money Mortgage.

Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 11 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends Section 59 of the Mortgage to delete the clause at the end of subdivision (4) beginning with the works "provided, however, that (i) no obligations .. . ." and ending with the words "at such time Outstanding under this Indenture" and substituting therefor the text as set forth in Section 11 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.
Amendment of Replacement Fund.

Pursuant to the reservation of right in Section 12 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture, and the Bondholder Consent, the Company hereby amends Section 39 of the Mortgage to delete subdivisions I and II of such Section 39 and all references thereto as set forth in Section 12 of Article III of the Fifty-first Supplemental Indenture.
Effective Date. Each of the amendments set forth in Sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of this Article III shall be effective as of August 8, 2008. The amendment set forth in Section 3 of this Article III shall be effective upon delivery of a Funded Property Certificate to the Corporate Trustee.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC has caused its company name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by its President or one of its Vice Presidents, and its company seal to be attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries, for and in its behalf, THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, in token of its acceptance of the trust hereby created, has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by one of its Vice Presidents or Assistant Vice Presidents and its corporate seal to be attested by one of its Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents or Assistant Treasurers and XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXX, in token of his acceptance of the trust hereby created, has hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal, all as of the day and year first above written.

ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC

/s/ Xxxxxx X. XxXxxx
Xxxxxx X. XxXxxx
Vice President and Treasurer

Attest:

/s/ Xxxx X. Abuso
Xxxx X. Abuso

Assistant Secretary

Executed, sealed and delivered by
ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
in the presence of:

/s/ Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx

/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
As Successor Corporate Trustee

By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. X'Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. X'Xxxxx
Title: Vice President

Attest:

/s/ Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx

Executed, sealed and delivered by
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
in the presence of:

/s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxx

/s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx

By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
As Successor Co-Trustee

Executed sealed and delivered by
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
in the presence of:

/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx

/s/ Xxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxxx Xxx

STATE OF LOUISIANA
} ss.:
PARISH OF ORLEANS

On this 13^th day of August, 2008, before me appeared XXXXXX X. XXXXXX, to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that he is Vice President and Treasurer of ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, and that the seal affixed to the above instrument is the seal of said entity and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said entity by authority of its Board of Directors, and said XXXXXX X. XXXXXX, acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said entity.

On the 13^th day of August, 2008 before me personally came XXXXXX X. XXXXXX, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he resides at 0000 Xxxxxx'x Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000; that he is Vice President and Treasurer of ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC, one of the entities described in and which executed the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said entity; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such seal, that it was so affixed by order of the Board of Directors of said entity, and that he signed his name thereto by like order.

/s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Notary Public
Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Notary ID Number: 57639
My commission is issued for life.

STATE OF NEW YORK
} ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK

On this 15th day of August, 2008, before me appeared XXXXXXXX X. X'XXXXX to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that he is a Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, and that the seal affixed to the above instrument is the corporate seal of said entity and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said entity by authority of its Board of Directors, and said Xxxxxxxx X. X'Xxxxx acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said entity.

On the 15th day of August, 2008, before me personally came Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he resides at 000 Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, XX; that he is a Vice President of THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, one of the entities described in and which executed the above instrument; that he knows the seal of said entity; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such seal, that it was so affixed by order of the Board of Directors of said entity, and that he signed his name thereto by like order.

/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
XXXXXX X. XXXXXX
Notary Public, State of New York
No. 01CL5057121
Qualified in New York County
Certificate Filed in New York County
Commission Expires May 11, 0000

XXXXX XX XXX XXXX

XXXXXX xx XXX XXXX

Xx this 15th of August, 2008, before me appeared XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXXX, to me known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged that he executed the same as his free act and deed.

/s/ Xxxxxxx X. XxXxxxxxx
XXXXXXX X. XxXXXXXXX
Notary Public, State of New York
No. 02MC5061158
Qualified in New York County
Commission Expires August 26, 2011

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ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC (successor to Entergy Louisiana, Inc.) TO THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (formerly The Bank of New York) (successor to Harris Trust Company of New York) AND STEPHEN J. GIURLANDO (successor to Mark F. McLaughlin) As Trustees under...

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