EXHIBIT 4.17 The company has numerous other instruments governing long-term indebtedness that are not registered, none of which exceeds ten percent of the total assets of the Registrant and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, and the Company...

                                                                    EXHIBIT 4.17

     The company has numerous other instruments governing long-term indebtedness
that are not  registered,  none of which exceeds ten percent of the total assets
of the Registrant and its subsidiaries on a consolidated  basis, and the Company
hereby agrees to furnish a copy of any of such agreements to the Commission upon
request.