NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY (a Minnesota corporation) FORM OF UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT (SENIOR DEBT SECURITIES)Northern States Power Co • March 22nd, 2005 • Electric & other services combined • New York
Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), proposes to sell to the underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the "Underwriters"), for whom you are acting as representatives (the "Representatives"), its unsecured Debt Securities of the designation, with the terms and in the aggregate principal amount specified in Schedule I hereto (the "Debt Securities") to be issued under its Indenture, dated as of July 1, 1999, from the Company to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as successor trustee (the "Trustee"), as previously amended and supplemented and as to be amended and supplemented by a supplemental indenture relating to the Debt Securities (such Indenture as so supplemented and amended being hereinafter referred to as the "Indenture"). If the firm or firms listed in Schedule II hereto include only the firm or firms listed in Schedule I hereto, then the terms "Underwriters" and "Representatives," as used herein, shall each be deemed to refer to such firm or firms.
NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY (a Minnesota corporation) FORM OF UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT (FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS)Northern States Power Co • March 22nd, 2005 • Electric & other services combined • New York
Northern States Power Company, a Minnesota corporation (the "Company"), proposes to sell to the underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the "Underwriters"), for whom you are acting as representatives (the "Representatives"), its First Mortgage Bonds of the designation, with the terms and in the aggregate principal amount specified in Schedule I hereto (the "Bonds") to be issued under its Trust Indenture, dated as of February 1, 1937, from the Company to BNY Midwest Trust Company, as successor trustee (the "Trustee"), as previously amended, supplemented and restated and as to be amended and supplemented by a supplemental indenture relating to the Bonds (such Trust Indenture as so supplemented, amended and restated being hereinafter referred to as the "Indenture"). If the firm or firms listed in Schedule II hereto include only the firm or firms listed in Schedule I hereto, then the terms "Underwriters" and "Representatives," as used herein, shall each be deemed to refer to such firm or
