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Under the Company's Deferred Compensation Plan for Directors, an Outside Director may elect to have all or part of director fees credited to a deferred compensation account in the form of units equivalent to shares of the Company's common stock.

1.3Deferral Account for Director Shares. As of each Deferral Date, the Participant’s Deferral Account for Director Shares shall be credited with a number of Deferred Share Units equal to the number of Director Shares that have been deferred pursuant to [Section 3.1(b)] (Deferral of Director Shares). Upon payment of a dividend by the Company on issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock, an amount equal to such per share dividend amount multiplied by the number of Deferred Share Units credited to each Participant’s Deferral Account for Director Shares shall be credited to the Participant’s Deferral Account for Director Shares as of the dividend payment date and shall continue to be denominated in cash. The portion of a Participant’s Deferral Account for Director Shares attributable to such dividend equivalents and denominated in cash shall be credited with earnings as of each Determination Date in the same manner as a Participant’s Deferral Account for Fees as described in [Section 4.2] (Deferral Account for Fees).

Payment of Deferred Stock Units. Each Deferred Stock Unit shall have a value equal to the Fair Market Value of a Share. Deferred Stock Units shall be paid in Shares at the end of the designated Deferral Period and the lapse of the restrictions applicable thereto, or otherwise in accordance with the applicable Award Agreement. Except as otherwise provided in the applicable Award Agreement, Participants shall not be credited with Dividend Equivalents on any Deferred Stock Units. If Dividend Equivalents are credited, the amount of any such Dividend Equivalents shall equal the amount that would have been payable to the Participant as a shareholder in respect of a number of Shares equal to the number of Deferred Stock Units then credited to the Participant. Any such Dividend Equivalents shall be credited to the Participant’s account as of the date on which such dividend would have been payable and shall be converted into additional Deferred Stock Units based upon the Fair Market Value of a Share on the date of such crediting. Any Dividend Equivalents granted with respect to Deferred Stock Units shall be subject to the same restrictions that apply to the underlying Shares.

The Company may grant long term performance awards under other plans or programs consistent with the limitations described in Article 11. Such awards and all stock units credited under the Company’s Deferred Incentive Compensation Plan and Deferred Compensation Plan may be settled in the form of Common Shares issued under this Plan. Such Common Shares shall be treated for all purposes under the Plan like Common Shares issued in settlement of Stock Units and shall reduce the number of Common Shares available under Article 3.

In the case of dividends payable in Common Stock, a number of Deferred Stock Units equal to the number of shares of Common Stock to which the Director would have been entitled as Common Stock dividends had such Director been the owner on the record dates for the payments of such stock dividends of the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of Deferred Stock Units credited to the Director’s Deferred Stock Account on such dates, rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth.

To the extent the Corporation maintains one or more separate non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements which allow the participants the opportunity to make notional investments of their deferred account balances in shares of Common Stock, the Plan Administrator may authorize the share reserve under the Plan to serve as the source of any shares of Common Stock that become payable under those deferred compensation arrangements. In such event, the share reserve under the Plan shall be reduced on a share-for-one share basis for each share of Common Stock issued under the Plan in settlement of the deferred compensation owed under those separate arrangements.

If an Eligible Director has a balance in an Annual Deferred Stock Account, a distribution of the number of shares represented by the Phantom Shares issued pursuant to such election; and

Share Account. The Company shall maintain a Share Account for each Deferred Stock Participant and for each Monthly Deferral Participant who elects to have a Deferred Amount credited in Shares pursuant to [subsection 5.2] hereof. The Share Account shall be denominated in Shares and maintained in fractions rounded to three (3) decimal places. Shares allocated to each Share Account shall be hypothetical and not issued or transferred by the Company until payment is made pursuant to Section 8 hereof.

Rights as a Stockholder. Deferred Stock Units shall not entitle any Director or other person to rights of a stockholder of the Company or any of its affiliates with respect to such Deferred Stock Units unless and until any shares of Common Stock have been issued to the holder thereof in respect of such Deferred Stock Units pursuant to Article IV hereof.

Employees of the Company shall be entitled to defer the receipt of any Shares that may become issuable to them under any Award in accordance with the terms of the Deferred Compensation and Retirement Benefit Restoration Plan, as the same may be hereinafter amended, or any other plan that may be established by the Company that provides for the deferred receipt of such Shares.

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