Designation of Beneficiaries. Each participating Outside Director may file with the Plan Administrator a written designation of one or more primary beneficiaries and one or more contingent beneficiaries to whom payments otherwise due to the Outside Director at the date of his death shall be made after the death of the Outside Director. Such payments will be made in such amounts and at such times as would have been made to the Outside Director had he lived. The written designation must be received by the Plan Administrator prior to the death of the Outside Director. A beneficiary may not, under any circumstances, change the time and form of the payments. Such payments will be divided among the primary beneficiaries who survive the Outside Director in such proportion as directed in the written designation. If no primary beneficiary survives the Outside Director, such payment will be divided among the contingent beneficiaries who survive the Outside Director in such proportion as directed in the written designation. If no primary or contingent beneficiary survives the Outside Director or is designated by the Outside Director, such payments will be made to the estate of the Outside Director. At the discretion of the Compensation Committee of the A&B Board of Directors, payments to the estate of the Outside Director may be made in a lump-sum equal to the full amount of the Outside Director's deferred fee account; provided, however, that such payment will not be made later than 90 days following the Outside Director’s death. The Plan Administrator retains the sole discretion to determine when during the 90-day period the payment will be made.

A person entitled to receive a payment under this Plan may name one or more designated beneficiaries to receive such payment in the event of the person's death. Beneficiary designations shall be made in accordance with such procedures as the Plan Administrator may establish. Spousal consent to any designation is not required.

Designation of Beneficiaries. The Executive may designate any person to receive any benefits payable under the Agreement upon the Executive’s death, and the designation may be changed from time to time by the Executive by filing a new designation. Each designation will revoke all prior designations by the Executive, shall be in the form prescribed by the Administrator and shall be effective only when filed in writing with the Administrator during the Executive’s lifetime. If the Executive names someone other than the Executive’s spouse as a Beneficiary, the Administrator may, in its sole discretion, determine that spousal consent is required to be provided in a form designated by the Administrator, executed by the Executive’s spouse and returned to the Administrator. The Executive’s beneficiary designation shall be deemed automatically revoked if the Beneficiary predeceases the Executive or if the Executive names a spouse as Beneficiary and the marriage is subsequently dissolved.

Designation of Beneficiaries by U.S. Participants. Notwithstanding the preceding language in this Section 12(b), a Participant who is subject to U.S. laws may file a written beneficiary designation with the Company (in such form and manner, and subject to such limitations, as the Committee may determine) to designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive any undistributed amount of an Award that was not deferred under a Company deferral arrangement or plan and that would have been payable to such Participant had the Participant survived and fulfilled all applicable conditions under Section 13 and any applicable deferral plan or arrangement until the time of death. Any such beneficiary designation shall be controlling; provided, however, that if applicable law requires the Company to pay all or any portion of such an amount to the legal representative(s) of the Participant, such payment shall satisfy any and all liability and/or obligation under the Plan with respect to such Participant. Participants may revoke or change such a beneficiary designation from time to time. Subject to the provisions of Section 11, and any applicable deferral plan or arrangement, upon the death of a Participant who has designated a beneficiary in accordance with this Section 12(b)(i), the undistributed amount of such Participant's Award shall be distributed to any surviving designated beneficiary or beneficiaries in a single lump sum cash payment in accordance with Section 11(a) at, or as soon as reasonably practicable after, such time as the Participant’s Award would have been paid to the Participant if such Participant had survived. If a Participant who is subject to U.S. law does not file a written beneficiary designation in accordance with this Section 12(b)(i), or such designated beneficiary does not survive the Participant, any undistributed amount of an Award that otherwise would have been payable to such Participant shall be paid to such Participant’s legal estate.

K4.1 Designation of Beneficiaries

Section # Designation Procedure. Each Participant may designate one beneficiary or several beneficiaries (such beneficiary or beneficiaries of a Participant herein referred to as the Participant’s “Beneficiaries”) to receive any balance, or portion thereof, of his or her Accounts which may be payable under the Plan upon his or her death. To be effective, each designation must be in writing on a form provided by the Committee and must be signed by the Participant and filed with the Committee prior to the Participant’s death. Each Participant may name one or more primary Beneficiaries and one or more contingent Beneficiaries; provided that if a Participant names more than one Beneficiary, the Participant shall designate the percentage payable to each. A Participant may from time to time revoke or change his or her Beneficiaries designation without the consent of any Beneficiary by filing a new designation with the Committee, and each change will revoke all prior designations of Beneficiaries. The last such designation of Beneficiaries received by the Committee shall be controlling; provided, however, that no designation, or change or revocation thereof, shall be effective unless received by the Committee prior to the Participant’s death, and in no event shall it be effective as of a date prior to such receipt.

Designation. There is hereby designated a series of Preferred Stock denominated as “Series B Preferred Stock,” consisting of 5,000,000 shares, $.001 par value per share, having the powers, preferences, rights and limitations set forth below.

Beneficiaries. Any bonuses awarded under this Plan to a Participant who dies prior to payment shall be paid as specified in Section 6 to the beneficiary designated by the Participant on a form filed with the Company. If no such beneficiary has been designated or survives the Participant, payment shall be made to the Participant’s legal representative. A beneficiary designation may be changed or revoked by a Participant at any time provided the change or revocation is filed with the Company. If the Participant dies during a Bonus Year and while employed, the payment shall be made at the end of the Bonus Year at the time specified in Section 6 and shall be a pro rata amount based on the Participant’s months of employment during the Bonus Year prior to death with the month of death counting as a full month of employment.

Beneficiaries. For purposes of this Section 19, the Corporation and each of its Affiliates shall be deemed to be third-party beneficiaries with the right to seek enforcement of any of the provisions of this Section 19. Further, for purposes of this Section 19, references to acting directly or indirectly include acting jointly with or through another person.

Designation of Beneficiary(ies). Each Participant shall have the right to designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries (including contingent beneficiaries) to receive any benefits payable upon the death of a Participant. No such designation shall be effective unless completed and submitted in accordance with rules and procedures established by the Bank for this purpose. In the absence of an effective beneficiary designation, the Participant’s designated beneficiary shall be assumed to be the Participant’s surviving spouse or, if none, the Participant’s estate.