WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 12 of the Officer’s Certificate (the “Ninth Series Officer’s Certificate”) establishing the form and certain terms of the 3.25% Senior Notes due 2032 (the “3.25% Notes due 2032”), each initial and future holder of the 3.25% Notes due 2032, by its acquisition of an interest in such 3.25% Notes due 2032, irrevocably (a) consented to the Section 605 Amendment without any other or further action by any Holder of such 3.25% Notes due 2032, and (b) designated the Trustee, and its successors, as its proxy with irrevocable instructions to vote and deliver a written consent on behalf of such Holder in favor of the Section 605 Amendment at any noteholder meeting, in any consent solicitation in lieu of any noteholder meeting, or otherwise;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 1202 of the Indenture, (a) the Holders of the 4.85% Notes due 2048, the 4.00% Notes due 2050, the 1.500% Notes due 2030, the 3.250% Notes due 2051 and the 3.25% Notes due 2032 shall be deemed to have consented to the Section 605 Amendment, (b) no Act of such Holders shall be required to evidence such consent, and (c) such consent may be counted in the determination of whether or not the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Securities shall have consented to the Section 605 Amendment;
WHEREAS, the 4.85% Notes due 2048, the 4.00% Notes due 2050, the 1.500% Notes due 2030, the 3.250% Notes due 2051 and the 3.25% Notes due 2032 constitute a majority of the aggregate principal amount of all Securities now Outstanding; and
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture, and has duly authorized the Section 605 Amendment.
NOW THERETOFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises, the parties mutually agree, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
AMENDMENTS TO THE ORIGINAL INDENTURE
SECTION 101. The holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities Outstanding under the Indenture having consented to the amendment set forth in Section 12 of each of the Fifth Series Officer’s Certificate, the Sixth Series Officer’s Certificate, the Seventh Series Officer’s Certificate, the Eighth Series Officer’s Certificate and the Ninth Series Officer’s Certificate, the Company hereby exercises its right to amend Section 605 of the Original Indenture, effective as of May 1, 2022, as follows:
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