This Bond is one of the Bonds of the series designated therein which is described in the within-mentioned indenture and supplemental indenture dated April 1, 2007, as secured thereby.
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WHEREAS, the execution and delivery of this supplemental indenture have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company; and
WHEREAS, the Company represents that all things necessary to make the bond of the series hereinafter described, when duly authenticated by the Trustee and issued by the Company, a valid, binding and legal obligation of the Company, and to make this supplemental indenture a valid and binding agreement supplemental to the Indenture, have been done and performed:
NOW,THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH that the Company, in consideration of the premises and the execution and delivery by the Trustee of this supplemental indenture, and in pursuance of the covenants and agreements contained in the Indenture and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, has granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed, confirmed, assigned, transferred and set over, and by these presents does grant, bargain, sell, alien, remise, release, convey, confirm, assign, transfer and set over unto the Trustee, its successors and assigns, forever, all the right, title and interest of the Company in and to all property of every kind and description (except cash, accounts and bills receivable and all merchandise bought, sold or manufactured for sale in the ordinary course of the Company’s business, stocks, bonds or other corporate obligations or securities, other than such as are described in Part V of the Granting Clauses of the Indenture, not acquired with the proceeds of bonds secured by the Indenture, and except as in the Indenture and herein otherwise expressly excluded) acquired by the Company since the execution and delivery of the supplemental indenture dated August 1, 2004 (No. 4), subsequent to the Indenture (except any such property duly released from, or disposed of, free from the lien of the Indenture, in accordance with the provisions thereof) and all such property which at any time hereafter may be acquired by the Company;
All of which property it is intended shall be included in and granted by this supplemental indenture and covered by the lien of the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented;
UNDER AND SUBJECT to any encumbrances or mortgages existing on property acquired by the Company at the time of such acquisition and not heretofore discharged of record; and
SUBJECT also, to the exceptions, reservations and provisions in the Indenture and in this supplemental indenture recited, and to the liens, reservations, exceptions, limitations, conditions and restrictions imposed by or contained in the several deeds, grants, franchises and contracts or other instruments through which the Company acquired or claims title to the aforesaid property; and Subject, also, to the existing leases, to liens on easements or rights of way, to liens for taxes, assessments and governmental charges not in default or the payment of which is deferred, pending appeal or other contest by legal proceedings, pursuant to Section 4 of Article Five of the indenture, or the payment of which is deferred pending billing, transfer of title or final determination of amount, to easements for alleys, streets, highways, rights of way and railroads that may run across or encroach upon the said property, to joint pole and similar agreements, to undetermined liens and charges, if any, incidental to construction, and other encumbrances permitted by the indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented;
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the property hereby conveyed or assigned, or intended to be conveyed or assigned, unto the Trustee, its successor or successors and assigns, forever;
IN TRUST, NEVERTHELESS, upon the terms, conditions and trusts set forth in the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented, to the end that the said property shall be subject to the lien of the Indenture as heretofore and hereby amended and supplemented, with the same force and effect as though said property had been included in the Granting Clauses of the Indenture at the time of the execution and delivery thereof;
AND THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE FURTHER WITNESSETH that for the considerations aforesaid, it is hereby covenanted between the Company and the Trustee as follows:
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ARTICLE I.
BONDS OF THE MEDIUM-TERM NOTES SERIES E.
The series of bonds authorized by this supplemental indenture to be issued under and secured by the Indenture shall be designated “First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds, Medium-Term Notes Series E”; shall be limited to the aggregate principal amount of $850,000,000; shall be issued initially to the Note Trustee and shall mature and bear interest as set forth in the form of bond set forth herein; provided, however, that the Company shall receive certain credits against principal and interest as set forth in Section 3.01 hereof. The date of each Bond of the Medium-Term Notes Series E shall be the interest payment date next preceding the date of authentication, unless such date of authentication be an interest payment date, in which case the date shall be the date of authentication, or unless such date of authentication be prior to the first semi-annual interest payment date, in which case the date shall be April 1, 2007.
Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E shall be issuable only in the form of fully registered bonds in any denomination authorized by the Company. Interest on the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E shall be payable semi-annually in arrears on April 1 and October 1 of each year, payable initially on October 1, 2007, subject to receipt of certain credits against principal and interest as set forth in Section 3.01 hereof and shall be payable as to both principal and interest in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall constitute legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, at the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee, or at the corporate trust office of any paying agent appointed.
Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E shall be transferable and exchangeable, but only as provided in the Indenture and the Note Indenture, upon surrender thereof for cancellation by the registered owner in person or by attorney duly authorized in writing at either of said offices. The Company hereby waives any right to make a charge for any transfer or exchange of Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or any other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto.
ARTICLE II.
REDEMPTION OF BONDS OF MEDIUM-TERM NOTES SERIES E.
Section 2.01. Redemption—Redemption Price. Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E shall be subject to redemption prior to maturity under the conditions, and upon payment of the amounts as may be specified in the following conditions:
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SECTION 2.02. Redemptions Pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture. If, pursuant to Section 4C of Article Eight of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, any proceeds of released property or other money then held by the Trustee shall be applied to the redemption of the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E, the Trustee shall give at least 45 days prior written notice of such redemption to the Note Trustee whereupon on the date fixed for redemption such principal amount thereof as is equal to such proceeds shall be redeemed; provided that no such redemption shall be made unless the Trustee shall be in receipt of a written certification of the Company and the Note Trustee that a like principal amount of Series E Notes shall have been theretofore redeemed in accordance with the provisions of the Note Indenture. For purposes of determining which of the Company’s First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds are subject to such mandatory redemption, the Mortgage Trustee shall consider the 10% stated annual interest rate of the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E, not the weighted average interest rate of outstanding Series E Notes. Bonds of said series so redeemed shall be cancelled.
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SECTION 2.03. Interest on Called Bonds to Cease. Each Bond of the Medium-Term Notes Series E or portion thereof called for redemption under Section 2.02 hereof shall be due and payable at the office of the Note Trustee, as paying agent hereunder, at its redemption price and on the specified redemption date, anything herein or in such Bond to the contrary notwithstanding. From and after the date when each Bond of the Medium-Term Notes Series E or portion thereof shall be due and payable as aforesaid (unless upon said date the full amount due thereon shall not be held by the Note Trustee, as paying agent hereunder, and be immediately available for payment), all further interest shall cease to accrue on such bond or on such portion thereof, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.04. Bonds Called in Part. If only a portion of any Bond of the Medium-Term Notes Series E shall be called for redemption pursuant to Section 2.02 hereof, upon payment of the portion so called for redemption, the Note Trustee shall make an appropriate notation upon the Bond of the principal amount so redeemed.
SECTION 2.05. Provisions of Indenture Not Applicable. The provisions of Article Four of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, shall not apply to the procedure for the exercise of any right of redemption reserved by the Company, or to any mandatory redemption provided, in this Article in respect of the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E. There shall be no sinking fund for the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E.
ARTICLE III.
CREDITS WITH RESPECT TO BONDS OF THE MEDIUM-TERM NOTES SERIES E.
Section 3.01. Credits. In addition to any other credit, payment or satisfaction to which the Company is entitled with respect to the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E, the Company shall be entitled to credits against amounts otherwise payable in respect of the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E in an amount corresponding to (i) the principal amount of any of the Company’s Series E Notes issued under the Note Indenture surrendered to the Note Trustee by the Company, or purchased by the Note Trustee, for cancellation, (ii) the amount of money held by the Note Trustee and available and designated for the payment of principal or redemption price (exclusive of any premium) of, and/or interest on, the Series E Notes, regardless of the source of payment to the Note Trustee of such moneys and (iii) the amount by which principal of and interest due on the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E exceeds principal of and interest due on the Series E Notes. The Note Trustee shall make notation on such Bonds authorized hereby of any such credit.
SECTION 3.02. Certificate of the Company. A certificate of the Company signed by the President or any Vice President, and attested to by the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, and consented to by the Note Trustee, stating that the Company is entitled to a credit under Section 3.01 hereof or that Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E have been cancelled, and setting forth the basis therefor in reasonable detail, shall be conclusive evidence of such entitlement, and the Trustee shall accept such certificate as such evidence without further investigation or verification of the matters stated therein.
ARTICLE IV.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Section 4.01. Authentication of Bonds of Medium-Term Notes Series E. None of the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E, the issue of which is provided for by this supplemental indenture, shall be authenticated by or on behalf of the Trustee except in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, as amended and supplemented, and this supplemental indenture, and upon compliance with the conditions in that behalf therein contained.
SECTION 4.02. Additional Restrictions on Authentication of Additional Bonds Under Indenture. The Company covenants that from and after the date of execution of this supplemental indenture no additional bonds (as defined in Section 1 of Article Two of the Indenture) shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under Subdivision A of Section 4 of said Article Two on account of additions or improvements to the mortgaged property;
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SECTION 4.03. Restriction on Dividends. The Company will not declare or pay any dividend on any shares of its common stock (other than dividends payable in shares of its common stock) or make any other distribution on any such shares, or purchase or otherwise acquire any such shares (except shares acquired without cost to the Company) whenever such action would reduce the earned surplus of the Company to an amount less than $10,000,000 or such lesser amount as may remain after deducting from said $10,000,000 all amounts appearing in the books of account of the Company on December 31, 1948, which shall thereafter, pursuant to any order or rule of any regulatory body entered after said date, be required to be removed, in whole or in part, from the books of account of the Company by charges to earned surplus.
SECTION 4.04. Use of Facsimile Seal and Signatures. The seal of the Company and any or all signatures of the officers of the Company upon any of the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E may be facsimiles.
SECTION 4.05. Time for Making of Payment. All payments of principal or redemption price of, and interest on, the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E shall be made either prior to the due date thereof or on the due date thereof in immediately available funds. In any case where the date of any such payment shall be a Saturday or Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions in the city of payment are authorized by law to close, then such payment need not be made on such date but may be made on the next succeeding business day with the same force and effect as if made on the due date, and no interest on such payment shall accrue for the period after such date.
SECTION 4.06. Effective Period of Supplemental Indenture. The preceding provisions of Articles I, II and III of this supplemental indenture shall remain in effect only so long as any of the Bonds of the Medium-Term Notes Series E shall remain outstanding.
SECTION 4.07. Effect of Approval of Board of Public Utilities of the State of New Jersey. The approval of the Board of Public Utilities of the State of New Jersey of the execution and delivery of these presents and of the issue of any Bond of the Medium-Term Notes Series E shall not be construed as approval of said Board of any other act, matter or thing which requires approval of said Board under the laws of the State of New Jersey.
SECTION 4.08. Execution in Counterparts. For the purpose of facilitating the recording hereof, this supplemental indenture has been executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be and shall be taken to be an original, and all collectively but one instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Public Service Electric and Gas Company, party hereto of the first part, after due corporate and other proceedings, has caused this supplemental indenture to be signed and acknowledged or proved by its President or one of its Vice Presidents and its corporate seal hereunto to be affixed and to be attested by the signature of its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary; and US Bank National Association, as Trustee, party hereto of the second part, has caused this supplemental indenture to be signed and acknowledged or proved by its President or one of its Vice Presidents, and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and to be attested by the signature of its Secretary, Assistant Secretary; Vice President, or an Assistant Vice President. Executed and delivered this 5th day of April 2007.
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| | GAS COMPANY |
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| | | M. A. Plawner |
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S.L. Guibord | | | |
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| | US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION |
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| | | N. Barnes |
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T. Brett | | | |
Assistant Vice President | | | |
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Be it Remembered, that on this 5th day of April, 2007, before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public of the State of New Jersey, personally appeared M.A. Plawner, who, I am satisfied, is a Vice President of Public Service Electric and Gas Company, one of the corporations named in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and is the person who signed the said instrument as such officer, for and on behalf of such corporation, and I having first made known to him the contents thereof, he did acknowledge that he signed the said instrument as such officer, that the said instrument was made by such corporation and sealed with its corporate seal, that the said instrument is the voluntary act and deed of such corporation, made by virtue of authority from its Board of Directors, and that said corporation the mortgagor, has received a true copy of said instrument.
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| June Barnett |
| Notary Public of New Jersey |
| My Commission Expires July 31, 2008 |
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY | ) | |
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Be it Remembered, that on this 5th day of April 2007, before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public of the State of New Jersey, personally appeared Norman Barnes, who, I am satisfied, is a Vice President of US Bank National Association, one of the corporations named in and which executed the foregoing instrument, and is the person who signed the said instrument as such officer, for and on behalf of such corporation, and I having first made known to him the contents thereof, he did acknowledge that he signed the said instrument as such officer, that the said instrument was made by such corporation and sealed with its corporate seal, and that the said instrument is the voluntary act and deed of such corporation, made by virtue of authority from its Board of Directors.
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| Melody Nedrick |
| Notary Public of New Jersey |
| My Commission Expires March 3, 2010 |
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CERTIFICATE OF RESIDENCE
US Bank National Association, Mortgagee and Trustee within named, hereby certifies that its precise residence is 21 South Street, Morristown, New Jersey 07960.
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| US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION |
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| | N. Barnes |
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