Registration No.
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM T-1

         STATEMENT OF ELIGIBILITY UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
                  OF A CORPORATION DESIGNATED TO ACT AS TRUSTEE

CHECK IF AN APPLICATION TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY OF A TRUSTEE PURSUANT TO
SECTION 305(b)(2)

                            WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
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               (Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)

        Delaware                                         51-0055023
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(State of incorporation)                 (I.R.S. employer identification no.)

                               Rodney Square North
                            1100 North Market Street
                           Wilmington, Delaware 19890
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                    (Address of principal executive offices)

                               Cynthia L. Corliss
                        Vice President and Trust Counsel
                            Wilmington Trust Company
                               Rodney Square North
                           Wilmington, Delaware 19890
                                 (302) 651-8516
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            (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)


                             CASCADE CAPITAL TRUST I
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               (Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

       Delaware
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(State of incorporation)                    (I.R.S. employer identification no.)

         Cascade Financial Corporation
         2828 Colby Avenue
         Everett, Washington                               98201
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(Address of principal executive offices)                 (Zip Code)

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                 $10.0 Million 11% Capital Securities, Series B
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ITEM 1.     GENERAL INFORMATION.

            Furnish the following information as to the trustee:

            (a)     Name and address of each examining or supervising authority
                    to which it is subject.

                    Federal Deposit Insurance Co.      State Bank Commissioner
                    Five Penn Center                   Dover, Delaware
                    Suite #2901
                    Philadelphia, PA

            (b)     Whether it is authorized to exercise corporate trust powers.

                    The  trustee  is  authorized  to  exercise  corporate  trust
                    powers.

ITEM 2.     AFFILIATIONS WITH THE OBLIGOR.

                    If the obligor is an affiliate of the trustee, describe each
            affiliation:

                    Based upon an  examination  of the books and  records of the
            trustee and upon information  furnished by the obligor,  the obligor
            is not an affiliate of the trustee.

ITEM 3.     LIST OF EXHIBITS.

                 List  below all  exhibits  filed as part of this  Statement  of
            Eligibility and Qualification.

            A.      Copy of the  Charter  of  Wilmington  Trust  Company,  which
                    includes the  certificate  of authority of Wilmington  Trust
                    Company  to  commence  business  and  the  authorization  of
                    Wilmington Trust Company to exercise corporate trust powers.

            B.      Copy of By-Laws of Wilmington Trust Company.

            C.      Consent of  Wilmington  Trust  Company  required  by Section
                    321(b) of Trust Indenture Act.

            D.      Copy of most recent Report of Condition of Wilmington Trust
                    Company.

            Pursuant to the  requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended,  the trustee,  Wilmington  Trust Company,  a corporation  organized and
existing  under  the  laws of  Delaware,  has  duly  caused  this  Statement  of
Eligibility  to be  signed  on its  behalf by the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly
authorized,  all in the City of Wilmington and State of Delaware on the 28th day
of June, 2000.

                                  WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
[SEAL]

Attest: /s/ Mary Kay Pupillo      By: /s/ Denise M. Geran
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       Assistant Secretary        Name: Denise M. Geran
                                  Title: Senior Financial Services Officer


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                                    EXHIBIT A

                                 AMENDED CHARTER

                            Wilmington Trust Company

                              Wilmington, Delaware

                           As existing on May 9, 1987








                                 Amended Charter

                                       or

                              Act of Incorporation

                                       of

                            Wilmington Trust Company

            Wilmington Trust Company,  originally  incorporated by an Act of the
General  Assembly of the State of Delaware,  entitled "An Act to Incorporate the
Delaware Guarantee and Trust Company", approved March 2, A.D. 1901, and the name
of which company was changed to "Wilmington Trust Company" by an amendment filed
in the Office of the Secretary of State on March 18, A.D.  1903, and the Charter
or Act of  Incorporation of which company has been from time to time amended and
changed by merger agreements pursuant to the corporation law for state banks and
trust  companies  of the  State of  Delaware,  does  hereby  alter and amend its
Charter or Act of Incorporation so that the same as so altered and amended shall
in its entirety read as follows:

            First: - The name of this corporation is Wilmington Trust Company.

            Second:  - The  location  of its  principal  office  in the State of
            Delaware  is at  Rodney  Square  North,  in the City of  Wilmington,
            County of New Castle;  the name of its resident  agent is Wilmington
            Trust Company whose address is Rodney Square North, in said City. In
            addition to such principal  office,  the said corporation  maintains
            and  operates  branch  offices  in the City of  Newark,  New  Castle
            County,  Delaware, the Town of Newport, New Castle County, Delaware,
            at Claymont, New Castle County, Delaware, at Greenville,  New Castle
            County  Delaware,  and at Milford  Cross Roads,  New Castle  County,
            Delaware,  and shall be  empowered  to open,  maintain  and  operate
            branch offices at Ninth and Shipley  Streets,  418 Delaware  Avenue,
            2120  Market  Street,  and 3605  Market  Street,  all in the City of
            Wilmington,  New Castle  County,  Delaware,  and such  other  branch
            offices or places of business as may be authorized from time to time
            by the agency or agencies of the government of the State of Delaware
            empowered to confer such authority.

            Third: - (a) The nature of the business and the objects and purposes
            proposed  to  be   transacted,   promoted  or  carried  on  by  this
            Corporation  are to do any or all of the things herein  mentioned as
            fully and to the same  extent as natural  persons  might or could do
            and in any part of the world, viz.:

                    (1) To sue and be sued,  complain and defend in any Court of
                    law or equity and to make and use a common  seal,  and alter
                    the seal at pleasure, to hold, purchase, convey, mortgage or
                    otherwise deal in real and personal estate and property, and
                    to appoint  such  officers and agents as the business of the
                    Corporation shall require,  to make by-laws not inconsistent
                    with the  Constitution  or laws of the  United  States or of
                    this State, to discount  bills,  notes or other evidences of
                    debt, to receive deposits of money, or securities for

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                    money,  to buy gold and silver bullion and foreign coins, to
                    buy and  sell  bills  of  exchange,  and  generally  to use,
                    exercise and enjoy all the powers,  rights,  privileges  and
                    franchises  incident  to a  corporation  which are proper or
                    necessary  for  the  transaction  of  the  business  of  the
                    Corporation hereby created.

                    (2) To insure titles to real and personal  property,  or any
                    estate or interests therein,  and to guarantee the holder of
                    such  property,  real or  personal,  against  any  claim  or
                    claims,  adverse to his interest therein, and to prepare and
                    give  certificates of title for any lands or premises in the
                    State of Delaware, or elsewhere.

                    (3) To act as  factor,  agent,  broker  or  attorney  in the
                    receipt,  collection,  custody, investment and management of
                    funds,  and the purchase,  sale,  management and disposal of
                    property of all descriptions, and to prepare and execute all
                    papers which may be necessary or proper in such business.

                    (4)  To  prepare  and  draw  agreements,  contracts,  deeds,
                    leases,  conveyances,  mortgages,  bonds and legal papers of
                    every   description,   and  to  carry  on  the  business  of
                    conveyancing in all its branches.

                    (5) To receive upon deposit for safekeeping money,  jewelry,
                    plate,  deeds, bonds and any and all other personal property
                    of every  sort and  kind,  from  executors,  administrators,
                    guardians,  public officers,  courts, receivers,  assignees,
                    trustees,  and from  all  fiduciaries,  and  from all  other
                    persons and individuals,  and from all corporations  whether
                    state,  municipal,  corporate or private, and to rent boxes,
                    safes, vaults and other receptacles for such property.

                    (6) To  act  as  agent  or  otherwise  for  the  purpose  of
                    registering,    issuing,   certificating,    countersigning,
                    transferring  or  underwriting  the  stock,  bonds  or other
                    obligations  of  any  corporation,   association,  state  or
                    municipality,  and may receive  and manage any sinking  fund
                    therefor on such terms as may be agreed upon between the two
                    parties,  and in like  manner  may act as  Treasurer  of any
                    corporation or municipality.

                    (7) To act as  Trustee  under any deed of  trust,  mortgage,
                    bond or other instrument issued by any state,  municipality,
                    body politic,  corporation,  association  or person,  either
                    alone or in  conjunction  with any other  person or persons,
                    corporation or corporations.

                    (8) To guarantee the validity,  performance or effect of any
                    contract or agreement,  and the fidelity of persons  holding
                    places of  responsibility or trust; to become surety for any
                    person,  or persons,  for the  faithful  performance  of any
                    trust, office, duty, contract or agreement, either by itself
                    or  in  conjunction  with  any  other  person,  or  persons,
                    corporation,  or  corporations,  or in  like  manner  become
                    surety upon any bond, recognizance, obligation, judgment,

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                    suit,  order, or decree to be entered in any court of record
                    within the State of Delaware or elsewhere,  or which may now
                    or hereafter be required by any law, judge, officer or court
                    in the State of Delaware or elsewhere.

                    (9) To act  by  any  and  every  method  of  appointment  as
                    trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee, assignee
                    in bankruptcy, executor, administrator, guardian, bailee, or
                    in any  other  trust  capacity  in the  receiving,  holding,
                    managing, and disposing of any and all estates and property,
                    real,  personal  or  mixed,  and  to be  appointed  as  such
                    trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee, assignee
                    in bankruptcy, executor,  administrator,  guardian or bailee
                    by any persons, corporations,  court, officer, or authority,
                    in the State of Delaware or  elsewhere;  and  whenever  this
                    Corporation  is so  appointed  by any  person,  corporation,
                    court,  officer  or  authority  such  trustee,   trustee  in
                    bankruptcy,  receiver,  assignee,  assignee  in  bankruptcy,
                    executor,  administrator,  guardian, bailee, or in any other
                    trust  capacity,  it shall not be required to give bond with
                    surety,  but its  capital  stock  shall be taken and held as
                    security for the performance of the duties devolving upon it
                    by such appointment.

                    (10)  And for its  care,  management  and  trouble,  and the
                    exercise  of any of its  powers  hereby  given,  or for  the
                    performance  of any of the duties which it may  undertake or
                    be called  upon to  perform,  or for the  assumption  of any
                    responsibility  the  said  Corporation  may be  entitled  to
                    receive a proper compensation.

                    (11) To purchase,  receive,  hold and own bonds,  mortgages,
                    debentures,  shares of capital stock, and other  securities,
                    obligations, contracts and evidences of indebtedness, of any
                    private,  public or municipal corporation within and without
                    the State of Delaware,  or of the  Government  of the United
                    States,  or of any state,  territory,  colony, or possession
                    thereof,  or  of  any  foreign  government  or  country;  to
                    receive,  collect,  receipt  for,  and dispose of  interest,
                    dividends  and  income  upon  and  from  any of  the  bonds,
                    mortgages,  debentures,  notes,  shares  of  capital  stock,
                    securities,    obligations,    contracts,    evidences    of
                    indebtedness and other property held and owned by it, and to
                    exercise   in   respect  of  all  such   bonds,   mortgages,
                    debentures,  notes,  shares of  capital  stock,  securities,
                    obligations,  contracts, evidences of indebtedness and other
                    property,  any and all the rights,  powers and privileges of
                    individual  owners  thereof,  including  the  right  to vote
                    thereon; to invest and deal in and with any of the moneys of
                    the  Corporation  upon such securities and in such manner as
                    it may think fit and  proper,  and from time to time to vary
                    or realize such  investments;  to issue bonds and secure the
                    same by  pledges or deeds of trust or  mortgages  of or upon
                    the whole or any part of the  property  held or owned by the
                    Corporation,  and to sell and pledge such bonds, as and when
                    the Board of Directors shall determine, and in the promotion
                    of its said  corporate  business  of  investment  and to the
                    extent authorized by law, to lease, purchase,

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                    hold, sell, assign,  transfer,  pledge,  mortgage and convey
                    real and  personal  property  of any name and nature and any
                    estate or interest therein.

            (b) In  furtherance  of,  and  not  in  limitation,  of  the  powers
            conferred  by the  laws  of the  State  of  Delaware,  it is  hereby
            expressly  provided  that the said  Corporation  shall also have the
            following powers:

                    (1) To do any or all of the things herein set forth,  to the
                    same extent as natural persons might or could do, and in any
                    part of the world.

                    (2)  To  acquire  the  good  will,   rights,   property  and
                    franchises  and to  undertake  the  whole or any part of the
                    assets and liabilities of any person,  firm,  association or
                    corporation,  and to pay for the same in cash, stock of this
                    Corporation, bonds or otherwise; to hold or in any manner to
                    dispose  of  the  whole  or any  part  of  the  property  so
                    purchased;  to conduct in any lawful manner the whole or any
                    part of any  business so  acquired,  and to exercise all the
                    powers  necessary or convenient in and about the conduct and
                    management of such business.

                    (3) To take, hold, own, deal in, mortgage or otherwise lien,
                    and to lease,  sell,  exchange,  transfer,  or in any manner
                    whatever  dispose  of  property,  real,  personal  or mixed,
                    wherever situated.

                    (4) To enter into, make,  perform and carry out contracts of
                    every   kind  with  any   person,   firm,   association   or
                    corporation, and, without limit as to amount, to draw, make,
                    accept,  endorse,  discount,  execute  and issue  promissory
                    notes,   drafts,   bills  of  exchange,   warrants,   bonds,
                    debentures,    and   other    negotiable   or   transferable
                    instruments.

                    (5) To have one or more  offices,  to carry on all or any of
                    its operations and  businesses,  without  restriction to the
                    same  extent  as  natural  persons  might  or could  do,  to
                    purchase or otherwise  acquire,  to hold,  own, to mortgage,
                    sell,  convey or  otherwise  dispose of,  real and  personal
                    property,  of every  class and  description,  in any  State,
                    District,  Territory or Colony of the United States,  and in
                    any foreign country or place.

                    (6) It is the  intention  that  the  objects,  purposes  and
                    powers  specified  and clauses  contained in this  paragraph
                    shall (except where  otherwise  expressed in said paragraph)
                    be nowise limited or restricted by reference to or inference
                    from the  terms of any  other  clause  of this or any  other
                    paragraph in this  charter,  but that the objects,  purposes
                    and  powers  specified  in  each  of  the  clauses  of  this
                    paragraph shall be regarded as independent objects, purposes
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         Fourth:  - (a) The total number of shares of all classes of stock which
         the  Corporation  shall have  authority to issue is  forty-one  million
         (41,000,000) shares, consisting of:

                    (1) One million  (1,000,000)  shares of Preferred stock, par
                    value   $10.00  per  share   (hereinafter   referred  to  as
                    "Preferred Stock"); and

                    (2) Forty million  (40,000,000)  shares of Common Stock, par
                    value  $1.00 per share  (hereinafter  referred to as "Common
                    Stock").

            (b) Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one
            or more series as may from time to time be  determined  by the Board
            of Directors  each of said series to be distinctly  designated.  All
            shares of any one series of Preferred  Stock shall be alike in every
            particular,  except  that  there may be  different  dates from which
            dividends, if any, thereon shall be cumulative,  if made cumulative.
            The voting powers and the preferences  and relative,  participating,
            optional  and other  special  rights of each  such  series,  and the
            qualifications,  limitations or  restrictions  thereof,  if any, may
            differ  from  those  of  any  and  all  other  series  at  any  time
            outstanding;  and,  subject to the  provisions of  subparagraph 1 of
            Paragraph (c) of this Article Fourth,  the Board of Directors of the
            Corporation  is  hereby  expressly   granted  authority  to  fix  by
            resolution  or  resolutions  adopted  prior to the  issuance  of any
            shares of a particular  series of Preferred Stock, the voting powers
            and the designations,  preferences and relative,  optional and other
            special rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions
            of such series,  including,  but without  limiting the generality of
            the foregoing, the following:

                    (1) The distinctive designation of, and the number of shares
                    of Preferred Stock which shall constitute such series, which
                    number may be increased (except where otherwise  provided by
                    the  Board of  Directors)  or  decreased  (but not below the
                    number of shares thereof then outstanding) from time to time
                    by like action of the Board of Directors;

                    (2)  The  rate  and  times  at  which,  and  the  terms  and
                    conditions on which,  dividends,  if any, on Preferred Stock
                    of such series shall be paid,  the extent of the  preference
                    or  relation,  if any, of such  dividends  to the  dividends
                    payable on any other class or classes, or series of the same
                    or other class of stock and whether such dividends  shall be
                    cumulative or non-cumulative;

                    (3) The right,  if any, of the holders of Preferred Stock of
                    such series to convert  the same into or  exchange  the same
                    for,  shares of any other  class or classes or of any series
                    of the same or any other  class or  classes  of stock of the
                    Corporation  and the terms and conditions of such conversion
                    or exchange;

                    (4) Whether or not  Preferred  Stock of such series shall be
                    subject to redemption,  and the  redemption  price or prices
                    and the time or times at which,

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                  and the terms and conditions on which, Preferred Stock of such
                  series may be redeemed.

                    (5) The rights, if any, of the holders of Preferred Stock of
                    such series upon the voluntary or  involuntary  liquidation,
                    merger,  consolidation,  distribution  or  sale  of  assets,
                    dissolution or winding-up, of the Corporation.

                    (6) The terms of the sinking fund or  redemption or purchase
                    account,  if any, to be provided for the Preferred  Stock of
                    such series; and

                    (7) The voting powers, if any, of the holders of such series
                    of  Preferred   Stock  which  may,   without   limiting  the
                    generality of the foregoing  include the right,  voting as a
                    series  or by  itself  or  together  with  other  series  of
                    Preferred Stock or all series of Preferred Stock as a class,
                    to elect one or more  directors of the  Corporation if there
                    shall have been a default in the payment of dividends on any
                    one  or  more  series  of  Preferred  Stock  or  under  such
                    circumstances  and  on  such  conditions  as  the  Board  of
                    Directors may determine.

            (c)  (1)  After  the  requirements   with  respect  to  preferential
            dividends  on the  Preferred  Stock  (fixed in  accordance  with the
            provisions  of section (b) of this Article  Fourth),  if any,  shall
            have been met and after the Corporation shall have complied with all
            the requirements,  if any, with respect to the setting aside of sums
            as  sinking  funds or  redemption  or  purchase  accounts  (fixed in
            accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section  (b) of this  Article
            Fourth), and subject further to any conditions which may be fixed in
            accordance  with  the  provisions  of  section  (b) of this  Article
            Fourth,  then and not otherwise the holders of Common Stock shall be
            entitled to receive such  dividends as may be declared  from time to
            time by the Board of Directors.

                    (2) After  distribution in full of the preferential  amount,
                    if any,  (fixed in accordance with the provisions of section
                    (b)  of  this  Article  Fourth),  to be  distributed  to the
                    holders  of  Preferred  Stock in the event of  voluntary  or
                    involuntary  liquidation,  distribution  or sale of  assets,
                    dissolution or winding-up,  of the Corporation,  the holders
                    of the Common  Stock shall be entitled to receive all of the
                    remaining   assets   of  the   Corporation,   tangible   and
                    intangible,  of whatever kind available for  distribution to
                    stockholders  ratably in  proportion to the number of shares
                    of Common Stock held by them respectively.

                    (3) Except as may  otherwise  be  required  by law or by the
                    provisions  of  such  resolution  or  resolutions  as may be
                    adopted by the Board of Directors pursuant to section (b) of
                    this Article Fourth,  each holder of Common Stock shall have
                    one vote in respect  of each  share of Common  Stock held on
                    all matters voted upon by the stockholders.

            (d) No holder  of any of the  shares of any class or series of stock
            or of options,  warrants or other  rights to purchase  shares of any
            class or series of stock or of other  securities of the  Corporation
            shall have any preemptive right to purchase or subscribe

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            for any  unissued  stock of any class or  series  or any  additional
            shares of any class or series to be issued by reason of any increase
            of the authorized  capital stock of the  Corporation of any class or
            series, or bonds, certificates of indebtedness,  debentures or other
            securities  convertible  into  or  exchangeable  for  stock  of  the
            Corporation  of any  class  or  series,  or  carrying  any  right to
            purchase stock of any class or series,  but any such unissued stock,
            additional  authorized  issue of  shares  of any  class or series of
            stock or securities  convertible  into or exchangeable for stock, or
            carrying any right to purchase stock,  may be issued and disposed of
            pursuant to  resolution  of the Board of Directors to such  persons,
            firms, corporations or associations, whether such holders or others,
            and upon  such  terms as may be  deemed  advisable  by the  Board of
            Directors in the exercise of its sole discretion.

            (e) The relative  powers,  preferences  and rights of each series of
            Preferred Stock in relation to the relative powers,  preferences and
            rights of each other series of Preferred  Stock shall, in each case,
            be as  fixed  from  time to time by the  Board of  Directors  in the
            resolution or resolutions  adopted pursuant to authority  granted in
            section  (b) of this  Article  Fourth and the  consent,  by class or
            series  vote or  otherwise,  of the holders of such of the series of
            Preferred  Stock as are from time to time  outstanding  shall not be
            required  for the  issuance by the Board of  Directors  of any other
            series of Preferred Stock whether or not the powers, preferences and
            rights of such other series shall be fixed by the Board of Directors
            as senior  to, or on a parity  with,  the  powers,  preferences  and
            rights  of  such  outstanding  series,  or  any of  them;  provided,
            however,  that the Board of Directors may provide in the  resolution
            or resolutions as to any series of Preferred Stock adopted  pursuant
            to  section  (b) of this  Article  Fourth  that the  consent  of the
            holders  of a  majority  (or  such  greater  proportion  as shall be
            therein  fixed)  of the  outstanding  shares of such  series  voting
            thereon  shall be  required  for the  issuance  of any or all  other
            series of Preferred Stock.

            (f) Subject to the  provisions of section (e),  shares of any series
            of  Preferred  Stock may be issued from time to time as the Board of
            Directors of the  Corporation  shall determine and on such terms and
            for such consideration as shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.

            (g)  Shares of Common  Stock may be issued  from time to time as the
            Board of Directors of the  Corporation  shall  determine and on such
            terms and for such  consideration  as shall be fixed by the Board of
            Directors.

            (h) The authorized amount of shares of Common Stock and of Preferred
            Stock may, without a class or series vote, be increased or decreased
            from  time to  time by the  affirmative  vote  of the  holders  of a
            majority of the stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon.

         Fifth:  - (a) The  business  and  affairs of the  Corporation  shall be
         conducted and managed by a Board of Directors.  The number of directors
         constituting the entire Board shall be not less than five nor more than
         twenty-five as fixed from time to time

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            by vote of a majority of the whole Board,  provided,  however,  that
            the number of  directors  shall not be reduced so as to shorten  the
            term of any director at the time in office,  and  provided  further,
            that the number of directors  constituting  the whole Board shall be
            twenty-four until otherwise fixed by a majority of the whole Board.

            (b) The Board of Directors  shall be divided into three classes,  as
            nearly  equal  in  number  as the then  total  number  of  directors
            constituting the whole Board permits, with the term of office of one
            class expiring each year. At the annual meeting of  stockholders  in
            1982,  directors  of the first class shall be elected to hold office
            for a term expiring at the next succeeding annual meeting, directors
            of the  second  class  shall be  elected  to hold  office for a term
            expiring at the second  succeeding  annual  meeting and directors of
            the third class shall be elected to hold office for a term  expiring
            at the third succeeding  annual meeting.  Any vacancies in the Board
            of Directors  for any reason,  and any newly  created  directorships
            resulting from any increase in the  directors,  may be filled by the
            Board of Directors,  acting by a majority of the  directors  then in
            office,  although  less than a quorum,  and any  directors so chosen
            shall hold office until the next annual  election of  directors.  At
            such  election,  the  stockholders  shall elect a successor  to such
            director  to hold  office  until the next  election of the class for
            which such  director  shall have been chosen and until his successor
            shall be  elected  and  qualified.  No  decrease  in the  number  of
            directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

            (c)  Notwithstanding  any other provisions of this Charter or Act of
            Incorporation or the By-Laws of the Corporation (and notwithstanding
            the fact that some lesser  percentage  may be specified by law, this
            Charter or Act of Incorporation  or the ByLaws of the  Corporation),
            any director or the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation may
            be removed at any time without  cause,  but only by the  affirmative
            vote of the holders of two-thirds or more of the outstanding  shares
            of capital stock of the  Corporation  entitled to vote  generally in
            the election of directors (considered for this purpose as one class)
            cast at a meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose.

            (d)  Nominations  for the election of  directors  may be made by the
            Board of  Directors or by any  stockholder  entitled to vote for the
            election of directors.  Such nominations  shall be made by notice in
            writing,  delivered  or mailed by first class  United  States  mail,
            postage  prepaid,  to the Secretary of the Corporation not less than
            14  days  nor  more  than  50  days  prior  to  any  meeting  of the
            stockholders  called  for  the  election  of  directors;   provided,
            however,  that if less than 21 days'  notice of the meeting is given
            to  stockholders,  such written notice shall be delivered or mailed,
            as prescribed,  to the Secretary of the  Corporation  not later than
            the close of the seventh day  following  the day on which  notice of
            the meeting was mailed to stockholders.  Notice of nominations which
            are  proposed  by the  Board  of  Directors  shall  be  given by the
            Chairman on behalf of the Board.

            (e) Each notice under  subsection  (d) shall set forth (i) the name,
            age,  business  address  and,  if known,  residence  address of each
            nominee proposed in such notice,

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            (ii) the  principal  occupation  or  employment  of such nominee and
            (iii) the  number of  shares of stock of the  Corporation  which are
            beneficially owned by each such nominee.

            (f) The Chairman of the meeting may, if the facts warrant, determine
            and  declare  to the  meeting  that a  nomination  was  not  made in
            accordance  with  the  foregoing  procedure,  and  if he  should  so
            determine,  he shall so declare  to the  meeting  and the  defective
            nomination shall be disregarded.

            (g) No  action  required  to be taken  or which  may be taken at any
            annual or special  meeting of stockholders of the Corporation may be
            taken without a meeting, and the power of stockholders to consent in
            writing,  without  a  meeting,  to  the  taking  of  any  action  is
            specifically denied.

         Sixth: - The Directors shall choose such officers,  agents and servants
         as may be  provided  in the  By-Laws as they may from time to time find
         necessary or proper.

         Seventh:  - The  Corporation  hereby  created is hereby  given the same
         powers,  rights and  privileges as may be conferred  upon  corporations
         organized   under  the  Act  entitled  "An  Act   Providing  a  General
         Corporation  Law",  approved  March  10,  1899,  as  from  time to time
         amended.

         Eighth: - This Act shall be deemed and taken to be a private Act.

         Ninth: - This Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

         Tenth: - The Board of Directors,  by resolution passed by a majority of
         the whole Board,  may  designate  any of their number to  constitute an
         Executive  Committee,  which Committee,  to the extent provided in said
         resolution,  or in the  By-Laws  of the  Company,  shall  have  and may
         exercise all of the powers of the Board of Directors in the  management
         of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and shall have power to
         authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which
         may require it.

         Eleventh:  - The  private  property  of the  stockholders  shall not be
         liable for the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.

         Twelfth:  - The  Corporation  may transact  business in any part of the
         world.

         Thirteenth:  - The Board of Directors of the  Corporation  is expressly
         authorized to make, alter or repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation by a
         vote of the majority of the entire Board.  The  stockholders  may make,
         alter or repeal any By-Law  whether  or not  adopted by them,  provided
         however, that any such additional By-Laws, alterations or repeal may be
         adopted only by the  affirmative  vote of the holders of  two-thirds or
         more of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation

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         entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (considered for
         this purpose as one class).

         Fourteenth:  - Meetings  of the  Directors  may be held  outside of the
         State of Delaware at such places as may be from time to time designated
         by the  Board,  and the  Directors  may keep the  books of the  Company
         outside of the State of  Delaware at such places as may be from time to
         time designated by them.

         Fifteenth:  - (a) (1) In addition to any  affirmative  vote required by
         law, and except as otherwise expressly provided in sections (b) and (c)
         of this Article Fifteenth:

                  (A) any  merger or  consolidation  of the  Corporation  or any
                  Subsidiary  (as  hereinafter  defined)  with or  into  (i) any
                  Interested  Stockholder (as  hereinafter  defined) or (ii) any
                  other  corporation   (whether  or  not  itself  an  Interested
                  Stockholder), which, after such merger or consolidation, would
                  be an  Affiliate  (as  hereinafter  defined) of an  Interested
                  Stockholder, or

                  (B) any sale, lease, exchange,  mortgage,  pledge, transfer or
                  other  disposition  (in one transaction or a series of related
                  transactions)  to or with any  Interested  Stockholder  or any
                  Affiliate of any  Interested  Stockholder of any assets of the
                  Corporation or any Subsidiary  having an aggregate fair market
                  value of $1,000,000 or more, or

                  (C)  the  issuance  or  transfer  by  the  Corporation  or any
                  Subsidiary  (in  one   transaction  or  a  series  of  related
                  transactions)  of any  securities  of the  Corporation  or any
                  Subsidiary to any  Interested  Stockholder or any Affiliate of
                  any Interested Stockholder in exchange for cash, securities or
                  other property (or a combination  thereof) having an aggregate
                  fair market value of $1,000,000 or more, or

                  (D) the adoption of any plan or proposal  for the  liquidation
                  or dissolution of the Corporation, or

                  (E) any reclassification of securities  (including any reverse
                  stock split), or recapitalization  of the Corporation,  or any
                  merger or  consolidation  of the  Corporation  with any of its
                  Subsidiaries or any similar  transaction  (whether or not with
                  or into or  otherwise  involving  an  Interested  Stockholder)
                  which has the effect,  directly or  indirectly,  of increasing
                  the proportionate share of the outstanding shares of any class
                  of equity or convertible  securities of the Corporation or any
                  Subsidiary  which  is  directly  or  indirectly  owned  by any
                  Interested  Stockholder,  or any  Affiliate of any  Interested
                  Stockholder, shall require the affirmative vote of the holders
                  of at least  two-thirds of the  outstanding  shares of capital
                  stock of the  Corporation  entitled to vote  generally  in the
                  election  of  directors,  considered  for the  purpose of this
                  Article  Fifteenth  as  one  class  ("Voting  Shares").   Such
                  affirmative  vote shall be required  notwithstanding  the fact
                  that no vote may be required, or that

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                  some  lesser  percentage  may be  specified,  by law or in any
                  agreement with any national securities exchange or otherwise.

                      (2)  The  term  "business  combination"  as  used  in this
                      Article  Fifteenth  shall  mean any  transaction  which is
                      referred  to in any one or more of clauses (A) through (E)
                      of paragraph 1 of the section (a).

                    (b) The provisions of section (a) of this Article  Fifteenth
                    shall  not  be   applicable  to  any   particular   business
                    combination and such business combination shall require only
                    such  affirmative  vote as is  required by law and any other
                    provisions of the Charter or Act of Incorporation or By-Laws
                    if such business combination has been approved by a majority
                    of the whole Board.

                    (c) For the purposes of this Article Fifteenth:

            (1) A "person" shall mean any individual, firm, corporation or other
entity.

            (2) "Interested  Stockholder" shall mean, in respect of any business
            combination,   any  person  (other  than  the   Corporation  or  any
            Subsidiary) who or which as of the record date for the determination
            of  stockholders  entitled to notice of and to vote on such business
            combination,  or immediately  prior to the  consummation of any such
            transaction:

                    (A) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more
                    than 10% of the Voting Shares, or

                    (B) is an  Affiliate  of  the  Corporation  and at any  time
                    within two years  prior  thereto was the  beneficial  owner,
                    directly  or  indirectly,  of not less  than 10% of the then
                    outstanding voting Shares, or

                    (C) is an  assignee  of or has  otherwise  succeeded  in any
                    share of capital stock of the Corporation  which were at any
                    time within two years prior  thereto  beneficially  owned by
                    any   Interested   Stockholder,   and  such   assignment  or
                    succession   shall  have   occurred   in  the  course  of  a
                    transaction or series of transactions not involving a public
                    offering within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933.

            (3) A person shall be the "beneficial owner" of any Voting Shares:

                    (A)  which  such  person  or  any  of  its   Affiliates  and
                    Associates (as hereafter defined) beneficially own, directly
                    or indirectly, or

                    (B) which such person or any of its Affiliates or Associates
                    has  (i)  the  right  to  acquire  (whether  such  right  is
                    exercisable  immediately or only after the passage of time),
                    pursuant to any agreement,  arrangement or  understanding or
                    upon the exercise of  conversion  rights,  exchange  rights,
                    warrants or options, or

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                  otherwise,   or  (ii)  the  right  to  vote  pursuant  to  any
                  agreement, arrangement or understanding, or

                  (C) which are beneficially owned,  directly or indirectly,  by
                  any other person with which such first mentioned person or any
                  of its Affiliates or Associates has any agreement, arrangement
                  or understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting
                  or   disposing   of  any  shares  of  capital   stock  of  the
                  Corporation.

            (4) The outstanding  Voting Shares shall include shares deemed owned
            through application of paragraph (3) above but shall not include any
            other Voting Shares which may be issuable pursuant to any agreement,
            or upon  exercise  of  conversion  rights,  warrants  or  options or
            otherwise.

            (5) "Affiliate" and "Associate"  shall have the respective  meanings
            given those terms in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations
            under the Securities  Exchange Act of 1934, as in effect on December
            31, 1981.

            (6)  "Subsidiary"  shall mean any corporation of which a majority of
            any class of  equity  security  (as  defined  in Rule  3a11-1 of the
            General Rules and Regulations  under the Securities  Exchange Act of
            1934,  as in effect on  December  31,  1981) is owned,  directly  or
            indirectly,  by the  Corporation;  provided,  however,  that for the
            purposes of the  definition of Investment  Stockholder  set forth in
            paragraph (2) of this section (c), the term "Subsidiary"  shall mean
            only a  corporation  of which a  majority  of each  class of  equity
            security is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation.

                    (d) majority of the directors  shall have the power and duty
                    to determine  for the purposes of this Article  Fifteenth on
                    the basis of  information  known to them,  (1) the number of
                    Voting Shares beneficially owned by any person (2) whether a
                    person is an Affiliate or Associate of another,  (3) whether
                    a person has an agreement, arrangement or understanding with
                    another as to the matters  referred to in  paragraph  (3) of
                    section  (c),  or (4)  whether  the  assets  subject  to any
                    business  combination or the consideration  received for the
                    issuance or transfer of  securities by the  Corporation,  or
                    any  Subsidiary  has  an  aggregate  fair  market  value  of
                    $1,000,000 or more.

                    (e) Nothing  contained  in this Article  Fifteenth  shall be
                    construed  to relieve any  Interested  Stockholder  from any
                    fiduciary obligation imposed by law.

            Sixteenth:  Notwithstanding  any other  provision of this Charter or
            Act of  Incorporation  or the  By-Laws  of the  Corporation  (and in
            addition to any other vote that may be required by law, this Charter
            or Act of Incorporation by the By-Laws), the affirmative vote of the
            holders  of at least  two-thirds  of the  outstanding  shares of the
            capital stock of the  Corporation  entitled to vote generally in the
            election of  directors  (considered  for this  purpose as one class)
            shall be  required  to  amend,  alter or  repeal  any  provision  of
            Articles Fifth,  Thirteenth,  Fifteenth or Sixteenth of this Charter
            or Act of Incorporation.

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            Seventeenth:  (a) a Director of this Corporation shall not be liable
            to the  Corporation  or its  stockholders  for monetary  damages for
            breach of  fiduciary  duty as a Director,  except to the extent such
            exemption  from  liability or  limitation  thereof is not  permitted
            under the Delaware  General  Corporation  Laws as the same exists or
            may hereafter be amended.

                    (b) Any repeal or  modification  of the foregoing  paragraph
                    shall not  adversely  affect  any right or  protection  of a
                    Director of the Corporation  existing hereunder with respect
                    to any act or omission  occurring  prior to the time of such
                    repeal or modification."




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                                    EXHIBIT B

                                     BY-LAWS


                            WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY

                              WILMINGTON, DELAWARE

                         As existing on January 20, 2000








                       BY-LAWS OF WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY


                                    ARTICLE I
                             Stockholders' Meetings

         Section 1. The  Annual  Meeting  of  Stockholders  shall be held on the
third  Thursday in April each year at the principal  office at the Company or at
such other date,  time, or place as may be designated by resolution by the Board
of Directors.

         Section 2. Special  meetings of all  stockholders  may be called at any
time by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board or the President.

         Section 3. Notice of all meetings of the stockholders shall be given by
mailing to each  stockholder at least ten (10) days before said meeting,  at his
last known  address,  a written or printed  notice  fixing the time and place of
such meeting.

         Section 4. A majority in the amount of the capital stock of the Company
issued  and  outstanding  on  the  record  date,  as  herein  determined,  shall
constitute a quorum at all meetings of  stockholders  for the transaction of any
business,  but the holders of a small number of shares may adjourn, from time to
time,  without  further  notice,  until a quorum is  secured.  At each annual or
special meeting of stockholders, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote,
either  in  person  or by  proxy,  for each  share of  stock  registered  in the
stockholder's  name on the books of the  Company on the record date for any such
meeting as determined herein.


                                   ARTICLE II
                                    Directors

         Section  1. The  number and  classification  of the Board of  Directors
shall be as set forth in the Charter of the Bank. No more than two Directors may
also be employees of the Company or any affiliate thereof.

         Section 2. No person who has attained the age of seventy-two (72) years
shall be  nominated  for  election  to the Board of  Directors  of the  Company,
provided,  however,  that this limitation  shall not apply to any person who was
serving as director of the Company on September  16,  1971.  The Chairman of the
Board of  Directors  shall not be  qualified  to continue to serve as a Director
upon the termination for any reason of his or her services in that office.

         Section  3. The class of  Directors  so elected  shall hold  office for
three years or until their successors are elected and qualified.

         Section 4. The affairs and business of the Company shall be managed and
conducted by the Board of Directors.


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         Section 5. The Board of Directors shall meet at the principal office of
the Company or elsewhere in its  discretion  at such times to be determined by a
majority  of its  members,  or at the  call  of the  Chairman  of the  Board  of
Directors or the President.

         Section 6. Special  meetings of the Board of Directors may be called at
any time by the  Chairman of the Board of  Directors  or by the  President,  and
shall be called upon the written request of a majority of the directors.

         Section 7. A majority of the directors  elected and qualified  shall be
necessary to constitute a quorum for the  transaction of business at any meeting
of the Board of Directors.

         Section 8. Written notice shall be sent by mail to each director of any
special  meeting  of the Board of  Directors,  and of any  change in the time or
place of any regular meeting,  stating the time and place of such meeting, which
shall be mailed not less than two days before the time of holding such meeting.

         Section 9. In the event of the death, resignation,  removal,  inability
to act, or  disqualification of any director,  the Board of Directors,  although
less than a quorum,  shall have the right to elect the  successor who shall hold
office for the remainder of the full term of the class of directors in which the
vacancy  occurred,  and until  such  director's  successor  shall have been duly
elected and qualified.

         Section  10.  The Board of  Directors  at its first  meeting  after its
election by the  stockholders  shall  appoint an  Executive  Committee,  a Trust
Committee, an Audit Committee and a Compensation Committee, and shall elect from
its own members a Chairman of the Board of Directors  and a President who may be
the same  person.  The Board of  Directors  shall also  elect at such  meeting a
Secretary and a Treasurer,  who may be the same person,  may appoint at any time
such other  committees  and elect or appoint such other  officers as it may deem
advisable.  The Board of  Directors  may also elect at such  meeting one or more
Associate Directors.

         Section  11. The Board of  Directors  may at any time  remove,  with or
without  cause,  any member of any  Committee  appointed by it or any  associate
director or officer elected by it and may appoint or elect his successor.

         Section 12. The Board of  Directors  may  designate an officer to be in
charge of such of the  departments  or  divisions  of the Company as it may deem
advisable.



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                                   ARTICLE III
                                   Committees

         Section 1.  Executive Committee

                  (A) The Executive Committee shall be composed of not more than
nine  members  who  shall be  selected  by the Board of  Directors  from its own
members and who shall hold office during the pleasure of the Board.

                  (B) The Executive  Committee  shall have all the powers of the
Board of Directors when it is not in session to transact all business for and in
behalf of the Company that may be brought before it.

                  (C) The Executive Committee shall meet at the principal office
of the Company or elsewhere in its  discretion at such times to be determined by
a majority  of its  members,  or at the call of the  Chairman  of the  Executive
Committee or at the call of the Chairman of the Board of Directors. The majority
of its members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the  transaction of
business.  Special  meetings of the Executive  Committee may be held at any time
when a quorum is present.

                  (D) Minutes of each meeting of the Executive  Committee  shall
be kept and submitted to the Board of Directors at its next meeting.

                  (E) The Executive  Committee  shall advise and superintend all
investments  that may be made of the funds of the Company,  and shall direct the
disposal of the same, in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Board
of Directors from time to time make.

                  (F) In the event of a state of disaster of sufficient severity
to prevent the conduct and management of the affairs and business of the Company
by its directors and officers as contemplated by these By-Laws any two available
members of the  Executive  Committee as  constituted  immediately  prior to such
disaster  shall  constitute a quorum of that  Committee for the full conduct and
management  of the affairs and  business of the Company in  accordance  with the
provisions  of Article III of these  By-Laws;  and if less than three members of
the Trust Committee is constituted  immediately  prior to such disaster shall be
available for the  transaction of its business,  such Executive  Committee shall
also be empowered to exercise all of the powers  reserved to the Trust Committee
under Article III Section 2 hereof. In the event of the unavailability,  at such
time,  of a  minimum  of two  members  of such  Executive  Committee,  any three
available  directors  shall  constitute  the  Executive  Committee  for the full
conduct and  management of the affairs and business of the Company in accordance
with the foregoing  provisions of this Section.  This By-Law shall be subject to
implementation  by Resolutions of the Board of Directors  presently  existing or
hereafter passed from time to time for that purpose, and any provisions of these
By-Laws (other than this Section) and any resolutions  which are contrary to the
provisions  of  this  Section  or to the  provisions  of any  such  implementary
Resolutions  shall be suspended  during such a disaster period until it shall be
determined by any interim Executive  Committee acting under this section that it
shall be to the

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advantage of the Company to resume the conduct and management of its affairs and
business under all of the other provisions of these By-Laws.

         Section 2.  Audit Committee

                  (A) The Audit  Committee shall be composed of five members who
shall be selected by the Board of Directors  from its own members,  none of whom
shall be an officer of the Company, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the
Board.

                  (B) The Audit  Committee shall have general  supervision  over
the Audit Division in all matters  however  subject to the approval of the Board
of  Directors;  it shall  consider all matters  brought to its  attention by the
officer in charge of the Audit  Division,  review all reports of  examination of
the Company made by any governmental agency or such independent auditor employed
for that purpose,  and make such  recommendations to the Board of Directors with
respect thereto or with respect to any other matters  pertaining to auditing the
Company as it shall deem desirable.

                  (C) The Audit  Committee  shall meet whenever and wherever the
majority of its members  shall deem it to be proper for the  transaction  of its
business, and a majority of its Committee shall constitute a quorum.

         Section 3.  Compensation Committee

                  (A) The  Compensation  Committee shall be composed of not more
than five (5) members who shall be selected by the Board of  Directors  from its
own members who are not officers of the Company and who shall hold office during
the pleasure of the Board.

                  (B) The  Compensation  Committee  shall in general advise upon
all matters of policy  concerning  the Company  brought to its  attention by the
management  and from time to time review the  management  of the Company,  major
organizational   matters,   including   salaries  and   employee   benefits  and
specifically shall administer the Executive Incentive Compensation Plan.

                  (C) Meetings of the  Compensation  Committee  may be called at
any time by the Chairman of the  Compensation  Committee,  the  Chairman of the
Board of Directors, or the President of the Company.


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         Section 4.  Associate Directors

                  (A) Any person who has served as a director  may be elected by
the Board of Directors as an associate director, to serve during the pleasure of
the Board.

                  (B) An  associate  director  shall be  entitled  to attend all
directors  meetings and  participate in the discussion of all matters brought to
the Board,  with the exception that he would have no right to vote. An associate
director will be eligible for appointment to Committees of the Company, with the
exception  of  the  Executive   Committee,   Audit  Committee  and  Compensation
Committee, which must be comprised solely of active directors.

         Section 5.  Absence or Disqualification of Any Member of a Committee

                  (A) In the  absence or  disqualification  of any member of any
Committee  created under Article III of the By-Laws of this Company,  the member
or members  thereof  present at any meeting and not  disqualified  from  voting,
whether or not he or they constitute a quorum,  may unanimously  appoint another
member of the Board of  Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such
absent or disqualified member.


                                   ARTICLE IV
                                    Officers

         Section 1. The Chairman of the Board of Directors  shall preside at all
meetings of the Board and shall have such further authority and powers and shall
perform such duties as the Board of  Directors  may from time to time confer and
direct.  He shall also  exercise such powers and perform such duties as may from
time to time be agreed upon between himself and the President of the Company.

         Section 2. The Vice  Chairman  of the Board.  The Vice  Chairman of the
Board of  Directors  shall  preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors at
which the Chairman of the Board shall not be present and shall have such further
authority  and powers and shall perform such duties as the Board of Directors or
the Chairman of the Board may from time to time confer and direct.

         Section 3. The President shall have the powers and duties pertaining to
the office of the President conferred or imposed upon him by statute or assigned
to him by the Board of  Directors.  In the absence of the  Chairman of the Board
the President shall have the powers and duties of the Chairman of the Board.

         Section 4. The Chairman of the Board of  Directors or the  President as
designated  by the  Board of  Directors,  shall  carry  into  effect  all  legal
directions of the Executive  Committee and of the Board of Directors,  and shall
at all  times  exercise  general  supervision  over the  interest,  affairs  and
operations of the Company and perform all duties incident to his office.


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         Section  5.  There  may  be  one  or  more  Vice  Presidents,   however
denominated  by the  Board of  Directors,  who may at any time  perform  all the
duties of the Chairman of the Board of Directors  and/or the  President and such
other  powers  and  duties as may from time to time be  assigned  to them by the
Board of Directors,  the Executive  Committee,  the Chairman of the Board or the
President  and by the officer in charge of the  department  or division to which
they are assigned.

         Section  6. The  Secretary  shall  attend  to the  giving  of notice of
meetings  of the  stockholders  and  the  Board  of  Directors,  as  well as the
Committees  thereof, to the keeping of accurate minutes of all such meetings and
to recording  the same in the minute  books of the  Company.  In addition to the
other notice  requirements of these By-Laws and as may be practicable  under the
circumstances,  all such notices  shall be in writing and mailed well in advance
of the  scheduled  date of any  other  meeting.  He shall  have  custody  of the
corporate  seal  and  shall  affix  the  same to any  documents  requiring  such
corporate seal and to attest the same.

         Section 7. The Treasurer shall have general supervision over all assets
and liabilities of the Company. He shall be custodian of and responsible for all
monies, funds and valuables of the Company and for the keeping of proper records
of the evidence of property or indebtedness  and of all the  transactions of the
Company.  He shall have general  supervision of the  expenditures of the Company
and shall  report to the  Board of  Directors  at each  regular  meeting  of the
condition  of the  Company,  and perform such other duties as may be assigned to
him from time to time by the Board of Directors of the Executive Committee.

         Section  8.  There  may be a  Controller  who  shall  exercise  general
supervision over the internal operations of the Company,  including  accounting,
and  shall  render  to the  Board of  Directors  at  appropriate  times a report
relating to the general condition and internal operations of the Company.

         There may be one or more subordinate  accounting or controller officers
however  denominated,  who may  perform  the duties of the  Controller  and such
duties as may be prescribed by the Controller.

         Section 9. The officer  designated  by the Board of  Directors to be in
charge of the Audit  Division  of the  Company  with such  title as the Board of
Directors shall prescribe,  shall report to and be directly  responsible only to
the Board of Directors.

         There shall be an Auditor and there may be one or more Audit  Officers,
however  denominated,  who may  perform  all the duties of the  Auditor and such
duties as may be prescribed by the officer in charge of the Audit Division.

         Section 10. There may be one or more  officers,  subordinate in rank to
all Vice Presidents with such functional titles as shall be determined from time
to time by the  Board of  Directors,  who  shall  ex  officio  hold  the  office
Assistant  Secretary  of this  Company and who may perform such duties as may be
prescribed  by the officer in charge of the  department or division to whom they
are assigned.

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         Section 11. The powers and duties of all other  officers of the Company
shall be those usually  pertaining to their respective  offices,  subject to the
direction of the Board of Directors,  the Executive  Committee,  Chairman of the
Board of Directors or the President and the officer in charge of the  department
or division to which they are assigned.


                                    ARTICLE V
                          Stock and Stock Certificates

         Section 1. Shares of stock shall be  transferrable  on the books of the
Company and a transfer  book shall be kept in which all transfers of stock shall
be recorded.

         Section  2.  Certificates  of stock  shall  bear the  signature  of the
President or any Vice President,  however  denominated by the Board of Directors
and countersigned by the Secretary or Treasurer or an Assistant  Secretary,  and
the seal of the corporation  shall be engraved  thereon.  Each certificate shall
recite that the stock represented  thereby is transferrable  only upon the books
of the Company by the holder  thereof or his  attorney,  upon  surrender  of the
certificate  properly  endorsed.  Any  certificate  of stock  surrendered to the
Company shall be cancelled at the time of transfer, and before a new certificate
or certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof. Duplicate certificates of stock
shall be issued  only upon giving such  security as may be  satisfactory  to the
Board of Directors or the Executive Committee.

         Section 3. The Board of Directors of the Company is  authorized  to fix
in advance a record date for the  determination of the stockholders  entitled to
notice of,  and to vote at, any  meeting  of  stockholders  and any  adjournment
thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend,  or to any allotment or
rights,  or to  exercise  any  rights in respect of any  change,  conversion  or
exchange  of capital  stock,  or in  connection  with  obtaining  the consent of
stockholders  for any  purpose,  which record date shall not be more than 60 nor
less than 10 days proceeding the date of any meeting of stockholders or the date
for the payment of any dividend, or the date for the allotment of rights, or the
date when any change or  conversion  or exchange of capital  stock shall go into
effect, or a date in connection with obtaining such consent.


                                   ARTICLE VI
                                      Seal

         Section 1. The corporate  seal of the Company shall be in the following
form:

                             Between   two   concentric    circles   the   words
                             "Wilmington  Trust Company" within the inner circle
                             the words "Wilmington, Delaware."




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                                   ARTICLE VII
                                   Fiscal Year

         Section 1. The fiscal year of the Company shall be the calendar year.


                                  ARTICLE VIII
                     Execution of Instruments of the Company

         Section  1.  The  Chairman  of the  Board,  the  President  or any Vice
President,  however denominated by the Board of Directors, shall have full power
and authority to enter into, make, sign, execute, acknowledge and/or deliver and
the Secretary or any Assistant  Secretary shall have full power and authority to
attest  and  affix  the  corporate  seal of the  Company  to any and all  deeds,
conveyances,   assignments,   releases,  contracts,  agreements,  bonds,  notes,
mortgages and all other instruments  incident to the business of this Company or
in acting as executor,  administrator,  guardian, trustee, agent or in any other
fiduciary or  representative  capacity by any and every method of appointment or
by whatever  person,  corporation,  court  officer or  authority in the State of
Delaware, or elsewhere, without any specific authority,  ratification,  approval
or  confirmation by the Board of Directors or the Executive  Committee,  and any
and all such  instruments  shall  have the same  force  and  validity  as though
expressly authorized by the Board of Directors and/or the Executive Committee.


                                   ARTICLE IX
               Compensation of Directors and Members of Committees

         Section 1. Directors and associate directors of the Company, other than
salaried  officers of the Company,  shall be paid such  reasonable  honoraria or
fees for attending  meetings of the Board of Directors as the Board of Directors
may from time to time determine.  Directors and associate directors who serve as
members of committees,  other than salaried  employees of the Company,  shall be
paid such reasonable  honoraria or fees for services as members of committees as
the Board of  Directors  shall from time to time  determine  and  directors  and
associate  directors may be employed by the Company for such special services as
the Board of  Directors  may from time to time  determine  and shall be paid for
such special services so performed reasonable  compensation as may be determined
by the Board of Directors.


                                    ARTICLE X
                                 Indemnification

         Section 1. (A) The Corporation  shall  indemnify and hold harmless,  to
the fullest  extent  permitted by applicable  law as it presently  exists or may
hereafter be amended,  any person who was or is made or is threatened to be made
a party or is  otherwise  involved in any action,  suit or  proceeding,  whether
civil,  criminal,  administrative or investigative (a "proceeding") by reason of
the fact that he, or a person for whom he is the legal

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representative,  is or  was a  director,  officer,  employee  or  agent  of  the
Corporation  or is or  was  serving  at the  request  of  the  Corporation  as a
director,  officer, employee,  fiduciary or agent of another corporation or of a
partnership,  joint venture, trust,  enterprise or non-profit entity,  including
service with respect to employee  benefit plans,  against all liability and loss
suffered and expenses  reasonably incurred by such person. The Corporation shall
indemnify a person in connection with a proceeding initiated by such person only
if the proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

                  (B)  The  Corporation  shall  pay  the  expenses  incurred  in
defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition, provided, however,
that the payment of expenses  incurred by a Director or officer in his  capacity
as a Director or officer in advance of the final  disposition  of the proceeding
shall be made only upon receipt of an  undertaking by the Director or officer to
repay  all  amounts  advanced  if it should be  ultimately  determined  that the
Director or officer is not  entitled  to be  indemnified  under this  Article or
otherwise.

                  (C) If a claim for  indemnification  or payment  of  expenses,
under  this  Article X is not paid in full  within  ninety  days after a written
claim therefor has been received by the  Corporation  the claimant may file suit
to recover  the unpaid  amount of such claim and, if  successful  in whole or in
part, shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such claim. In any
such action the  Corporation  shall have the burden of proving that the claimant
was not entitled to the requested  indemnification  of payment of expenses under
applicable law.

                  (D) The rights conferred on any person by this Article X shall
not be  exclusive  of any other  rights  which such person may have or hereafter
acquire  under any statute,  provision  of the Charter or Act of  Incorporation,
these By-Laws,  agreement,  vote of stockholders or  disinterested  Directors or
otherwise.

                  (E) Any repeal or modification of the foregoing  provisions of
this Article X shall not adversely  affect any right or protection  hereunder of
any person in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such
repeal or modification.


                                   ARTICLE XI
                            Amendments to the By-Laws

         Section 1. These By-Laws may be altered,  amended or repealed, in whole
or in part,  and any new  By-Law or By-Laws  adopted  at any  regular or special
meeting of the Board of  Directors  by a vote of the majority of all the members
of the Board of Directors then in office.



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                                    EXHIBIT C




                             Section 321(b) Consent


         Pursuant  to  Section  321(b) of the Trust  Indenture  Act of 1939,  as
amended,  Wilmington  Trust Company hereby consents that reports of examinations
by Federal, State,  Territorial or District authorities may be furnished by such
authorities to the Securities and Exchange Commission upon requests therefor.



                                    WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY


Dated: June 28, 2000                By: /s/ Denise M. Geran
                                       --------------------------
                                    Name: Denise M. Geran
                                    Title: Senior Financial Services Officer










                                    EXHIBIT D

                                     NOTICE


This form is intended to assist  state  nonmember  banks and savings  banks with
state  publication  requirements.  It has not been approved by any state banking
authorities.  Refer to your appropriate state banking authorities for your state
publication requirements.



R E P O R T   O F   C O N D I T I O N

Consolidating domestic subsidiaries of the

           WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY      of     WILMINGTON
                 Name of Bank                     City

in the State of   DELAWARE  , at the close of business on December 31, 1999.



ASSETS                                                      Thousands of dollars
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
   Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coins...................213,700
   Interest-bearing balances...................................................0
Held-to-maturity securities...............................................30,232
Available-for-sale securities..........................................1,628,889
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell...390,650
Loans and lease financing receivables:
   Loans and leases, net of unearned income............................4,374,777
   LESS:  Allowance for loan and lease losses.............................71,368
   LESS:  Allocated transfer risk reserve......................................0
   Loans and leases, net of unearned income, allowance, and reserve....4,303,409
Assets held in trading accounts................................................0
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases).................122,273
Other real estate owned......................................................576
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies........1,511
Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding...................0
Intangible assets..........................................................5,100
Other assets.............................................................133,449
Total assets...........................................................6,829,789



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LIABILITIES

Deposits:
In domestic offices...................................................5,186,079
   Noninterest-bearing..................................................986,667
   Interest-bearing...................................................4,199,412
Federal funds purchased and Securities sold
  under agreements to repurchase........................................269,343
Demand notes issued to the U.S. Treasury.................................95,000
Trading liabilities (from Schedule RC-D)......................................0
Other borrowed money:...................................................///////
   With original maturity of one year or less...........................670,000
   With original maturity of more than one year..........................43,000
Bank's liability on acceptances executed and outstanding......................0
Subordinated notes and debentures.............................................0
Other liabilities (from Schedule RC-G)..................................151,436
Total liabilities.....................................................6,414,858


EQUITY CAPITAL

Perpetual preferred stock and related surplus.................................0
Common Stock................................................................500
Surplus (exclude all surplus related to preferred stock).................62,118
Undivided profits and capital reserves..................................386,485
Net unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities...34,172)
Total equity capital....................................................414,931
Total liabilities, limited-life preferred stock, and equity capital...6,829,789


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