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                                  EXHIBIT 24.2

                         CERTIFIED RESOLUTIONS OF BOARD
                         OF DIRECTORS OF COBANCORP INC.

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                                 CERTIFICATION
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        I, Lois E. Gunning, hereby certify that I am the Secretary of CoBancorp
Inc., a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Ohio, that I
have in my possession the corporate records regarding the Corporation, and that
attached hereto is a true and correct copy of the resolution duly adopted by the
Board of Directors of such Corporation at a meeting thereof duly called and held
on May 18, 1994, at which meeting a quorum of the Board was present throughout,
and that such resolutions have not been rescinded and are in full force and
effect.

        IN WITNESS THEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto put her hand and the
seal of this Corporation on this 19th day of May, 1994.





                                                /s/Lois E. Gunning
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                                                Lois E. Gunning
                                                Secretary
                                                COBANCORP INC.

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Resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of CoBancorp Inc. on May 18,
1994.

              RESOLVED, that CoBancorp Inc.'s (the "Corporation") Dividend
         Reinvestment Plan be (a) eliminated as of March 1994 and (b) replaced
         with the Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan (the "Plan") in
         the form attached hereto, which Plan permits the following: partial or
         whole reinvestment of dividends, an optional cash purchase feature
         operating independently of dividend reinvestment participation (with a
         minimum optional cash payment of $30.00 and a maximum optional cash
         payment of $25,000 per calendar year) and share safekeeping services,
         and such other terms as the officers of the Corporation deem necessary
         or advisable.
        
              FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Plan become effective May 18, 1994 
         and that the Registrar and Transfer Company is hereby authorized to 
         serve as the Corporation's agent to administer the Plan.

              FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers of the Corporation be and 
         each of them is hereby authorized to approve amendments to the Plan, as
         authorized above, together with any other related or corresponding
         amendments to the Plan that such officer may determine to be necessary
         or desirable.

              FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Corporation is hereby authorized to 
         issue and sell up to 150,000 Common Shares pursuant to the Plan.

              FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers of the Corporation be and 
         each of them is hereby authorized, for and on behalf of the 
         Corporation, to prepare or cause to be prepared and to execute and 
         file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") 
         such registration statements or amendments to existing registration
         statements (on such form or forms as are applicable) under the
         Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"), and to do or
         cause to be done all things necessary or advisable to effect
         registration under the 1933 Act of the Common Shares authorized
         above to be issued and sold under the Plan.


              FURTHER RESOLVED, that John S. Kreighbaum, President and Chief
         Executive Officer, and Francis X. Grady, Esq. and each of them, each
         with full power to act without the other, are hereby appointed as the
         attorney-in-fact of the Corporation, with full power of substitution
         and resubstitution, for and in the name, place, and stead of the
         Corporation, to sign and file: (A) any and all registration statements
         on Form S-3, or such other forms as may be appropriate and such
         amendments as may be, in their judgement, appropriate, with respect to
         the Common Shares or other securities issuable pursuant to the above
         resolutions, (B) any and all amendments, post-effective amendments,
         and exhibits thereto, and (C) any and all applications and other
         documents to be filed with the Commission pertaining to such
         securities or such registrations, with full power and authority to do
         and perform any and all acts and things whatsoever requisite and
         necessary to effect such registrations, and that such individuals be
         and each of them are hereby authorized and directed, for and on behalf
         of the Corporation, to execute a power of attorney evidencing the
         foregoing appointment  of attorney. 

              FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers of the Corporation are hereby
         authorized in connection with the proposed offering of the Common
         Shares, to take any action which they may deem necessary or advisable
         to effect the registration or qualification (or exemption therefrom)
         of such Common Shares under the securities or blue sky laws of any of
         the States of the United States of America to carry out such offering,
         and, in connection therewith, to execute, acknowledge, verify,
         deliver, file, and publish all such applications, reports, notices,
         and other papers and instruments, to post bonds or otherwise give
         security as may be required under such laws, and to take all such
         further action as any of them may deem necessary or advisable to
         maintain such registration or qualification or exemption therefrom for
         as long as they may deem necessary or  required by law.

        
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              FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers of the Corporation are hereby
         authorized to execute and file irrevocable written consents to service
         of process in all States of the United States of America where such
         consents may be requisite or advisable under the securities law
         thereof in connection with the registration, qualification, or
         exemption of the Common Shares and to appoint the appropriate person
         as agent of the Corporation for the purpose of receiving and
         accepting process.

              FURTHER RESOLVED, that any form of additional resolution relating 
         to any of the foregoing resolutions appropriate to or required by law,
         regulation, or a regulatory agency, be and it is hereby adopted and
         that the Secretary and each Assistant Secretary of the Corporation be
         and each of them are hereby authorized to certify as having been
         adopted by this Board such form of authorizing resolution required in
         accordance with the foregoing, provided that a copy of each form of
         resolution so certified shall be attached to the minutes to this       
         meeting.

              FURTHER RESOLVED, that the officers of the Corporation be and 
         each of them is hereby authorized to execute any and all additional 
         documents and take any and all additional action necessary to carry 
         out the provisions of the foregoing resolutions.