Exhibit 25.1


                                          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
               (Exact name of trustee as specified in its charter)


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

                               Rodney Square North
                            1100 North Market Street
                           Wilmington, Delaware 19890
                    (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
            (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)


                         GUARANTY FINANCIAL CORPORATION

               (Exact name of obligor as specified in its charter)

         Virginia                                       54-1786496
(State of incorporation)                    (I.R.S. employer identification no.)

         1658 State Farm Blvd.
       Charlottesville, Virginia                           22911
(Address of principal executive offices)                 (Zip Code)


                       Junior Subordinated Debt Securities
                        of Guaranty Financial Corporation
                       (Title of the indenture securities)



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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 23rd day
of March, 1998.

                                         WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
[SEAL]

Attest: /s/ W. Chris Sponenberg           By: /s/ Emmett R. Harmon
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        Assistant Secretary               Name:  Emmett R. Harmon
                                          Title:  Vice President


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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 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.


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                (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, 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

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                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,  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.

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                (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 and powers.

         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

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                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,  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

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                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 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.


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         (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 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

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         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, (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,  agent 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.


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         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
         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) 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


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                (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 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 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  of  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

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         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
                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.


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         (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 in 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.

         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 16, 1997






                       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  shares  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.

         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.

         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.

         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  division  of the  Company as it may deem
advisable.


                                   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

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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  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.



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         Section 2.  Trust Committee

                     (A) The Trust  Committee shall be composed of not more than
thirteen members who shall be selected by the Board of Directors,  a majority of
whom shall be members of the Board of Directors and who shall hold office during
the pleasure of the Board.

                     (B) The Trust Committee shall have general supervision over
the Trust Department and the investment of trust funds, in all matters, however,
being subject to the approval of the Board of Directors.

                     (C) The Trust 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 its  chairman.  A majority  of its
members  shall be  necessary  to  constitute  a quorum  for the  transaction  of
business.

                     (D) Minutes of each meeting of the Trust Committee shall be
kept and promptly submitted to the Board of Directors.

                     (E) The Trust  Committee  shall  have the power to  appoint
Committees  and/or  designate  officers  or  employees  of the  Company  to whom
supervision  over the  investment of trust funds may be delegated when the Trust
Committee is not in session.

         Section 3.  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 4.  Compensation Committee

                     (A) The  Compensation  Committee  shall be  composed of not
more than



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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.

         Section 5.  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 6.  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
absence 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



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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.

         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.



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         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.

         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.  Certificate  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
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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."


                                   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.




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                                   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 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 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
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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: March 23, 1998               By: /s/ Emmett R. Harmon
                                        --------------------
                                    Name: Emmett R. Harmon
                                    Title: Vice President










                                    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, 1997.
               -------------




ASSETS
                                                                                               Thousands of dollars
                                                                                                         
Cash and balances due from depository institutions:
            Noninterest-bearing balances and currency and coins............................................ 236,646
            Interest-bearing balances............................................................................ 0
Held-to-maturity securities................................................................................ 331,880
Available-for-sale securities............................................................................ 1,258,661
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreements to resell...................................... 91,500
Loans and lease financing receivables:
            Loans and leases, net of unearned income............. 3,822,320
            LESS:  Allowance for loan and lease losses...........    59,373
            LESS:  Allocated transfer risk reserve...............         0
            Loans and leases, net of unearned income, allowance, and reserve............................. 3,762,947
Assets held in trading accounts.................................................................................. 0
Premises and fixed assets (including capitalized leases)................................................... 129,740
Other real estate owned...................................................................................... 2,106
Investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies............................................. 22
Customers' liability to this bank on acceptances outstanding..................................................... 0
Intangible assets............................................................................................ 4,905
Other assets............................................................................................... 100,799
Total assets............................................................................................. 5,919,206




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LIABILITIES
                                                                                                       
Deposits:
In domestic offices...................................................................................... 4,034,633
            Noninterest-bearing................     839,928
            Interest-bearing...................   3,194,705
Federal funds purchased and Securities sold under agreements to repurchase................................. 575,827
Demand notes issued to the U.S. Treasury.................................................................... 61,290
Trading liabilities (from Schedule RC-D)......................................................................... 0
Other borrowed money:...................................................................................... ///////
            With original maturity of one year or less..................................................... 673,000
            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)...................................................................... 76,458
Total liabilities........................................................................................ 5,464,208


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..................................................................... 385,018
Net unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities....................................... 7,362
Total equity capital....................................................................................... 454,998
Total liabilities, limited-life preferred stock, and equity capital...................................... 5,919,206




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