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THIS FORTY-FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of the 1st day of December, 2013, between DTE GAS
COMPANY, formerly known as Michigan Consolidated Gas Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of
the laws of the State of Michigan (hereinafter called the “Company”), having its principal place of business at One Energy Plaza,
Detroit, Michigan, and CITIBANK, N.A., a national banking association incorporated and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the
United States of America, having an office at 388 Greenwich Street in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, New York, as
successor trustee (hereinafter with its predecessors as trustee called the “Mortgage Trustee” or the “Trustee”):
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust
(the “Original Indenture”), dated as of March 1, 1944;
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee the Twenty-ninth Supplemental Indenture,
which became effective April 1, 1994, to provide for the modification and restatement of the Original Indenture as previously amended
(as so amended, supplemented and modified the “Indenture”), and to secure the Company's First Mortgage Bonds, unlimited in
aggregate principal amount except as therein otherwise provided, issued pursuant to the:
Thirtieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 1, 1991;
Thirty-first Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 15, 1991;
Thirty-second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 5, 1993;
Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 1, 1995;
Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 1, 1996;
Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 18, 1998;
Thirty-sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 15, 2001;
Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 15, 2003;
Thirty-eighth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 1, 2004;
Thirty-ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 1, 2008;
Fortieth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2008;
Forty-first Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 1, 2008;
Forty-second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2008; and
Forty-third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 1, 2012;
WHEREAS, at the date hereof there were outstanding First Mortgage Bonds of the Company issued under the Indenture, of 9
series in the principal amounts set forth below (including Collateral Bonds):
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