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Payments of interest on this bond will include interest accrued to but excluding the respective Interest Payment Dates. Interest
payments for this bond shall be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. The Company
shall pay interest on overdue principal and Make-Whole Amount, if any, and, to the extent lawful, on overdue installments of interest at
the rate per annum borne by this bond. In the event that any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity is not a
Business Day, then the required payment of principal, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest will be made on the next succeeding
day that is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay). “Business Day” means any day
other than a day on which banking institutions in the State of New York or the State of Michigan are authorized or obligated pursuant to
law or executive order to close.
Payment of principal of, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest on the bonds of this series shall be made in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments of
principal, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest due at the Stated Maturity or earlier redemption of such bonds shall be made at the
office of the Trustee upon surrender of such bonds to the Trustee, and (ii) payments of interest shall be made, at the option of the
Company, subject to such surrender where applicable, (A) by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address
shall appear in the bond register of the Trustee maintained for such purpose or (B) by wire transfer at such place and to such account at a
banking institution in the United States as may be designated in writing to the Trustee at least fourteen (14) days prior to the date for
payment by the person entitled thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as any bond is held by an Institutional Investor (as
defined in the Bond Purchase Agreement referenced below), payment of principal, Make-Whole Amount, if any, and interest on the
bonds held by such holder shall be made in the manner specified in the Bond Purchase Agreement dated as of December 12, 2013
among the Company and the purchasers party thereto.
The bonds represented by this certificate, of the series hereinafter specified, are bonds of the Company (herein called the
“bonds”) known as its “First Mortgage Bonds,” issued and to be issued in one or more series under, and all equally and ratably secured by,
an Indenture of Mortgage and Deed of Trust dated as of March 1, 1944, duly executed by the Company to Citibank, N.A., successor
trustee (“Trustee”) as restated in Part II of the Twenty-ninth Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 15, 1989, which became
effective on April 1, 1994, to which indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto executed on and after July 15, 1989 reference is
hereby made for a description of the property mortgaged and pledged, the nature and extent of the security, the terms and conditions
upon which the bonds are, and are to be, issued and secured, and the rights of the holders of the bonds and of the Trustee in respect of
such security (which indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto, including the Forty-fourth Supplemental Indenture dated as of
December 1, 2013 referred to below, are hereinafter collectively called the “Indenture”). As provided in the Indenture, the bonds may
be issued thereunder for various principal sums and are issuable in series, which may mature at different times, may bear interest at
different rates and may otherwise vary as therein provided. The bonds represented
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