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registration of transfer or otherwise), irrespective of whether or not any notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the time and
place and at the rate and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the
Security Register of the Company, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in
any place where the principal of and any interest on this Note are payable or at such other offices or agencies as the Company may
designate, duly endorsed by or accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and
the Security Registrar or any transfer agent duly executed by the registered Holder hereof or his or her attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate
principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be made for any such transfer, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in relation thereto.
Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note, the Company, the Trustee, any paying agent and any Security
Registrar may deem and treat the registered Holder hereof as the absolute owner hereof (whether or not this Note shall be overdue and
notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing hereon made by anyone other than the Security Registrar) for the purpose of
receiving payment of or on account of the principal hereof and interest due hereon and for all other purposes, and neither the Company
nor the Trustee nor any paying agent nor any Security Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
The Notes are issuable only in fully registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof. This Global Note is exchangeable for Notes in definitive form only under certain limited circumstances set forth in the
Indenture. The Notes so issued are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like
aggregate principal amount of the Notes of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the registered Holder surrendering the
same.
As set forth in, and subject to the provisions of, the Indenture, no registered owner of any Note will have any right to institute
any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for any remedy thereunder, unless (i) such registered owner shall have previously
given to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Notes, (ii) the registered owners of not less than
25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes shall have made written request, and offered reasonable indemnity, to the Trustee to
institute such proceeding as trustee, (iii) the Trustee shall have failed to institute such proceeding within 60 days and (iv) the Trustee
shall not have received from the registered owners of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes a direction inconsistent
with such request within such 60-day period; provided, however, that such limitations do not apply to a suit instituted by the registered
owner hereof for the enforcement of payment of
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