KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY TO

EX-4.P 2 dex4p.htm FORTY-SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE Forty-Second Supplemental Indenture

Exhibit 4(p)

 

 

KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

 

TO

 

BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY

(successor to Harris Trust and Savings Bank)

 

and

 

JUDITH L. BARTOLINI

(successor to W. A. Spooner, Henry A. Theis, Oliver R. Brooks,

Wesley L. Baker, Edwin F. McMichael and R. Amundsen)

 

as Trustees under Kansas Gas and Electric Company’s

Mortgage and Deed of Trust, Dated as of April 1, 1940

 

FORTY- SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

Providing, among other things, for

 

First Mortgage Bonds, 3.5% Series Due 2007

 

Dated as of March 12, 2004

 

 

 

FORTY-SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

INDENTURE, dated as of March 12, 2004, between KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Kansas (formerly named KCA Corporation and successor by merger to Kansas Gas and Electric Company, a corporation of the State of Kansas, hereinafter sometimes called the “Company-Kansas”), whose post office address is 120 East First Street, Wichita, Kansas 67202 (hereinafter sometimes called the “Company”), and BNY Midwest Trust Company, a corporation of the State of Illinois, whose post office address is 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602 (successor to Harris Trust and Savings Bank (the “Corporate Trustee”)), and JUDITH L. BARTOLINI (successor to W.A. Spooner, Henry A. Theis, Oliver R. Brooks, Wesley L. Baker, Edwin F. McMichael and R. Amundsen, and being hereinafter sometimes called the “Individual Trustee”), whose post office address is 2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1020, Chicago, Illinois 60602 (the Corporate Trustee and the Individual Trustee being hereinafter together sometimes called the “Trustees”), as Trustees under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of April 1, 1940 (hereinafter called the “Mortgage”), which Mortgage was executed and delivered by Kansas Gas and Electric Company, a corporation of the State of West Virginia to which the Company-Kansas was successor by merger (hereinafter sometimes called the “Company-West Virginia”), to secure the payment of bonds issued or to be issued under and in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, reference to which Mortgage is hereby made, this Indenture (hereinafter sometimes called the “Forty-second Supplemental Indenture”) being supplemental thereto;

 

WHEREAS, the Company-West Virginia caused the Mortgage to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property and as a chattel mortgage in the offices of the Registers of Deeds in various counties in the State of Kansas, and on April 25, 1940 paid to the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas, that being the County in which the Mortgage was first filed for record, the sum of $40,000 in payment of the Kansas mortgage registration tax as provided by Section 79-3101 et seq., General Statutes of Kansas 1935; and

 

WHEREAS, by the Mortgage, the Company-West Virginia covenanted that it would execute and deliver such supplemental indenture or indentures and such further instruments and do such further acts as might be necessary or proper to carry out more effectually the purposes of the Mortgage and to make subject to the lien of the Mortgage any property thereafter acquired, intended to be subject to the lien thereof; and

 

WHEREAS, an instrument, dated May 31, 1949, was executed by the Company-West Virginia appointing Oliver R. Brooks as Individual Trustee in succession to said Henry A. Theis, resigned, under the Mortgage, and by Oliver R. Brooks accepting the appointment as Individual Trustee under the Mortgage in succession to said Henry A. Theis, which instrument was filed for record in the offices of the Registers of Deeds in various counties in the State of Kansas; and

 

WHEREAS, an instrument, dated March 3, 1958, was executed by the Company-West Virginia appointing Wesley L. Baker as Individual Trustee in succession to said Oliver R. Brooks, resigned, under the Mortgage, and by Wesley L. Baker accepting the

 

appointment as Individual Trustee under the Mortgage in succession to said Oliver R. Brooks, which instrument was filed for record in the offices of the Registers of Deeds in various counties in the State of Kansas; and

 

WHEREAS, an instrument, dated November 20, 1969, was executed by the Company-West Virginia appointing Edwin F. McMichael as Individual Trustee in succession to said Wesley L. Baker, resigned, under the Mortgage, and by Edwin F. McMichael accepting the appointment as Individual Trustee under the Mortgage in succession to said Wesley L. Baker, which instrument was filed for record in the offices of the Registers of Deeds in various counties in the State of Kansas; and

 

WHEREAS, by the Twenty-seventh Supplemental Indenture mentioned below, the Company-Kansas, among other things, appointed R. Amundsen as Individual Trustee in succession to said Edwin F. McMichael, resigned, under the Mortgage, and by R. Amundsen accepting the appointment as Individual Trustee under the Mortgage in succession to said Edwin F. McMichael; and

 

WHEREAS, by the Thirty-second Supplemental Indenture mentioned below, the Company-Kansas, among other things, appointed W. A. Spooner as Individual Trustee in succession to said R. Amundsen, resigned, under the Mortgage, and by W. A. Spooner accepting the appointment as Individual Trustee under the Mortgage in succession to said R. Amundsen; and

 

WHEREAS, by the Fortieth Supplemental Indenture mentioned below, the Company-Kansas, among other things, appointed Judith L. Bartolini as Individual Trustee in succession to said W.A. Spooner resigned, under the Mortgage, and by Judith L. Bartolini accepting the appointment as Individual Trustee under the Mortgage in succession to said W.A. Spooner; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-West Virginia executed and delivered to the Trustees a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 1, 1942 (which supplemental indenture is hereinafter sometimes called the “First Supplemental Indenture”); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-West Virginia caused the First Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property and as a chattel mortgage in the offices of the Registers of Deeds in various counties in the State of Kansas, but paid no mortgage registration tax in connection with the recordation of the First Supplemental Indenture, no such tax having been payable in connection with such recordation; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-West Virginia executed and delivered to the Trustees the following supplemental indentures:

 

Designation

    Dated as of

Second Supplemental Indenture

    March 1, 1948

Third Supplemental Indenture

    December 1, 1949

Fourth Supplemental Indenture

    June 1, 1952

Fifth Supplemental Indenture

    October 1, 1953

Sixth Supplemental Indenture

    March 1, 1955

Seventh Supplemental Indenture

    February 1, 1956

Eighth Supplemental Indenture

    January 1, 1961

 

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Ninth Supplemental Indenture

    May 1, 1966

Tenth Supplemental Indenture

    March 1, 1970

Eleventh Supplemental Indenture

    May 1, 1971

Twelfth Supplemental Indenture

    March 1, 1972

 

which supplemental indentures are hereinafter sometimes called the Second through Twelfth Supplemental Indentures, respectively; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-West Virginia caused the Second through Eighth Supplemental Indentures to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property and as a chattel mortgage in the offices of the Registers of Deeds in various counties in the State of Kansas, and caused the Ninth through Twelfth Supplemental Indentures to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the offices of the Registers of Deeds in various counties in the State of Kansas and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas, and on the following dates paid to the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas, that being the County in which the Second through Twelfth Supplemental Indentures were first filed for record as a mortgage of real property, the following amounts:

 

Date

    Amount

March 30, 1948

    $ 12,500

December 7, 1949

      7,500

June 17, 1952

      30,000

October 21, 1953

      25,000

March 22, 1955

      25,000

March 5, 1956

      17,500

January 24, 1961

      17,500

May 17, 1966

      40,000

March 10, 1970

      87,500

May 19, 1971

      87,500

March 23, 1972

      62,500

 

such amounts being in payment of the Kansas mortgage registration tax as provided by the then currently applicable sections of the statutes of the State of Kansas in effect on those dates; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-West Virginia was merged into the Company-Kansas on May 31, 1973; and

 

WHEREAS, in order to evidence the succession of the Company-Kansas to the Company-West Virginia and the assumption by the Company-Kansas of the covenants and conditions of the Company-West Virginia in the bonds and in the Mortgage contained, and to enable the Company-Kansas to have and exercise the powers and rights of the Company-West Virginia under the Mortgage in accordance with the terms thereof, the Company-Kansas executed and delivered to the Trustees a Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 31, 1973 (which supplemental indenture is hereinafter sometimes called the “Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture”); and

 

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WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the offices of the Registers of Deeds in various counties in the State of Kansas and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas, but paid no mortgage registration tax in connection with the recordation of the Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture, no such tax having been payable in connection with such recordation; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas executed and delivered to the Trustees the following supplemental indentures:

 

Designation

    Dated as of

Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture

    July 1, 1975

Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture

    December 1, 1975

Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture

    September 1, 1976

Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture

    March 1, 1977

Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture

    May 1, 1977

Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture

    August 1, 1977

Twentieth Supplemental Indenture

    March 15, 1978

Twenty-first Supplemental Indenture

    January 1, 1979

Twenty-second Supplemental Indenture

    April 1, 1980

Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture

    July 1, 1980

Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture

    August 1, 1980

Twenty-fifth Supplemental Indenture

    June 1, 1981

Twenty-sixth Supplemental Indenture

    December 1, 1981

Twenty-seventh Supplemental Indenture

    May 1, 1982

Twenty-eighth Supplemental Indenture

    March 15, 1984

Twenty-ninth Supplemental Indenture

    September 1, 1984

Thirtieth Supplemental Indenture

    September 1, 1984

Thirty-first Supplemental Indenture

    February 1, 1985

Thirty-second Supplemental Indenture

    April 15, 1986

Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture

    June 1, 1991

Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture

    March 31, 1992

Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture

    December 17, 1992

Thirty-sixth Supplemental Indenture

    August 12, 1993

Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture

    January 15, 1994

Thirty-eighth Supplemental Indenture

    March 1, 1994

Thirty-ninth Supplemental Indenture

    April 15, 1994

Fortieth Supplemental Indenture

    June 28, 2000

Forty-first Supplemental Indenture

    June 6, 2002

 

which supplemental indentures are hereinafter sometimes called the Fourteenth through Forty-first Supplemental Indentures, respectively; and

 

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WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Fourteenth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the offices of the Registers of Deeds in various counties in the State of Kansas and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Fifteenth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on December 10, 1975, Film 169, page 363), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on December 10, 1975 and indexed as No. 325,911); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on September 29, 1976, Film 21 1, page 363), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on September 29, 1976 and indexed as No. 363,835); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Seventeenth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on March 16, 1977, Film 234, page 492), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on March 1, 1977 and indexed as No. 384,759); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Eighteenth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on May 26, 1977, Film 246, page 655), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on May 26, 1977 and indexed as No. 394,573); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Nineteenth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on August 31, 1977, Film 263, page 882), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on September 1, 1977 and indexed as No. 406,577); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Twentieth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on March 29, 1978, Film 297, pages 635-656), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on March 30, 1978 and indexed as No. 434,072); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Twenty-first Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on January 9, 1979, Film 345, page 648), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on January 10, 1979 and indexed as No. 470,851); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Twenty-second Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on April 2, 1980, Film 413, page 1,468), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on April 3, 1980 and indexed as No. 533,415); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Twenty-third Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on July 1, 1980, Film 425, page 1,003), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on July 2, 1980 and indexed as No. 546,185); and

 

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WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Twenty-fourth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on August 28, 1980, Film 435, page 266), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on August 29, 1980 and indexed as No. 554,543); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Twenty-fifth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on June 30, 1981, Film 483, page 1,512), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on June 30, 1981 and indexed as No. 601,270); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Twenty-sixth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on December 30, 1981, Film 510, page 300), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on December 31, 1981 and indexed as No. 628,293); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Twenty-seventh Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on May 6, 1982, Film 526, page 1,141), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on May 7, 1982 and indexed as No. 650,115); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Twenty-eighth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on March 22, 1984, Film 645, page 1,524), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on March 23, 1984 and indexed as No. 796,449); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Twenty-ninth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on September 5, 1984, Film 681, page 763), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on September 6, 1984 and indexed as No. 852,425); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Thirtieth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on September 12, 1984, Film 682, page 1,087), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on September 13, 1984 and indexed as No. 854,284); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on June 18, 1991, Film 1 177, page 0876), and as a security agreement in the Office of Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on June 18, 1991 and indexed as No. 1,693,446); and

 

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WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Fortieth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on June 28, 2000, Film 2062, page 0053), and as a security agreement in the Office of Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on June 28, 2000, and indexed as No. 3756913); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company on the following dates paid to the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas, that being the County in which the Fourteenth through Thirtieth Supplemental Indentures, the Thirty-third Supplemental Indenture and the Fortieth Supplemental Indenture were first filed for record as a mortgage of real property, the following amounts:

 

Date

    Amount

July 2, 1975

    $ 100,000

December 10, 1975

      48,750

September 29, 1976

      62,500

March 16, 1977

      62,500

May 26, 1977

      25,000

August 31, 1977

      6,100

March 29, 1978

      62,500

January 9, 1979

      36,250

April 2, 1980

      67,500

July 1, 1980

      37,500

August 28, 1980

      63,750

June 30, 1981

      75,000

December 30, 1981

      62,500

May 6, 1982

      100,000

March 22, 1984

      93,750

September 5, 1984

      75,000

September 12, 1984

      50,000

June 18, 1991

      334,100

June 28, 2000

      1,780,538.50

 

such amounts being in payment of the Kansas mortgage registration tax as provided by the then currently applicable sections of the statutes of the State of Kansas in effect on those dates; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Thirty-first Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on February 1, 1985, Film 707, page 378), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on February 4, 1985 and indexed as No. 895,468), but paid no mortgage registration tax in connection with the recordation of the Thirty-first Supplemental Indenture, no such tax having been payable in connection with such recordation; and

 

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WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Thirty-second Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on April 16, 1986, Film 791, page 1,336), and as a chattel mortgage in the Office of the Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on April 17, 1986 and indexed as No. 1,048,212), but paid no mortgage registration tax in connection with the recordation of the Thirty-second Supplemental Indenture, no such tax having been payable in connection with such recordation; and

 

WHEREAS, in order to evidence the succession of the Company to the Company-Kansas and the assumption by the Company of the covenants and conditions of the Company-Kansas in the bonds and in the Mortgage contained, and to enable the Company to have and exercise the powers and rights of the Company-Kansas under the Mortgage in accordance with the terms thereof, the Company executed and delivered to the Trustees a Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 31, 1992 (which supplemental indenture is hereinafter sometimes called the “Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture”); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on March 31, 1992, Film 1236, page 987), and as a security agreement in the Office of Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on March 31, 1992 and indexed as No. 1,780,893), but paid no mortgage registration tax in connection with the recordation of the Thirty-fourth Supplemental Indenture, no such tax having been payable in connection with such recordation; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company caused the Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on December 16, 1992, Film 301, page 0104), and as a security agreement in the Office of Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on December 16, 1992 and indexed as No. 1,861,886), but paid no mortgage registration tax in connection with the recordation of the Thirty-fifth Supplemental Indenture, no such tax having been payable in connection with such recordation; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Thirty-sixth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on August 10, 1993, Film 1364, page 0515), and as a security agreement in the Office of Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on August 11, 1993 and indexed as No. 1,936,501), but paid no mortgage registration tax in connection with the recordation of the Thirty-sixth Supplemental Indenture, no such tax having been payable in connection with such recordation; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on January 18, 1994, Film 1411, page 0710), and as a security agreement in the Office of Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on January 18, 1994 and indexed as No. 1,985,104), but paid no mortgage registration tax in connection with the recordation of the Thirty-seventh Supplemental Indenture, no such tax having been payable in connection with such recordation; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Thirty-eighth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on February 28, 1994, Film 1422, page 1046), and as a security agreement in the Office of Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on February 28, 1994 and indexed as No. 1,997,743),

 

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but paid no mortgage registration tax in connection with the recordation of the Thirty-eighth Supplemental Indenture, no such tax having been payable in connection with such recordation;

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Thirty-ninth Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on April 27, 1994, Film 1440, page 855), and as a security agreement in the Office of Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on April 27, 1994 and indexed as No. 1,377,915), but paid no mortgage registration tax in connection with the recordation of the Thirty-ninth Supplemental Indenture, no such tax having been payable in connection with such recordation; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-Kansas caused the Forty-first Supplemental Indenture to be filed for record as a mortgage of real property in the office of the Register of Deeds of Sedgwick County, Kansas (filed on June 6, 2002, Film 2460, page 1), and as a security agreement in the office of Secretary of State of Kansas (filed on June 6, 2002, and indexed as No. 5264221); and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-West Virginia, the Company-Kansas or the Company has from time to time caused to be filed in the respective offices of the above-mentioned Registers of Deeds and Secretary of State affidavits executed by the Trustees under the Mortgage, preserving and continuing the lien thereof either as a chattel mortgage in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 58-303 (Section 58-303 of the General Statutes of Kansas 1935) or as a security agreement under the provisions of K.S.A. 84-9-401 et seq.; and

 

WHEREAS, in addition to the aforesaid filings for record in the respective offices of the above-mentioned Registers of Deeds, the Company-West Virginia, the Company-Kansas or the Company has filed copies of the Mortgage and the First through Forty-first Supplemental Indentures, certified as true by it, with the Secretary of State of Kansas; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company-West Virginia, the Company-Kansas or the Company has heretofore issued, in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, the following series of First Mortgage Bonds:

 

Series

    Principal
Amount
Issued
    Principal
Amount
Outstanding

3-3/8% Series due 1970

    $ 16,000,000    None

3-1/8% Series due 1978

      5,000,000    None

2-3/4% Series due 1979

      3,000,000    None

3-3/8% Series due 1982

      12,000,000    None

3-5/8% Series due 1983

      10,000,000    None

3-3/8% Series due 1985

      10,000,000    None

3-3/8% Series due 1986

      7,000,000    None

4-5/8% Series due 1991

      7,000,000    None

5-5/8% Series due 1996

      16,000,000    None

8-1/2% Series due 2000

      35,000,000    None

 

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Series

    Principal
Amount
Issued
    Principal
Amount
Outstanding

8-1/8% Series due 2001

    35,000,000    None

7-3/8% Series due 2002

    25,000,000    None

9-5/8% Series due 2005

    40,000,000    None

6% Series due 1985

    7,000,000    None

7-3/4% Series due 2005

    12,500,000    None

8-3/8% Series due 2006

    25,000,000    None

8-1/2% Series due 2007

    25,000,000    None

6% Series due 2007

    10,000,000    None

5-7/8% Series due 2007

    21,940,000    None

8-7/8% Series due 2008

    30,000,000    None

6.80% Series due 2004

    14,500,000    None

16-1/4% Series due 1987

    30,000,000    None

6-1/2% Series due 1983

    15,000,000    None

7-1/4% Series due 1983

    25,500,000    None

14-7/8% Series due 1987-1991

    30,000,000    None

16% Series due 1996

    25,000,000    None

15-3/4% Series due 1989

    40,000,000    None

13-1/2% Series due 1989

    100,000,000    None

14.05% Series due 1991

    30,000,000    None

14-1/8% Series due 1991

    20,000,000    None

10-7/8% Series due 1987

    30,000,000    None

9-3/4% Series due 2016

    50,000,000    None

7.00% Series A due 2031

    18,900,000    18,900,000

7.00% Series B due 2031

    308,600,000    308,600,000

7.60% Series due 2003

    135,000,000    None

6-1/2% Series due 2005

    65,000,000    65,000,000

6.20% Series due 2006

    100,000,000    100,000,000

5.10% Series due 2023

    13,982,500    13,487,500

7-1/2% Series A due 2032

    14,500,000    14,500,000

7-1/2% Series B due 2027

    21,940,000    21,940,000

7-1/2% Series C due 2032

    10,000,000    10,000,000

9-1/2% Series due 2003

    702,200,000    None

8% Series due 2005

    735,000,000    None

 

hereinafter sometimes called Bonds of the First through Forty-first Series; and

 

WHEREAS, Section 8 of the Mortgage provides that the form of each series of bonds (other than the First Series) issued thereunder and of the coupons to be attached to the coupon bonds of such series shall be established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company and that the form of such series, as established by said Board of Directors, shall specify the descriptive title of the bonds and various other terms thereof, and may also contain such provisions not inconsistent with the

 

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provisions of the Mortgage as the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, cause to be inserted therein expressing or referring to the terms and conditions upon which such bonds are to be issued and/or secured under the Mortgage; and

 

WHEREAS, Section 120 of the Mortgage provides, among other things, that any power, privilege or right expressly or impliedly reserved to or in any way conferred upon the Company by any provision of the Mortgage whether such power, privilege or right is in any way restricted or is unrestricted, may be in whole or in part waived or surrendered or subjected to any restriction if at the time unrestricted or to additional restriction if already restricted, and the Company may enter into any further covenants, limitations or restrictions for the benefit of any one or more series of bonds issued thereunder, or the Company may cure any ambiguity contained therein or in any supplemental indenture, or may establish the terms and provisions of any series of bonds other than said First Series, by an instrument in writing executed and acknowledged by the Company in such manner as would be necessary to entitle a conveyance of real estate to record in all of the states in which any property at the time subject to the lien of the Mortgage shall be situated; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company now desires to create a new series of bonds; and

 

WHEREAS, the execution and delivery by the Company of this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture, and the terms of the Bonds of the 2007 Series, hereinafter referred to, have been duly authorized by the Board of Directors of the Company by appropriate Resolutions of said Board of Directors;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

That Kansas Gas and Electric Company, in consideration of the premises and of One Dollar ($1) to it duly paid by the Trustees at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in further evidence of assurance of the estate, title and rights of the Trustees and in order further to secure the payment both of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds from time to time issued under the Mortgage, according to their tenor and effect and the performance of all the provisions of the Mortgage (including any instruments supplemental thereto and any modification made as in the Mortgage provided) and of said bonds, hereby grants, bargains, sells, releases, conveys, assigns, transfers, mortgages, pledges, sets over and confirms (subject, however, to Excepted Encumbrances as defined in Section 6 of the Mortgage) unto BNY Midwest Trust Company and to Judith L. Bartolini, as Trustees under the Mortgage, and to their successor or successors in said trust, and to said Trustees and their successors and assigns forever, all property, real, personal and mixed, acquired by the Company after the date of the execution and delivery of the Mortgage, in addition to property covered by the First through the Forty-first Supplemental Indentures (except any herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted), now owned or, subject to the provisions of Section 87 of the Mortgage, hereafter acquired by the Company and wheresoever situated, including (without in anywise limiting or impairing by the enumeration of the same the scope and intent of the foregoing or of any general description contained in this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture) all lands, flowage rights, water rights, flumes, raceways, dams, rights of way and roads; all steam and power houses, gas plants, street lighting systems, standards and other equipment incidental thereto,

 

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telephone, radio and television systems, air-conditioning systems and equipment incidental thereto, water works, steam heat and hot water plants, lines, service and supply systems, bridges, culverts, tracks, rolling stock, ice or refrigeration plants and equipment, street and interurban railway systems, offices, buildings and other structures and the equipment thereof; all machinery, engines, boilers, dynamos, electric and gas machines, regulators, meters, transformers, generators, motors, electrical, gas and mechanical appliances, conduits, cables, water, steam heat, gas or other pipes, gas mains and pipes, service pipes, fittings, valves and connections, pole and transmission lines, wires, cables, tools, implements, apparatus, furniture, chattels and chooses in action; all municipal and other franchises; all lines for the transmission and distribution of electric current, gas, steam heat or water for any purpose, including poles, wires, cables, pipes, conduits, ducts and all apparatus for use in connection therewith; all real estate, lands, easements, servitudes, licenses, permits, franchises, privileges, rights of way and other rights in or relating to real estate or the occupancy of the same and (except as herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted), all the right, title and interest of the Company in and to all other property of any kind or nature appertaining to and/or used and/or occupied and/or enjoyed in connection with any property hereinbefore or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, described.

 

TOGETHER WITH all and singular the tenements, hereditarnents and appurtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining to the aforesaid property or any part thereof, with the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders and (subject to the provisions of Section 57 of the Mortgage) the tolls, rents, revenues, issues, earnings, income, product and profits thereof, and all the estate, right, title and interest and claim whatsoever, at law as well as in equity, which the Company now has or may hereafter acquire in and to the aforesaid property and franchises and every part and parcel thereof.

 

IT IS HEREBY AGREED by the Company that, subject to the provisions of Section 87 of the Mortgage, all the property, rights and franchises acquired by the Company after the date hereof (except any herein or in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, expressly excepted), shall be as fully embraced within the lien hereof and the lien of the Mortgage, as if such property, rights and franchises were now owned by the Company and were specifically described herein and conveyed hereby.

 

PROVIDED that the following are not and are not intended to be now or hereafter granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over or confirmed hereunder and are hereby expressly excepted from the lien and operation of this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture and from the lien and operation of the Mortgage, viz.: (1) cash, shares of stock and obligations (including bonds, notes and other securities) not hereafter specifically pledged, paid, deposited or delivered under the Mortgage or covenanted so to be; (2) merchandise, equipment, materials or supplies held for the purpose of sale in the usual course of business and fuel, oil and similar materials and supplies consumable in the operation of any properties of the Company; vehicles and automobiles; (3) bills, notes and accounts receivable, and all contracts, leases and operating agreements not specifically pledged under the Mortgage or covenanted so to be; and (4) electric energy, and other materials or products generated, manufactured, produced or purchased by the Company for sale, distribution or use in the ordinary course of its business; provided, however, that the property and rights expressly excepted from the lien and operation of the Mortgage and this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture in the above subdivisions (2) and (3) shall (to the extent permitted by law) cease to be so excepted in the event that either or both of the Trustees or

 

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a receiver or trustee shall enter upon and take possession of the Mortgaged and Pledged Property in the manner provided in Article XII of the Mortgage by reason of the occurrence of a Default as defined in said Article XII.

 

THERE is expressly excepted from the lien of the Mortgage and from the lien hereof all property of the Company located in the State of Missouri now owned or hereafter acquired unless such property in the State of Missouri shall be subjected to the lien of the Mortgage by an indenture or indentures supplemental thereto, pursuant to authorization by the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all such properties, real, personal and mixed, granted, bargained, sold, released, conveyed, assigned, transferred, mortgaged, pledged, set over or confirmed by the Company as aforesaid, or intended so to be, unto the Trustees, their successors and assigns forever.

 

IN TRUST NEVERTHELESS, for the same purposes and upon the same terms, trusts and conditions and subject to and with the same provisos and covenants as are set forth in the Mortgage, as supplemented, this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture being supplemental thereto.

 

AND IT IS HEREBY COVENANTED by the Company that all the terms, conditions, provisos, covenants and provisions contained in the Mortgage, as supplemented, shall affect and apply to the property hereinbefore described and conveyed and to the estate, rights, obligations and duties of the Company and Trustees and the beneficiaries of the trust with respect to said property, and to the Trustees and their successors as Trustees of said property in the same manner and with the same effect as if the said property had been owned by the Company at the time of the execution of the Mortgage, and had been specifically and at length described in and conveyed to the Trustees by the Mortgage as a part of the property therein stated to be conveyed.

 

The Company further covenants and agrees to and with the Trustees and their successors in said trust under the Mortgage, as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

 

2007 SERIES OF BONDS

 

SECTION 1. (I) There shall be a series of bonds designated 3.5% Series due 2007 (herein sometimes referred to as the “Bonds of the 2007 Series”), each of which shall also bear the descriptive title, First Mortgage Bond, and the form thereof, which is established by Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company, shall contain suitable provisions with respect to the matters hereinafter in this Article I specified. Bonds of the 2007 Series shall be limited to $300,000,000 in aggregate principal amount, except as provided in Section 16 of the Mortgage, shall mature on March 12, 2007, and shall be issued as fully registered bonds in denominations of Five Thousand Dollars and in any multiple or multiples of Five Thousand Dollars. Bonds of the 2007 Series shall bear interest at the rate of three and a half percent (3.5%) per annum payable (subject to the second paragraph of Section 1(III)) on the interest payment dates for the Loans (as defined below). Every Bond of the 2007 Series shall bear interest from each interest payment

 

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date for the Loans next preceding the date thereof, unless no interest has been paid on this Bond in which case from March 12, 2004. The principal of and interest on Bonds of the 2007 Series shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for public and private debts. Bonds of the 2007 Series shall be dated as in Section 10 of the Mortgage provided.

 

(II) Bonds of the 2007 Series are redeemable prior to maturity only upon demand therefor by the Collateral Agent. To effect the redemption of Bonds of the 2007 Series, the Collateral Agent shall deliver to the Trustee (and deliver a copy thereof to the Company) a written demand (hereinafter referred to as a “Redemption Demand”) for the redemption of Bonds of the 2007 Series, signed by an authorized officer and dated the date of its delivery to the Corporate Trustee, stating (i) that an Event of Default (as defined in the Collateral Agreement) has occurred and is continuing, (ii) that there are not sufficient available funds held by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agreement to make all payments required as a result of such Event of Default, (iii) the amount of funds, in addition to available funds held by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agreement, required to make such payments, and (iv) the principal amount of Bonds of the 2007 Series the Collateral Agent demands to have redeemed and the redemption date therefor which date should be at least thirty-one (31) days after the date of such Redemption Demand (provided, such principal amount shall not exceed the amount of funds specified pursuant to the foregoing clause (iii)). The Trustee may conclusively presume the statements contained in the Redemption Demand to be correct. Redemption of Bonds of the 2007 Series shall in all cases be at a price equal to the principal amount of the Bonds to be redeemed together with accrued interest to the redemption date, and such amount shall become and be due and payable on the redemption date.

 

The Company hereby covenants that if a Redemption Demand shall be delivered to the Corporate Trustee, the Company will deposit, on or before the redemption date, with the Corporate Trustee, in accordance with Article X of the Mortgage, an amount in cash sufficient to redeem the Bonds of the 2007 Series so called for redemption.

 

(III) All Bonds of the 2007 Series shall be issued and pledged by the Company to the Collateral Agent pursuant to a Collateral and Guarantee Agreement dated as of March 12, 2004 among the Company, Westar Energy, Inc. (“WEI”) and JPMorgan Chase Bank (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”) to secure the payment of the principal of, and up to 3.5% per annum of the interest on any of the loans issued pursuant to the $300,000,000 Credit Agreement, dated as of March 12, 2004 among WEI, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto, (the “Credit Agreement” and the loans thereunder are referred to collectively as the “Loans”).

 

The obligation of the Company to make payments with respect to the principal of and interest on Bonds of the 2007 Series (including without limitation upon maturity thereof) shall be fully or partially, as the case may be, satisfied and discharged to the extent that, at the time that any such payment shall be due, the then due principal of and interest on the Loans shall have been fully or partially paid, or there shall be held by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agreement sufficient available funds to fully or partially pay the then due principal of and interest on the Loans. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Supplemental Indenture or the Mortgage, interest on the Bonds of the 2007 Series shall be deemed fully or partially satisfied and discharged as provided

 

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herein even if the interest rate on Bonds of the 2007 Series may be higher or lower than the interest rate on any of the Loans at the time interest on any such Loans is paid. The Corporate Trustee may conclusively presume that the obligation of the Company to make payments with respect to the principal of and interest on Bonds of the 2007 Series shall have been fully satisfied and discharged unless and until the Corporate Trustee shall have received a written notice from the Collateral Agent, signed by an authorized officer, stating (i) that timely payment of the principal of or interest on the Loans required to be made by the Company has not been made, (ii) that there are not sufficient available funds held by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agreement to make such payment and (iii) the amount of funds, in addition to available funds held by the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agreement, required to make such payment.

 

(IV) At the option of the registered owner, any Bonds of the 2007 Series, upon surrender thereof, for cancellation, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, shall be exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of bonds of the same series of other authorized denominations. The Bonds of the 2007 Series may bear such legends as may be necessary to comply with any law or with any rules or regulations made pursuant thereto or with the rules or regulations of any stock exchange or to conform to usage with respect thereto.

 

(V) Bonds of the 2007 Series shall be transferable upon the surrender thereof, for cancellation together with a written instrument of transfer in form approved by the registrar duly executed by the registered owner or by his duly authorized attorney, at the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York.

 

ARTICLE II

 

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

 

SECTION 1. All Bonds of the 2007 Series acquired by the Company shall forthwith be delivered to the Corporate Trustee for cancellation.

 

SECTION 2. Subject to the amendments provided for in this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture, the terms defined in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented, shall, for all purposes of this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture, have the meanings specified in the Mortgage, as heretofore supplemented.

 

SECTION 3. The Trustees hereby accept the trusts herein declared, provided, created or supplemented and agree to perform the same upon the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Mortgage, as heretofore amended and supplemented, and upon the following terms and conditions:

 

The Trustees shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made by the Company solely. In general, each and every term and condition contained in Article XVI of the Mortgage, as heretofore amended and supplemented, shall apply to and form part of this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture with the same force and effect

 

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as if the same were herein set forth in full with such omissions, variations and insertions, if any, as may be appropriate to make the same conform to the provisions of this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture.

 

SECTION 4. Subject to the provisions of Article XV and Article XVI of the Mortgage, as heretofore amended and supplemented, whenever in this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture any of the parties hereto is named or referred to, this shall be deemed to include the successors or assigns of such party, and all the covenants and agreements in this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company or by or on behalf of the Trustees shall bind and inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of such parties whether so expressed or not.

 

SECTION 5. Nothing in this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture, expressed or implied, is intended, or shall be construed, to confer upon, or to give to, any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and the holders of the bonds and coupons Outstanding under the Mortgage, any right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture or any covenant, condition, stipulation, promise or agreement hereof, and all the covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Forty-second Supplemental Indenture contained by or on behalf of the Company shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto, and of the holders of the bonds and of the coupons Outstanding under the Mortgage.

 

SECTION 6. The Company reserves the right, subject to appropriate corporate action, but without any consent or other action by holders of Bonds of the 2007 Series, or of any subsequent series of bonds, to make such amendments to the Mortgage, as supplemented, as shall be necessary in order to (A) permit the issuance of additional Prior Lien Bonds other than to the Corporate Trustee (i) in a principal amount not to exceed the principal amount of Bonds which could then be issued on the basis of Property Additions under the Mortgage or (ii) upon the redemption or retirement of Prior Lien Bonds secured by such Prior Lien, (B) to remove the requirement that Prior Lien Bonds be issued to the Corporate Trustee, (C) remove the provisions of Article V which eliminate from the calculation of unfunded net Property Additions available for issuance of Bonds the amount of any Property Additions subject to a Prior Lien if the aggregate amount of Outstanding Prior Lien Bonds is 15% or more of the sum of the Outstanding Bonds and Prior Lien Bonds, and (D) make such other amendments to the Mortgage as may be necessary or desirable in the opinion of the Company to effect the foregoing.

 

SECTION 7. This Forty-second Supplemental Indenture shall be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by Mark A. Ruelle, Vice President and Treasurer, and its corporate seal to be attested by Larry D. Irick, its Secretary for and on its behalf, BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY has caused its corporate name to be hereunto affixed, and this instrument to be signed and sealed by one of its duly authorized officers and its corporate seal to be attested by one of its Assistant Secretaries for and on its behalf, and Judith L. Bartolini has hereunto set her hand and all as of the day and year first above written.

 

KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
By:  

/s/ Mark A. Ruelle

   

Mark A. Ruelle

   

Vice President and Treasurer

 

Attest:

/s/ Larry D. Irick

Larry D. Irick

Secretary

Executed, sealed and delivered by
KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,
in the presence of:

/s/ Peggy S. Wettengel

Peggy S. Wettengel

/s/ Patti Beasley

Patti Beasley

 

       

BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee

           

By:

  

/s/ D.G. Donovan

Attest:

          

Vice President

/s/ C. Potter

            

Assistant Secretary

            

 

               

/s/ J. Bartolini

               

(Judith L. Bartolini)

Executed, sealed and delivered by

BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY

and JUDITH L. BARTOLINI, in the presence of:

                

/s/ Roxane Ellwanger

                

/s/ L. Garcia

                

 

STATE OF KANSAS   )     
    :    ss.:
COUNTY OF SEDGWICK   )     

 

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this 12th day of March, A.D. 2004, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid, came Mark A. Ruelle, the Vice President and Treasurer of KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, a corporation duly organized, incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Kansas, who is personally known to me to be such officer, and who is personally known to me to be the same person who executed, as such officer, the within instrument of writing, and such person duly acknowledged the execution of the same to be the act and deed of said corporation and that said instrument of writing was so executed by order of the Board of Directors of said corporation.

 

On this 12th day of March, 2004, before me appeared Larry D. Irick, to me personally known, who being by me duly sworn did say that he is the Secretary of KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation, and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its Board of Directors, and said Larry D. Irick acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.

 

On the 12th day of March in the year 2004, before me personally appeared Mark A. Ruelle to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he is the Vice President and Treasurer of KANSAS GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, ; that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation, and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its Board of Directors, and said Mark A. Ruelle acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and of said corporation.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal on the day and year above written.

 

/s/ Patti Beasley

NOTARY PUBLIC — STATE OF KANSAS

MY APPOINTMENT EXPIRES

 

STATE OF ILLINOIS   )     
    :    ss.:
COUNTY OF COOK   )     

 

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this 9th day of March, A.D. 2004, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid, came D.G. Donovan, a Vice President of BNY Midwest Trust Company, a corporation, duly organized, incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, who is personally known to me to be such officer, and who is personally known to me to be the same person who executed, as such officer, the within instrument of writing, and such person duly acknowledged the execution of the same to be the act and deed of said corporation and that said instrument of writing was so executed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation.

 

On this 9th day of March, 2004, before me appeared C. Potter, to me personally known, who being by me duly sworn did say that she is a Assistant Secretary of BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY, and that the seal affixed to the foregoing instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation, and that said instrument was signed and sealed in behalf of said corporation by authority of its Board of Directors, and said Norma Pane acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.

 

On the 9th day of March in the year 2004, before me personally came D.G. Donovan, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that she resides at Arlington Heights, Illinois, that she is a Vice President of BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY, one of the corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that she knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation, and that she signed her name thereto by like authority.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal on the day and year above written.

 

/s/ A. Hernandez

NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF ILLINOIS

NO.

QUALIFIED IN COOK COUNTY

COMMISSION EXPIRES

 

STATE OF ILLINOIS   )     
    :    ss.:
COUNTY OF COOK   )     

 

On this 9th day of March in the year 2004, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of Illinois, in the County of Cook, personally appeared and came Judith L. Bartolini, to me known and known to me to be the person described in and who executed the within and foregoing instrument and whose name is subscribed thereto and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.

 

/s/ A. Hernandez

NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF ILLINOIS

NO.

QUALIFIED IN COOK COUNTY

COMMISSION EXPIRES

 

AFFIDAVIT

 

STATE OF KANSAS   )     
    )    SS:
COUNTY OF SEDGWICK   )     

 

I, Larry D. Irick, being first duly sworn on oath, depose and say:

 

1. I am the Secretary of Kansas Gas and Electric Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Kansas (the “Company”). I am duly authorized to make this affidavit on behalf of the Company.

 

2. The Company has heretofore executed and delivered to BNY Midwest Trust Company (as successor to Harris Trust and Savings Bank) (the “Corporate Trustee”) and Judith L. Bartolini (the “Individual Trustee”, together with the Corporate Trustee, the “Trustees”), a Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of April 1, 1940, (hereinafter called the “Indenture”), to secure the Company’s First Mortgage Bonds.

 

3. The Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustees supplemental indentures numbered “First” through “Forty-first,” inclusive, (hereinafter called the “Supplemental Indentures”), creating other series of the Company’s First Mortgage Bonds.

 

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4. The Indenture and all Supplemental Indentures confirmed unto the Trustees the real property situated in the State of Kansas which is subject to the lien of the Indenture.

 

5. The Indenture and all Supplemental Indentures were duly received and filed for record in accordance with the laws of the State of Kansas, and the mortgage registration fee thereon provided for was, and has been, paid in full by the Company.

 

6. Under the Fortieth Supplemental Indenture, the Company duly paid the mortgage registration fee in the amount of $1,780,538.50, based upon $684,822,500 of the Company’s indebtedness. The Fortieth Supplemental Indenture is found in the Sedgwick County Register of Deeds office at film 2062, page 53.

 

7. The Company has executed and delivered to the Trustees a new series of First Mortgage Bonds called “3.5% Series Due March 12, 2007” to be issued under and secured by the Indenture, the Supplemental Indentures and a new Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 12, 2004, (hereinafter called the “Forty-second Supplemental Indenture”).

 

8. The purpose of the Forty-second Supplemental Indenture is to reflect the issuance and pledge of $300,000,000 principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds.

 

9. $300,000,000 of the principal amount of the First Mortgage Bonds issued pursuant to the Forty-second Supplemental Indenture tendered for filing constitutes the same principal indebtedness covered or included in the previously recorded Indenture and the Forty-first Supplemental Indenture with BNY Midwest Trust Company and Judith L. Bartolini, Trustees, the same lender.

 

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10. Under the Forty-second Supplemental Indenture the registration fee with respect to all of the indebtedness of $300,000,000 has been previously paid by the Company in connection with the Forty-first Supplemental Indenture and by virtue thereof is considered by the Company to be the same indebtedness, and thus exempt from the payment of further registration fees pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 1990 Supp. 79-3102(d)(3).

 

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FURTHER AFFIANT SAITH NAUGHT.

 

/s/ Larry D. Irick

Larry D. Irick, Secretary

Kansas Gas and Electric Company

 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of March, 2004.

 

/s/ Patti Beasley

Notary Public

 

My Commission Expires 11/18/04

 

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