Insuring Clauses
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(continued)
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Forgery Or Alteration
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Loss resulting directly from:
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Forgery
on, or fraudulent material alteration of, any bills of exchange,
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checks, drafts, acceptances, certificates of deposits, promissory notes, due
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bills, money orders, orders upon public treasuries, letters of credit, other
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written promises, orders or directions to pay sums certain in money, or
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receipts for the withdrawal of
Property
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transferring, paying or delivering any funds or other
Property
, or establishing
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any credit or giving any value in reliance on any written instructions, advices
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or applications directed to the ASSURED authorizing or acknowledging the
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transfer, payment, delivery or receipt of funds or other
Property
, which
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instructions, advices or applications fraudulently purport to bear the
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handwritten signature of any customer of the ASSURED, or shareholder or
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subscriber to shares of an
Investment Company
, or of any financial
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institution or
Employee
but which instructions, advices or applications either
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bear a
Forgery
or have been fraudulently materially altered without the
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knowledge and consent of such customer, shareholder, subscriber, financial
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institution or
Employee
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excluding, however, under this INSURING CLAUSE any loss covered under
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INSURING CLAUSE 5. of this Bond, whether or not coverage for INSURING
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CLAUSE 5. is provided for in the DECLARATIONS of this Bond.
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For the purpose of this INSURING CLAUSE, a mechanically reproduced facsimile
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signature is treated the same as a handwritten signature.
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Extended Forgery
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5
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Loss resulting directly from the ASSURED having, in good faith, and in the
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ordinary course of business, for its own account or the account of others in any
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capacity:
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acquired, accepted or received, accepted or received, sold or delivered, or
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given value, extended credit or assumed liability, in reliance on any original
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Securities, documents or other written instruments
which prove to:
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(1)
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bear a
Forgery
or a fraudulently material alteration,
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(2)
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have been lost or stolen, or
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(3)
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be
Counterfeit
, or
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b.
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guaranteed in writing or witnessed any signatures on any transfer,
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assignment, bill of sale, power of attorney, guarantee, endorsement or other
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obligation upon or in connection with any
Securities, documents or other
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written instruments
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Actual physical possession, and continued actual physical possession if taken as
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collateral, of such
Securities, documents or other written instruments
by an
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Employee, Custodian
, or a Federal or State chartered deposit institution of the
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ASSURED is a condition precedent to the ASSURED having relied on such items.
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Release or return of such collateral is an acknowledgment by the ASSURED that it
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no longer relies on such collateral.
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