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               a.  Furukawa and Sumitomo shall each transfer 25,000 shares            
          of Burndy-Japan stock to Burndy-US in exchange for �2,7503 per              
          share, after which Burndy-US will own 50 percent and Furukawa and           
          Sumitomo each will own 25 percent of the outstanding shares of              
          Burndy-Japan.                                                               
               b.  Burndy-Japan shares shall not be transferred without               
          unanimous prior written consent of the shareholders.                        
               c.  Burndy-Japan’s board of directors shall consist of as              
          many members as may be mutually agreed by the shareholders.  Each           
          shareholder may vote its own stock to elect board members.                  
               d.  Burndy-US shall nominate and the board shall elect the             
          president of Burndy-Japan.  The president is Burndy-Japan’s                 
          representative director under the Japanese Commercial Code with             
          powers as provided by the board of directors.  The president may            
          appoint officers and managers.                                              
               e.  The chairman presiding at board meetings shall have a              
          second vote if there is no majority.  However, the chairman may             
          cast that vote “only after careful and fair consideration of all            
          aspects of the issue at hand”, and “the issue at hand shall be              
          further discussed in an effort to reach an amicable solution” if            
          there is no majority vote at the shareholders meeting.                      
               f.  Burndy-Japan may not take the following actions unless             
          it receives the unanimous consent of the shareholders:                      



               3  � refers to Japanese yen.                                           




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