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EXHIBIT 24-2
ENERGY EAST CORPORATION
CERTIFIED RESOLUTION
RESOLVED, that the Corporation hereby constitutes and appoints
W. W. von Schack, K. M. Jasinski, Esq., R. D. Kump, L. Blum, Esq. and
F. Lee, Esq., and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone)
its true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution
and resubstitution, for it and on its behalf and in its name, place and stead,
to sign, execute and file a Registration Statement with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C. under the provisions of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, in connection with the proposed offering of 2,500,000
shares of the Corporation's Common Stock ($.01 Par Value) through the Central
Maine Power Company Savings and Investment Plan for Union Employees and the
Central Maine Power Company Savings and Investment Plan for Non-Union Employees
and the interests of the participants in such Plans, any and all amendments to
such Registration Statement and any and all other documents requisite to be
filed with respect thereto, with all exhibits and other documents in connection
therewith, granting unto said attorneys, and each of them or their substitutes
or substitute, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, in order to
effectuate the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the Corporation
might or could do.
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I, KENNETH M. JASINSKI, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and
Secretary of ENERGY EAST CORPORATION, a New York corporation, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution duly adopted by
the Board of Directors of said Corporation at a meeting thereof duly called,
convened and held on August 29, 2000 and that said resolution is in full force
and effect as of the date hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal
of said Corporation this 1st day of September, 2000.
/s/ KENNETH M. JASINSKI
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KENNETH M. JASINSKI
