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EXHIBIT 24.2
I, JOBETH G. BROWN, hereby certify that I am Vice President and Secretary
of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, with its principal
office in the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, and as such in charge of
its corporate records, including minutes of meetings of its Shareholders and
Board of Directors.
I further certify that the Board of Directors of said corporation at a
meeting duly convened and held on the 22nd day of March 2000, as shown by
said records, adopted the following resolution which has not since been
amended or rescinded and which is in full force and effect at the date
hereof:
RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors does hereby authorize (a) the
proper officers of the corporation to execute a power of attorney in the
name and on behalf of the corporation in favor of August A. Busch III,
W. Randolph Baker, and JoBeth G. Brown, or any of them (with power of
substitution in each) and (b) the execution by the directors and
officers of the corporation, or any of them, of a power of attorney in
favor of said attorneys, and said powers of attorney shall empower such
attorneys, or any of them, to do all acts and things and to execute any
and all instruments on behalf of the corporation and on behalf of such
directors and officers, including the execution of the corporation's
1999 Annual Report on Form 10-K or any amendment thereto, which such
attorneys, or any of them, may deem necessary or advisable to enable the
corporation to comply with the reporting requirements of the Securities
and Exchange Commission in respect thereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said corporation this 23rd day of June 2000.
/s/ JOBETH G. BROWN
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JoBeth G. Brown
Vice President and Secretary
