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        <footnote id="F2">Pursuant to the issuer's Deferred Compensation Plan under its 2004 Stock Plan and the Deferred Fee Agreement executed by the reporting person, the reporting person has elected to defer receipt of his director's fees, and recieve phantom stock, the amount of which is calculated as the quotient of the dollar value of fees deferred, divided by the fair market value of the issuer's shares on the date the phantom stock is received.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">1 for 1</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Under the terms of the reporting person's Deferred Fee Agreement, payment of shares of the issuer's common stock commences the earlier of 01/01/2010,  or such time as the reporting person ceases to be a director of the issuer.  Payment is made in equal annual installments over a period of 5 years starting on the date of the initial payment.</footnote>
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POWER OF ATTORNEY


KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
Scott V Schneider, the undersigned?s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

	(1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned?s capacity as a
director of Saul Centers, Inc. (the ?Company?), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section
16(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

	(2) 	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may
be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and
execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similarly authority; and

	(3) 	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or
legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such
form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact?s discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and
perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the
exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-
fact?s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of
attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not
assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned?s responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no
longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned?s holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a
signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 23rd day of September, 2004.



						Signature:	/s/ General P.X. Kelley, USMC (Ret)
						Name:		General P.X. Kelley, USMC (Ret)

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