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Chesapeake
Utilities Corporation (the Company) has prepared and is currently distributing
to the Company’s shareholders,
a
copy of the Stock Performance Graph that was inadvertently not included in
the
2006 Annual Report to Shareholders. A copy of the letter and the addendum to
the
Annual Report are shown below.
[Chesapeake
Utilities Corporation Logo]
April
19,
2007
Dear
Stockholder:
As
a
result of a new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule, the Stock
Performance Graph is now required to be placed in the Annual Report to
Shareholders rather than the Proxy Statement. While we included this Graph
in
our Annual Report on Form 10-K to the SEC, we inadvertently did not include
the
Graph in the Company’s 2006 Annual Report to Shareholders. We are providing this
information to you as an addendum to our Annual Report, with the intention
that
it be part of that report.
As
a
reminder, we encourage you to vote your shares of the Company’s common stock via
one of the methods provided in our Notice
of 2007 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement
that was
mailed to you earlier this month - via telephone, internet, mail or through
your
broker (if you own shares beneficially through a bank, broker, other
institution, etc.). You also have the capability to revoke a voted submitted
by
proxy at any time before voting is declared closed at the Annual Meeting,
by
submitting another timely and later dated proxy by telephone; the
internet; delivery of a subsequent proxy executed by the same person that
executed the prior proxy; delivery of a written statement to my attention,
909 Silver Lake Boulevard, Dover, DE 19904; or attendance at the Annual Meeting
of Stockholders and voting in person.
Sincerely,
/s/
Beth
W. Cooper
Beth
W.
Cooper
Corporate
Secretary
Addendum
to the 2006 Annual Report to Shareholders
The
Stock
Performance Graph compares cumulative total shareholder return on a hypothetical
investment in the Company’s common stock during the five fiscal years ended
December 31, 2006, with the cumulative total shareholder return on a
hypothetical investment in both (i) the S&P 500 Index and (ii) an
industry index consisting of 30 Natural Gas Distribution and Integrated Natural
Gas Companies as published by C.A. Turner Utility Reports. The comparison
assumes $100 was invested on December 31, 2001 in the Company’s common stock and
in each of the foregoing indices and assumes reinvested dividends.
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Cumulative
Total Stockholder Return
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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Chesapeake
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$
100
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$
98
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$
145
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$
155
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$
186
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$
192
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Industry
Index*
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$
100
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$
96
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$
121
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$
156
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$
200
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$
236
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S
& P 500
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$
100
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$
78
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$
100
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$
111
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$
116
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$
134
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*The
thirty companies in the C.A. Turner industry index include AGL
Resources,
Inc., Atmos Energy Corporation, Cascade Natural Gas Corporation,
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation, Delta Natural Gas Company, Inc.,
El Paso
Corporation, Energen Corporation, Energy West, Inc., EnergySouth.
Inc.,
Equitable Resources, Inc., KeySpan Corporation, Kinder Morgan,
Inc., The
Laclede Group, Inc., National Fuel Gas Company, New Jersey Resources
Corporation, NICOR, Inc., Northwest Natural Gas Company, ONEOK,
Inc.,
Peoples Energy Corporation, Piedmont Natural Gas Co., Inc., Questar
Corporation, RGC Resources, Inc., SEMCO Energy, Inc., South Jersey
Industries, Inc., Southern Union Company, Southwest Gas Corporation,
Southwest Energy Company, UGI Corporation, WGL Holdings, Inc.,
and The
Williams Companies, Inc.
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