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EXHIBIT INDEX
77.C. Matters Submitted to a Vote of Security Holders
77.Q.1 Exhibits-
Management Agreement with Countrywide Investments, Inc. for the Tax-Free Money
Fund
Management Agreement with Countrywide Investments, Inc. for the Tax-Free
Intermediate Term Fund
Management Agreement with Countrywide Investments, Inc. for the Ohio Insured
Tax-Free Fund
Management Agreement with Countrywide Investments, Inc. for the Ohio Tax-Free
Money Fund
Management Agreement with Countrywide Investments, Inc. for the California
Tax-Free Money Fund
Management Agreement with Countrywide Investments, Inc. for the Florida Tax-Free
Money Fund
<PAGE>
Sub-Item 77.C
On October 27, 1999, a Special Meeting of Shareholders was held as a result of a
proposed transaction whereby all of the outstanding stock of Countrywide
Investments, Inc. (the "Adviser") was purchased by Fort Washington Investment
Advisors, Inc. The Trust's shareholder voted to consider approval of new
investment advisory agreements with the Adviser and to elect a new slate of
trustees as a result of the proposed transaction. Shareholders also voted to
ratify the selection of Arthur Andersen LLP as the Trust's independent public
accountants.
The shareholders approved all proposals submitted to them for a vote. The number
of votes case for against each proposal was as follows:
PROPOSAL #1. Approval of New Investment Advisory Agreements
Tax-Free Money Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
18,074,540.560 113,378.140 236,358.010
Ohio Insured Tax-Free Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
3,150,996.409 60,221.688 62,846.624
California Tax-Free Money Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
51,225,740.310 177,364.120 27,663.300
Florida Tax-Free Money Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
23,623,326.330 -0- -0-
Tax-Free Intermediate Term Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
2,482,090.097 20,835.235 41,279.264
Ohio Tax-Free Money Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
269,795,532.040 361,900.730 486,629.840
PROPOSAL #2. Election of Trustees
Nominees For Election Withhold Authority
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William O. Coleman 369,164,005.344 776,697.353
Phillip R. Cox 369,164,659.874 776,042.823
H. Jerome Lerner 369,164,659.874 776,042.823
Robert H. Leshner 369,157,992.014 782,710.683
Jill T. McGruder 369,169,212.264 771,490.433
Oscar P. Robertson 369,017,475.044 923,227.653
Nelson Schwab, Jr. 369,060,338.749 880,363.948
Robert E. Stautberg 369,164,659.874 776,042.823
Joseph S. Stern, Jr. 368,796,856.066 1,143,846.631
<PAGE>
PROPOSAL #3. Ratification of Arthur Andersen LLP
Tax-Free Money Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
17,752,962.280 452,817.080 218,497.350
Ohio Insured Tax-Free Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
3,220,746.503 9,529.044 43,789.174
California Tax-Free Money Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
51,380,027.950 49,911.000 828.780
Florida Tax-Free Money Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
23,616,658.470 -0- 6,667.860
Tax-Free Intermediate Term Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
2,505,716.360 5,732.534 32,755.702
Ohio Tax-Free Money Fund
Number of Shares
For Against Abstain
270,112,820.420 94,557.000 436,685.190
<PAGE>
MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
TO: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
312 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Dear Sirs:
Countrywide Tax-Free Trust (hereinafter referred to as the "Trust")
herewith confirms its agreement with you.
The Trust has been organized to engage in the business of an investment
company. The Tax-Free Money Fund (the "Fund") has been established as a series
of the Trust. You have been selected to act as the investment adviser of the
Fund and to provide certain other services, as more fully set forth
below, and you are willing to act as such investment adviser and to perform such
services under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Accordingly, the
Trust agrees with you as follows upon the date of the execution of this
Agreement.
1. ADVISORY SERVICES
You will regularly provide the Fund with such investment advice as you
in your discretion deem advisable and will furnish a continuous investment
program for the Fund consistent with its investment objectives and policies. You
will determine what securities shall be purchased for the Fund, what portfolio
securities shall be held or sold by the Fund, and what portion of the Fund's
assets shall be held uninvested, subject always to the Fund's investment
objectives, policies and restrictions, as each of the same shall be from time to
time in effect, and subject further, to such policies and instructions as the
Board of Trustees (the "Board") of the Trust may from time to time establish and
supply to you copies thereof. You will advise and assist the officers of the
Trust in taking such steps as are necessary or appropriate to carry out the
decisions of the Board and the appropriate committees of the Board regarding the
conduct of the business of the Trust.
2. ALLOCATION OF CHARGES AND EXPENSES
You will pay the compensation and expenses of any persons rendering any
services to the Fund who are officers, directors, stockholders or employees of
your corporation and will make available, without expense to the Fund, the
services of such of your employees as may duly be elected officers or trustees
of the Trust, subject to their individual consent to serve and to any
limitations imposed by law. The compensation and expenses of any officers,
trustees and employees of the Trust who are not officers, directors, employees
or stockholders of your corporation will be paid by the Trust.
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You will pay all advertising and promotion expenses incurred in
connection with the sale or distribution of the Fund's shares to the extent such
expenses are not assumed by the Fund under the Trust's Plans of Distribution
Pursuant to Rule 12b-1.
The Fund will also be responsible for the payment of all other
operating expenses of the Fund, including fees and expenses incurred by the Fund
in connection with membership in investment company organizations, brokerage
fees and commissions, legal, auditing and accounting expenses, expenses of
registering shares under federal and state securities laws, insurance expenses,
taxes or governmental fees, fees and expenses of the custodian, transfer,
shareholder service and dividend disbursing agent and accounting and pricing
agent of the Fund, expenses including clerical expenses of issue, sale,
redemption or repurchase of shares of the Fund, the fees and expenses of
trustees of the Trust who are not affiliated with you, the cost of preparing and
distributing reports and notices to shareholders, the cost of printing or
preparing prospectuses for delivery to the Fund's shareholders, the cost of
printing or preparing stock certificates or any other documents, statements or
reports to shareholders, expenses of shareholders' meetings and proxy
solicitations, such extraordinary or non-recurring expenses as may arise,
including litigation to which the Fund may be a party and indemnification of the
Trust's officers and trustees with respect thereto, or any other expense not
specifically described above incurred in the performance of the Fund's
obligations. All other expenses not assumed by you herein incurred by the Fund
in connection with the organization, registration of shares and operations of
the Fund will be borne by the Fund.
3. COMPENSATION OF THE ADVISER
For all of the services to be rendered and payments made as provided in
this Agreement, the Fund will pay you as of the last day of each month, a fee
equal to the annual rate of:
50/100 of 1% of the average value of the daily net assets of the Fund
up to $100,000,000; 45/100 of 1% of such assets from $100,000,000 to
$200,000,000; 40/100 of 1% of such assets from $200,000,000 to and
including $300,000,000; and 37.5/100 of 1% of such assets in excess of
$300,000,000.
The total fees payable during each of the first and second halves of
each fiscal year of the Trust shall not exceed the semiannual total of the daily
fee accruals requested by you during the applicable six month period. The
average value of net assets shall be determined pursuant to the applicable
provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the Trust or a resolution of the
Board, if required. If, pursuant to such provisions, the
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determination of net asset value of the Fund is suspended for any
business day, then for the purposes of this paragraph, the value of
the net assets of the Fund as last determined shall be deemed to be the value of
the net assets as of the close of the business day, or as of such other time as
the value of the Fund's net assets may lawfully be determined, on that day. If
the determination of the net asset value of the Fund's shares has been suspended
for a period including such month, your compensation payable at the end of such
month shall be computed on the basis of the value of the net assets of the Fund
as last determined (whether during or prior to such month).
Your compensation with respect to each additional series of the Trust
effectively registered for sale in a public offering after the date of this
Agreement shall be determined by the Board, including a majority of the Trustees
who are not "interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of
1940) of you or of the Trust, and approved pursuant to the provisions of Section
15 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
4. EXECUTION OF PURCHASE AND SALE ORDERS
In connection with purchases or sales of portfolio securities for the
account of the Fund, it is understood that you will arrange for the placing of
all orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities for the Fund's
accounts with brokers or dealers selected by you, subject to review of this
selection by the Board from time to time. You will be responsible for the
negotiation and the allocation of principal business and portfolio brokerage. In
the selection of such brokers or dealers and the placing of such orders, you are
directed at all times to seek for the Fund the best qualitative execution,
taking into account such factors as price (including the applicable brokerage
commission or dealer spread), the execution capability, financial responsibility
and responsiveness of the broker or dealer and the brokerage and research
services provided by the broker or dealer.
You should generally seek favorable prices and commission rates that
are reasonable in relation to the benefits received. In seeking best qualitative
execution, you are authorized to select brokers or dealers who also provide
brokerage and research services (as those terms are defined in Section 28(e) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) to the Fund and/or the other accounts over
which you exercise investment discretion. You are authorized to pay a broker or
dealer who provides such brokerage and research services a commission for
executing a portfolio transaction which is in excess of the amount of commission
another broker or dealer would have charged for effecting that transaction if
you determine in good faith that the amount of the commission is reasonable in
relation to the value of the brokerage and research services provided by the
executing broker
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or dealer. The determination may be viewed in terms of either a particular
transaction or your overall responsibilities with respect to the Fund and to
accounts over which you exercise investment discretion. The Trust and you
understand that, although the information may be useful to the Fund and you, it
is not possible to place a dollar value on such information. The Board shall
periodically review the commissions paid by the Fund to determine if the
commissions paid over representative periods of time were reasonable in relation
to the benefits to the Fund.
Consistent with the Rules of Fair Practice of the National Association
of Securities Dealers, Inc., and subject to seeking best qualitative execution,
you may give consideration to sales of shares of the Fund as a factor in the
selection of brokers and dealers to execute portfolio transactions of the Fund.
If any occasion should arise in which you give any advice to clients of
yours concerning the shares of the Fund, you will act solely as investment
counsel for such client and not in any way on behalf of the Trust. Your services
to the Fund pursuant to this Agreement are not to be deemed to be exclusive and
it is understood that you may render investment advice, management and other
services to others.
5. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF ADVISER
You (including your directors, officers, shareholders, employees,
control persons and affiliates of any thereof) shall not be liable for any error
of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund in connection
with the matters to which this Agreement relates, except a loss resulting from
willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on your part in the
performance of your duties or from the reckless disregard by you of your
obligations and duties under this Agreement ("disabling conduct"). However, you
will not be indemnified for any liability unless (1) a final decision is made on
the merits by a court or other body before whom the proceeding was brought that
you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, or (2) in the absence of
such a decision, a reasonable determination is made, based upon a review of the
facts, that you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, by (a) the vote
of a majority of a quorum of trustees who are neither "interested persons" of
the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 nor parties to the
proceeding ("disinterested, non-party trustees"), or (b) an independent legal
counsel in a written opinion. The Fund will advance attorneys' fees or other
expenses incurred by you in defending a proceeding, upon the undertaking by or
on behalf of you to repay the advance unless it is ultimately determined that
you are entitled to indemnification, so long as you meet at least one of the
following as a condition to the advance: (1) you shall provide a security for
your undertaking,
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(2) the Fund shall be insured against losses arising by reason of any lawful
advances, or (3) a majority of a quorum of the disinterested, non-party trustees
of the Trust, or an independent legal counsel in a written opinion, shall
determine, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full
trial- type inquiry), that there is reason to believe that you ultimately will
be found entitled to indemnification. Any person employed by you who may also be
or become an employee of the Trust shall be deemed, when acting within the scope
of his employment by the Trust, to be acting in such employment solely for the
Trust and not as your employee or agent.
6. DURATION AND TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
This Agreement shall be effective upon its execution, shall remain in
force for a period of two (2) years from that date and remain in force from year
to year thereafter, subject to annual approval by (i) the Board of the Trust or
(ii) a vote of a majority (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of
the outstanding voting securities of the Fund, provided that in either event
continuance is also approved by a majority of the trustees who are not
"interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of you
or of the Trust, by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of
voting such approval.
If the shareholders of the Fund fail to approve the Agreement in the
manner set forth above, upon approval of the Board, including a majority of the
trustees who are not interested persons of you or of the Trust, you may continue
to serve or act in such capacity for the Fund for the period of time (not
exceeding one hundred and twenty days after the termination of the Agreement)
pending required approval of the Agreement, of a new agreement with you or a
different adviser or other definitive action; provided that the compensation to
be paid by the Fund to you will be equal to the lesser of your actual costs
incurred in furnishing investment advisory services to the Fund or the amount
you would have received under this Agreement.
This Agreement may, on sixty days' written notice, be terminated at any
time without the payment of any penalty, by the Board, by a vote of a majority
of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund or by you. This Agreement shall
automatically terminate in the event of its assignment.
7. AMENDMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT
No provision of this Agreement may be changed, waived, discharged or
terminated orally, and no amendment of this Agreement shall be effective until
approved by vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the
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Fund and by the Board, including a majority of the trustees who are not
interested persons of you or of the Trust, cast in person at a meeting called
for the purpose of voting on such approval.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
It is expressly agreed that the obligations of the Fund hereunder shall
not be binding upon any of the trustees, shareholders, nominees, officers,
agents or employees of the Trust, personally, but bind only the trust property
of the Fund, as provided in the Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution
and delivery of this Agreement have been authorized by the trustees of the Trust
and the shareholders of the Fund and signed by the officers of the Trust, acting
as such, and neither such authorization by such trustees and shareholders nor
such execution and delivery by such officers shall be deemed to have been made
by any of them individually or to impose any liability on any of them
personally, but shall bind only the trust property of the Fund as provided in
the Trust's Declaration of Trust.
9. MISCELLANEOUS
The captions in this Agreement are included for convenience of
reference only and in no way define or delimit any of the provisions hereof or
otherwise affect their construction or effect. This Agreement may be executed
simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an
original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of
acceptance on the accompanying counterpart of this letter and return such
counterpart to the Trust, whereupon this letter shall become a binding contract
upon the date thereof.
Yours very truly,
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE TAX-FREE TRUST
/s/ Susan E. Bow By:/s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
ACCEPTANCE
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted.
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
/s/ Susan E. Bow By: /s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
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MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
TO: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
312 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Dear Sirs:
Countrywide Tax-Free Trust (hereinafter referred to as the "Trust")
herewith confirms its agreement with you.
The Trust has been organized to engage in the business of an investment
company. The Tax-Free Intermediate Term Fund (the "Fund") has been established
as a series of the Trust. You have been selected to act as the investment
adviser of the Fund and to provide certain other services, as more fully
set forth below, and you are willing to act as such investment adviser and
to perform such services under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
Accordingly, the Trust agrees with you as follows upon the date of the
execution of this Agreement.
1. ADVISORY SERVICES
You will regularly provide the Fund with such investment advice as you
in your discretion deem advisable and will furnish a continuous investment
program for the Fund consistent with its investment objectives and policies. You
will determine what securities shall be purchased for the Fund, what portfolio
securities shall be held or sold by the Fund, and what portion of the Fund's
assets shall be held uninvested, subject always to the Fund's investment
objectives, policies and restrictions, as each of the same shall be from time to
time in effect, and subject further, to such policies and instructions as the
Board of Trustees (the "Board") of the Trust may from time to time establish and
supply to you copies thereof. You will advise and assist the officers of the
Trust in taking such steps as are necessary or appropriate to carry out the
decisions of the Board and the appropriate committees of the Board regarding the
conduct of the business of the Trust.
2. ALLOCATION OF CHARGES AND EXPENSES
You will pay the compensation and expenses of any persons rendering any
services to the Fund who are officers, directors, stockholders or employees of
your corporation and will make available, without expense to the Fund, the
services of such of your employees as may duly be elected officers or trustees
of the Trust, subject to their individual consent to serve and to any
limitations imposed by law. The compensation and expenses of any officers,
trustees and employees of the Trust who are not officers, directors, employees
or stockholders of your corporation will be paid by the Trust.
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You will pay all advertising and promotion expenses incurred in
connection with the sale or distribution of the Fund's shares to the extent such
expenses are not assumed by the Fund under the Trust's Plans of Distribution
Pursuant to Rule 12b-1.
The Fund will also be responsible for the payment of all other
operating expenses of the Fund, including fees and expenses incurred by the Fund
in connection with membership in investment company organizations, brokerage
fees and commissions, legal, auditing and accounting expenses, expenses of
registering shares under federal and state securities laws, insurance expenses,
taxes or governmental fees, fees and expenses of the custodian, transfer,
shareholder service and dividend disbursing agent and accounting and pricing
agent of the Fund, expenses including clerical expenses of issue, sale,
redemption or repurchase of shares of the Fund, the fees and expenses of
trustees of the Trust who are not affiliated with you, the cost of preparing and
distributing reports and notices to shareholders, the cost of printing or
preparing prospectuses for delivery to the Fund's shareholders, the cost of
printing or preparing stock certificates or any other documents, statements or
reports to shareholders, expenses of shareholders' meetings and proxy
solicitations, such extraordinary or non-recurring expenses as may arise,
including litigation to which the Fund may be a party and indemnification of the
Trust's officers and trustees with respect thereto, or any other expense not
specifically described above incurred in the performance of the Fund's
obligations. All other expenses not assumed by you herein incurred by the Fund
in connection with the organization, registration of shares and operations of
the Fund will be borne by the Fund.
3. COMPENSATION OF THE ADVISER
For all of the services to be rendered and payments made as provided in
this Agreement, the Fund will pay you as of the last day of each month, a fee
equal to the annual rate of:
50/100 of 1% of the average value of the daily net assets of the Fund
up to $100,000,000; 45/100 of 1% of such assets from $100,000,000 to
$200,000,000; 40/100 of 1% of such assets from $200,000,000 to and
including $300,000,000; and 37.5/100 of 1% of such assets in excess of
$300,000,000.
The total fees payable during each of the first and second halves of
each fiscal year of the Trust shall not exceed the semiannual total of the daily
fee accruals requested by you during the applicable six month period. The
average value of net assets shall be determined pursuant to the applicable
provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the Trust or a resolution of the
Board, if required. If, pursuant to such provisions, the
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determination of net asset value of the Fund is suspended for any
business day, then for the purposes of this paragraph, the value of
the net assets of the Fund as last determined shall be deemed to be the value of
the net assets as of the close of the business day, or as of such other time as
the value of the Fund's net assets may lawfully be determined, on that day. If
the determination of the net asset value of the Fund's shares has been suspended
for a period including such month, your compensation payable at the end of such
month shall be computed on the basis of the value of the net assets of the Fund
as last determined (whether during or prior to such month).
Your compensation with respect to each additional series of the Trust
effectively registered for sale in a public offering after the date of this
Agreement shall be determined by the Board, including a majority of the Trustees
who are not "interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of
1940) of you or of the Trust, and approved pursuant to the provisions of Section
15 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
4. EXECUTION OF PURCHASE AND SALE ORDERS
In connection with purchases or sales of portfolio securities for the
account of the Fund, it is understood that you will arrange for the placing of
all orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities for the Fund's
accounts with brokers or dealers selected by you, subject to review of this
selection by the Board from time to time. You will be responsible for the
negotiation and the allocation of principal business and portfolio brokerage. In
the selection of such brokers or dealers and the placing of such orders, you are
directed at all times to seek for the Fund the best qualitative execution,
taking into account such factors as price (including the applicable brokerage
commission or dealer spread), the execution capability, financial responsibility
and responsiveness of the broker or dealer and the brokerage and research
services provided by the broker or dealer.
You should generally seek favorable prices and commission rates that
are reasonable in relation to the benefits received. In seeking best qualitative
execution, you are authorized to select brokers or dealers who also provide
brokerage and research services (as those terms are defined in Section 28(e) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) to the Fund and/or the other accounts over
which you exercise investment discretion. You are authorized to pay a broker or
dealer who provides such brokerage and research services a commission for
executing a portfolio transaction which is in excess of the amount of commission
another broker or dealer would have charged for effecting that transaction if
you determine in good faith that the amount of the commission is reasonable in
relation to the value of the brokerage and research services provided by the
executing broker
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or dealer. The determination may be viewed in terms of either a particular
transaction or your overall responsibilities with respect to the Fund and to
accounts over which you exercise investment discretion. The Trust and you
understand that, although the information may be useful to the Fund and you, it
is not possible to place a dollar value on such information. The Board shall
periodically review the commissions paid by the Fund to determine if the
commissions paid over representative periods of time were reasonable in relation
to the benefits to the Fund.
Consistent with the Rules of Fair Practice of the National Association
of Securities Dealers, Inc., and subject to seeking best qualitative execution,
you may give consideration to sales of shares of the Fund as a factor in the
selection of brokers and dealers to execute portfolio transactions of the Fund.
If any occasion should arise in which you give any advice to clients of
yours concerning the shares of the Fund, you will act solely as investment
counsel for such client and not in any way on behalf of the Trust. Your services
to the Fund pursuant to this Agreement are not to be deemed to be exclusive and
it is understood that you may render investment advice, management and other
services to others.
5. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF ADVISER
You (including your directors, officers, shareholders, employees,
control persons and affiliates of any thereof) shall not be liable for any error
of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund in connection
with the matters to which this Agreement relates, except a loss resulting from
willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on your part in the
performance of your duties or from the reckless disregard by you of your
obligations and duties under this Agreement ("disabling conduct"). However, you
will not be indemnified for any liability unless (1) a final decision is made on
the merits by a court or other body before whom the proceeding was brought that
you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, or (2) in the absence of
such a decision, a reasonable determination is made, based upon a review of the
facts, that you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, by (a) the vote
of a majority of a quorum of trustees who are neither "interested persons" of
the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 nor parties to the
proceeding ("disinterested, non-party trustees"), or (b) an independent legal
counsel in a written opinion. The Fund will advance attorneys' fees or other
expenses incurred by you in defending a proceeding, upon the undertaking by or
on behalf of you to repay the advance unless it is ultimately determined that
you are entitled to indemnification, so long as you meet at least one of the
following as a condition to the advance: (1) you shall provide a security for
your undertaking,
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(2) the Fund shall be insured against losses arising by reason of any lawful
advances, or (3) a majority of a quorum of the disinterested, non-party trustees
of the Trust, or an independent legal counsel in a written opinion, shall
determine, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full
trial- type inquiry), that there is reason to believe that you ultimately will
be found entitled to indemnification. Any person employed by you who may also be
or become an employee of the Trust shall be deemed, when acting within the scope
of his employment by the Trust, to be acting in such employment solely for the
Trust and not as your employee or agent.
6. DURATION AND TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
This Agreement shall be effective upon its execution, shall remain in
force for a period of two (2) years from that date and remain in force from year
to year thereafter, subject to annual approval by (i) the Board of the Trust or
(ii) a vote of a majority (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of
the outstanding voting securities of the Fund, provided that in either event
continuance is also approved by a majority of the trustees who are not
"interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of you
or of the Trust, by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of
voting such approval.
If the shareholders of the Fund fail to approve the Agreement in the
manner set forth above, upon approval of the Board, including a majority of the
trustees who are not interested persons of you or of the Trust, you may continue
to serve or act in such capacity for the Fund for the period of time (not
exceeding one hundred and twenty days after the termination of the Agreement)
pending required approval of the Agreement, of a new agreement with you or a
different adviser or other definitive action; provided that the compensation to
be paid by the Fund to you will be equal to the lesser of your actual costs
incurred in furnishing investment advisory services to the Fund or the amount
you would have received under this Agreement.
This Agreement may, on sixty days' written notice, be terminated at any
time without the payment of any penalty, by the Board, by a vote of a majority
of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund or by you. This Agreement shall
automatically terminate in the event of its assignment.
7. AMENDMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT
No provision of this Agreement may be changed, waived, discharged or
terminated orally, and no amendment of this Agreement shall be effective until
approved by vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the
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Fund and by the Board, including a majority of the trustees who are not
interested persons of you or of the Trust, cast in person at a meeting called
for the purpose of voting on such approval.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
It is expressly agreed that the obligations of the Fund hereunder shall
not be binding upon any of the trustees, shareholders, nominees, officers,
agents or employees of the Trust, personally, but bind only the trust property
of the Fund, as provided in the Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution
and delivery of this Agreement have been authorized by the trustees of the Trust
and the shareholders of the Fund and signed by the officers of the Trust, acting
as such, and neither such authorization by such trustees and shareholders nor
such execution and delivery by such officers shall be deemed to have been made
by any of them individually or to impose any liability on any of them
personally, but shall bind only the trust property of the Fund as provided in
the Trust's Declaration of Trust.
9. MISCELLANEOUS
The captions in this Agreement are included for convenience of
reference only and in no way define or delimit any of the provisions hereof or
otherwise affect their construction or effect. This Agreement may be executed
simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an
original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of
acceptance on the accompanying counterpart of this letter and return such
counterpart to the Trust, whereupon this letter shall become a binding contract
upon the date thereof.
Yours very truly,
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE TAX-FREE TRUST
/s/ Susan E. Bow By:/s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
ACCEPTANCE
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted.
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
/s/ Susan E. Bow By: /s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
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MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
TO: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
312 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Dear Sirs:
Countrywide Tax-Free Trust (hereinafter referred to as the "Trust")
herewith confirms its agreement with you.
The Trust has been organized to engage in the business of an investment
company. The Ohio Insured Tax-Free Fund (the "Fund") has been established
as a series of the Trust. You have been selected to act as the investment
adviser of the Fund and to provide certain other services, as more fully
set forth below, and you are willing to act as such investment adviser and
to perform such services under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
Accordingly, the Trust agrees with you as follows upon the date of the
execution of this Agreement.
1. ADVISORY SERVICES
You will regularly provide the Fund with such investment advice as you
in your discretion deem advisable and will furnish a continuous investment
program for the Fund consistent with its investment objectives and policies. You
will determine what securities shall be purchased for the Fund, what portfolio
securities shall be held or sold by the Fund, and what portion of the Fund's
assets shall be held uninvested, subject always to the Fund's investment
objectives, policies and restrictions, as each of the same shall be from time to
time in effect, and subject further, to such policies and instructions as the
Board of Trustees (the "Board") of the Trust may from time to time establish and
supply to you copies thereof. You will advise and assist the officers of the
Trust in taking such steps as are necessary or appropriate to carry out the
decisions of the Board and the appropriate committees of the Board regarding the
conduct of the business of the Trust.
2. ALLOCATION OF CHARGES AND EXPENSES
You will pay the compensation and expenses of any persons rendering any
services to the Fund who are officers, directors, stockholders or employees of
your corporation and will make available, without expense to the Fund, the
services of such of your employees as may duly be elected officers or trustees
of the Trust, subject to their individual consent to serve and to any
limitations imposed by law. The compensation and expenses of any officers,
trustees and employees of the Trust who are not officers, directors, employees
or stockholders of your corporation will be paid by the Trust.
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You will pay all advertising and promotion expenses incurred in
connection with the sale or distribution of the Fund's shares to the extent such
expenses are not assumed by the Fund under the Trust's Plans of Distribution
Pursuant to Rule 12b-1.
The Fund will also be responsible for the payment of all other
operating expenses of the Fund, including fees and expenses incurred by the Fund
in connection with membership in investment company organizations, brokerage
fees and commissions, legal, auditing and accounting expenses, expenses of
registering shares under federal and state securities laws, insurance expenses,
taxes or governmental fees, fees and expenses of the custodian, transfer,
shareholder service and dividend disbursing agent and accounting and pricing
agent of the Fund, expenses including clerical expenses of issue, sale,
redemption or repurchase of shares of the Fund, the fees and expenses of
trustees of the Trust who are not affiliated with you, the cost of preparing and
distributing reports and notices to shareholders, the cost of printing or
preparing prospectuses for delivery to the Fund's shareholders, the cost of
printing or preparing stock certificates or any other documents, statements or
reports to shareholders, expenses of shareholders' meetings and proxy
solicitations, such extraordinary or non-recurring expenses as may arise,
including litigation to which the Fund may be a party and indemnification of the
Trust's officers and trustees with respect thereto, or any other expense not
specifically described above incurred in the performance of the Fund's
obligations. All other expenses not assumed by you herein incurred by the Fund
in connection with the organization, registration of shares and operations of
the Fund will be borne by the Fund.
3. COMPENSATION OF THE ADVISER
For all of the services to be rendered and payments made as provided in
this Agreement, the Fund will pay you as of the last day of each month, a fee
equal to the annual rate of:
50/100 of 1% of the average value of the daily net assets of the Fund
up to $100,000,000; 45/100 of 1% of such assets from $100,000,000 to
$200,000,000; 40/100 of 1% of such assets from $200,000,000 to and
including $300,000,000; and 37.5/100 of 1% of such assets in excess of
$300,000,000.
The total fees payable during each of the first and second halves of
each fiscal year of the Trust shall not exceed the semiannual total of the daily
fee accruals requested by you during the applicable six month period. The
average value of net assets shall be determined pursuant to the applicable
provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the Trust or a resolution of the
Board, if required. If, pursuant to such provisions, the
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determination of net asset value of the Fund is suspended for any
business day, then for the purposes of this paragraph, the value of
the net assets of the Fund as last determined shall be deemed to be the value of
the net assets as of the close of the business day, or as of such other time as
the value of the Fund's net assets may lawfully be determined, on that day. If
the determination of the net asset value of the Fund's shares has been suspended
for a period including such month, your compensation payable at the end of such
month shall be computed on the basis of the value of the net assets of the Fund
as last determined (whether during or prior to such month).
Your compensation with respect to each additional series of the Trust
effectively registered for sale in a public offering after the date of this
Agreement shall be determined by the Board, including a majority of the Trustees
who are not "interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of
1940) of you or of the Trust, and approved pursuant to the provisions of Section
15 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
4. EXECUTION OF PURCHASE AND SALE ORDERS
In connection with purchases or sales of portfolio securities for the
account of the Fund, it is understood that you will arrange for the placing of
all orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities for the Fund's
accounts with brokers or dealers selected by you, subject to review of this
selection by the Board from time to time. You will be responsible for the
negotiation and the allocation of principal business and portfolio brokerage. In
the selection of such brokers or dealers and the placing of such orders, you are
directed at all times to seek for the Fund the best qualitative execution,
taking into account such factors as price (including the applicable brokerage
commission or dealer spread), the execution capability, financial responsibility
and responsiveness of the broker or dealer and the brokerage and research
services provided by the broker or dealer.
You should generally seek favorable prices and commission rates that
are reasonable in relation to the benefits received. In seeking best qualitative
execution, you are authorized to select brokers or dealers who also provide
brokerage and research services (as those terms are defined in Section 28(e) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) to the Fund and/or the other accounts over
which you exercise investment discretion. You are authorized to pay a broker or
dealer who provides such brokerage and research services a commission for
executing a portfolio transaction which is in excess of the amount of commission
another broker or dealer would have charged for effecting that transaction if
you determine in good faith that the amount of the commission is reasonable in
relation to the value of the brokerage and research services provided by the
executing broker
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or dealer. The determination may be viewed in terms of either a particular
transaction or your overall responsibilities with respect to the Fund and to
accounts over which you exercise investment discretion. The Trust and you
understand that, although the information may be useful to the Fund and you, it
is not possible to place a dollar value on such information. The Board shall
periodically review the commissions paid by the Fund to determine if the
commissions paid over representative periods of time were reasonable in relation
to the benefits to the Fund.
Consistent with the Rules of Fair Practice of the National Association
of Securities Dealers, Inc., and subject to seeking best qualitative execution,
you may give consideration to sales of shares of the Fund as a factor in the
selection of brokers and dealers to execute portfolio transactions of the Fund.
If any occasion should arise in which you give any advice to clients of
yours concerning the shares of the Fund, you will act solely as investment
counsel for such client and not in any way on behalf of the Trust. Your services
to the Fund pursuant to this Agreement are not to be deemed to be exclusive and
it is understood that you may render investment advice, management and other
services to others.
5. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF ADVISER
You (including your directors, officers, shareholders, employees,
control persons and affiliates of any thereof) shall not be liable for any error
of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund in connection
with the matters to which this Agreement relates, except a loss resulting from
willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on your part in the
performance of your duties or from the reckless disregard by you of your
obligations and duties under this Agreement ("disabling conduct"). However, you
will not be indemnified for any liability unless (1) a final decision is made on
the merits by a court or other body before whom the proceeding was brought that
you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, or (2) in the absence of
such a decision, a reasonable determination is made, based upon a review of the
facts, that you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, by (a) the vote
of a majority of a quorum of trustees who are neither "interested persons" of
the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 nor parties to the
proceeding ("disinterested, non-party trustees"), or (b) an independent legal
counsel in a written opinion. The Fund will advance attorneys' fees or other
expenses incurred by you in defending a proceeding, upon the undertaking by or
on behalf of you to repay the advance unless it is ultimately determined that
you are entitled to indemnification, so long as you meet at least one of the
following as a condition to the advance: (1) you shall provide a security for
your undertaking,
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(2) the Fund shall be insured against losses arising by reason of any lawful
advances, or (3) a majority of a quorum of the disinterested, non-party trustees
of the Trust, or an independent legal counsel in a written opinion, shall
determine, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full
trial- type inquiry), that there is reason to believe that you ultimately will
be found entitled to indemnification. Any person employed by you who may also be
or become an employee of the Trust shall be deemed, when acting within the scope
of his employment by the Trust, to be acting in such employment solely for the
Trust and not as your employee or agent.
6. DURATION AND TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
This Agreement shall be effective upon its execution, shall remain in
force for a period of two (2) years from that date and remain in force from year
to year thereafter, subject to annual approval by (i) the Board of the Trust or
(ii) a vote of a majority (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of
the outstanding voting securities of the Fund, provided that in either event
continuance is also approved by a majority of the trustees who are not
"interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of you
or of the Trust, by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of
voting such approval.
If the shareholders of the Fund fail to approve the Agreement in the
manner set forth above, upon approval of the Board, including a majority of the
trustees who are not interested persons of you or of the Trust, you may continue
to serve or act in such capacity for the Fund for the period of time (not
exceeding one hundred and twenty days after the termination of the Agreement)
pending required approval of the Agreement, of a new agreement with you or a
different adviser or other definitive action; provided that the compensation to
be paid by the Fund to you will be equal to the lesser of your actual costs
incurred in furnishing investment advisory services to the Fund or the amount
you would have received under this Agreement.
This Agreement may, on sixty days' written notice, be terminated at any
time without the payment of any penalty, by the Board, by a vote of a majority
of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund or by you. This Agreement shall
automatically terminate in the event of its assignment.
7. AMENDMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT
No provision of this Agreement may be changed, waived, discharged or
terminated orally, and no amendment of this Agreement shall be effective until
approved by vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the
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Fund and by the Board, including a majority of the trustees who are not
interested persons of you or of the Trust, cast in person at a meeting called
for the purpose of voting on such approval.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
It is expressly agreed that the obligations of the Fund hereunder shall
not be binding upon any of the trustees, shareholders, nominees, officers,
agents or employees of the Trust, personally, but bind only the trust property
of the Fund, as provided in the Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution
and delivery of this Agreement have been authorized by the trustees of the Trust
and the shareholders of the Fund and signed by the officers of the Trust, acting
as such, and neither such authorization by such trustees and shareholders nor
such execution and delivery by such officers shall be deemed to have been made
by any of them individually or to impose any liability on any of them
personally, but shall bind only the trust property of the Fund as provided in
the Trust's Declaration of Trust.
9. MISCELLANEOUS
The captions in this Agreement are included for convenience of
reference only and in no way define or delimit any of the provisions hereof or
otherwise affect their construction or effect. This Agreement may be executed
simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an
original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of
acceptance on the accompanying counterpart of this letter and return such
counterpart to the Trust, whereupon this letter shall become a binding contract
upon the date thereof.
Yours very truly,
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE TAX-FREE TRUST
/s/ Susan E. Bow By:/s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
ACCEPTANCE
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted.
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
/s/ Susan E. Bow By: /s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
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MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
TO: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
312 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Dear Sirs:
Countrywide Tax-Free Trust (hereinafter referred to as the "Trust")
herewith confirms its agreement with you.
The Trust has been organized to engage in the business of an investment
company. The Ohio Tax-Free Money Fund (the "Fund") has been established as a
series of the Trust. You have been selected to act as the investment
adviser of the Fund and to provide certain other services, as more fully
set forth below, and you are willing to act as such investment adviser and
to perform such services under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
Accordingly, the Trust agrees with you as follows upon the date of the
execution of this Agreement.
1. ADVISORY SERVICES
You will regularly provide the Fund with such investment advice as you
in your discretion deem advisable and will furnish a continuous investment
program for the Fund consistent with its investment objectives and policies. You
will determine what securities shall be purchased for the Fund, what portfolio
securities shall be held or sold by the Fund, and what portion of the Fund's
assets shall be held uninvested, subject always to the Fund's investment
objectives, policies and restrictions, as each of the same shall be from time to
time in effect, and subject further, to such policies and instructions as the
Board of Trustees (the "Board") of the Trust may from time to time establish and
supply to you copies thereof. You will advise and assist the officers of the
Trust in taking such steps as are necessary or appropriate to carry out the
decisions of the Board and the appropriate committees of the Board regarding the
conduct of the business of the Trust.
2. ALLOCATION OF CHARGES AND EXPENSES
You will pay the compensation and expenses of any persons rendering any
services to the Fund who are officers, directors, stockholders or employees of
your corporation and will make available, without expense to the Fund, the
services of such of your employees as may duly be elected officers or trustees
of the Trust, subject to their individual consent to serve and to any
limitations imposed by law. The compensation and expenses of any officers,
trustees and employees of the Trust who are not officers, directors, employees
or stockholders of your corporation will be paid by the Trust.
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You will pay all advertising and promotion expenses incurred in
connection with the sale or distribution of the Fund's shares to the extent such
expenses are not assumed by the Fund under the Trust's Plans of Distribution
Pursuant to Rule 12b-1.
The Fund will also be responsible for the payment of all other
operating expenses of the Fund, including fees and expenses incurred by the Fund
in connection with membership in investment company organizations, brokerage
fees and commissions, legal, auditing and accounting expenses, expenses of
registering shares under federal and state securities laws, insurance expenses,
taxes or governmental fees, fees and expenses of the custodian, transfer,
shareholder service and dividend disbursing agent and accounting and pricing
agent of the Fund, expenses including clerical expenses of issue, sale,
redemption or repurchase of shares of the Fund, the fees and expenses of
trustees of the Trust who are not affiliated with you, the cost of preparing and
distributing reports and notices to shareholders, the cost of printing or
preparing prospectuses for delivery to the Fund's shareholders, the cost of
printing or preparing stock certificates or any other documents, statements or
reports to shareholders, expenses of shareholders' meetings and proxy
solicitations, such extraordinary or non-recurring expenses as may arise,
including litigation to which the Fund may be a party and indemnification of the
Trust's officers and trustees with respect thereto, or any other expense not
specifically described above incurred in the performance of the Fund's
obligations. All other expenses not assumed by you herein incurred by the Fund
in connection with the organization, registration of shares and operations of
the Fund will be borne by the Fund.
3. COMPENSATION OF THE ADVISER
For all of the services to be rendered and payments made as provided in
this Agreement, the Fund will pay you as of the last day of each month, a fee
equal to the annual rate of:
50/100 of 1% of the average value of the daily net assets of the Fund
up to $100,000,000; 45/100 of 1% of such assets from $100,000,000 to
$200,000,000; 40/100 of 1% of such assets from $200,000,000 to and
including $300,000,000; and 37.5/100 of 1% of such assets in excess of
$300,000,000.
The total fees payable during each of the first and second halves of
each fiscal year of the Trust shall not exceed the semiannual total of the daily
fee accruals requested by you during the applicable six month period. The
average value of net assets shall be determined pursuant to the applicable
provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the Trust or a resolution of the
Board, if required. If, pursuant to such provisions, the
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determination of net asset value of the Fund is suspended for any
business day, then for the purposes of this paragraph, the value of
the net assets of the Fund as last determined shall be deemed to be the value of
the net assets as of the close of the business day, or as of such other time as
the value of the Fund's net assets may lawfully be determined, on that day. If
the determination of the net asset value of the Fund's shares has been suspended
for a period including such month, your compensation payable at the end of such
month shall be computed on the basis of the value of the net assets of the Fund
as last determined (whether during or prior to such month).
Your compensation with respect to each additional series of the Trust
effectively registered for sale in a public offering after the date of this
Agreement shall be determined by the Board, including a majority of the Trustees
who are not "interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of
1940) of you or of the Trust, and approved pursuant to the provisions of Section
15 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
4. EXECUTION OF PURCHASE AND SALE ORDERS
In connection with purchases or sales of portfolio securities for the
account of the Fund, it is understood that you will arrange for the placing of
all orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities for the Fund's
accounts with brokers or dealers selected by you, subject to review of this
selection by the Board from time to time. You will be responsible for the
negotiation and the allocation of principal business and portfolio brokerage. In
the selection of such brokers or dealers and the placing of such orders, you are
directed at all times to seek for the Fund the best qualitative execution,
taking into account such factors as price (including the applicable brokerage
commission or dealer spread), the execution capability, financial responsibility
and responsiveness of the broker or dealer and the brokerage and research
services provided by the broker or dealer.
You should generally seek favorable prices and commission rates that
are reasonable in relation to the benefits received. In seeking best qualitative
execution, you are authorized to select brokers or dealers who also provide
brokerage and research services (as those terms are defined in Section 28(e) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) to the Fund and/or the other accounts over
which you exercise investment discretion. You are authorized to pay a broker or
dealer who provides such brokerage and research services a commission for
executing a portfolio transaction which is in excess of the amount of commission
another broker or dealer would have charged for effecting that transaction if
you determine in good faith that the amount of the commission is reasonable in
relation to the value of the brokerage and research services provided by the
executing broker
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or dealer. The determination may be viewed in terms of either a particular
transaction or your overall responsibilities with respect to the Fund and to
accounts over which you exercise investment discretion. The Trust and you
understand that, although the information may be useful to the Fund and you, it
is not possible to place a dollar value on such information. The Board shall
periodically review the commissions paid by the Fund to determine if the
commissions paid over representative periods of time were reasonable in relation
to the benefits to the Fund.
Consistent with the Rules of Fair Practice of the National Association
of Securities Dealers, Inc., and subject to seeking best qualitative execution,
you may give consideration to sales of shares of the Fund as a factor in the
selection of brokers and dealers to execute portfolio transactions of the Fund.
If any occasion should arise in which you give any advice to clients of
yours concerning the shares of the Fund, you will act solely as investment
counsel for such client and not in any way on behalf of the Trust. Your services
to the Fund pursuant to this Agreement are not to be deemed to be exclusive and
it is understood that you may render investment advice, management and other
services to others.
5. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF ADVISER
You (including your directors, officers, shareholders, employees,
control persons and affiliates of any thereof) shall not be liable for any error
of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund in connection
with the matters to which this Agreement relates, except a loss resulting from
willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on your part in the
performance of your duties or from the reckless disregard by you of your
obligations and duties under this Agreement ("disabling conduct"). However, you
will not be indemnified for any liability unless (1) a final decision is made on
the merits by a court or other body before whom the proceeding was brought that
you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, or (2) in the absence of
such a decision, a reasonable determination is made, based upon a review of the
facts, that you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, by (a) the vote
of a majority of a quorum of trustees who are neither "interested persons" of
the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 nor parties to the
proceeding ("disinterested, non-party trustees"), or (b) an independent legal
counsel in a written opinion. The Fund will advance attorneys' fees or other
expenses incurred by you in defending a proceeding, upon the undertaking by or
on behalf of you to repay the advance unless it is ultimately determined that
you are entitled to indemnification, so long as you meet at least one of the
following as a condition to the advance: (1) you shall provide a security for
your undertaking,
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(2) the Fund shall be insured against losses arising by reason of any lawful
advances, or (3) a majority of a quorum of the disinterested, non-party trustees
of the Trust, or an independent legal counsel in a written opinion, shall
determine, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full
trial- type inquiry), that there is reason to believe that you ultimately will
be found entitled to indemnification. Any person employed by you who may also be
or become an employee of the Trust shall be deemed, when acting within the scope
of his employment by the Trust, to be acting in such employment solely for the
Trust and not as your employee or agent.
6. DURATION AND TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
This Agreement shall be effective upon its execution, shall remain in
force for a period of two (2) years from that date and remain in force from year
to year thereafter, subject to annual approval by (i) the Board of the Trust or
(ii) a vote of a majority (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of
the outstanding voting securities of the Fund, provided that in either event
continuance is also approved by a majority of the trustees who are not
"interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of you
or of the Trust, by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of
voting such approval.
If the shareholders of the Fund fail to approve the Agreement in the
manner set forth above, upon approval of the Board, including a majority of the
trustees who are not interested persons of you or of the Trust, you may continue
to serve or act in such capacity for the Fund for the period of time (not
exceeding one hundred and twenty days after the termination of the Agreement)
pending required approval of the Agreement, of a new agreement with you or a
different adviser or other definitive action; provided that the compensation to
be paid by the Fund to you will be equal to the lesser of your actual costs
incurred in furnishing investment advisory services to the Fund or the amount
you would have received under this Agreement.
This Agreement may, on sixty days' written notice, be terminated at any
time without the payment of any penalty, by the Board, by a vote of a majority
of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund or by you. This Agreement shall
automatically terminate in the event of its assignment.
7. AMENDMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT
No provision of this Agreement may be changed, waived, discharged or
terminated orally, and no amendment of this Agreement shall be effective until
approved by vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the
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Fund and by the Board, including a majority of the trustees who are not
interested persons of you or of the Trust, cast in person at a meeting called
for the purpose of voting on such approval.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
It is expressly agreed that the obligations of the Fund hereunder shall
not be binding upon any of the trustees, shareholders, nominees, officers,
agents or employees of the Trust, personally, but bind only the trust property
of the Fund, as provided in the Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution
and delivery of this Agreement have been authorized by the trustees of the Trust
and the shareholders of the Fund and signed by the officers of the Trust, acting
as such, and neither such authorization by such trustees and shareholders nor
such execution and delivery by such officers shall be deemed to have been made
by any of them individually or to impose any liability on any of them
personally, but shall bind only the trust property of the Fund as provided in
the Trust's Declaration of Trust.
9. MISCELLANEOUS
The captions in this Agreement are included for convenience of
reference only and in no way define or delimit any of the provisions hereof or
otherwise affect their construction or effect. This Agreement may be executed
simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an
original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of
acceptance on the accompanying counterpart of this letter and return such
counterpart to the Trust, whereupon this letter shall become a binding contract
upon the date thereof.
Yours very truly,
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE TAX-FREE TRUST
/s/ Susan E. Bow By:/s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
ACCEPTANCE
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted.
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
/s/ Susan E. Bow By: /s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
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MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
TO: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
312 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Dear Sirs:
Countrywide Tax-Free Trust (hereinafter referred to as the "Trust")
herewith confirms its agreement with you.
The Trust has been organized to engage in the business of an investment
company. The California Tax-Free Money Fund (the "Fund") has been established as
a series of the Trust. You have been selected to act as the investment adviser
of the Fund and to provide certain other services, as more fully set forth
below, and you are willing to act as such investment adviser and to perform such
services under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Accordingly, the
Trust agrees with you as follows upon the date of the execution of this
Agreement.
1. ADVISORY SERVICES
You will regularly provide the Fund with such investment advice as you
in your discretion deem advisable and will furnish a continuous investment
program for the Fund consistent with its investment objectives and policies. You
will determine what securities shall be purchased for the Fund, what portfolio
securities shall be held or sold by the Fund, and what portion of the Fund's
assets shall be held uninvested, subject always to the Fund's investment
objectives, policies and restrictions, as each of the same shall be from time to
time in effect, and subject further, to such policies and instructions as the
Board of Trustees (the "Board") of the Trust may from time to time establish and
supply to you copies thereof. You will advise and assist the officers of the
Trust in taking such steps as are necessary or appropriate to carry out the
decisions of the Board and the appropriate committees of the Board regarding the
conduct of the business of the Trust.
2. ALLOCATION OF CHARGES AND EXPENSES
You will pay the compensation and expenses of any persons rendering any
services to the Fund who are officers, directors, stockholders or employees of
your corporation and will make available, without expense to the Fund, the
services of such of your employees as may duly be elected officers or trustees
of the Trust, subject to their individual consent to serve and to any
limitations imposed by law. The compensation and expenses of any officers,
trustees and employees of the Trust who are not officers, directors, employees
or stockholders of your corporation will be paid by the Trust.
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You will pay all advertising and promotion expenses incurred in
connection with the sale or distribution of the Fund's shares to the extent such
expenses are not assumed by the Fund under the Trust's Plans of Distribution
Pursuant to Rule 12b-1.
The Fund will also be responsible for the payment of all other
operating expenses of the Fund, including fees and expenses incurred by the Fund
in connection with membership in investment company organizations, brokerage
fees and commissions, legal, auditing and accounting expenses, expenses of
registering shares under federal and state securities laws, insurance expenses,
taxes or governmental fees, fees and expenses of the custodian, transfer,
shareholder service and dividend disbursing agent and accounting and pricing
agent of the Fund, expenses including clerical expenses of issue, sale,
redemption or repurchase of shares of the Fund, the fees and expenses of
trustees of the Trust who are not affiliated with you, the cost of preparing and
distributing reports and notices to shareholders, the cost of printing or
preparing prospectuses for delivery to the Fund's shareholders, the cost of
printing or preparing stock certificates or any other documents, statements or
reports to shareholders, expenses of shareholders' meetings and proxy
solicitations, such extraordinary or non-recurring expenses as may arise,
including litigation to which the Fund may be a party and indemnification of the
Trust's officers and trustees with respect thereto, or any other expense not
specifically described above incurred in the performance of the Fund's
obligations. All other expenses not assumed by you herein incurred by the Fund
in connection with the organization, registration of shares and operations of
the Fund will be borne by the Fund.
3. COMPENSATION OF THE ADVISER
For all of the services to be rendered and payments made as provided in
this Agreement, the Fund will pay you as of the last day of each month, a fee
equal to the annual rate of:
50/100 of 1% of the average value of the daily net assets of the Fund
up to $100,000,000; 45/100 of 1% of such assets from $100,000,000 to
$200,000,000; 40/100 of 1% of such assets from $200,000,000 to and
including $300,000,000; and 37.5/100 of 1% of such assets in excess of
$300,000,000.
The total fees payable during each of the first and second halves of
each fiscal year of the Trust shall not exceed the semiannual total of the daily
fee accruals requested by you during the applicable six month period. The
average value of net assets shall be determined pursuant to the applicable
provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the Trust or a resolution of the
Board, if required. If, pursuant to such provisions, the
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determination of net asset value of the Fund is suspended for any
business day, then for the purposes of this paragraph, the value of
the net assets of the Fund as last determined shall be deemed to be the value of
the net assets as of the close of the business day, or as of such other time as
the value of the Fund's net assets may lawfully be determined, on that day. If
the determination of the net asset value of the Fund's shares has been suspended
for a period including such month, your compensation payable at the end of such
month shall be computed on the basis of the value of the net assets of the Fund
as last determined (whether during or prior to such month).
Your compensation with respect to each additional series of the Trust
effectively registered for sale in a public offering after the date of this
Agreement shall be determined by the Board, including a majority of the Trustees
who are not "interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of
1940) of you or of the Trust, and approved pursuant to the provisions of Section
15 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
4. EXECUTION OF PURCHASE AND SALE ORDERS
In connection with purchases or sales of portfolio securities for the
account of the Fund, it is understood that you will arrange for the placing of
all orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities for the Fund's
accounts with brokers or dealers selected by you, subject to review of this
selection by the Board from time to time. You will be responsible for the
negotiation and the allocation of principal business and portfolio brokerage. In
the selection of such brokers or dealers and the placing of such orders, you are
directed at all times to seek for the Fund the best qualitative execution,
taking into account such factors as price (including the applicable brokerage
commission or dealer spread), the execution capability, financial responsibility
and responsiveness of the broker or dealer and the brokerage and research
services provided by the broker or dealer.
You should generally seek favorable prices and commission rates that
are reasonable in relation to the benefits received. In seeking best qualitative
execution, you are authorized to select brokers or dealers who also provide
brokerage and research services (as those terms are defined in Section 28(e) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) to the Fund and/or the other accounts over
which you exercise investment discretion. You are authorized to pay a broker or
dealer who provides such brokerage and research services a commission for
executing a portfolio transaction which is in excess of the amount of commission
another broker or dealer would have charged for effecting that transaction if
you determine in good faith that the amount of the commission is reasonable in
relation to the value of the brokerage and research services provided by the
executing broker
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or dealer. The determination may be viewed in terms of either a particular
transaction or your overall responsibilities with respect to the Fund and to
accounts over which you exercise investment discretion. The Trust and you
understand that, although the information may be useful to the Fund and you, it
is not possible to place a dollar value on such information. The Board shall
periodically review the commissions paid by the Fund to determine if the
commissions paid over representative periods of time were reasonable in relation
to the benefits to the Fund.
Consistent with the Rules of Fair Practice of the National Association
of Securities Dealers, Inc., and subject to seeking best qualitative execution,
you may give consideration to sales of shares of the Fund as a factor in the
selection of brokers and dealers to execute portfolio transactions of the Fund.
If any occasion should arise in which you give any advice to clients of
yours concerning the shares of the Fund, you will act solely as investment
counsel for such client and not in any way on behalf of the Trust. Your services
to the Fund pursuant to this Agreement are not to be deemed to be exclusive and
it is understood that you may render investment advice, management and other
services to others.
5. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF ADVISER
You (including your directors, officers, shareholders, employees,
control persons and affiliates of any thereof) shall not be liable for any error
of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund in connection
with the matters to which this Agreement relates, except a loss resulting from
willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on your part in the
performance of your duties or from the reckless disregard by you of your
obligations and duties under this Agreement ("disabling conduct"). However, you
will not be indemnified for any liability unless (1) a final decision is made on
the merits by a court or other body before whom the proceeding was brought that
you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, or (2) in the absence of
such a decision, a reasonable determination is made, based upon a review of the
facts, that you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, by (a) the vote
of a majority of a quorum of trustees who are neither "interested persons" of
the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 nor parties to the
proceeding ("disinterested, non-party trustees"), or (b) an independent legal
counsel in a written opinion. The Fund will advance attorneys' fees or other
expenses incurred by you in defending a proceeding, upon the undertaking by or
on behalf of you to repay the advance unless it is ultimately determined that
you are entitled to indemnification, so long as you meet at least one of the
following as a condition to the advance: (1) you shall provide a security for
your undertaking,
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(2) the Fund shall be insured against losses arising by reason of any lawful
advances, or (3) a majority of a quorum of the disinterested, non-party trustees
of the Trust, or an independent legal counsel in a written opinion, shall
determine, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full
trial- type inquiry), that there is reason to believe that you ultimately will
be found entitled to indemnification. Any person employed by you who may also be
or become an employee of the Trust shall be deemed, when acting within the scope
of his employment by the Trust, to be acting in such employment solely for the
Trust and not as your employee or agent.
6. DURATION AND TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
This Agreement shall be effective upon its execution, shall remain in
force for a period of two (2) years from that date and remain in force from year
to year thereafter, subject to annual approval by (i) the Board of the Trust or
(ii) a vote of a majority (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of
the outstanding voting securities of the Fund, provided that in either event
continuance is also approved by a majority of the trustees who are not
"interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of you
or of the Trust, by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of
voting such approval.
If the shareholders of the Fund fail to approve the Agreement in the
manner set forth above, upon approval of the Board, including a majority of the
trustees who are not interested persons of you or of the Trust, you may continue
to serve or act in such capacity for the Fund for the period of time (not
exceeding one hundred and twenty days after the termination of the Agreement)
pending required approval of the Agreement, of a new agreement with you or a
different adviser or other definitive action; provided that the compensation to
be paid by the Fund to you will be equal to the lesser of your actual costs
incurred in furnishing investment advisory services to the Fund or the amount
you would have received under this Agreement.
This Agreement may, on sixty days' written notice, be terminated at any
time without the payment of any penalty, by the Board, by a vote of a majority
of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund or by you. This Agreement shall
automatically terminate in the event of its assignment.
7. AMENDMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT
No provision of this Agreement may be changed, waived, discharged or
terminated orally, and no amendment of this Agreement shall be effective until
approved by vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the
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Fund and by the Board, including a majority of the trustees who are not
interested persons of you or of the Trust, cast in person at a meeting called
for the purpose of voting on such approval.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
It is expressly agreed that the obligations of the Fund hereunder shall
not be binding upon any of the trustees, shareholders, nominees, officers,
agents or employees of the Trust, personally, but bind only the trust property
of the Fund, as provided in the Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution
and delivery of this Agreement have been authorized by the trustees of the Trust
and the shareholders of the Fund and signed by the officers of the Trust, acting
as such, and neither such authorization by such trustees and shareholders nor
such execution and delivery by such officers shall be deemed to have been made
by any of them individually or to impose any liability on any of them
personally, but shall bind only the trust property of the Fund as provided in
the Trust's Declaration of Trust.
9. MISCELLANEOUS
The captions in this Agreement are included for convenience of
reference only and in no way define or delimit any of the provisions hereof or
otherwise affect their construction or effect. This Agreement may be executed
simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an
original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of
acceptance on the accompanying counterpart of this letter and return such
counterpart to the Trust, whereupon this letter shall become a binding contract
upon the date thereof.
Yours very truly,
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE TAX-FREE TRUST
/s/ Susan E. Bow By:/s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
ACCEPTANCE
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted.
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
/s/ Susan E. Bow By: /s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
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MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
TO: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
312 Walnut Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Dear Sirs:
Countrywide Tax-Free Trust (hereinafter referred to as the "Trust")
herewith confirms its agreement with you.
The Trust has been organized to engage in the business of an investment
company. The Florida Tax-Free Money Fund (the "Fund") has been established as
a series of the Trust. You have been selected to act as the investment adviser
of the Fund and to provide certain other services, as more fully set forth
below, and you are willing to act as such investment adviser and to perform such
services under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. Accordingly, the
Trust agrees with you as follows upon the date of the execution of this
Agreement.
1. ADVISORY SERVICES
You will regularly provide the Fund with such investment advice as you
in your discretion deem advisable and will furnish a continuous investment
program for the Fund consistent with its investment objectives and policies. You
will determine what securities shall be purchased for the Fund, what portfolio
securities shall be held or sold by the Fund, and what portion of the Fund's
assets shall be held uninvested, subject always to the Fund's investment
objectives, policies and restrictions, as each of the same shall be from time to
time in effect, and subject further, to such policies and instructions as the
Board of Trustees (the "Board") of the Trust may from time to time establish and
supply to you copies thereof. You will advise and assist the officers of the
Trust in taking such steps as are necessary or appropriate to carry out the
decisions of the Board and the appropriate committees of the Board regarding the
conduct of the business of the Trust.
2. ALLOCATION OF CHARGES AND EXPENSES
You will pay the compensation and expenses of any persons rendering any
services to the Fund who are officers, directors, stockholders or employees of
your corporation and will make available, without expense to the Fund, the
services of such of your employees as may duly be elected officers or trustees
of the Trust, subject to their individual consent to serve and to any
limitations imposed by law. The compensation and expenses of any officers,
trustees and employees of the Trust who are not officers, directors, employees
or stockholders of your corporation will be paid by the Trust.
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You will pay all advertising and promotion expenses incurred in
connection with the sale or distribution of the Fund's shares to the extent such
expenses are not assumed by the Fund under the Trust's Plans of Distribution
Pursuant to Rule 12b-1.
The Fund will also be responsible for the payment of all other
operating expenses of the Fund, including fees and expenses incurred by the Fund
in connection with membership in investment company organizations, brokerage
fees and commissions, legal, auditing and accounting expenses, expenses of
registering shares under federal and state securities laws, insurance expenses,
taxes or governmental fees, fees and expenses of the custodian, transfer,
shareholder service and dividend disbursing agent and accounting and pricing
agent of the Fund, expenses including clerical expenses of issue, sale,
redemption or repurchase of shares of the Fund, the fees and expenses of
trustees of the Trust who are not affiliated with you, the cost of preparing and
distributing reports and notices to shareholders, the cost of printing or
preparing prospectuses for delivery to the Fund's shareholders, the cost of
printing or preparing stock certificates or any other documents, statements or
reports to shareholders, expenses of shareholders' meetings and proxy
solicitations, such extraordinary or non-recurring expenses as may arise,
including litigation to which the Fund may be a party and indemnification of the
Trust's officers and trustees with respect thereto, or any other expense not
specifically described above incurred in the performance of the Fund's
obligations. All other expenses not assumed by you herein incurred by the Fund
in connection with the organization, registration of shares and operations of
the Fund will be borne by the Fund.
3. COMPENSATION OF THE ADVISER
For all of the services to be rendered and payments made as provided in
this Agreement, the Fund will pay you as of the last day of each month, a fee
equal to the annual rate of:
50/100 of 1% of the average value of the daily net assets of the Fund
up to $100,000,000; 45/100 of 1% of such assets from $100,000,000 to
$200,000,000; 40/100 of 1% of such assets from $200,000,000 to and
including $300,000,000; and 37.5/100 of 1% of such assets in excess of
$300,000,000.
The total fees payable during each of the first and second halves of
each fiscal year of the Trust shall not exceed the semiannual total of the daily
fee accruals requested by you during the applicable six month period. The
average value of net assets shall be determined pursuant to the applicable
provisions of the Declaration of Trust of the Trust or a resolution of the
Board, if required. If, pursuant to such provisions, the
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determination of net asset value of the Fund is suspended for any business day,
then for the purposes of this paragraph, the value of the net assets of the
Fund as last determined shall be deemed to be the value of the net assets as
of the close of the business day, or as of such other time as the value of the
Fund's net assets may lawfully be determined, on that day. If the
determination of the net asset value of the Fund's shares has been suspended
for a period including such month, your compensation payable at the end of such
month shall be computed on the basis of the value of the net assets of the Fund
as last determined (whether during or prior to such month).
Your compensation with respect to each additional series of the Trust
effectively registered for sale in a public offering after the date of this
Agreement shall be determined by the Board, including a majority of the Trustees
who are not "interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of
1940) of you or of the Trust, and approved pursuant to the provisions of Section
15 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
4. EXECUTION OF PURCHASE AND SALE ORDERS
In connection with purchases or sales of portfolio securities for the
account of the Fund, it is understood that you will arrange for the placing of
all orders for the purchase and sale of portfolio securities for the Fund's
accounts with brokers or dealers selected by you, subject to review of this
selection by the Board from time to time. You will be responsible for the
negotiation and the allocation of principal business and portfolio brokerage. In
the selection of such brokers or dealers and the placing of such orders, you are
directed at all times to seek for the Fund the best qualitative execution,
taking into account such factors as price (including the applicable brokerage
commission or dealer spread), the execution capability, financial responsibility
and responsiveness of the broker or dealer and the brokerage and research
services provided by the broker or dealer.
You should generally seek favorable prices and commission rates that
are reasonable in relation to the benefits received. In seeking best qualitative
execution, you are authorized to select brokers or dealers who also provide
brokerage and research services (as those terms are defined in Section 28(e) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) to the Fund and/or the other accounts over
which you exercise investment discretion. You are authorized to pay a broker or
dealer who provides such brokerage and research services a commission for
executing a portfolio transaction which is in excess of the amount of commission
another broker or dealer would have charged for effecting that transaction if
you determine in good faith that the amount of the commission is reasonable in
relation to the value of the brokerage and research services provided by the
executing broker
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or dealer. The determination may be viewed in terms of either a particular
transaction or your overall responsibilities with respect to the Fund and to
accounts over which you exercise investment discretion. The Trust and you
understand that, although the information may be useful to the Fund and you, it
is not possible to place a dollar value on such information. The Board shall
periodically review the commissions paid by the Fund to determine if the
commissions paid over representative periods of time were reasonable in relation
to the benefits to the Fund.
Consistent with the Rules of Fair Practice of the National Association
of Securities Dealers, Inc., and subject to seeking best qualitative execution,
you may give consideration to sales of shares of the Fund as a factor in the
selection of brokers and dealers to execute portfolio transactions of the Fund.
If any occasion should arise in which you give any advice to clients of
yours concerning the shares of the Fund, you will act solely as investment
counsel for such client and not in any way on behalf of the Trust. Your services
to the Fund pursuant to this Agreement are not to be deemed to be exclusive and
it is understood that you may render investment advice, management and other
services to others.
5. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF ADVISER
You (including your directors, officers, shareholders, employees,
control persons and affiliates of any thereof) shall not be liable for any error
of judgment or mistake of law or for any loss suffered by the Fund in connection
with the matters to which this Agreement relates, except a loss resulting from
willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence on your part in the
performance of your duties or from the reckless disregard by you of your
obligations and duties under this Agreement ("disabling conduct"). However, you
will not be indemnified for any liability unless (1) a final decision is made on
the merits by a court or other body before whom the proceeding was brought that
you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, or (2) in the absence of
such a decision, a reasonable determination is made, based upon a review of the
facts, that you were not liable by reason of disabling conduct, by (a) the vote
of a majority of a quorum of trustees who are neither "interested persons" of
the Trust as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940 nor parties to the
proceeding ("disinterested, non-party trustees"), or (b) an independent legal
counsel in a written opinion. The Fund will advance attorneys' fees or other
expenses incurred by you in defending a proceeding, upon the undertaking by or
on behalf of you to repay the advance unless it is ultimately determined that
you are entitled to indemnification, so long as you meet at least one of the
following as a condition to the advance: (1) you shall provide a security for
your undertaking,
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(2) the Fund shall be insured against losses arising by reason of any lawful
advances, or (3) a majority of a quorum of the disinterested, non-party trustees
of the Trust, or an independent legal counsel in a written opinion, shall
determine, based on a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full
trial- type inquiry), that there is reason to believe that you ultimately will
be found entitled to indemnification. Any person employed by you who may also be
or become an employee of the Trust shall be deemed, when acting within the scope
of his employment by the Trust, to be acting in such employment solely for the
Trust and not as your employee or agent.
6. DURATION AND TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT
This Agreement shall be effective upon its execution, shall remain in
force for a period of two (2) years from that date and remain in force from year
to year thereafter, subject to annual approval by (i) the Board of the Trust or
(ii) a vote of a majority (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of
the outstanding voting securities of the Fund, provided that in either event
continuance is also approved by a majority of the trustees who are not
"interested persons" (as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940) of you
or of the Trust, by a vote cast in person at a meeting called for the purpose of
voting such approval.
If the shareholders of the Fund fail to approve the Agreement in the
manner set forth above, upon approval of the Board, including a majority of the
trustees who are not interested persons of you or of the Trust, you may continue
to serve or act in such capacity for the Fund for the period of time (not
exceeding one hundred and twenty days after the termination of the Agreement)
pending required approval of the Agreement, of a new agreement with you or a
different adviser or other definitive action; provided that the compensation to
be paid by the Fund to you will be equal to the lesser of your actual costs
incurred in furnishing investment advisory services to the Fund or the amount
you would have received under this Agreement.
This Agreement may, on sixty days' written notice, be terminated at any
time without the payment of any penalty, by the Board, by a vote of a majority
of the outstanding voting securities of the Fund or by you. This Agreement shall
automatically terminate in the event of its assignment.
7. AMENDMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT
No provision of this Agreement may be changed, waived, discharged or
terminated orally, and no amendment of this Agreement shall be effective until
approved by vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the
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Fund and by the Board, including a majority of the trustees who are not
interested persons of you or of the Trust, cast in person at a meeting called
for the purpose of voting on such approval.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
It is expressly agreed that the obligations of the Fund hereunder shall
not be binding upon any of the trustees, shareholders, nominees, officers,
agents or employees of the Trust, personally, but bind only the trust property
of the Fund, as provided in the Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution
and delivery of this Agreement have been authorized by the trustees of the Trust
and the shareholders of the Fund and signed by the officers of the Trust, acting
as such, and neither such authorization by such trustees and shareholders nor
such execution and delivery by such officers shall be deemed to have been made
by any of them individually or to impose any liability on any of them
personally, but shall bind only the trust property of the Fund as provided in
the Trust's Declaration of Trust.
9. MISCELLANEOUS
The captions in this Agreement are included for convenience of
reference only and in no way define or delimit any of the provisions hereof or
otherwise affect their construction or effect. This Agreement may be executed
simultaneously in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an
original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
If you are in agreement with the foregoing, please sign the form of
acceptance on the accompanying counterpart of this letter and return such
counterpart to the Trust, whereupon this letter shall become a binding contract
upon the date thereof.
Yours very truly,
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE TAX-FREE TRUST
/s/ Susan E. Bow By:/s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
ACCEPTANCE
The foregoing Agreement is hereby accepted.
ATTEST: COUNTRYWIDE INVESTMENTS, INC.
/s/ Susan E. Bow By: /s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Dated: October 28, 1999
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