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SIGNATURE THOMAS F. MCDONOUGH
TITLE VICE PRESIDENT
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
To the Board of Trustees of Scudder California Tax Free Trust
and to the Shareholders of Scudder California Tax Free Fund and
Scudder California Tax Free Money Fund:
In planning and performing our audits of the financial statements and
financial highlights of Scudder California Tax Free Fund and California Tax Free
Money Fund (the "Funds") for the year ended March 31, 1996, we considered the
Funds' internal control structure, including procedures for safeguarding
securities, in order to determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of
expressing our opinion on the Funds' financial statements and financial
highlights and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide
assurance on the internal control structure.
The management of the Funds is responsible for establishing and
maintaining an internal control structure. In fulfilling this responsibility,
estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected
benefits and related costs of internal control structure policies and
procedures. Two of the objectives of an internal control structure are to
provide management with reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that assets are
safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition and that
transactions are executed in accordance with management's authorization and
recorded properly to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity
with generally accepted accounting principles.
Because of inherent limitations in any internal control structure,
errors or irregularities may occur and not be detected. Also, projection of any
evaluation of the structure to future periods is subject to the risk that it may
become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of
the design and operations may deteriorate.
Our consideration of the Funds' internal control structure would not
necessarily disclose all matters in the internal control structure that might be
material weaknesses under standards established by the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants. A material weakness is a condition in which the
design or operation of the specific internal control structure elements does not
reduce to a relatively low level the risk that errors or irregularities in
amounts that would be material in relation to the financial statements and
financial highlights being audited may occur and not be detected within a timely
period by employees in the normal course of performing their assigned functions.
However, we noted no matters involving the Funds' internal control structure,
including procedures for safeguarding securities, that we consider to be
material weaknesses, as defined above, as of March 31, 1996.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management of the Funds and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
/s/Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.
Boston, Massachusetts COOPERS & LYBRAND L.L.P.
May 16, 1996
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