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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the Kemper
Municipal Income Trust Semiannual Report for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2000
and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME> KEMPER MUNICIPAL INCOME TRUST
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