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Registration Nos.: 033-30531/811-5860
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM N-1A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 / X /
Post-Effective Amendment No. 12 / X /
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF
1940 / X /
Amendment No. 10 / X /
Fiscal Year Ended May 31, 1995
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T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
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(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
100 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code 410-547-2000
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Henry H. Hopkins
100 East Pratt Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
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(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering October 1, 1995
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It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check
appropriate box):
/ / immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
/X/ on October 1, 1995 pursuant to paragraph (b)
/ / 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(i)
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/ / on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(i)
/ / 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii)
/ / on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii) of Rule 485
If appropriate, check the following box:
/ / this post-effective amendment designates a new
effective date for a previously filed post-effective
amendment.
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933+
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Pursuant to Section 24f-2 of the Investment Company Act of 1940,
the Registrant has registered an indefinite number of securities
under the Securities Act of 1933 and intends to file a 24f-2
Notice by July 31, 1996.
+Not applicable as no securities are being registered by this
Post-Effective Amendment No. 12 to the Registration Statement.
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The Registration Statement of the T. Rowe Price U.S.
Treasury Funds, Inc. on Form N-1A (File No. 33-30531) is hereby
amended under the Securities Act of 1933 to update financial
information and make changes in the Registrant's Prospectus and
Statement of Additional Information, and to satisfy the annual
amendment requirements of Rule 8(b)-16 under the Investment
Company Act of 1940.
This Amendment consists of the following:
Cross Reference Sheet
Part A of Form N-1A, Revised Prospectus
Part B of Form N-1A, Statement of Additional Information
Part C of Form N-1A, Other Information
Opinion of Counsel
Accountants' Consent
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CROSS REFERENCE SHEET
N-1A Item No. Location
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PART A
Item 1. Cover Page Cover Page
Item 2. Synopsis Transaction and Fund
Expenses
Item 3. Condensed Financial Information Financial Highlights
Item 4. General Description of Transaction and Fund
Registrant Expenses; Fund,
Market, and Risk
Characteristics;
Organization and
Management;
Understanding
Performance
Information;
Investment Policies
and Practices; Types
of Management
Practices
Item 5. Management of the Fund Transaction and Fund
Expenses; Fund,
Market, and Risk
Characteristics;
Organization and
Management
Item 6. Capital Stock and Other Useful Information on
Securities Distributions and
Taxes; Organization
and Management
Item 7. Purchase of Securities Being Pricing Shares and
Offered Receiving Sale
Proceeds; Transaction
Procedures and Special
Requirements; Account
Requirements and
Transaction
Information;
Shareholder Services
Item 8. Redemption or Repurchase Pricing Shares and
Receiving Sale
Proceeds; Transaction
Procedures and Special
Requirements;
Exchanging and
Redeeming Shares;
Shareholder Services
Item 9. Pending Legal Proceedings +
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PART B
Item 10. Cover Page Cover Page
Item 11. Table of Contents Table of Contents
Item 12. General Information and History +
Item 13. Investment Objectives and Investment Objectives
Policies and Policies; Risk
Factors; Investment
Program; Portfolio
Management Practices;
Investment
Restrictions; Yield
Information;
Investment Performance
Item 14. Management of the Registrant Management of Funds
Item 15. Control Persons and Principal Principal Holders of
Holders of Securities Securities
Item 16. Investment Advisory and Other Investment Management
Services Services; Custodian;
Independent
Accountants; Legal
Counsel
Item 17. Brokerage Allocation Portfolio
Transactions; Code of
Ethics
Item 18. Capital Stock and Other Dividends and
Securities Distributions; Capital
Stock
Item 19. Purchase, Redemption and Redemptions in Kind;
Pricing of Securities Being Pricing of Securities;
Offered Net Asset Value Per
Share; Federal and
State Registration of
Shares
Item 20. Tax Status Tax Status
Item 21. Underwriters Distributor for Funds
Item 22. Calculation of Yield Quotations
of Money Market Funds Yield Information
Item 23. Financial Statements Incorporated by
Reference from Annual
Report
PART C
Information required to be included in Part C is set forth under
the appropriate item, so numbered, in Part C to this Registration
Statement
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+ Not applicable or negative answer
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U.S. TREASURY FUNDS
Facts at a Glance
Investment Goals
Money fund: Preservation of
capital, liquidity, and, consistent
with these goals, the highest
possible income.
Bond funds: Highest level of income
consistent with each fund's
prescribed investment program.
As with all mutual funds, there
is no guarantee these funds will
achieve their goals.
Strategy and Risk/Reward
U.S. Treasury Money Fund. Invests
exclusively in short-term U.S.
government-backed securities,
primarily U.S. Treasuries.
Dollar-weighted average maturity
will not exceed 90 days.
Risk/Reward: Lowest potential risk
and reward.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund.
Invests in U.S. government-backed
securities, primarily U.S.
Treasuries, as well as investments
collateralized by those securities.
Dollar-weighted average maturity is
expected to range between three and
seven years.
Risk/Reward: Moderate income level
and share-price fluctuation.
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund.
Invests in U.S. government-backed
securities, primarily U.S.
Treasuries, as well as investments
collateralized by those securities.
Dollar-weighted average maturity is
expected to vary between 15 and 20
years.
Risk/Reward: Higher income than the
Intermediate Fund with potentially
greater share-price fluctuation.
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YOUR INVESTMENT IN THE FUNDS IS
NEITHER INSURED NOR GUARANTEED BY
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, AND THERE IS NO
ASSURANCE THE MONEY FUND WILL BE
ABLE TO MAINTAIN A STABLE NET ASSET
VALUE OF $1.00 PER SHARE.
Investor Profile
Investors who seek the highest level
of current income consistent with
minimum credit risk. Investors
should consider carefully each
fund's risk of share price
declines.
Fees and Charges
100% no load. No fees or charges to
buy or sell shares or to reinvest
dividends; no 12b-1 marketing fees;
free telephone exchange.
Investment Manager
Founded in 1937 by the late Thomas
Rowe Price, Jr., T. Rowe Price
Associates, Inc. ("T. Rowe Price")
and its affiliates managed over $66
billion for approximately three
million individual and institutional
investors as of June 30, 1995.
THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN
APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED BY THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION,
OR ANY STATE SECURITIES COMMISSION,
NOR HAS THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES
COMMISSION, PASSED UPON THE ACCURACY
OR ADEQUACY OF THIS PROSPECTUS. ANY
REPRESENTATION TO THE CONTRARY IS A
CRIMINAL OFFENSE. T. Rowe Price
U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc.
October 1, 1995
Prospectus
Contents
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1 About the Funds
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Transaction and Fund
Expenses
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Financial Highlights
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Fund, Market and Risk
Characteristics
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2 About Your Account
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Pricing Shares and
Receiving Sale
Proceeds
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Distributions and Taxes
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Transaction Procedures
and Special Requirements
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3 More About the Fund
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Organization and
Management
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Understanding Fund
Performance
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Investment Policies and
Practices
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4 Investing With T. Rowe
Price
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Account Requirements
and Transaction
Information
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Opening a New Account
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Purchasing Additional
Shares
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Exchanging and Redeeming
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Shareholder Services
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This prospectus
contains information you
should know before
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investing. Please keep
it for future reference.
A Statement of
Additional Information
about the fund, dated
October 1, 1995, has
been filed with the
Securities and Exchange
Commission and is
incorporated by
reference in this
prospectus. To obtain a
free copy, call
1-800-638-5660.
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1 About the Funds
Transaction and Fund Expenses
These tables should help you understand the
kinds of expenses you will bear directly or
indirectly as a fund shareholder.
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Like all T. Rowe Price
funds, the funds are 100%
no load. In Table 1 below, "Shareholder
Transaction Expenses" shows that you pay no
sales charges. All the money you invest in
a fund goes to work for you, subject to the
fees explained below. "Annual Fund
Expenses," provides an estimate of how much
it will cost to operate each fund for a
year, based on 1995 fiscal year expenses
(and any applicable expense limitations).
These are costs you pay indirectly, because
they are deducted from the fund's total
assets before the daily share price is
calculated and before dividends and other
distributions are made. In other words,
you will not see these expenses on your
account statement.
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Shareholder Transaction Expenses
Money IntermediateLong-Term
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Sales charge
"load" on
purchases None None None
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Sales charge
"load" on
reinvested
dividends None None None
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Redemption fees None None None
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Exchange fees None None None
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Annual Fund Expenses
Percentage of Fiscal 1995
Average Net Assets
Money IntermediateLong-Term
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Management fee 0.34% 0.39% 0.27%a
(after
reduction)
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Marketing
fees (12b-1) None None None
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Total other
(Shareholder
servicing,
custodial,
auditing, etc.)0.22% 0.31% 0.53%
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Total fund
expenses 0.56% 0.70% 0.80%a
(after
reduction)
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a The Long-Term Fund's management fee and
total expense ratio would have been
0.39% and 0.92%, respectively, had T.
Rowe Price not agreed to reduce
management fees and assume other
expenses in accordance with the expense
limitation described below. T. Rowe
Price agreed to waive its fees and bear
any expenses through February 28, 1995,
to the extent such fees or expenses
would cause the Long-Term Fund's ratio
of expenses to average net assets to
exceed 0.80%. Effective March 1, 1995,
T. Rowe Price agreed to extend the
Long-Term Fund's 0.80% expense
limitation for a period of two years
through May 31, 1997. Fees waived or
expenses paid or assumed under each
agreement are subject to reimbursement
to T. Rowe Price by the fund whenever
its expense ratio is below 0.80%;
however, no reimbursement will be made
after February 28, 1997 (for the first
agreement) or May 31, 1999 (for the
second agreement), or if it would
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result in the expense ratio exceeding
0.80%.
Note: The funds charge a $5 fee for wire
redemptions under $5,000, subject to change
without notice.
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Table 1
The main types of expenses, which all
mutual funds may charge against fund
assets, are:
o A management fee: the percent of fund
assets paid to the funds' investment
manager. Each fund's fee is comprised of
a group fee, discussed later, and the
Intermediate and Long-Term Funds pay an
individual fund fee of 0.05%. The Money
Fund pays only the group fee.
o "Other" administrative expenses:
primarily the servicing of shareholder
accounts, such as providing statements,
reports, disbursing dividends, as well as
custodial services. For the fiscal year
ended May 31, 1995, the funds paid the
following fees shown in Table 2 to T.
Rowe Price Services, Inc. for transfer
and dividend disbursing functions and
shareholder services; to T. Rowe Price
Retirement Plan Services, Inc. for
recordkeeping services for certain
retirement plans and; to T. Rowe Price
for accounting services.
TransferSubaccounting
Fund Agent Services Accounting
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Money $485,000 $550,000 $60,000
Intermediate$162,000 $ 78,000 $64,000
Long-Term $100,000 $ 10,000 $64,000
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Table 2
o Marketing or distribution fees: an annual
charge ("12b-1") to existing shareholders
to defray the cost of selling shares to
new shareholders. T. Rowe Price funds do
not levy 12b-1 fees.
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For further details on fund expenses,
please see "Organization and
Management."
o Hypothetical example: Assume you invest
$1,000, the fund returns 5% annually,
expense ratios remain as previously
listed, and you close your account at the
end of the time periods shown. Your
expenses would be:
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The table at right is
just an example; actual
expenses can be higher or
lower than those shown.
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Fund 1 year3 years 5 years 10 years
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Money $6 $18 $31 $70
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Intermediate $7 $22 $39 $87
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Long-Term $8 $26 $44 $99
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Table 3
Financial Highlights
The following table provides information
about each fund's financial history. It is
based on a single share outstanding
throughout each fiscal year. The
respective table is part of each fund's
financial statements which are included in
the funds' annual report and are
incorporated by reference into the
Statement of Additional Information. This
document is available to shareholders upon
request. The financial statements in the
annual report have been audited by Price
Waterhouse LLP, independent accountants,
whose unqualified report covers the most
recent five-year period for the Money fund.
Effective June 1, 1995, Price Waterhouse
LLP became the independent auditor for the
Intermediate and Long-Term funds. The
financial statements for the previous five-
year periods for those funds were audited
by the previous accountant.
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Investment Activities Distributions
Net Real-
ized and
Net Unreal- Total
Asset Net ized Gain from
Value, Invest- (Loss) Invest- Net Net
Begin- ment on ment Invest-Real- Total
ning of Income Invest- Activi- ment lized Distri-
Year Ended Period (Loss) ments ties Income Gain butions
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Money Fund
1986 $1.000 $0.069 -- $0.069$(0.069) -- $(0.069)
1987 1.000 0.053 -- 0.053 (0.053) -- (0.053)
1988a 1.000 0.054 -- 0.054 (0.054) -- (0.054)
1989 1.000 0.066 -- 0.066 (0.066) -- (0.066)
1990 1.000 0.080 -- 0.080 (0.080) -- (0.080)
1991 1.000 0.070 -- 0.070 (0.070) -- (0.070)
1992a 1.000 0.049 -- 0.049 (0.049) -- (0.049)
1993 1.000 0.029 -- 0.029 (0.029) -- (0.029)
1994 1.000 0.025 -- 0.025 (0.025) -- (0.025)
1994e 1.000 0.007 -- 0.007 (0.007) -- (0.007)
1995 1.000 0.045 -- 0.045 (0.045) -- (0.045)
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Intermediate Fund
1990b $ 5.00 $0.17c $(0.02) $0.15 $(0.17) -- $(0.17)
1991 4.98 0.40c 0.12 0.52 (0.40) -- (0.40)
1992a 5.10 0.36c 0.21 0.57 (0.36) $(0.03)(0.39)
1993 5.28 0.32 0.27 0.59 (0.32) (0.13)(0.45)
1994 5.42 0.29 (0.09) 0.20 (0.29) (0.01)(0.30)
1994e 5.32 0.08 (0.19) (0.11) (0.08) (0.02)(0.10)
1995 5.11 0.31 0.14 0.45 (0.31) -- (0.31)
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Long-Term Fund
1990b $ 10.00 $0.35c $(0.21) $0.14 $(0.35) -- $(0.35)
1991 9.79 0.80c 0.24 1.04 (0.80) -- (0.80)
1992a 10.03 0.78c 0.36 1.14 (0.78) -- (0.78)
1993 10.39 0.70c 0.68 1.38 (0.70) $(0.28)(0.98)
1994 10.79 0.68c (0.04) 0.64 (0.68) (0.29)(0.97)
1994e 10.46 0.17c (0.64) (0.47) (0.17) (0.01)(0.18)
1995 9.81 0.68c 0.73 1.41 (0.68) -- (0.68)
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End of Period
Ratio
of
Ratio Net
of Invest-
Net Total Expenses ment Port-
Asset Return to Income folio
Value, (Includes Net Average to Aver- Turn-
End of Reinvested Assets ($ Net age Net over
Year Ended Period Dividends) thousands) Assets Assets Rate
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Money Fund
1986 $1.000 7.1% $155,427 1.04% 6.89% --
1987 1.000 5.4% 169,449 1.11% 5.26% --
1988a 1.000 5.6% 259,618 1.01% 5.49% --
1989 1.000 6.8% 290,527 0.88% 6.65% --
1990 1.000 8.3% 361,013 0.85% 7.95% --
1991 1.000 7.2% 578,362 0.75% 6.91% --
1992a 1.000 5.1% 562,664 0.68% 4.93% --
1993 1.000 3.0% 606,153 0.65% 2.92% --
1994 1.000 2.5% 613,583 0.64% 2.48% --
1994e 1.000 0.7% 654,837 0.57%e 2.87%e --
1995 1.000 4.6% 719,215 0.56% 4.51% --
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Intermediate Fund
1990b $ 4.98 3.0% $ 10,917 0.80%cd 8.13%d194.6%d
1991 5.10 10.9% 68,341 0.80%c 7.71% 174.8%
1992a 5.28 11.5% 123,807 0.80%c 6.80% 91.4%
1993 5.42 11.8% 163,480 0.80% 5.98% 22.8%
1994 5.32 3.8% 175,953 0.79% 5.41% 20.2%
1994e 5.11 (2.2)% 181,231 0.70%e 5.78%e 45.5%e
1995 5.25 9.3% 172,666 0.69% 6.19% 81.1%
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Long-Term Fund
1990b $ 9.79 1.3% $ 11,204 0.80%c,d8.23%d316.1%d
1991 10.03 11.2% 43,260 0.80%c 8.01% 158.5%
1992a 10.39 11.9% 52,926 0.80%c 7.66% 162.4%
1993 10.79 14.1% 64,685 0.80%c 6.75% 165.4%
1994 10.46 5.9% 56,632 0.80%c 6.17% 59.4%
1994e 9.81 (4.5)%c 54,237 0.80%ce 6.75%e246.9%e
1995 10.54 15.2%c 65,284 0.80%c 7.05%c 99.3%
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a Year ended February 29.
b For the period September 29, 1989 (commencement of
operations) to February 28, 1990.
c Excludes expenses in excess of a 0.80% voluntary expense
limitation in effect through February 28, 1997.
d Annualized.
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e For the three months ended May 31, 1994. Fiscal year-end
changed from February 28 to May 31. All ratios are
annualized.
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Table 3
Fund, Market, and Risk Characteristics: What to Expect
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The fund or funds you
select should not
represent your complete
investment program or be
used for short-term
trading purposes. To help you decide which of the T. Rowe
Price U.S. Treasury Funds may be
appropriate for you, this section takes a
closer look at each fund's investment
objectives and approach.
What are the funds' objectives and
investment programs?
U.S. Treasury Money Fund. The fund's
investment objectives are to maximize
safety of capital, liquidity, and,
consistent with these, the highest possible
current income. The fund invests primarily
in a portfolio of U.S. Treasury securities,
which will compose at least 80% of total
assets. The fund may also include other
securities directly guaranteed by the U.S.
government. The fund's dollar weighted
average maturity will not exceed 90 days.
Its yield will fluctuate in response to
changes in interest rates, but its share
price is managed to remain stable at $1.00.
Nevertheless, there is no assurance the
$1.00 price will be maintained. Unlike most
bank accounts or certificates of deposit,
the fund is not insured or guaranteed by
the U.S. government.
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The share price of the
Intermediate and
Long-Term Funds will
fluctuate with changing
market conditions. When
you sell your shares, you
may lose money. U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund. The fund's
investment objective is to provide a high
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level of income consistent with maximum
credit protection and moderate fluctuation
in principal value. The fund will invest at
least 85% of total assets in U.S. Treasury
securities and repurchase agreements. The
remaining assets will be invested in other
securities backed by the full faith and
credit of the U.S. government and
repurchase agreements. The fund's dollar
weighted average maturity is expected to
range between three and seven years. No
security will have a remaining effective
maturity of more than seven-and-one-half
years from the time of purchase.
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund. The fund's
investment objective is to seek the highest
level of current income consistent with
maximum credit protection. It will invest
at least 85% of total assets in U.S.
Treasury securities and repurchase
agreements. The remaining assets will be
invested in other securities backed by the
full faith and credit of the U.S.
government and repurchase agreements. The
fund's dollar weighted average maturity is
expected to vary between 15 and 20 years,
but may range from 10 to 30 years.
All of the funds invest in securities
backed by the full faith and credit of the
U.S. government, primarily U.S. Treasury
securities. The Intermediate and Long-Term
Funds may also invest in other investments
collateralized by such securities. The U.S.
government guarantees the timely payment of
interest and principal on Treasury
securities, but does not guarantee the
prices of the fund's shares.
Will the funds' investment portfolios
consist entirely of U.S. Treasury
securities?
No, but other investments will be backed by
the full faith and credit of the U.S.
government or collateralized by such
investments. The money fund and bond funds
may invest up to 20% and 15% of assets,
respectively, in other U.S.
government-backed securities. These
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include, but are not limited to, securities
issued by U.S. agencies such as the
Government National Mortgage Association
(GNMA). GNMA pools individual home
mortgages with similar characteristics to
back a certificate or bond, which is sold
to investors such as mutual funds. Interest
and principal payments generated by the
underlying mortgages are passed through to
investors.
Are securities backed by the U.S.
government and its agencies risk free?
No. While U.S. government-backed securities
are free of credit risk, they are subject
to market risk. Therefore, changes in
interest rates will cause the share prices
of the U.S. Treasury bond funds to vary as
the prices of individual bonds fluctuate.
To manage the effect of market risk, the
funds' investment managers adjust the
maturity of the portfolios and adjust the
asset mix.
What are the most important influences
on fund performance?
Performance (total return) is determined by
the change in the fund's share price and
income level over a given period. Both
components are affected by changes in
interest rates.
The fund's share price will generally move
in the opposite direction of interest
rates. For example, as interest rates
rise, share price will likely decline.
Rising rates provide the opportunity for
the fund's income in increase, but it is
unlikely the higher income by itself will
entirely offset the fall in price.
The maturity and type of securities in the
fund's portfolio determine just how much
the share price rises or falls when rates
change. Generally, when rates fall, long-
term securities rise more in the price than
short-term securities. Mortgage-backed
securities usually follow this pattern,
but, because of prepayments, would not be
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expected to rise as much in price as
Treasury or corporate bonds.
You will find more information about the
types of securities the fund may own and
how they may perform further on in this
section and in section 3.
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For further details on
the funds' investment
programs and risks,
please see the section
entitled "Investment
Policies and Practices." What are the main types of investment risks
for these funds?
o Interest rate or market risk: the decline
in bond and bond fund prices that
accompanies a rise in the overall level
of interest rates. Although an unexpected
or sharp rise in interest rates could
also cause the money fund's share price
to drop below a dollar, the fund's
extremely short-term securities - a means
of seeking principal safety - reduces
much of the fund's potential for price
fluctuation.
o Credit risk: the chance that any of a
fund's holdings will have its credit
rating downgraded or will default (fail
to make scheduled interest and principal
payments), potentially reducing the
fund's income level and/or share price.
U.S. government-backed securities are of
the highest credit quality, so credit
risk for these funds is minimal.
How does the portfolio manager try to
reduce risk?
Consistent with each fund's objective, the
portfolio manager actively manages in an
effort to manage risk and increase total
return. Risk management tools include:
o Diversification of maturities to reduce
the impact of a single holding on a
fund's net asset value and yield; and
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o Maturity adjustments to reflect the fund
manager's interest rate outlook, e.g.,
maturities may be shortened if interest
rates are expected to rise.
What are derivatives and can the fund
invest in them?
The term derivative is used to describe
financial instruments whose value is
derived from an underlying security (e.g.,
a stock or bond) or a market benchmark
(e.g., an interest rate index). Many types
of investments representing a wide range of
potential risks and rewards fall under the
"derivatives" umbrella--from conventional
instruments such as callable bonds,
futures, and options, to more exotic
investments such as stripped mortgage
securities and structured notes. While it
was only recently that the term derivative
has become widely known among the investing
public, derivatives have in fact been
employed by investment managers for many
years.
Each fund will invest in derivatives only
if the expected risks and rewards are
consistent with its objective, policies,
and overall risk profile as described in
this prospectus. The money fund does not
invest in high-risk, highly leveraged
derivatives. The other funds will only use
derivatives in an effort to: increase
yield; hedge against a decline in principal
value; invest in eligible asset classes
with greater efficiency and lower cost than
is possible through direct investment; or
to adjust portfolio duration. These funds
will not invest in any high risk, highly
leveraged derivative instrument which is
expected to cause the price volatility of
the portfolio to be meaningfully different
than that of 1) an intermediate-term, U.S.
Treasury bond for the U.S. Treasury
Intermediate Fund, or 2) a long-term U.S.
Treasury bond for the U.S. Treasury Long-
Term Fund.
Are there any tax benefits to owning shares
of a U.S. Treasury fund?
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Yes. Monthly dividends paid by the funds
from income earned on U.S. Treasury
securities are exempt from state and local
taxes in most states. Dividends derived
from the funds' other investments may not
be exempt from such taxes.
What are the major differences between
money market and bond funds?
o Price--Money funds are managed to
maintain a stable share price, while bond
fund prices fluctuate.
o Maturity--Money funds have very short
average maturities (90 days or less)
while bond fund maturities are usually
between one and 20 years.
o Income--Money fund income has generally
been below that of bond funds.
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You may want to review
some fundamentals that
apply to all fixed-income
investments. Is a fund's yield fixed or will it vary?
It will vary. The yield is calculated every
day by dividing the fund's net income per
share, expressed at annual rates, by the
share price. Since both income and share
price will fluctuate, a fund's yield will
also vary.
Is a fund's "yield" the same thing as
the "total return"?
Not for bond funds. The total return
reported for a fund is the result of
reinvested distributions (income and
capital gains) and the change in share
price for a given time period. Income is
always a positive contributor to total
return and can enhance a rise in share
price or serve as an offset to a drop in
share price.
What is "credit quality" and how does it
affect a fund's yield?
Credit quality refers to a bond issuer's
expected ability to make all required
interest and principal payments in a timely
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manner. Because highly rated issuers
represent less risk, they can borrow at
lower interest rates than less creditworthy
issuers. Therefore, a fund investing in
high-quality securities should have a lower
yield than an otherwise comparable fund
investing in lower credit-quality
securities.
What is meant by a bond fund's maturity?
Every bond has a stated maturity date when
the issuer must repay the security's entire
principal value to the investor. Some types
of bonds may also have an "effective
maturity" that is shorter than the stated
date. For example, mortgage securities are
subject to unscheduled principal
prepayments. In addition, many bonds are
"callable," meaning their principal can be
repaid before their stated maturity dates
on (or after) specified call dates. Bonds
are most likely to be called when interest
rates are falling, because the issuer wants
to refinance at a lower rate. In such an
environment, a bond's "effective maturity"
is calculated using its nearest call
date.
A bond mutual fund has no maturity in
the strict sense of the word, but does have
an average maturity and an average
effective maturity. This number is an
average of the stated or effective bond's
maturities of the underlying bonds, with
each maturity "weighted" by the percentage
of fund assets it represents. Funds that
target effective maturities would use the
effective (rather than stated) maturities
of the underlying instruments when
computing the average. Targeting effective
maturity provides additional flexibility in
portfolio management but; all else being
equal, could result in higher volatility
than a fund targeting a stated maturity or
maturity range.
What is meant by a bond fund's
"duration"?
Duration is a calculation that seeks to
measure the price sensitivity of a bond or
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a bond fund to changes in interest rates.
It measures bond price sensitivity to
interest rate changes more accurately than
maturity because it takes into account the
time value of cash flows generated over the
bond's life. Future interest and principal
payments are discounted to reflect their
present value and then are multiplied by
the number of years they will be received
to produce a value that is expressed in
years, i.e., the duration. Effective
duration takes into account call features,
prepayment assumptions and sinking fund
payments that may shorten a bond's
life.
Since duration can also be computed for
bond funds, you can estimate the effect of
interest rates on a fund's share price.
Simply multiply the fund's duration
(available for T. Rowe Price bond funds in
our shareholder reports) by an expected
change in interest rates. For example, the
price of a bond fund with a duration of
five years would be expected to fall
approximately 5% if rates rose by one
percentage point. However, the
relationship between duration and price can
vary significantly from fund to fund.
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In general, the longer
a bond's maturity, the
greater the price
increase or decrease in
response to a given
change in interest rates,
as shown in the table at
right. How is a bond's price affected by changes
in interest rates?
When interest rates rise, a bond's price
usually falls, and vice versa.
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How Interest Rates Affect Bond Prices
Price Per $1,000 of
Bond Bond Face Value if
Maturity Coupon Interest Rates:
Increase Decrease
_________ _________
1% 2% 1% 2%
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1 year 5.70% $990 $981 $1,010 $1,019
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5 years 6.15 959 919 1,044 1,089
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10 years 6.45 930 867 1,076 1,160
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30 years 6.85 885 791 1,141 1,314
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Table 4 Coupons reflect yields on Treasury
securities as of July 31, 1995.
The table may not be as
representative of price changes for
mortgage securities because of
prepayments. The table illustrates
typical bond price behavior and not
that of any T. Rowe Price fund.
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Here's some information
to help you choose the
fund that's right for
you. How can I decide which fund is most
appropriate for me?
Review your own financial objectives, time
horizon, and risk tolerance. Use the table
below, which summarizes the funds' main
characteristics, to choose a fund (or
funds) for your particular needs. For
example, only the money fund provides
principal stability, which makes it a good
choice for money you may need for
occasional or unexpected expenses.
However, if you are investing for the
highest possible income from a U.S.
government portfolio and can tolerate price
volatility, you should consider the
longer-term bond funds. Keep in mind that
the share prices of the bond funds will
fluctuate. The price you receive when you
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sell your shares may be higher or lower
than the price you paid originally.
Differences Among Funds
Fund Income Risk Expected Credit
of Average Quality
Share- Maturity Cate-
Price gories
Fluc-
tuation
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Money Lower Stable No more Highest
than 90
days
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Interme-
diate Moderate Moderate 3 to 7 Highest
years
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Long-
Term Higher Higher 15 to 20 Highest
years
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Table 5
Is there other information I need to
review before making a decision?
Be sure to review the investment policies
and practices section, which discusses the
following: Types of Portfolio Securities
(bonds and other securities backed by the
full faith and credit of the U.S.
government); and Types of Management
Practices (cash position, borrowing money
and transferring assets, lending of
portfolio securities, when-issued
securities, and portfolio turnover).
2 About Your Account
Pricing Shares and Receiving Sale Proceeds
Here are some procedures you should know
when investing in a fund.
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The various ways you
can buy, sell, and
exchange shares are
explained at the end of
this prospectus and on
the New Account Form.
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These procedures may
differ for institutional
and employer-sponsored
retirement accounts. How and When Shares Are Priced
Bond and money funds. The share price (also
called "net asset value" or NAV per share)
for each fund is calculated at 4 p.m. ET
each day the New York Stock Exchange is
open for business. To calculate the NAV, a
fund's assets are valued and totaled,
liabilities are subtracted, and the
balance, called net assets, is divided by
the number of shares outstanding.
Money fund NAVs, which are managed to
remain at $1.00, are calculated at noon ET
each day as well as 4 p.m. Amortized cost
or amortized market value is used to value
money fund securities that mature in 60
days or less.
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When filling out the New
Account Form, you may
wish to give yourself the
widest range of options
for receiving proceeds
from a sale. How your purchase, sale, or exchange price
is determined
If we receive your request in correct form
before 4 p.m. ET, your transaction will be
priced at that day's NAV. If we receive it
after 4 p.m., it will be priced at the next
business day's NAV.
We cannot accept orders that request a
particular day or price for your
transaction or any other special
conditions.
Note: The time at which transactions are
priced and the time until which orders are
accepted may be changed in case of an
emergency or if the New York Stock Exchange
closes at a time other than 4 p.m. ET.
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If for some reason we
cannot accept your
request to sell shares,
we will contact you.
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How you can receive the proceeds from a
sale
If your request is received by 4 p.m. ET
in correct form, proceeds are usually sent
the next business day. Proceeds can be
sent to you by mail, or to your bank
account by ACH transfer or bank wire.
Proceeds sent by ACH transfer should be
credited the second day after the sale.
ACH (Automated Clearing House) is an
automated method of initiating payments
from and receiving payments in your
financial institution account. ACH is a
payment system supported
by over 20,000 banks, savings banks and
credit unions, which electronically
exchanges the transactions through the
Federal Reserve Banks. Proceeds sent by
bank wire should be credited to your bank
account the next business day.
Exception:
o Under certain circumstances and when
deemed to be in the fund's best
interests, your proceeds may not be sent
for up to five business days after
receiving your sale or exchange request.
If you were exchanging into another bond
or money fund, your new investment would
not begin to earn dividends until the
sixth business day.
Useful Information on Distributions and Taxes
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All net investment
income and realized
capital gains are
distributed to
shareholders. Dividends and Other Distributions
Dividend and capital gain distributions are
reinvested in additional fund shares in
your account unless you select another
option on your New Account Form. The
advantage of reinvesting distributions
arises from compounding; that is, you
receive interest and capital gain
distributions on a rising number of shares.
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Dividends not reinvested are paid by
check or transmitted to your bank account
via ACH. If the Post Office cannot deliver
your check, or if your check remains
uncashed for six months, each fund reserves
the right to reinvest your distribution
check in your account at the then current
NAV and to reinvest all subsequent
distributions in shares of the fund.
Income dividends
o Bond funds declare income dividends daily
at 4 p.m. ET to shareholders of record at
that time provided payment has been
received on the previous business day.
o Money funds declare income dividends
daily at noon ET to shareholders of
record at that time provided payment has
been received by that time.
o Bond and money funds pay dividends on the
last business day of each month.
o Bond and money fund shares will earn
dividends through the date of redemption;
shares redeemed on a Friday or prior to a
holiday will continue to earn dividends
until the next business day. Generally,
if you redeem all of your shares at any
time during the month, you will also
receive all dividends earned through the
date of redemption in the same check.
When you redeem only a portion of your
shares, all dividends accrued on those
shares will be reinvested, or paid in
cash, on the next dividend payment
date.
Capital gains
o A capital gain or loss is the difference
between the purchase and sale price of a
security.
o If a fund has net capital gains for the
year (after subtracting any capital
losses), they are usually declared and
paid in December to shareholders of
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record on a specified date that month. If
a second distribution is necessary, it is
usually declared and paid during the
first quarter of the following year.
Tax Information
You need to be aware of the possible tax
consequences when:
o you sell fund shares, including an
exchange from one fund to another; or
o a fund makes a short- and/or long-term
capital gain distribution to your
account.
Taxes on your fund redemptions. When you
sell shares in any fund, you may realize a
gain or loss. An exchange from one fund to
another is still a sale for tax purposes.
In January, you will be sent Form
1099-B, indicating the date and amount of
each sale you made during the prior year.
This information will also be reported to
the IRS. For accounts opened new or by
exchange in 1983 or later, we will provide
you the gain or loss of the shares you sold
during the year, based on the "average
cost" method. This information is not
reported to the IRS, and you do not have to
use it. You may calculate the cost basis
using other methods acceptable to the IRS,
such as "specific identification."
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You will be sent
timely information for
your tax filing needs. To help you maintain accurate records, we
send you a confirmation immediately
following each transaction (except for
systematic purchases and redemptions) and a
year-end statement detailing all your
transactions in each fund account during
the year.
Taxes on fund distributions. The following
summary does not apply to retirement
accounts, such as IRAs, which are
tax-deferred until you withdraw money from
them.
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In January, you will be sent Form
1099-DIV indicating the tax status of any
dividend and capital gain distribution made
to you. This information will also be
reported to the IRS. All distributions are
taxable to you for the year in which they
were paid. The only exception is that
distributions declared during the last
three months of the year and paid in
January are taxed as though they were paid
by December 31. You will be sent any
additional information you need to
determine your taxes on fund distributions,
such as the portion of your dividend, if
any, that may be exempt from state income
taxes.
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Capital gain
distributions are taxable
whether reinvested in
additional shares or
received in cash. Short-term capital gains are taxable as
ordinary income and long-term gains are
taxable at the applicable long-term gain
rate. The gain is long- or short-term
depending on how long the fund held the
securities, not how long you held shares in
the fund. If you realize a loss on the
sale or exchange of fund shares held six
months or less, your short-term loss
recognized is reclassified to long-term to
the extent of any capital gain distribution
received.
If distributions arising from transactions
in foreign currencies or securities reduce
a fund's net income, a portion of its
dividends may be classified as a return of
capital. Tax treatment of distributions is
explained in the year-end tax information
we send.
Tax effect of buying shares before a
capital gain distribution. If you buy
shares shortly before or on the "record
date"--the date that establishes you as the
person to receive the upcoming
distribution--you will receive in the form
of a taxable distribution a portion of the
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money you just invested. Therefore, you may
wish to find out a fund's record date(s)
before investing. Of course, a fund's share
price may at any time reflect undistributed
capital gains or unrealized
appreciation.
Transaction Procedures and Special
Requirements
Purchase Conditions
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Following these
procedures helps assure
timely and accurate
transactions. Nonpayment. If your payment is not received
or you pay with a check or ACH transfer
that does not clear, your purchase will be
cancelled. You will be responsible for any
losses or expenses incurred by the fund or
transfer agent, and the fund can redeem
shares you own in this or another
identically registered T. Rowe Price fund
as reimbursement. The fund and its agents
have the right to reject or cancel any
purchase, exchange, or redemption due to
nonpayment.
U.S. dollars. All purchases must be paid
for in U.S. dollars; checks must be drawn
on U.S. banks.
Sale (Redemption) Conditions
10-day hold. If you sell shares that you
just purchased and paid for by check or ACH
transfer, the fund will process your
redemption but will generally delay sending
you the proceeds for up to 10 calendar days
to allow the check or transfer to clear. If
your redemption request was sent by mail or
mailgram, proceeds will be mailed no later
than the seventh calendar day following
receipt unless the check or ACH transfer
has not cleared. If, during the clearing
period, we receive a check drawn against
your bond or money market account, it will
be returned marked "uncollected." (The 10-
day hold does not apply to the following:
purchases paid for by bank wire; cashier's,
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certified, or treasurer's checks; or
automatic purchases through your paycheck.)
Telephone, Tele*Access(registered
trademark), and PC*Access(registered
trademark) transactions. These exchange and
redemption services are established
automatically when you sign the New Account
Form unless you check the box which states
that you do not want these services. Each
fund uses reasonable procedures (including
shareholder identity verification) to
confirm that instructions given by
telephone are genuine and is not liable for
acting on these instructions. If these
procedures are not followed, it is the
opinion of certain regulatory agencies that
the fund may be liable for any losses that
may result from acting on the instructions
given. All conversations are recorded, and
a confirmation is sent promptly after the
telephone transaction.
Redemptions over $250,000. Large sales can
adversely affect a portfolio manager's
ability to implement a fund's investment
strategy by causing the premature sale of
securities that would otherwise be held.
If in any 90-day period, you redeem (sell)
more than $250,000, or your sale amounts to
more than 1% of the fund's net assets, the
fund has the right to delay sending your
proceeds for up to five business days after
receiving your request, or to pay the
difference between the redemption amount
and the lesser of the two previously
mentioned figures with securities from the
fund.
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T. Rowe Price may bar
excessive traders from
purchasing shares. Excessive Trading
Frequent trades involving either
substantial fund assets, or a substantial
portion of your account or accounts
controlled by you, can disrupt management
of the fund and raise its expenses. We
define "excessive trading" as exceeding one
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purchase and sale involving the same fund
within any 120-day period.
For example, you are in fund A. You can
move substantial assets from fund A to fund
B, and, within the next 120 days, sell your
shares in fund B to return to fund A or
move to fund C.
If you exceed the number of trades
described above, you may be barred
indefinitely from further purchases of T.
Rowe Price funds.
Three types of transactions are exempt from
excessive trading guidelines: (1) trades
solely between money market funds; (2)
redemptions that are not part of exchanges;
and (3) systematic purchases or redemptions
(see "Shareholder Services").
Keeping Your Account Open
Due to the relatively high cost of
maintaining small accounts, we ask you to
maintain an account balance of at least
$1,000. If your balance is below $1,000 for
three months or longer, we have the right
to close your account after giving you 60
days in which to increase your balance.
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A signature guarantee
is designed to protect
you and the T. Rowe Price
funds from fraud by
verifying your
signature. Signature Guarantees
You may need to have your signature
guaranteed in certain situations, such as:
o Written requests 1) to redeem over
$50,000, or 2) to wire redemption
proceeds;
o Remitting redemption proceeds to any
person, address, or bank account not on
record;
o Transferring redemption proceeds to a T.
Rowe Price fund account with a different
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registration (name/ownership) from yours;
and
o Establishing certain services after the
account is opened.
You can obtain a signature guarantee from
most banks, savings institutions,
broker/dealers and other guarantors
acceptable to T. Rowe Price. We cannot
accept guarantees from notaries public or
organizations that do not provide
reimbursement in the case of fraud.
3 More About the Fund
Organization and Management
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Shareholders benefit
from T. Rowe Price's 58
years of investment
management
experience. How is the fund organized?
The T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc.
(the Corporation) was incorporated in
Maryland in 1989 and is a "diversified,
open-end investment company," or mutual
fund. The Money Fund was originally
organized in 1982 as a Maryland
corporation. Effective July 1, 1990, the
Money Fund was converted to a series of the
Corporation. Mutual funds pool money
received from shareholders and invest it to
try to achieve specified objectives.
What is meant by "shares"?
As with all mutual funds, investors receive
"shares" when they put money in the fund.
These shares are part of the fund's
authorized capital stock, but share
certificates are not issued.
Each share and fractional share entitles
the shareholder to:
o receive a proportional interest in the
fund's income and capital gain
distributions;
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o cast one vote per share on certain fund
matters, including the election of fund
directors/trustees, changes in
fundamental policies, or approval of
changes in the funds's management
contract.
Do T. Rowe Price funds have annual
shareholder meetings?
The funds are not required to hold annual
meetings and do not intend to do so except
when certain matters, such as a change in a
fund's fundamental policies, are to be
decided. In addition, shareholders
representing at least 10% of all eligible
votes may call a special meeting if they
wish for the purpose of voting on the
removal of any fund director(s)/trustee(s).
If a meeting is held and you cannot attend,
you can vote by proxy. Before the meeting,
the fund will send you proxy materials that
explain the issues to be decided and
include a voting card for you to mail
back.
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All decisions regarding
the purchase and sale of
fund investments are made
by T. Rowe Price--
specifically by the
fund's portfolio
managers. Who runs the fund?
General oversight. Each fund is governed by
a Board of Directors or Trustees that meets
regularly to review the fund's investments,
performance, expenses, and other business
affairs. The Board elects the fund's
officers. The policy of the fund is that a
majority of the Board members will be
independent of T. Rowe Price.
Portfolio Management. Each fund has an
Investment Advisory Committee composed of
the following members:
Money Fund: Edward A. Wiese, Chairman,
Patrice L. Berchtenbreiter, Paul W. Boltz,
Brian E. Burns, Robert P. Campbell, Laura
L. McAree, James M. McDonald, Joan R.
Potee, and Robert M. Rubino.
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Intermediate Fund: Charles P. Smith,
Chairman, Robert M. Rubino, Heather R.
Landon, Edmund M. Notzon, and Peter Van
Dyke.
Long-Term Fund: Peter Van Dyke, Chairman,
Heather R. Landon, Edmund M. Notzon, and
Charles P. Smith.
Each Committee Chairman has day-to-day
responsibility for managing the fund and
works with the Committee in developing and
executing the fund's investment program.
Mr. Wiese has been Chairman of the Money
Fund's Committee since 1990. He joined T.
Rowe Price in 1984 and has been managing
investments since 1985. Mr. Smith has been
Chairman of the Intermediate Fund's
Committee since 1990. He joined T. Rowe
Price in 1972 and has been managing
investments since 1975. Mr. Van Dyke has
been Chairman of the Long-Term Fund's
Committee since 1990. He has been managing
investment since joining T. Rowe Price in
1985.
Marketing. T. Rowe Price Investment
Services, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary
of T. Rowe Price, distributes (sells)
shares of this and all other T. Rowe Price
funds.
Shareholder Services. T. Rowe Price
Services, Inc., another wholly-owned
subsidiary, acts as the fund's transfer and
dividend disbursing agent and provides
shareholder and administrative services.
Services for certain types of retirement
plans are provided by T. Rowe Price
Retirement Plan Services, Inc., also a
wholly-owned subsidiary. The address for
each is 100 East Pratt St., Baltimore, MD
21202.
How are fund expenses determined?
The management agreement spells out the
expenses to be paid by each fund. In
addition to the management fee, each fund
pays for the following: shareholder service
expenses; custodial, accounting, legal, and
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audit fees; costs of preparing and printing
prospectuses and reports sent to
shareholders; registration fees and
expenses; proxy and annual meeting expenses
(if any); and director/trustee fees and
expenses.
The Management Fee. This fee has two
parts--an "individual fund fee" (discussed
under "Transaction and Fund Expenses"),
which reflects the fund's particular
investment management costs, and a "group
fee." The group fee, which is designed to
reflect the benefits of the shared
resources of the T. Rowe Price investment
management complex, is calculated daily
based on the combined net assets of all T.
Rowe Price funds (except Equity Index and
the Spectrum Funds and any institutional or
private label mutual funds). The group fee
schedule (shown below) is graduated,
declining as the asset total rises, so
shareholders benefit from the overall
growth in mutual fund assets.
0.480% First $1 billion
0.450% Next $1 billion
0.420% Next $1 billion
0.390% Next $1 billion
0.370% Next $1 billion
0.360% Next $2 billion
0.350% Next $2 billion
0.340% Next $5 billion
0.330% Next $10 billion
0.320% Next $10 billion
0.310% Thereafter
Each fund's portion of the group fee is
determined by the ratio of its daily net
assets to the daily net assets of all the
Price funds as described above. Based on
combined Price funds' assets of
approximately $47.8 billion at June 30,
1995, the Group Fee was 0.34%.
Understanding Performance Information
This section should help you understand
the terms used to describe the fund's
performance. You will come across them in
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shareholder reports you receive from us
four times a year, in our newsletter,
Insights, in reports, in T. Rowe Price
advertisements, and in the media.
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Total return is the
most widely used
performance measure.
Detailed performance
information is included
in the annual report and
shareholder reports. Total Return
This tells you how much an investment in a
fund has changed in value over a given time
period. It reflects any net increase or
decrease in the share price and assumes
that all dividends and capital gains (if
any) paid during the period were reinvested
in additional shares. Including reinvested
distributions means that total return
numbers include the effect of compounding,
i.e., you receive income and capital gain
distributions on a rising number of shares.
Advertisements for a fund may include
cumulative or compound average annual total
return figures, which may be compared with
various indices, other performance
measures, or other mutual funds.
Cumulative Total Return
This is the actual rate of return on an
investment for a specified period. A
cumulative return does not indicate how
much the value of the investment may have
fluctuated between the beginning and the
end of the period specified.
Average Annual Total Return
This is always hypothetical. Working
backward from the actual cumulative return,
it tells you what constant year-by-year
return would have produced the actual,
cumulative return. By smoothing out all the
variations in annual performance, it gives
you an idea of the investment's annual
contribution to your portfolio provided you
held it for the entire period in question.
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You will see frequent
references to a fund's
yield in our reports,
advertisements, in media
stories, and so on. Yield
The current or "dividend yield" on a fund
or any investment tells you the
relationship between the investment's
current level of annual income and its
price on a particular day. The dividend
yield reflects the actual income paid to
shareholders for a given period,
annualized, and divided by the average
price during the given period. For example,
a fund providing $5 of annual income per
share and a price of $50 has a current
yield of 10%. Yields can be calculated for
any time period. The Money fund may
advertise a "current yield", reflecting the
latest 7-day income annualized, or an
"effective yield" which assumes the income
has been reinvested in the fund.
For the Intermediate and Long-Term
funds, the advertised or "SEC yield" is
found by determining the net income per
share (as defined by the SEC) earned by a
fund during a 30-day base period and
dividing this amount by the per-share price
on the last day of the base period. The
"SEC yield" may differ from the dividend
yield.
Investment Policies and Practices
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Fund managers have
considerable leeway in
choosing investment
strategies and selecting
securities they believe
will help the funds
achieve their
objectives. This section takes a detailed look at some
of the types of securities the funds may
hold in their portfolios and the various
kinds of investment practices that may be
used in day-to-day portfolio management.
The funds' investment programs are subject
to further restrictions and risks described
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in the "Statement of Additional
Information." Each fund adheres to
applicable investment restrictions and
policies at the time it makes an
investment. A later change in
circumstances will not require the sale of
an investment if it was proper at the time
it was made.
Shareholder approval is required to
substantively change a fund's objective and
certain investment restrictions noted in
the following section as "fundamental
policies." The managers also follow
certain "operating policies" which can be
changed without shareholder approval.
However, significant changes are discussed
with shareholders in fund reports.
The fund's holdings of certain kinds of
investments cannot exceed maximum
percentages of total assets, which are set
forth in the prospectus. For instance, the
Intermediate and Long-Term funds are not
permitted to invest more than 10% of total
assets in certain stripped mortgage
securities, known as IOs and POs. While
these restrictions provide a useful level
of detail about the fund's investment
program, investors should not view them as
an accurate gauge of the potential risk of
such investments. For example, in a given
period, a 5% investment in IOs and POs
could have significantly more than a 5%
impact on the fund's share price. The net
effect of a particular investment depends
on its volatility and the size of its
overall return in relation to the
performance of all the fund's other
investments.
Changes in the fund's holdings, the
fund's performance, and the contribution of
various investments are discussed in the
shareholder reports sent to you.
Types of Portfolio Securities
In seeking to meet their investment
objectives, the funds may invest in any
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type of security or instrument (including
certain potentially high-risk derivatives
in the Intermediate and Long-Term Funds)
whose yield, credit quality and maturity
characteristics are consistent with the
funds' investment programs. These and some
of the other investment techniques the
funds may use are described in the
following pages.
Bonds. A bond is an interest-bearing
security--an IOU--issued by companies or
governmental units. The issuer has a
contractual obligation to pay interest at a
stated rate on specific dates and to repay
principal (the bond's face value) on a
specified date. An issuer may have the
right to redeem or "call" a bond before
maturity, and the investor may have to
reinvest the proceeds at lower market
rates.
A bond's annual interest income, set by its
coupon rate, is usually fixed for the life
of the bond. Its yield (income as a percent
of current price) will fluctuate to reflect
changes in interest rate levels. A bond's
price usually rises when interest rates
fall, and vice versa, so its yield stays
current.
Certain bonds have interest rates that are
adjusted periodically which tend to
minimize fluctuations in their principal
value. In calculating the funds' weighted
average maturity, the maturity of these
securities may be shortened under certain
specified conditions and in accordance with
Rule 2a-7.
In addition to Treasury securities, the
funds may make the following investments:
Other Securities Backed by the Full Faith
and Credit of the U.S. government. The
funds may purchase securities of U.S.
government agencies and instrumentalities
which are backed by the full faith and
credit of the U.S. government such as
securities of the Government National
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Mortgage Association (GNMA), the Federal
Housing Administration, the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, the Export-
Import Bank, the Farmers Home
Administration, the General Services
Administration, the Maritime
Administration, and the Small Business
Administration. The funds will not invest
in the securities of any U.S. government
agencies which do not carry the full faith
and credit of the U.S. government, such as
Fannie Mae (FNMA) or Freddie Mac (FHLMC)
securities. No more than 20% of the Money
Fund's total assets and no more than 15% of
each of the Intermediate and Long-Term
Funds' total assets will be maintained in
non U.S. Treasury securities. The Money
Fund does not expect to invest in mortgage
securities.
Fundamental policy: The Money fund must
invest at least 80% of its total assets in
U.S. Treasury securities and repurchase
agreements thereon. However, as an
operating policy the fund has decided not
to invest in repurchase agreements.
The Intermediate and Long-Term Funds' non-
U.S. Treasury investments may include, but
are not limited to, the following types of
mortgage securities:
GNMA Mortgage Securities. Mortgage
securities are subject to scheduled and
unscheduled principal payments as
homeowners pay down or prepay their
mortgages. As these payments are received,
they must be reinvested when interest rates
may be higher or lower than on the original
mortgage security. Therefore, mortgage
securities are not an effective means of
locking in long-term interest rates. In
addition, when interest rates fall, the
pace of mortgage prepayments picks up.
These refinanced mortgages are paid off at
face value (par), causing a loss for any
investor who may have purchased the
security at a price above par. In such an
environment, this risk limits the potential
price appreciation of these securities and
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can negatively affect the fund's net asset
value. When rates rise, the prices of
mortgage-backed securities can be expected
to decline, although historically these
securities have experienced smaller price
declines than comparable quality bonds.
o Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
CMOs). CMOs are debt securities that are
fully collateralized by a portfolio of
mortgages or mortgage-backed securities.
All interest and principal payments from
the underlying mortgages are passed
through to the CMOs in such a way as to
create, in most cases, more definite
maturities than is the case with the
underlying mortgages. CMOs may pay
fixed or variable rates of interest, and
certain CMOs have priority over others
with respect to the receipt of
prepayments.
o Stripped Mortgage Securities. Stripped
mortgage securities (a potentially high
risk type of derivative) are created by
separating the interest and principal
payments generated by a pool of
mortgage-backed securities or a CMO to
create additional classes of securities.
Generally, one class receives only
interest payments (IOs) and one
principal payments (POs). Unlike other
mortgage-backed securities and POs, the
value of IOs tends to move in the same
direction as interest rates. The funds
could use IOs as a hedge against falling
prepayment rates (interest rates are
rising) and/or a bear market
environment. POs can be used as a hedge
against rising prepayments rates
(interest rates are falling) and/or a
bull market environment. IOs and POs
are acutely sensitive to interest rate
changes and to the rate of principal
prepayments. A rapid or unexpected
increase in prepayments can severely
depress the price of IOs, while a rapid
or unexpected decrease in prepayments
could have the same effect on POs.
These securities are very volatile in
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price and may have lower liquidity than
most other mortgage-backed securities.
Certain non-stripped CMOs may also
exhibit these qualities, especially
those which pay variable rates of
interest which adjust inversely with and
more rapidly than short-term interest
rates. There is no guarantee the fund's
investment in CMOs, IOs or POs will be
successful, and the fund's total return
could be adversely affected as a result.
Operating policy: Each fund may invest up
to 10% of its total assets in stripped
mortgage securities.
Types of Management Practices
_________________________
Cash reserves provide
flexibility and serve as
a short-term defense
during periods of unusual
market volatility. Cash Position (Intermediate and Long-Term
Funds). Each fund will hold a certain
portion of its assets in money market
securities, including repurchase
agreements, maturing in one year or less.
For temporary, defensive purposes, each
fund may invest without limitation in such
securities. This reserve position provides
flexibility in meeting redemptions,
expenses, and the timing of new
investments, and serves as a short-term
defense during periods of unusual market
volatility.
Borrowing Money and Transferring Assets.
Each fund can borrow money from banks as a
temporary measure for emergency purposes,
to facilitate redemption requests, or for
other purposes consistent with each fund's
investment objectives and program. Such
borrowings may be collateralized with fund
assets, subject to restrictions.
Fundamental policy: Borrowings may not
exceed 33 1/3% of a fund's total assets.
Operating policies: Each fund may not
transfer as collateral any portfolio
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securities except as necessary in
connection with permissible borrowings or
investments, and then such transfers may
not exceed 33 1/3% of a fund's total
assets. Each fund may not purchase
additional securities when borrowings
exceed 5% of total assets.
Lending of Portfolio Securities. Like other
mutual funds, each fund may lend securities
to broker-dealers, other institutions, or
other persons to earn additional income.
The principal risk is the potential
insolvency of the broker-dealer or other
borrower. In this event, the fund could
experience delays in recovering its
securities and possibly capital losses.
Fundamental policy: The value of loaned
securities may not exceed 33 1/3% of a
fund's total assets.
When-Issued Securities (Intermediate and
Long-Term Funds). The funds may purchase
securities on a when-issued or delayed
delivery basis. There is no limit on the
funds' fixed income investments in these
securities. The price of these securities
is fixed at the time of the commitment to
buy, but delivery and payment can take
place a month or more later. During the
interim period, the market value of the
securities can fluctuate, and no interest
accrues to the purchaser. At the time of
delivery, the value of the securities may
be more or less than the purchase or sale
price. To the extent each fund remains
fully or almost fully invested (in
securities with a remaining maturity of
more than one year) at the same time it
purchases these securities, there may be
greater fluctuations in the fund's net
asset value than if the fund did not
purchase them.
Portfolio Turnover (Intermediate and
Long-Term Funds). Although the funds will
not generally trade for short-term profits,
circumstances may warrant a sale without
regard to the length of time held. A high
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portfolio turnover rate may increase
transaction costs and result in additional
taxable gains. The Intermediate and Long-
Term fund's annualized portfolio turnover
rate for the three-month fiscal year ended
May 31, 1994 was 45.5% and 246.9%,
respectively. Table 6 sets forth each
fund's portfolio turnover rates for the
fiscal years ended May 31, 1995, February
28, 1994, February 28, 1993. The Long-Term
Fund's higher turnover rate for the three-
month period ended May 31, 1994 compared to
the one year period ended February 28, 1994
was due to restructuring of the portfolio
to take advantage of yield opportunities.
Fund 1995 1994 1993
Intermediate 81.1% 20.2% 22.8%
Long-Term 99.3% 59.4% 165.4%
___________________________________________
Table 6
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4 Investing with T. Rowe Price
Account Requirements and Transaction
Information
________________________
Always verify your
transactions by carefully
reviewing the
confirmation we send
you. Please report any
discrepancies to
Shareholder Services. Tax Identification Number
We must have your correct Social Security
or corporate tax identification number on a
signed New Account Form or W-9 Form.
Otherwise, federal law requires the funds
to withhold a percentage (currently 31%) of
your dividends, capital gain distributions,
and redemptions, and may subject you to an
IRS fine. If this information is not
received within 60 days after your account
is established, your account may be
redeemed, priced at the NAV on the date of
redemption.
Unless you request otherwise, one
shareholder report will be mailed to
multiple account owners with the same tax
identification number and same zip code and
to shareholders who have requested that
their account be combined with someone
else's for financial reporting.
_________________________
T. Rowe Price Trust
Company
1-800-492-7670
1-410-625-6585 Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans and
Institutional Accounts
Transaction procedures in the following
sections may not apply to employer-
sponsored retirement plans and
institutional accounts. For procedures
regarding employer-sponsored retirement
plans, please call T. Rowe Price Trust
Company or consult your plan administrator.
For institutional account procedures,
please call your designated account manager
or service representative.
Opening a New Account: $2,500 minimum
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initial investment; $1,000 for retirement
or gifts or transfers to minors (UGMA/UTMA)
accounts
Account Registration
If you own other T. Rowe Price funds, be
sure to register any new account just like
your existing accounts so you can exchange
among them easily. (The name and account
type would have to be identical.)
________________________
Regular Mail
T. Rowe Price
Account Services
P.O. Box 17300
Baltimore, MD
21298-9353
Mailgram, Express,
Registered, or Certified
Mail
T. Rowe Price
Account Services
10090 Red Run Blvd.
Owings Mills, MD 21117 By Mail
Please make your check payable to T. Rowe
Price Funds (otherwise it will be returned)
and send your check together with the New
Account Form to the address at left. We do
not accept third party checks, except for
IRA Rollover checks, to open new accounts.
By Wire
o Call Investor Services for an account
number and give the following wire
address to your bank:
Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York
ABA# 021000238
T. Rowe Price [fund name]
AC-00153938
account name(s), and account number
o Complete a New Account Form and mail it
to one of the appropriate addresses
listed at left.
Note: No services will be established and
IRS penalty withholding may occur until a
signed New Account Form is received.
Also, retirement plans cannot be opened
by wire.
By Exchange
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Call Shareholder Services or use
Tele*Access or PC*Access (see "Automated
Services" under "Shareholder Services").
The new account will have the same
registration as the account from which you
are exchanging. Services for the new
account may be carried over by telephone
request if preauthorized on the existing
account. (See explanation of "Excessive
Trading" under "Transaction Procedures.")
In Person
Drop off your New Account Form at any of
the locations listed on the cover and
obtain a receipt.
Purchasing Additional Shares: $100 minimum
purchase; $50 minimum for retirement plans
and Automatic Asset Builder.
By ACH Transfer
Use Tele*Access, PC*Access, or call
Investor Services if you have established
electronic transfers using the ACH
network.
By Wire
Call Shareholder Services or use the wire
address in "Opening a New Account."
________________________
Regular Mail
T. Rowe Price Funds
Account Services
P.O. Box 89000
Baltimore, MD
21289-1500
(For Mailgrams, Express,
Registered or Certified
Mail, see previous
section.)
By Mail
o Provide your account number and the fund
name on your check.
o
Make your check payable to T. Rowe
Price Funds (otherwise it may be
returned).
o Mail the check to us at the address shown
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at left with either a fund reinvestment
slip or a note indicating the fund you
want to buy and you fund account number.
By Automatic Asset Builder
Fill out the Automatic Asset Builder
section on the New Account or Shareholder
Services Form.
Exchanging and Redeeming Shares
By Phone
Call Shareholder Services. If you find our
phones busy during unusually volatile
markets, please consider placing your order
by Tele*Access, PC*Access (if you have
previously authorized telephone services),
mailgram, or by express mail. For exchange
policies, please see "Transaction
Procedures and Special Requirements--
Excessive Trading."
Redemption proceeds can be mailed to
your account address, sent by ACH transfer,
or wired to your bank (provided your bank
information is already on file). For
charges, see "Electronic Transfers--By
Wire" under "Shareholder Services."
_________________________
To redeem by by
Mailgram, Express,
Registered, or
Certified Mail,
see address under
"Opening a New Account".
By Mail
Provide account name(s) and numbers, fund
name(s), and exchange or redemption amount.
For exchanges, mail to the appropriate
address below or at left, indicate the fund
you are exchanging from and the fund(s) you
are exchanging into. T. Rowe Price requires
the signatures of all owners exactly as
registered, and possibly a signature
guarantee (please see "Transaction
Procedures and Special
Requirements--Signature Guarantees").
Regular Mail
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For nonretirement For employer-sponsored
and IRA accounts: retirement accounts:
T. Rowe Price T. Rowe Price Trust
Account Services Company
P.O. Box 89000 P.O. Box 89000
Baltimore, MD Baltimore, MD
21289-0220 21289-0300
Redemptions from employer-sponsored
retirement accounts must be in writing.
Please call T. Rowe Price Trust Company or
your plan administrator for instructions.
Please call Shareholder Services to obtain
an IRA Distribution Form or an IRA
Shareholder Services Form to request the
telephone redemption service.
_______________________
Shareholder Services
1-800-225-5132
1-410-625-6500 ________________________
Note: The fund and its agents reserve the
right to waive or lower investment
minimums; to accept initial purchases by
telephone or mailgram; to cancel or rescind
any purchase or exchange (for example, if
an account has been restricted due to
excessive trading or fraud) upon notice to
the shareholder within five business days
of the trade or if the written confirmation
has not been received by the shareholder,
whichever is sooner; to freeze any account
and suspend services when notice has been
received of a dispute between the
registered or beneficial account owners or
there is reason to believe a fraudulent
transaction may occur; to otherwise modify
the conditions of purchase and any
services at any time; or to act on
instructions believed to be genuine.
_______________________
Shareholder Services
Many services are available to you as a T.
Rowe Price shareholder; some you receive
automatically and others you must authorize
on the New Account Form. By signing up for
services on the New Account Form rather
than later, you avoid having to complete a
separate form and obtain a signature
guarantee. This section reviews some of the
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principal services currently offered. Our
Services Guide contains detailed
descriptions of these and other services.
If you are a new T. Rowe Price investor,
you will receive a Services Guide with our
Welcome Kit.
Note: Corporate and other entity accounts
require an original or certified resolution
to establish services and to redeem by
mail. For more information, call Investor
Services.
Retirement Plans
We offer a wide range of plans for
individuals and institutions, including
large and small businesses: IRAs, SEP-IRAs,
Keoghs (profit sharing, money purchase
pension), 401(k), and 403(b)(7). For
information on IRAs, call Investor
Services. For information on all other
retirement plans, please call our Trust
Company at 1-800-492-7670.
_________________________
Investor Services
1-800-638-5660
1-410-547-2308 Exchange Service
You can move money from one account to an
existing identically registered account, or
open a new identically registered account.
Remember, exchanges are purchases and sales
for tax purposes. (Exchanges into a state
tax-free fund are limited to investors
living in states where the funds are
registered.) Some of the T. Rowe Price
funds may impose a redemption fee of .50%
to 2%, payable to such funds, on shares
held for less than one year, or in some
funds, six months.
__________________
Tele*Access
1-800-638-2587
1-410-625-7676
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Automated Services
Tele*Access. 24-hour service via toll-free
number provides information on fund yields
and prices, dividends, account balances,
and your latest transaction as well as the
ability to request prospectuses, account
and tax forms, duplicate statements,
checks, and to initiate purchase,
redemption, and exchange orders in your
accounts (see "Electronic Transfers"
below).
PC*Access. 24-hour service via a dial-up
modem provides the same information as
Tele*Access, but on a personal computer.
Please call Investor Services for an
information guide.
Telephone and Walk-In Services
Buy, sell, or exchange shares by calling
one of our service representatives or by
visiting one of our four investor center
locations whose addresses are listed on the
cover.
Electronic Transfers
By ACH. With no charges to pay, you can
initiate a purchase or redemption for as
little as $100 or as much as $100,000
between your bank account and fund account
using the ACH network. Enter instructions
via Tele*Access, PC*Access, or call
Shareholder Services.
By Wire. Electronic transfers can also be
conducted via bank wire. There is currently
a $5 fee for wire redemptions under $5,000,
and your bank may charge for incoming or
outgoing wire transfers regardless of size.
Checkwriting (Not available for equity
funds, High Yield Bond or Emerging Markets
Bond Funds.) You may write an unlimited
number of free checks on any money market
fund, and most bond funds, with a minimum
of $500 per check. Keep in mind, however,
that a check results in a redemption; a
check written on a bond fund will create a
taxable event which you and we must report
to the IRS.
Automatic Investing ($50 minimum)
You can invest automatically in several
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different ways, including:
o Automatic Asset Builder. You instruct
us to move $50 or more from your bank
account, or you can instruct your
employer to send all or a portion of your
paycheck to the fund or funds you
designate.
o Automatic Exchange. You can set up
systematic investments from one fund
account into another, such as from a
money fund into a stock fund.
_________________________
Discount Brokerage is
a division of T. Rowe
Price Investment
Services, Inc.
Discount Brokerage
You can trade stocks, bonds, options,
precious metals, and other securities at a
savings over regular commission rates. Call
Investor Services for information.
Note: If you buy or sell T. Rowe Price
Funds through anyone other than T. Rowe
Price, such as broker-dealers or banks, you
may be charged transaction or service fees
by those institutions. No such fees are
charged by T. Rowe Price Investment
Services or the fund for transactions
conducted directly with the fund.
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Prospectus
To Open an Account T. Rowe Price
Investor Services U.S. Treasury
1-800-638-5660 Funds
1-410-547-2308
For Existing Accounts ______________
Shareholder Services To help youT. Rowe Price Money market
1-800-225-5132 achieve your U.S. Treasury and bond funds
1-410-625-6500 financial goals, Funds, Inc. for investors
T. Rowe Price October 1, seeking the
For Yields offers a wide 1995 income
and Prices range of stock, potential and
Tele*Access bond, and money credit safety
(registered market of securities
trademark) investments, as issued by the
1-800-638-2587 well as U . S .
1-410-625-7676 convenient government and
24 hours, 7 days services and its
timely, agencies.
Investor Centers informative
101 East Lombard St. reports.
Baltimore, MD 21202
T. Rowe Price
Financial Center
10090 Red Run Blvd.
Owings Mills, MD 21117
Farragut Square
900 17th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
ARCO Tower
31st Floor
515 South Flower St. T. Rowe Price
Los Angeles, CA 90071 Invest With
Confidence
(registered
trademark)
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PAGE 1
STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
Personal Strategy Growth Fund
Personal Strategy Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM U.S. GOVERNMENT FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
(collectively the "Funds" and individually the "Fund")
This Statement of Additional Information is not a
prospectus but should be read in conjunction with the appropriate
Fund's prospectus dated October 1, 1995, which may be obtained
from T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc., 100 East Pratt
Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.
If you would like a prospectus for a Fund of which you are
not a shareholder, please call 1-800-638-5660. A prospectus with
more complete information, including management fees and expenses
will be sent to you. Please read it carefully.
The date of this Statement of Additional Information is
October 1, 1995.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page Page
Asset-Backed Securities . 16 Lending of Portfolio
Capital Stock . . . . . . 84 Securities . . . . . . 26
Code of Ethics . . . . . 61 Management of Fund . . 50
Custodian . . . . . . . . 61 Mortgage-Related
Description of the Fund . 85 Securities . . . . . . . 9
Distributor for Fund . . 60 Net Asset Value Per
Dividends and Distributions72 Share . . . . . . . . 72
Federal and State Options . . . . . . . . 29
Registration of Shares . 86 Portfolio Transactions 62
Foreign Currency Pricing of Securities . 69
Transactions . . . . . . 42 Principal Holders of
Foreign Futures and Options40 Securities . . . . . . 56
Futures Contracts . . . . 34 Ratings of Commercial
Hybrid Instruments . . . 22 Paper . . . . . . . . 89
Independent Accountants . 87 Ratings of Corporate
Illiquid or Restricted Debt Securities . . . 89
Securities . . . . . . . 25 Repurchase Agreements . 27
Investment Management Risk Factors . . . . . . 3
Services . . . . . . . . 56 Tax Status . . . . . . 72
Investment Objectives Taxation of Foreign
and Policies . . . . . . . 2 Shareholders . . . . . 73
Investment Performance . 75 Warrants . . . . . . . 22
Investment Program . . . . 8 When-Issued Securities and
Investment Restrictions . 44 Forward Commitment
Legal Counsel . . . . . . 86 Contracts . . . . . . 24
Yield Information . . . 74
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES
The following information supplements the discussion of each
Fund's investment objectives and policies discussed in each
Fund's prospectus. The Funds will not make a material change in
their investment objectives without obtaining shareholder
approval. Unless otherwise specified, the investment programs
and restrictions of the Funds are not fundamental policies. Each
Fund's operating policies are subject to change by each Board of
Directors/Trustees without shareholder approval. However,
shareholders will be notified of a material change in an
operating policy. Each Fund's fundamental policies may not be
changed without the approval of at least a majority of the
outstanding shares of the Fund or, if it is less, 67% of the
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shares represented at a meeting of shareholders at which the
holders of 50% or more of the shares are represented.
Throughout this Statement of Additional Information, "the
Fund" is intended to refer to each Fund listed on the cover page,
unless otherwise indicated.
RISK FACTORS
All Funds
Debt Obligations
Yields on short, intermediate, and long-term securities are
dependent on a variety of factors, including the general
conditions of the money and bond markets, the size of a
particular offering, the maturity of the obligation, and the
credit quality and rating of the issue. Debt securities with
longer maturities tend to have higher yields and are generally
subject to potentially greater capital appreciation and
depreciation than obligations with shorter maturities and lower
yields. The market prices of debt securities usually vary,
depending upon available yields. An increase in interest rates
will generally reduce the value of portfolio debt securities, and
a decline in interest rates will generally increase the value of
portfolio debt securities. The ability of the Fund to achieve
its investment objective is also dependent on the continuing
ability of the issuers of the debt securities in which the Fund
invests to meet their obligations for the payment of interest and
principal when due. Although the Fund seeks to reduce risk by
portfolio diversification, credit analysis, and attention to
trends in the economy, industries and financial markets, such
efforts will not eliminate all risk. There can, of course, be no
assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
After purchase by the Fund, a debt security may cease to be
rated or its rating may be reduced below the minimum required for
purchase by the Fund. For the Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury
Money Funds, the procedures set forth in Rule 2a-7, under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, may require the prompt sale of
any such security. For the other Funds, neither event will
require a sale of such security by the Fund. However, T. Rowe
Price will consider such event in its determination of whether
the Fund should continue to hold the security. To the extent
that the ratings given by Moody's or S&P may change as a result
of changes in such organizations or their rating systems, the
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Fund will attempt to use comparable ratings as standards for
investments in accordance with the investment policies contained
in the prospectus. When purchasing unrated securities, T. Rowe
Price, under the supervision of the Fund's Board of Directors,
determines whether the unrated security is of a qualify
comparable to that which the Fund is allowed to purchase.
Reference is also made to the sections entitled "Types of
Securities" and "Portfolio Management Practices" for discussions
of the risks associated with the investments and practices
described therein as they apply to the Fund.
All Funds (except Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds)
Because of its investment policy, the Fund may or may not be
suitable or appropriate for all investors. The Fund is not a
money market fund and is not an appropriate investment for those
whose primary objective is principal stability. The value of the
portfolio securities of the Fund will fluctuate based upon market
conditions. Although the Fund seeks to reduce risk by investing
in a diversified portfolio, such diversification does not
eliminate all risk. There can, of course, be no assurance that
the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds
There can be no assurance that the Funds will achieve their
investment objectives or be able to maintain their net asset
value per share at $1.00. The price of the Fund is not
guaranteed or insured by the U.S. Government and its yield is not
fixed. An increase in interest rates could reduce the value of
the Fund's portfolio investments, and a decline in interest rates
could increase the value.
All Funds (except Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds)
Mortgage securities differ from conventional bonds in that
principal is paid back over the life of the security rather than
at maturity. As a result, the holder of a mortgage security
(i.e., the Fund) receives monthly scheduled payments of principal
and interest, and may receive unscheduled principal payments
representing prepayments on the underlying mortgages. The
incidence of unscheduled principal prepayments is also likely to
increase in mortgage pools owned by the Fund when prevailing
mortgage loan rates fall below the mortgage rates of the
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securities underlying the individual pool. The effect of such
prepayments in a falling rate environment is to (1) cause the
Fund to reinvest principal payments at the then lower prevailing
interest rate, and (2) reduce the potential for capital
appreciation beyond the face amount of the security. Conversely,
the Fund may realize a gain on prepayments of mortgage pools
trading at a discount. Such prepayments will provide an early
return of principal which may then be reinvested at the then
higher prevailing interest rate.
The market value of adjustable rate mortgage securities
("ARMs"), like other U.S. government securities, will generally
vary inversely with changes in market interest rates, declining
when interest rates rise and rising when interest rates decline.
Because of their periodic adjustment feature, ARMs should be more
sensitive to short-term interest rates than long-term rates.
They should also display less volatility than long-term mortgage
securities. Thus, while having less risk of a decline during
periods of rapidly rising rates, ARMs may also have less
potential for capital appreciation than other investments of
comparable maturities. Interest rate caps on mortgages
underlying ARM securities may prevent income on the ARM from
increasing to prevailing interest rate levels and cause the
securities to decline in value. In addition, to the extent ARMs
are purchased at a premium, mortgage foreclosures and unscheduled
principal prepayments may result in some loss of the holders'
principal investment to the extent of the premium paid. On the
other hand, if ARMs are purchased at a discount, both a scheduled
payment of principal and an unscheduled prepayment of principal
will increase current and total returns and will accelerate the
recognition of income which when distributed to shareholders will
be taxable as ordinary income.
High Yield, New Income, Personal Strategy, and Short-Term Bond
Funds
Risk Factors of Foreign Investing
There are special risks in foreign investing. Certain of
these risks are inherent in any mutual fund investing in foreign
securities while others relate more to the countries in which the
Funds will invest. Many of the risks are more pronounced for
investments in developing or emerging countries, such as many of
the countries of Southeast Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe
and the Middle East. Although there is no universally accepted
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definition, a developing country is generally considered to be a
country which is in the initial stages of its industrialization
cycle with a per capita gross national product of less than
$8,000.
Political and Economic Factors. Individual foreign
economies of certain countries may differ favorably or
unfavorably from the United States' economy in such respects as
growth of gross national product, rate of inflation, capital
reinvestment, resource self-sufficiency and balance of payments
position. The internal politics of certain foreign countries are
not as stable as in the United States. For example, in 1991, the
existing government in Thailand was overthrown in a military
coup. In 1992, there were two military coup attempts in
Venezuela and in 1992 the President of Brazil was impeached. In
addition, significant external political risks currently affect
some foreign countries. Both Taiwan and China still claim
sovereignty of one another and there is a demilitarized border
between North and South Korea.
Governments in certain foreign countries continue to
participate to a significant degree, through ownership interest
or regulation, in their respective economies. Action by these
governments could have a significant effect on market prices of
securities and payment of dividends. The economies of many
foreign countries are heavily dependent upon international trade
and are accordingly affected by protective trade barriers and
economic conditions of their trading partners. The enactment by
these trading partners of protectionist trade legislation could
have a significant adverse effect upon the securities markets of
such countries.
Currency Fluctuations. The Funds will invest in securities
denominated in various currencies. Accordingly, a change in the
value of any such currency against the U.S. dollar will result in
a corresponding change in the U.S. dollar value of the Funds'
assets denominated in that currency. Such changes will also
affect the Funds' income. Generally, when a given currency
appreciates against the dollar (the dollar weakens) the value of
the Fund's securities denominated in that currency will rise.
When a given currency depreciates against the dollar (the dollar
strengthens) the value of the Funds' securities denominated in
that currency would be expected to decline.
Investment and Repatriation of Restrictions. Foreign
investment in the securities markets of certain foreign countries
is restricted or controlled in varying degrees. These
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restrictions may limit at times and preclude investment in
certain of such countries and may increase the cost and expenses
of the Funds. Investments by foreign investors are subject to a
variety of restrictions in many developing countries. These
restrictions may take the form of prior governmental approval,
limits on the amount or type of securities held by foreigners,
and limits on the types of companies in which foreigners may
invest. Additional or different restrictions may be imposed at
any time by these or other countries in which the Funds invest.
In addition, the repatriation of both investment income and
capital from several foreign countries is restricted and
controlled under certain regulations, including in some cases the
need for certain government consents. For example, capital
invested in Chile normally cannot be repatriated for one year.
Market Characteristics. Foreign stock and bond markets are
generally not as developed or efficient as, and may be more
volatile than, those in the United States. While growing in
volume, they usually have substantially less volume than U.S.
markets and the Funds' portfolio securities may be less liquid
and subject to more rapid and erratic price movements than
securities of comparable U.S. companies. Equity securities may
trade at price/earnings multiples higher than comparable United
States securities and such levels may not be sustainable. Fixed
commissions on foreign stock exchanges are generally higher than
negotiated commissions on United States exchanges, although the
Funds will endeavor to achieve the most favorable net results on
their portfolio transactions. There is generally less government
supervision and regulation of foreign stock exchanges, brokers
and listed companies than in the United States. Moreover,
settlement practices for transactions in foreign markets may
differ from those in United States markets. Such differences may
include delays beyond periods customary in the United States and
practices, such as delivery of securities prior to receipt of
payment, which increase the likelihood of a "failed settlement."
Failed settlements can result in losses to a Fund.
Investment Funds. The Funds may invest in investment funds
which have been authorized by the governments of certain
countries specifically to permit foreign investment in securities
of companies listed and traded on the stock exchanges in these
respective countries. The Funds' investment in these funds is
subject to the provisions of the 1940 Act. If the Funds invest
in such investment funds, the Funds' shareholders will bear not
only their proportionate share of the expenses of the Funds
(including operating expenses and the fees of the investment
manager), but also will bear indirectly similar expenses of the
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underlying investment funds. In addition, the securities of
these investment funds may trade at a premium over their net
asset value.
Information and Supervision. There is generally less
publicly available information about foreign companies comparable
to reports and ratings that are published about companies in the
United States. Foreign companies are also generally not subject
to uniform accounting, auditing and financial reporting
standards, practices and requirements comparable to those
applicable to United States companies. It also may be more
difficult to keep currently informed of corporate actions which
affect the prices of portfolio securities.
Taxes. The dividends and interest payable on certain of the
Funds' foreign portfolio securities may be subject to foreign
withholding taxes, thus reducing the net amount of income
available for distribution to the Funds' shareholders.
Other. With respect to certain foreign countries,
especially developing and emerging ones, there is the possibility
of adverse changes in investment or exchange control regulations,
expropriation or confiscatory taxation, limitations on the
removal of funds or other assets of the Funds, political or
social instability, or diplomatic developments which could affect
investments by U.S. persons in those countries.
Eastern Europe and Russia. Changes occurring in Eastern
Europe and Russia today could have long-term potential
consequences. As restrictions fall, this could result in rising
standards of living, lower manufacturing costs, growing consumer
spending, and substantial economic growth. However, investment
in the countries of Eastern Europe and Russia is highly
speculative at this time. Political and economic reforms are too
recent to establish a definite trend away from centrally-planned
economies and state owned industries. In many of the countries
of Eastern Europe and Russia, there is no stock exchange or
formal market for securities. Such countries may also have
government exchange controls, currencies with no recognizable
market value relative to the established currencies of western
market economies, little or no experience in trading in
securities, no financial reporting standards, a lack of a banking
and securities infrastructure to handle such trading, and a legal
tradition which does not recognize rights in private property.
In addition, these countries may have national policies which
restrict investments in companies deemed sensitive to the
country's national interest. Further, the governments in such
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countries may require governmental or quasi-governmental
authorities to act as custodian of a Fund's assets invested in
such countries and these authorities may not qualify as a foreign
custodian under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and exemptive
relief from such Act may be required. All of these
considerations are among the factors which could cause
significant risks and uncertainties to investment in Eastern
Europe and Russia. Each Fund will only invest in a company
located in, or a government of, Eastern Europe and Russia, if it
believes the potential return justifies the risk. To the extent
any securities issued by companies in Eastern Europe and Russia
are considered illiquid, each Fund will be required to include
such securities within its 15% restriction on investing in
illiquid securities.
High Yield and Personal Strategy Funds
Special Risks of Investing in Junk Bonds
The following special considerations are additional risk
factors associated with the Fund's investments in lower rated
debt securities.
Youth and Growth of the Lower Rated Debt Securities Market.
The market for lower rated debt securities is relatively new and
its growth has paralleled a long economic expansion. Past
experience may not, therefore, provide an accurate indication of
future performance of this market, particularly during periods of
economic recession. An economic downturn or increase in interest
rates is likely to have a greater negative effect on this market,
the value of lower rated debt securities in the Fund's portfolio,
the Fund's net asset value and the ability of the bonds' issuers
to repay principal and interest, meet projected business goals
and obtain additional financing than on higher rated securities.
These circumstances also may result in a higher incidence of
defaults than with respect to higher rated securities. An
investment in this Fund is more speculative than investment in
shares of a fund which invests only in higher rated debt
securities.
Sensitivity to Interest Rate and Economic Changes. Prices
of lower rated debt securities may be more sensitive to adverse
economic changes or corporate developments than higher rated
investments. Debt securities with longer maturities, which may
have higher yields, may increase or decrease in value more than
debt securities with shorter maturities. Market prices of lower
rated debt securities structured as zero coupon or pay-in-kind
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securities are affected to a greater extent by interest rate
changes and may be more volatile than securities which pay
interest periodically and in cash. Where it deems it appropriate
and in the best interests of Fund shareholders, the Fund may
incur additional expenses to seek recovery on a debt security on
which the issuer has defaulted and to pursue litigation to
protect the interests of security holders of its portfolio
companies.
Liquidity and Valuation. Because the market for lower rated
securities may be thinner and less active than for higher rated
securities, there may be market price volatility for these
securities and limited liquidity in the resale market. Nonrated
securities are usually not as attractive to as many buyers as
rated securities are, a factor which may make nonrated securities
less marketable. These factors may have the effect of limiting
the availability of the securities for purchase by the Fund and
may also limit the ability of the Fund to sell such securities at
their fair value either to meet redemption requests or in
response to changes in the economy or the financial markets.
Adverse publicity and investor perceptions, whether or not based
on fundamental analysis, may decrease the values and liquidity of
lower rated debt securities, especially in a thinly traded
market. To the extent the Fund owns or may acquire illiquid or
restricted lower rated securities, these securities may involve
special registration responsibilities, liabilities and costs, and
liquidity and valuation difficulties. Changes in values of debt
securities which the Fund owns will affect its net asset value
per share. If market quotations are not readily available for
the Fund's lower rated or nonrated securities, these securities
will be valued by a method that the Fund's Board of Directors
believes accurately reflects fair value. Judgment plays a
greater role in valuing lower rated debt securities than with
respect to securities for which more external sources of
quotations and last sale information are available.
Congressional Action. New and proposed laws may have an
impact on the market for lower rated debt securities. For
example, as a result of the Financial Institution's Reform,
Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989, savings and loan
associations were required to dispose of their high yield bonds
no later than July 1, 1994. Qualified affiliates of savings and
loan associations, however, may purchase and retain these
securities, and savings and loan associations may divest these
securities by sale to their qualified affiliates. T. Rowe Price
is unable at this time to predict what effect, if any, the
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legislation may have on the market for lower rated debt
securities.
Taxation. Special tax considerations are associated with
investing in lower rated debt securities structured as zero
coupon or pay-in-kind securities. The Fund accrues income on
these securities prior to the receipt of cash payments. The Fund
must distribute substantially all of its income to its
shareholders to qualify for pass-through treatment under the tax
laws and may, therefore, have to dispose of its portfolio
securities to satisfy distribution requirements.
Reference is also made to the sections entitled "Types of
Securities" and "Portfolio Management Practices" for discussions
of the risks associated with the investments and practices
described therein as they apply to the Fund.
INVESTMENT PROGRAM
Types of Securities
Set forth below is additional information about certain of
the investments described in the Fund's prospectus.
Debt Securities
Fixed income securities in which the Fund may invest
include, but are not limited to, those described below.
All Funds
U.S. Government Obligations. Bills, notes, bonds and other
debt securities issued by the U.S. Treasury. These are direct
obligations of the U.S. Government and differ mainly in the
length of their maturities.
U.S. Government Agency Securities. Issued or guaranteed by
U.S. Government sponsored enterprises and federal agencies.
These include securities issued by the Federal National Mortgage
Association, Government National Mortgage Association, Federal
Home Loan Bank, Federal Land Banks, Farmers Home Administration,
Banks for Cooperatives, Federal Intermediate Credit Banks,
Federal Financing Bank, Farm Credit Banks, the Small Business
Association, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Some of these
securities are supported by the full faith and credit of the U.S.
Treasury; and the remainder are supported only by the credit of
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the instrumentality, which may or may not include the right of
the issuer to borrow from the Treasury.
The GNMA, U.S. Treasury Money, Intermediate, and Long-Term
Funds may only invest in these securities if they are supported
by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
All Funds, except GNMA, U.S. Treasury Money, Intermediate and
Long-Term Funds
Bank Obligations. Certificates of deposit, bankers'
acceptances, and other short-term debt obligations. Certificates
of deposit are short-term obligations of commercial banks. A
bankers' acceptance is a time draft drawn on a commercial bank by
a borrower, usually in connection with international commercial
transactions. Certificates of deposit may have fixed or variable
rates. The Fund may invest in U.S. banks, foreign branches of
U.S. banks, U.S. branches of foreign banks, and foreign branches
of foreign banks.
Corporate Debt Securities. Outstanding nonconvertible
corporate debt securities (e.g., bonds and debentures).
Corporate notes may have fixed, variable, or floating rates.
Commercial Paper. Short-term promissory notes issued by
corporations primarily to finance short-term credit needs.
Certain notes may have floating or variable rates.
Foreign Government Securities. Issued or guaranteed by a
foreign government, province, instrumentality, political
subdivision or similar unit thereof.
Savings and Loan Obligations. Negotiable certificates of
deposit and other short-term debt obligations of savings and loan
associations.
Supranational Agencies. Securities of certain supranational
entities, such as the International Development Bank.
All Funds (except Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds)
Mortgage-Related Securities
Mortgage-related securities in which the Fund may invest
include, but are not limited to, those described below. The
GNMA, U.S. Treasury Intermediate and U.S. Treasury Long-Term
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Funds may only invest in these securities to the extent they are
backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.
Mortgage-Backed Securities. Mortgage-backed securities are
securities representing an interest in a pool of mortgages. The
mortgages may be of a variety of types, including adjustable
rate, conventional 30-year fixed rate, graduated payment, and 15-
year. Principal and interest payments made on the mortgages in
the underlying mortgage pool are passed through to the Fund. This
is in contrast to traditional bonds where principal is normally
paid back at maturity in a lump sum. Unscheduled prepayments of
principal shorten the securities' weighted average life and may
lower their total return. (When a mortgage in the underlying
mortgage pool is prepaid, an unscheduled principal prepayment is
passed through to the Fund. This principal is returned to the
Fund at par. As a result, if a mortgage security were trading at
a premium, its total return would be lowered by prepayments, and
if a mortgage security were trading at a discount, its total
return would be increased by prepayments.) The value of these
securities also may change because of changes in the market's
perception of the creditworthiness of the federal agency that
issued them. In addition, the mortgage securities market in
general may be adversely affected by changes in governmental
regulation or tax policies.
U.S. Government Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities. These
are obligations issued or guaranteed by the United States
Government or one of its agencies or instrumentalities, such as
the Government National Mortgage Association ("Ginnie Mae" or
"GNMA"), the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae"
or "FNMA") the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ("Freddie
Mac" or "FHLMC"), and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage
Corporation ("Farmer Mac" or "FAMC"). FNMA, FHLMC, and FAMC
obligations are not backed by the full faith and credit of the
U.S. Government as GNMA certificates are, but they are supported
by the instrumentality's right to borrow from the United States
Treasury. U.S. Government Agency Mortgage-Backed
Certificates provide for the pass-through to investors of their
pro-rata share of monthly payments (including any prepayments)
made by the individual borrowers on the pooled mortgage loans,
net of any fees paid to the guarantor of such securities and the
servicer of the underlying mortgage loans. Each of GNMA, FNMA,
FHLMC, and FAMC guarantees timely distributions of interest to
certificate holders. GNMA and FNMA guarantee timely
distributions of scheduled principal. FHLMC has in the past
guaranteed only the ultimate collection of principal of the
underlying mortgage loan; however, FHLMC now issues
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Mortgage-Backed Securities (FHLMC Gold PCs) which also guarantee
timely payment of monthly principal reductions.
Ginnie Mae Certificates. Ginnie Mae is a wholly-owned
corporate instrumentality of the United States within the
Department of Housing and Urban Development. The National
Housing Act of 1934, as amended (the "Housing Act"), authorizes
Ginnie Mae to guarantee the timely payment of the principal of
and interest on certificates that are based on and backed by a
pool of mortgage loans insured by the Federal Housing
Administration under the Housing Act, or Title V of the Housing
Act of 1949 ("FHA Loans"), or guaranteed by the Department of
Veterans Affairs under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944,
as amended ("VA Loans"), or by pools of other eligible mortgage
loans. The Housing Act provides that the full faith and credit
of the United States government is pledged to the payment of all
amounts that may be required to be paid under any guaranty. In
order to meet its obligations under such guaranty, Ginnie Mae is
authorized to borrow from the United States Treasury with no
limitations as to amount.
Fannie Mae Certificates. Fannie Mae is a federally
chartered and privately owned corporation organized and existing
under the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act of
1938. FNMA Certificates represent a pro-rata interest in a group
of mortgage loans purchased by Fannie Mae. FNMA guarantees the
timely payment of principal and interest on the securities it
issues. The obligations of FNMA are not backed by the full faith
and credit of the U.S. Government.
Freddie Mac Certificates. Freddie Mac is a corporate
instrumentality of the United States created pursuant to the
Emergency Home Finance Act of 1970, as amended (the "FHLMC Act").
Freddie Mac Certificates represent a pro-rata interest in a group
of mortgage loans (a "Freddie Mac Certificate group") purchased
by Freddie Mac. Freddie Mac guarantees timely payment of
interest and principal on certain securities it issues and timely
payment of interest and eventual payment of principal on other
securities is issues. The obligations of Freddie Mac are
obligations solely of Freddie Mac and are not backed by the full
faith and credit of the U.S. Government.
Farmer Mac Certificates. The Federal Agricultural Mortgage
Corporation ("Farmer Mac") is a federally chartered
instrumentality of the United States established by Title VIII of
the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended ("Charter Act"). Farmer
Mac was chartered primarily to attract new capital for financing
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of agricultural real estate by making a secondary market in
certain qualified agricultural real estate loans. Farmer Mac
provides guarantees of timely payment of principal and interest
on securities representing interests in, or obligations backed
by, pools of mortgages secured by first liens on agricultural
real estate ("Farmer Mac Certificates"). Similar to Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac, Farmer Mac's Certificates are not supported by
the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government; rather, Farmer
Mac may borrow up from the U.S. Treasury to meet its guaranty
obligations.
As discussed above, prepayments on the underlying mortgages
and their effect upon the rate of return of a Mortgage-Backed
Security, is the principal investment risk for a purchaser of
such securities, like the Fund. Over time, any pool of mortgages
will experience prepayments due to a variety of factors,
including (1) sales of the underlying homes (including
foreclosures), (2) refinancings of the underlying mortgages, and
(3) increased amortization by the mortgagee. These factors, in
turn, depend upon general economic factors, such as level of
interest rates and economic growth. Thus, investors normally
expect prepayment rates to increase during periods of strong
economic growth or declining interest rates, and to decrease in
recessions and rising interest rate environments. Accordingly,
the life of the Mortgage-Backed Security is likely to be
substantially shorter than the stated maturity of the mortgages
in the underlying pool. Because of such variation in prepayment
rates, it is not possible to predict the life of a particular
Mortgage-Backed Security, but FHA statistics indicate that 25- to
30-year single family dwelling mortgages have an average life of
approximately 12 years. The majority of Ginnie Mae Certificates
are backed by mortgages of this type, and, accordingly, the
generally accepted practice treats Ginnie Mae Certificates as 30-
year securities which prepay full in the 12th year. FNMA and
Freddie Mac Certificates may have differing prepayment
characteristics.
Fixed Rate Mortgage-Backed Securities bear a stated "coupon
rate" which represents the effective mortgage rate at the time of
issuance, less certain fees to GNMA, FNMA and FHLMC for providing
the guarantee, and the issuer for assembling the pool and for
passing through monthly payments of interest and principal.
Payments to holders of Mortgage-Backed Securities consist of
the monthly distributions of interest and principal less the
applicable fees. The actual yield to be earned by a holder of
Mortgage-Backed Securities is calculated by dividing interest
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payments by the purchase price paid for the Mortgage-Backed
Securities (which may be at a premium or a discount from the face
value of the certificate).
Monthly distributions of interest, as contrasted to semi-
annual distributions which are common for other fixed interest
investments, have the effect of compounding and thereby raising
the effective annual yield earned on Mortgage-Backed Securities.
Because of the variation in the life of the pools of mortgages
which back various Mortgage-Backed Securities, and because it is
impossible to anticipate the rate of interest at which future
principal payments may be reinvested, the actual yield earned
from a portfolio of Mortgage-Backed Securities will differ
significantly from the yield estimated by using an assumption of
a certain life for each Mortgage-Backed Security included in such
a portfolio as described above.
U.S. Government Agency Multiclass Pass-Through Securities.
Unlike CMOs, U.S. Government Agency Multiclass Pass-Through
Securities, which include FNMA Guaranteed REMIC Pass-Through
Certificates and FHLMC Multi-Class Mortgage Participation
Certificates, are ownership interests in a pool of Mortgage
Assets. Unless the context indicates otherwise, all references
herein to CMOs include multiclass pass-through securities.
Multi-Class Residential Mortgage Securities. Such
securities represent interests in pools of mortgage loans to
residential home buyers made by commercial banks, savings and
loan associations or other financial institutions. Unlike GNMA,
FNMA and FHLMC securities, the payment of principal and interest
on Multi-Class Residential Mortgage Securities is not guaranteed
by the U.S. Government or any of its agencies. Accordingly,
yields on Multi-Class Residential Mortgage Securities have been
historically higher than the yields on U.S. government mortgage
securities. However, the risk of loss due to default on such
instruments is higher since they are not guaranteed by the U.S.
Government or its agencies. Additionally, pools of such
securities may be divided into senior or subordinated segments.
Although subordinated mortgage securities may have a higher yield
than senior mortgage securities, the risk of loss of principal is
greater because losses on the underlying mortgage loans must be
borne by persons holding subordinated securities before those
holding senior mortgage securities.
Privately-Issued Mortgage-Backed Certificates. These are
pass-through certificates issued by non-governmental issuers.
Pools of conventional residential mortgage loans created by such
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issuers generally offer a higher rate of interest than government
and government-related pools because there are no direct or
indirect government guarantees of payment. Timely payment of
interest and principal of these pools is, however, generally
supported by various forms of insurance or guarantees, including
individual loan, title, pool and hazard insurance. The insurance
and guarantees are issued by government entities, private
insurance or the mortgage poolers. Such insurance and guarantees
and the creditworthiness of the issuers thereof will be
considered in determining whether a mortgage-related security
meets the Fund's quality standards. The Fund may buy mortgage-
related securities without insurance or guarantees if through an
examination of the loan experience and practices of the poolers,
the investment manager determines that the securities meet the
Fund's quality standards.
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs). CMOs are bonds
that are collateralized by whole loan mortgages or mortgage pass-
through securities. The bonds issued in a CMO deal are divided
into groups, and each group of bonds is referred to as a
"tranche." Under the traditional CMO structure, the cash flows
generated by the mortgages or mortgage pass-through securities in
the collateral pool are used to first pay interest and then pay
principal to the CMO bondholders. The bonds issued under a CMO
structure are retired sequentially as opposed to the pro rata
return of principal found in traditional pass-through
obligations. Subject to the various provisions of individual CMO
issues, the cash flow generated by the underlying collateral (to
the extent it exceeds the amount required to pay the stated
interest) is used to retire the bonds. Under the CMO structure,
the repayment of principal among the different tranches is
prioritized in accordance with the terms of the particular CMO
issuance. The "fastest-pay" tranche of bonds, as specified in
the prospectus for the issuance, would initially receive all
principal payments. When that tranche of bonds is retired, the
next tranche, or tranches, in the sequence, as specified in the
prospectus, receive all of the principal payments until they are
retired. The sequential retirement of bond groups continues
until the last tranche, or group of bonds, is retired.
Accordingly, the CMO structure allows the issuer to use cash
flows of long maturity, monthly-pay collateral to formulate
securities with short, intermediate and long final maturities and
expected average lives.
CMO structures may also include floating rate CMOs, planned
amortization classes, accrual bonds and CMO residuals. These
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structures affect the amount and timing of principal and interest
received by each tranche from the underlying collateral. Under
certain of these structures, given classes of CMOs have priority
over others with respect to the receipt of prepayments on the
mortgages. Therefore, depending on the type of CMOs in which the
Fund invests, the investment may be subject to a greater or
lesser risk of prepayment than other types of mortgage-related
securities.
The primary risk of any mortgage security is the uncertainty
of the timing of cash flows. For CMOs, the primary risk results
from the rate of prepayments on the underlying mortgages serving
as collateral. An increase or decrease in prepayment rates
(resulting from a decrease or increase in mortgage interest
rates) will affect the yield, average life and price of CMOs.
The prices of certain CMOs, depending on their structure and the
rate of prepayments, can be volatile. Some CMOs may also not be
as liquid as other securities.
Stripped Mortgage-Backed Securities. Stripped Mortgage-
Backed securities represent interests in a pool of mortgages, the
cash flow of which has been separated into its interest and
principal components. "IOs" (interest only securities) receive
the interest portion of the cash flow while "POs" (principal only
securities) receive the principal portion. IOs and POs are
usually structured as tranches of a CMO. Stripped
Mortgage-Backed Securities may be issued by U.S. Government
Agencies or by private issuers similar to those described above
with respect to CMOs and privately-issued mortgage-backed
certificates. As interest rates rise and fall, the value of IOs
tends to move in the same direction as interest rates. The value
of the other mortgage-backed securities described herein, like
other debt instruments, will tend to move in the opposite
direction compared to interest rates. Under the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), POs may generate taxable
income from the current accrual of original issue discount,
without a corresponding distribution of cash to the Fund.
The cash flows and yields on IO and PO classes are extremely
sensitive to the rate of principal payments (including
prepayments) on the related underlying mortgage assets. In the
case of IOs, prepayments affect the amount, but not the timing,
of cash flows provided to the investor. In contrast, prepayments
on the mortgage pool affect the timing, but not the amount, of
cash flows received by investors in POs. A rapid or slow rate of
principal payments may have a material adverse effect on the
prices of IOs or POs, respectively. If the underlying mortgage
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assets experience greater than anticipated prepayments of
principal, an investor may fail to recoup fully its initial
investment in an IO class of a stripped mortgage-backed security,
even if the IO class is rated AAA or Aaa or is derived from a
full faith and credit obligation. Conversely, if the underlying
mortgage assets experience slower than anticipated prepayments of
principal, the price on a PO class will be affected more severely
than would be the case with a traditional mortgage-backed
security.
The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission has
advised the Fund that it believes the Fund should treat IOs and
POs, other than government-issued IOs or POs backed by fixed rate
mortgages, as illiquid securities and, accordingly, limit its
investments in such securities, together with all other illiquid
securities, to 15% of the Fund's net assets. Under the Staff's
position, the determination of whether a particular
government-issued IO and PO backed by fixed rate mortgages may be
made on a case by case basis under guidelines and standards
established by the Fund's Board of Directors/Trustees. The
Fund's Board of Directors/Trustees has delegated to T. Rowe Price
the authority to determine the liquidity of these investments
based on the following guidelines: the type of issuer; type of
collateral, including age and prepayment characteristics; rate of
interest on coupon relative to current market rates and the
effect of the rate on the potential for prepayments; complexity
of the issue's structure, including the number of tranches; size
of the issue and the number of dealers who make a market in the
IO or PO. The Fund will treat non-government-issued IOs and POs
not backed by fixed or adjustable rate mortgages as illiquid
unless and until the Securities and Exchange Commission modifies
its position.
Adjustable Rate Mortgages. Adjustable rate mortgage (ARM)
securities are collateralized by adjustable rate, rather than
fixed rate, mortgages.
ARMs, like fixed rate mortgages, have a specified maturity
date, and the principal amount of the mortgage is repaid over the
life of the mortgage. Unlike fixed rate mortgages, the interest
rate on ARMs is adjusted at regular intervals based on a
specified, published interest rate "index" such as a Treasury
rate index. The new rate is determined by adding a specific
interest amount, the "margin," to the interest rate of the index.
Investment in ARM securities allows the Fund to participate in
changing interest rate levels through regular adjustments in the
coupons of the underlying mortgages, resulting in more variable
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current income and lower price volatility than longer term fixed
rate mortgage securities. The ARM securities in which the Fund
expects to invest will generally adjust their interest rates at
regular intervals of one year or less. ARM securities are a less
effective means of locking in long-term rates than fixed rate
mortgages since the income from adjustable rate mortgages will
increase during periods of rising interest rates and decline
during periods of falling rates.
Characteristics of Adjustable Rate Mortgage Securities -
Interest Rate Indices. The interest rates paid on adjustable
rate securities are readjusted periodically to an increment over
some predetermined interest rate index. Such readjustments occur
at intervals ranging from one to 60 months. There are three main
categories of indexes: (1) those based on U.S. Treasury
securities (2) those derived from a calculated measure such as a
cost of funds index ("COFI") or a moving average of mortgage
rates and (3) those based on actively traded or prominently
posted short-term, interest rates. Commonly utilized indexes
include the one-year, three-year and five-year constant maturity
Treasury rates, the three-month Treasury bill rate, the 180-day
Treasury bill rate, rates on longer-term Treasury securities, the
11th District Federal Home Loan Bank Cost of Funds, the National
Median Cost of Funds, the one-month, three-month, six-month or
one-year London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the prime rate of
a specific bank, or commercial paper rates. Some indexes, such
as the one-year constant maturity Treasury rate, closely mirror
changes in market interest rate levels. Others, such as the 11th
District Home Loan Bank Cost of Funds index, tend to lag behind
changes in market rate levels. The market value of the Fund's
assets and of the net asset value of the Fund's shares will be
affected by the length of the adjustment period, the degree of
volatility in the applicable indexes and the maximum increase or
decrease of the interest rate adjustment on any one adjustment
date, in any one year and over the life of the securities. These
maximum increases and decreases are typically referred to as
"caps" and "floors", respectively.
A number of factors affect the performance of the Cost of
Funds Index and may cause the Cost of Funds Index to move in a
manner different from indices based upon specific interest rates,
such as the One Year Treasury Index. Additionally, there can be
no assurance that the Cost of Funds Index will necessarily move
in the same direction or at the same rate as prevailing interest
rates. Furthermore, any movement in the Cost of Funds Index as
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compared to other indices based upon specific interest rates may
be affected by changes instituted by the FHLB of San Francisco in
the method used to calculate the Cost of Funds Index. To the
extent that the Cost of Funds Index may reflect interest changes
on a more delayed basis than other indices, in a period of rising
interest rates, any increase may produce a higher yield later
than would be produced by such other indices, and in a period of
declining interest rates, the Cost of Funds Index may remain
higher than other market interest rates which may result in a
higher level of principal prepayments on mortgage loans which
adjust in accordance with the Cost of Funds Index than mortgage
loans which adjust in accordance with other indices.
LIBOR, the London interbank offered rate, is the interest
rate that the most creditworthy international banks dealing in
U.S. dollar-denominated deposits and loans charge each other for
large dollar-denominated loans. LIBOR is also usually the base
rate for large dollar-denominated loans in the international
market. LIBOR is generally quoted for loans having rate
adjustments at one, three, six or 12 month intervals.
Caps and Floors. ARMs will frequently have caps and floors
which limit the maximum amount by which the interest rate to the
residential borrower may move up or down, respectively, each
adjustment period and over the life of the loan. Interest rate
caps on ARM securities may cause them to decrease in value in an
increasing interest rate environment. Such caps may also prevent
their income from increasing to levels commensurate with
prevailing interest rates. Conversely, interest rate floors on
ARM securities may cause their income to remain higher than
prevailing interest rate levels and result in an increase in the
value of such securities. However, this increase may be tempered
by the acceleration of prepayments.
Mortgage securities generally have a maximum maturity of up
to 30 years. However, due to the adjustable rate feature of ARM
securities, their prices are considered to have volatility
characteristics which approximate the average period of time
until the next adjustment of the interest rate. As a result, the
principal volatility of ARM securities may be more comparable to
short- and intermediate-term securities than to longer term fixed
rate mortgage securities. Prepayments, however, will increase
their principal volatility. See also the discussion of Mortgage-
Backed Securities on page 9. Several characteristics of ARMs may
make them more susceptible to prepayments than other Mortgage-
Backed Securities. An adjustable rate mortgage has greater
incentives to refinance with a fixed rate mortgage during
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favorable interest rate environments, in order to avoid interest
rate risk. Also, homes financed with adjustable rate mortgages
may be sold more frequently because of the prevalence of first-
time home buyers in the adjustable rate mortgage market. Also,
delinquency and foreclosure rates are higher in this market since
many buyers use adjustable rate mortgages to purchase homes that
they could not otherwise finance on a fixed rate basis.
Significant increases in the index rates for the adjustable rate
mortgages may also result in increased delinquency and default
rates, which in turn, may affect prepayment rates on the ARMs.
Other Mortgage Related Securities. The Fund expects that
governmental, government-related or private entities may create
mortgage loan pools offering pass-through investments in addition
to those described above. The mortgages underlying these
securities may be alternative mortgage instruments, that is,
mortgage instruments whose principal or interest payments may
vary or whose terms to maturity may differ from customary long-
term fixed rate mortgages. As new types of mortgage-related
securities are developed and offered to investors, the investment
manager will, consistent with the Fund's objective, policies and
quality standards, consider making investments in such new types
of securities.
All Funds (except GNMA, U.S. Treasury Money, Intermediate and
Long-Term Funds)
Asset-Backed Securities
The credit quality of most asset-backed securities depends
primarily on the credit quality of the assets underlying such
securities, how well the entity issuing the security is insulated
from the credit risk of the originator or any other affiliated
entities and the amount and quality of any credit support
provided to the securities. The rate of principal payment on
asset-backed securities generally depends on the rate of
principal payments received on the underlying assets which in
turn may be affected by a variety of economic and other factors.
As a result, the yield on any asset-backed security is difficult
to predict with precision and actual yield to maturity may be
more or less than the anticipated yield to maturity. Asset-
backed securities may be classified as pass-through certificates
or collateralized obligations.
Pass-through certificates are asset-backed securities which
represent an undivided fractional ownership interest in an
underlying pool of assets. Pass-through certificates usually
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provide for payments of principal and interest received to be
passed through to their holders, usually after deduction for
certain costs and expenses incurred in administering the pool.
Because pass-through certificates represent an ownership interest
in the underlying assets, the holders thereof bear directly the
risk of any defaults by the obligors on the underlying assets not
covered by any credit support. See "Types of Credit Support".
Asset-backed securities issued in the form of debt
instruments, also known as collateralized or pay-through
obligations, are generally issued as the debt of a special
purpose entity organized solely for the purpose of owning such
assets and issuing such debt. Such assets are most often trade,
credit card or automobile receivables. The assets
collateralizing such asset-backed securities are pledged to a
trustee or custodian for the benefit of the holders thereof.
Such issuers generally hold no assets other than those underlying
the asset-backed securities and any credit support provided. As
a result, although payments on such asset-backed securities are
obligations of the issuers, in the event of defaults on the
underlying assets not covered by any credit support (see "Types
of Credit Support"), the issuing entities are unlikely to have
sufficient assets to satisfy their obligations on the related
asset-backed securities.
Methods of Allocating Cash Flows. While many asset-backed
securities are issued with only one class of security, many
asset-backed securities are issued in more than one class, each
with different payment terms. Multiple class asset-backed
securities are issued for two main reasons. First, multiple
classes may be used as a method of providing credit support.
This is accomplished typically through creation of one or more
classes whose right to payments on the asset-backed security is
made subordinate to the right to such payments of the remaining
class or classes. See "Types of Credit Support". Second,
multiple classes may permit the issuance of securities with
payment terms, interest rates or other characteristics differing
both from those of each other and from those of the underlying
assets. Examples include so-called "strips" (asset-backed
securities entitling the holder to disproportionate interests
with respect to the allocation of interest and principal of the
assets backing the security), and securities with class or
classes having characteristics which mimic the characteristics of
non-asset-backed securities, such as floating interest rates
(i.e., interest rates which adjust as a specified benchmark
changes) or scheduled amortization of principal.
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Asset-backed securities in which the payment streams on the
underlying assets are allocated in a manner different than those
described above may be issued in the future. The Fund may invest
in such asset-backed securities if such investment is otherwise
consistent with its investment objectives and policies and with
the investment restrictions of the Fund.
Types of Credit Support. Asset-backed securities are often
backed by a pool of assets representing the obligations of a
number of different parties. To lessen the effect of failures by
obligors on underlying assets to make payments, such securities
may contain elements of credit support. Such credit support
falls into two classes: liquidity protection and protection
against ultimate default by an obligor on the underlying assets.
Liquidity protection refers to the provision of advances,
generally by the entity administering the pool of assets, to
ensure that scheduled payments on the underlying pool are made in
a timely fashion. Protection against ultimate default ensures
ultimate payment of the obligations on at least a portion of the
assets in the pool. Such protection may be provided through
guarantees, insurance policies or letters of credit obtained from
third parties ("external credit enhancement"), through various
means of structuring the transaction ("internal credit
enhancement") or through a combination of such approaches.
Examples of asset-backed securities with internal credit
enhancement include "senior-subordinated securities" (multiple
class asset-backed securities with certain classes subordinate to
other classes as to the payment of principal thereon, with the
result that defaults on the underlying assets are borne first by
the holders of the subordinated class) and asset-backed
securities that have "reserve funds" (where cash or investments,
sometimes funded from a portion of the initial payments on the
underlying assets, are held in reserve against future losses) or
that have been "over collateralized" (where the scheduled
payments on, or the principal amount of, the underlying assets
substantially exceeds that required to make payment of the asset-
backed securities and pay any servicing or other fees). The
degree of credit support provided on each issue is based
generally on historical information respecting the level of
credit risk associated with such payments. Depending upon the
type of assets securitized, historical information on credit risk
and prepayment rates may be limited or even unavailable.
Delinquency or loss in excess of that anticipated could adversely
affect the return on an investment in an asset-backed security.
Automobile Receivable Securities. The Fund may invest in
Asset Backed Securities which are backed by receivables from
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motor vehicle installment sales contracts or installment loans
secured by motor vehicles ("Automobile Receivable Securities").
Since installment sales contracts for motor vehicles or
installment loans related thereto ("Automobile Contracts")
typically have shorter durations and lower incidences of
prepayment, Automobile Receivable Securities generally will
exhibit a shorter average life and are less susceptible to
prepayment risk.
Most entities that issue Automobile Receivable Securities
create an enforceable interest in their respective Automobile
Contracts only by filing a financing statement and by having the
servicer of the Automobile Contracts, which is usually the
originator of the Automobile Contracts, take custody thereof. In
such circumstances, if the servicer of the Automobile Contracts
were to sell the same Automobile Contracts to another party, in
violation of its obligation not to do so, there is a risk that
such party could acquire an interest in the Automobile Contracts
superior to that of the holders of Automobile Receivable
Securities. Also although most Automobile Contracts grant a
security interest in the motor vehicle being financed, in most
states the security interest in a motor vehicle must be noted on
the certificate of title to create an enforceable security
interest against competing claims of other parties. Due to the
large number of vehicles involved, however, the certificate of
title to each vehicle financed, pursuant to the Automobile
Contracts underlying the Automobile Receivable Security, usually
is not amended to reflect the assignment of the seller's security
interest for the benefit of the holders of the Automobile
Receivable Securities. Therefore, there is the possibility that
recoveries on repossessed collateral may not, in some cases, be
available to support payments on the securities. In addition,
various state and federal securities laws give the motor vehicle
owner the right to assert against the holder of the owner's
Automobile Contract certain defenses such owner would have
against the seller of the motor vehicle. The assertion of such
defenses could reduce payments on the Automobile Receivable
Securities.
Credit Card Receivable Securities. The Fund may invest in
Asset Backed Securities backed by receivables from revolving
credit card agreements ("Credit Card Receivable Securities").
Credit balances on revolving credit card agreements ("Accounts")
are generally paid down more rapidly than are Automobile
Contracts. Most of the Credit Card Receivable Securities issued
publicly to date have been Pass-Through Certificates. In order
to lengthen the maturity of Credit Card Receivable Securities,
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most such securities provide for a fixed period during which only
interest payments on the underlying Accounts are passed through
to the security holder and principal payments received on such
Accounts are used to fund the transfer to the pool of assets
supporting the related Credit Card Receivable Securities of
additional credit card charges made on an Account. The initial
fixed period usually may be shortened upon the occurrence of
specified events which signal a potential deterioration in the
quality of the assets backing the security, such as the
imposition of a cap on interest rates. The ability of the issuer
to extend the life of an issue of Credit Card Receivable
Securities thus depends upon the continued generation of
additional principal amounts in the underlying accounts during
the initial period and the non-occurrence of specified events.
An acceleration in cardholders' payment rates or any other event
which shortens the period during which additional credit card
charges on an Account may be transferred to the pool of assets
supporting the related Credit Card Receivable Security could
shorten the weighted average life and yield of the Credit Card
Receivable Security.
Credit cardholders are entitled to the protection of a
number of state and federal consumer credit laws, many of which
give such holder the right to set off certain amounts against
balances owed on the credit card, thereby reducing amounts paid
on Accounts. In addition, unlike most other Asset Backed
Securities, Accounts are unsecured obligations of the cardholder.
Other Assets. Asset Backed Securities backed by assets
other than those described above, including, but not limited to,
small business loans and accounts receivable, equipment leases,
commercial real estate loans, boat loans and manufacturing
housing loans. The Fund may invest in such securities in the
future if such investment is otherwise consistent with its
investment objective and policies.
There are, of course, other types of securities that are, or
may become available, which are similar to the foregoing and the
Fund reserves the right to invest in these securities.
High Yield Fund
Collateralized Bond or Loan Obligations
CBOs are bonds collateralized by corporate bonds and CLOs
are bonds collateralized by bank loans. CBOs and CLOs are
structured into tranches, and payments are allocated such that
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each tranche has a predictable cash flow stream and average life.
CBOs are fairly recent entrants to the fixed income market. Most
issues to date have been collateralized by high yield bonds or
loans, with heavy credit enhancement.
Loan Participations and Assignments
Loan participations and assignments (collectively
"participations") will typically be participating interests in
loans made by a syndicate of banks, represented by an agent bank
which has negotiated and structured the loan, to corporate
borrowers to finance internal growth, mergers, acquisitions,
stock repurchases, leveraged buy-outs and other corporate
activities. Such loans may also have been made to governmental
borrowers, especially governments of developing countries (LDC
debt). LDC debt will involve the risk that the governmental
entity responsible for the repayment of the debt may be unable or
unwilling to do so when due. The loans underlying such
participations may be secured or unsecured, and the Fund may
invest in loans collateralized by mortgages on real property or
which have no collateral. The loan participations themselves may
extend for the entire term of the loan or may extend only for
short "strips" that correspond to a quarterly or monthly floating
rate interest period on the underlying loan. Thus, a term or
revolving credit that extends for several years may be subdivided
into shorter periods.
The loan participations in which the Fund will invest will
also vary in legal structure. Occasionally, lenders assign to
another institution both the lender's rights and obligations
under a credit agreement. Since this type of assignment relieves
the original lender of its obligations, it is call a novation.
More typically, a lender assigns only its right to receive
payments of principal and interest under a promissory note,
credit agreement or similar document. A true assignment shifts
to the assignee the direct debtor-creditor relationship with the
underlying borrower. Alternatively, a lender may assign only
part of its rights to receive payments pursuant to the underlying
instrument or loan agreement. Such partial assignments, which
are more accurately characterized as "participating interests,"
do not shift the debtor-creditor relationship to the assignee,
who must rely on the original lending institution to collect sums
due and to otherwise enforce its rights against the agent bank
which administers the loan or against the underlying borrower.
Pursuant to an SEC no-action letter, and because the Fund is
allowed to purchase debt and debt securities, including debt
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securities at private placement, the Fund will treat loan
participations as securities and not subject to its fundamental
investment restriction prohibiting the Fund from making loans.
There may not be a recognizable, liquid public market for
loan participations. To the extent this is the case, the Fund
would consider the loan participation as illiquid and subject to
the Fund's restriction on investing no more than 15% of its net
assets in illiquid securities.
Where required by applicable SEC positions, the Fund will
treat both the corporate borrower and the bank selling the
participation interest as an issuer for purposes of its
fundamental investment restriction on diversification.
Various service fees received by the Fund from loan
participations, may be treated as non-interest income depending
on the nature of the fee (commitment, takedown, commission,
service or loan origination). To the extent the service fees are
not interest income, they will not qualify as income under
Section 851(b) of the Internal Revenue Code. Thus the sum of
such fees plus any other non-qualifying income earned by the Fund
cannot exceed 10% of total income.
Trade Claims
Trade claims are non-securitized rights of payment arising
from obligations other than borrowed funds. Trade claims
typically arise when, in the ordinary course of business, vendors
and suppliers extend credit to a company by offering payment
terms. Generally, when a company files for bankruptcy protection
payments on these trade claims cease and the claims are subject
to compromise along with the other debts of the company. Trade
claims typically are bought and sold at a discount reflecting the
degree of uncertainty with respect to the timing and extent of
recovery. In addition to the risks otherwise associated with
low-quality obligations, trade claims have other risks, including
the possibility that the amount of the claim may be disputed by
the obligor.
Over the last few years a market for the trade claims of
bankrupt companies has developed. Many vendors are either
unwilling or lack the resources to hold their claim through the
extended bankruptcy process with an uncertain outcome and timing.
Some vendors are also aggressive in establishing reserves against
these receivables, so that the sale of the claim at a discount
may not result in the recognition of a loss.
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Trade claims can represent an attractive investment
opportunity because these claims typically are priced at a
discount to comparable public securities. This discount is a
reflection of both a less liquid market, a smaller universe of
potential buyers and the risks peculiar to trade claim investing.
It is not unusual for trade claims to be priced at a discount to
public securities that have an equal or lower priority claim.
As noted above, investing in trade claims does carry some
unique risks which include:
o Establishing the Amount of the Claim. Frequently, the
supplier's estimate of its receivable will differ from
the customer's estimate of its payable. Resolution of
these differences can result in a reduction in the amount
of the claim. This risk can be reduced by only
purchasing scheduled claims (claims already listed as
liabilities by the debtor) and seeking representations
from the seller.
o Defenses to Claims. The debtor has a variety of defenses
that can be asserted under the bankruptcy code against
any claim. Trade claims are subject to these defenses,
the most common of which for trade claims relates to
preference payments. (Preference payments are all
payments made by the debtor during the 90 days prior to
the filing. These payments are presumed to have
benefited the receiving creditor at the expense of the
other creditors. The receiving creditor may be required
to return the payment unless it can show the payments
were received in the ordinary course of business.) While
none of these defenses can result in any additional
liability of the purchaser of the trade claim, they can
reduce or wipe out the entire purchased claim. This risk
can be reduced by seeking representations and
indemnification from the seller.
o Documentation/Indemnification. Each trade claim
purchased requires documentation that must be negotiated
between the buyer and seller. This documentation is
extremely important since it can protect the purchaser
from losses such as those described above. Legal
expenses in negotiating a purchase agreement can be
fairly high. Additionally, it is important to note that
the value of an indemnification depends on the sellers
credit.
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o Volatile Pricing Due to Illiquid Market. There are only
a handful of brokers for trade claims and the quoted
price of these claims can be volatile. Generally, it is
expected that Trade Claims would be considered illiquid
investments.
o No Current Yield/Ultimate Recovery. Trade claims are
almost never entitled to earn interest. As a result, the
return on such an investment is very sensitive to the
length of the bankruptcy, which is uncertain. Although
not unique to trade claims, it is worth noting that the
ultimate recovery on the claim is uncertain and there is
no way to calculate a conventional yield to maturity on
this investment. Additionally, the exit for this
investment is a plan of reorganization which may include
the distribution of new securities. These securities may
be as illiquid as the original trade claim investment.
o Tax Issue. Although the issue is not free from doubt, it
is likely that Trade Claims would be treated as non-
securities investments. As a result, any gains would be
considered "non-qualifying" under the Internal Revenue
Code. The Fund may have up to 10% of its gross income
(including capital gains) derived from non-qualifying
sources.
High Yield and Personal Strategy Funds
Zero Coupon and Pay-in-Kind Bonds
A zero coupon security has no cash coupon payments.
Instead, the issuer sells the security at a substantial discount
from its maturity value. The interest received by the investor
from holding this security to maturity is the difference between
the maturity value and the purchase price. The advantage to the
investor is that reinvestment risk of the income received during
the life of the bond is eliminated. However, zero-coupon bonds
like other bonds retain interest rate and credit risk and usually
display more price volatility than those securities that pay a
cash coupon.
Pay-in-Kind (PIK) Instruments are securities that pay
interest in either cash or additional securities, at the issuer's
option, for a specified period. PIK's, like zero coupon bonds,
are designed to give an issuer flexibility in managing cash flow.
PIK bonds can be either senior or subordinated debt and trade
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flat (i.e., without accrued interest). The price of PIK bonds is
expected to reflect the market value of the underlying debt plus
an amount representing accrued interest since the last payment.
PIK's are usually less volatile than zero coupon bonds, but more
volatile than cash pay securities.
For federal income tax purposes, these types of bonds will
require the recognition of gross income each year even though no
cash may be paid to the Fund until the maturity or call date of
the bond. The Fund will nonetheless be required to distribute
substantially all of this gross income each year to comply with
the Internal Revenue Code, and such distributions could reduce
the amount of cash available for investment by the Fund.
High Yield, New Income, and Personal Strategy Funds
Warrants
The Fund may acquire warrants. Warrants are pure
speculation in that they have no voting rights, pay no dividends
and have no rights with respect to the assets of the corporation
issuing them. Warrants basically are options to purchase equity
securities at a specific price valid for a specific period of
time. They do not represent ownership of the securities, but
only the right to buy them. Warrants differ from call options in
that warrants are issued by the issuer of the security which may
be purchased on their exercise, whereas call options may be
written or issued by anyone. The prices of warrants do not
necessarily move parallel to the prices of the underlying
securities.
High Yield, New Income, Personal Strategy, Short-Term Bond, and
Short-Term U.S. Government Funds
Hybrid Instruments
Hybrid Instruments have been developed and combine the
elements of futures contracts or options with those of debt,
preferred equity or a depository instrument (hereinafter "Hybrid
Instruments"). Generally, a Hybrid Instrument will be a debt
security, preferred stock, depository share, trust certificate,
certificate of deposit or other evidence of indebtedness on which
a portion of or all interest payments, and/or the principal or
stated amount payable at maturity, redemption or retirement, is
determined by reference to prices, changes in prices, or
differences between prices, of securities, currencies,
intangibles, goods, articles or commodities (collectively
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"Underlying Assets") or by another objective index, economic
factor or other measure, such as interest rates, currency
exchange rates, commodity indices, and securities indices
(collectively "Benchmarks"). Thus, Hybrid Instruments may take a
variety of forms, including, but not limited to, debt instruments
with interest or principal payments or redemption terms
determined by reference to the value of a currency or commodity
or securities index at a future point in time, preferred stock
with dividend rates determined by reference to the value of a
currency, or convertible securities with the conversion terms
related to a particular commodity.
Hybrid Instruments can be an efficient means of creating
exposure to a particular market, or segment of a market, with the
objective of enhancing total return. For example, a Fund may
wish to take advantage of expected declines in interest rates in
several European countries, but avoid the transactions costs
associated with buying and currency-hedging the foreign bond
positions. One solution would be to purchase a U.S. dollar-
denominated Hybrid Instrument whose redemption price is linked to
the average three year interest rate in a designated group of
countries. The redemption price formula would provide for
payoffs of greater than par if the average interest rate was
lower than a specified level, and payoffs of less than par if
rates were above the specified level. Furthermore, the Fund
could limit the downside risk of the security by establishing a
minimum redemption price so that the principal paid at maturity
could not be below a predetermined minimum level if interest
rates were to rise significantly. The purpose of this
arrangement, known as a structured security with an embedded put
option, would be to give the Fund the desired European bond
exposure while avoiding currency risk, limiting downside market
risk, and lowering transactions costs. Of course, there is no
guarantee that the strategy will be successful and the Fund could
lose money if, for example, interest rates do not move as
anticipated or credit problems develop with the issuer of the
Hybrid.
The risks of investing in Hybrid Instruments reflect a
combination of the risks of investing in securities, options,
futures and currencies. Thus, an investment in a Hybrid
Instrument may entail significant risks that are not associated
with a similar investment in a traditional debt instrument that
has a fixed principal amount, is denominated in U.S. dollars or
bears interest either at a fixed rate or a floating rate
determined by reference to a common, nationally published
Benchmark. The risks of a particular Hybrid Instrument will, of
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course, depend upon the terms of the instrument, but may include,
without limitation, the possibility of significant changes in the
Benchmarks or the prices of Underlying Assets to which the
instrument is linked. Such risks generally depend upon factors
which are unrelated to the operations or credit quality of the
issuer of the Hybrid Instrument and which may not be readily
foreseen by the purchaser, such as economic and political events,
the supply and demand for the Underlying Assets and interest rate
movements. In recent years, various Benchmarks and prices for
Underlying Assets have been highly volatile, and such volatility
may be expected in the future. Reference is also made to the
discussion of futures, options, and forward contracts herein for
a discussion of the risks associated with such investments.
Hybrid Instruments are potentially more volatile and carry
greater market risks than traditional debt instruments.
Depending on the structure of the particular Hybrid Instrument,
changes in a Benchmark may be magnified by the terms of the
Hybrid Instrument and have an even more dramatic and substantial
effect upon the value of the Hybrid Instrument. Also, the prices
of the Hybrid Instrument and the Benchmark or Underlying Asset
may not move in the same direction or at the same time.
Hybrid Instruments may bear interest or pay preferred
dividends at below market (or even relatively nominal) rates.
Alternatively, Hybrid Instruments may bear interest at above
market rates but bear an increased risk of principal loss (or
gain). The latter scenario may result if "leverage" is used to
structure the Hybrid Instrument. Leverage risk occurs when the
Hybrid Instrument is structured so that a given change in a
Benchmark or Underlying Asset is multiplied to produce a greater
value change in the Hybrid Instrument, thereby magnifying the
risk of loss as well as the potential for gain.
Hybrid Instruments may also carry liquidity risk since the
instruments are often "customized" to meet the portfolio needs of
a particular investor, and therefore, the number of investors
that are willing and able to buy such instruments in the
secondary market may be smaller than that for more traditional
debt securities. In addition, because the purchase and sale of
Hybrid Instruments could take place in an over-the-counter market
without the guarantee of a central clearing organization or in a
transaction between the Fund and the issuer of the Hybrid
Instrument, the creditworthiness of the counter party or issuer
of the Hybrid Instrument would be an additional risk factor which
the Fund would have to consider and monitor. Hybrid Instruments
also may not be subject to regulation of the Commodities Futures
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Trading Commission ("CFTC"), which generally regulates the
trading of commodity futures by U.S. persons, the SEC, which
regulates the offer and sale of securities by and to U.S.
persons, or any other governmental regulatory authority.
The various risks discussed above, particularly the market
risk of such instruments, may in turn cause significant
fluctuations in the net asset value of the Fund. Accordingly,
the Fund will limit its investments in Hybrid Instruments to 10%
of net assets. However, because of their volatility, it is
possible that the Fund's investment in Hybrid Instruments will
account for more than 10% of the Fund's return (positive or
negative).
All Funds
When-Issued Securities and Forward Commitment Contracts
The Fund may purchase securities on a "when-issued" or
delayed delivery basis ("When-Issueds") and may purchase
securities on a forward commitment basis ("Forwards"). Any or
all of the Fund's investments in debt securities may be in the
form of When-Issueds and Forwards. The price of such securities,
which may be expressed in yield terms, is fixed at the time the
commitment to purchase is made, but delivery and payment take
place at a later date. Normally, the settlement date occurs
within 90 days of the purchase for When-Issueds, but may be
substantially longer for Forwards. During the period between
purchase and settlement, no payment is made by the Fund to the
issuer and no interest accrues to the Fund. The purchase of
these securities will result in a loss if their value declines
prior to the settlement date. This could occur, for example, if
interest rates increase prior to settlement. The longer the
period between purchase and settlement, the greater the risks
are. At the time the Fund makes the commitment to purchase these
securities, it will record the transaction and reflect the value
of the security in determining its net asset value. The Fund
will cover these securities by maintaining cash and/or liquid,
high-grade debt securities with its custodian bank equal in value
to commitments for them during the time between the purchase and
the settlement. Therefore, the longer this period, the longer
the period during which alternative investment options are not
available to the Fund (to the extent of the securities used for
cover). Such securities either will mature or, if necessary, be
sold on or before the settlement date.
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To the extent the Fund remains fully or almost fully
invested (in securities with a remaining maturity of more than
one year) at the same time it purchases these securities, there
will be greater fluctuations in the Fund's net asset value than
if the Fund did not purchase them.
Additional Adjustable Rate Securities
Certain securities may be issued with adjustable interest
rates that are reset periodically by pre-determined formulas or
indexes in order to minimize movements in the principal value of
the investment. Such securities may have long-term maturities,
but may be treated as a short-term investment under certain
conditions. Generally, as interest rates decrease or increase,
the potential for capital appreciation or depreciation on these
securities is less than for fixed-rate obligations. These
securities may take the following forms:
Variable Rate Securities. Variable rate instruments are
those whose terms provide for the adjustment of their interest
rates on set dates and which, upon such adjustment, can
reasonably be expected to have a market value that approximates
its par value. A variable rate instrument, the principal amount
of which is scheduled to be paid in 397 days or less, is deemed
to have a maturity equal to the period remaining until the next
readjustment of the interest rate. A variable rate instrument
which is subject to a demand feature entitles the purchaser to
receive the principal amount of the underlying security or
securities, either (i) upon notice of no more than 30 days or
(ii) at specified intervals not exceeding 397 days and upon no
more than 30 days' notice, is deemed to have a maturity equal to
the longer of the period remaining until the next readjustment of
the interest rate or the period remaining until the principal
amount can be recovered through demand.
Floating Rate Securities. Floating rate instruments are
those whose terms provide for the adjustment of their interest
rates whenever a specified interest rate changes and which, at
any time, can reasonably be expected to have a market value that
approximates its par value. The maturity of a floating rate
instrument is deemed to be the period remaining until the date
(noted on the face of the instrument) on which the principal
amount must be paid, or in the case of an instrument called for
redemption, the date on which the redemption payment must be
made. Floating rate instruments with demand features are deemed
to have a maturity equal to the period remaining until the
principal amount can be recovered through demand.
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Put Option Bonds. Long-term obligations with maturities
longer than one year may provide purchasers an optional or
mandatory tender of the security at par value at predetermined
intervals, often ranging from one month to several years (e.g., a
30-year bond with a five-year tender period). These instruments
are deemed to have a maturity equal to the period remaining to
the put date.
High Yield, New Income, Personal Strategy, Prime Reserve, and
Short-Term Bond, and Short-Term U.S. Government Funds
Illiquid or Restricted Securities
Restricted securities may be sold only in privately
negotiated transactions or in a public offering with respect to
which a registration statement is in effect under the Securities
Act of 1933 (the "1933 Act"). Where registration is required,
the Fund may be obligated to pay all or part of the registration
expenses and a considerable period may elapse between the time of
the decision to sell and the time the Fund may be permitted to
sell a security under an effective registration statement. If,
during such a period, adverse market conditions were to develop,
the Fund might obtain a less favorable price than prevailed when
it decided to sell. Restricted securities will be priced at fair
value as determined in accordance with procedures prescribed by
the Fund's Board of Directors/Trustees. If through the
appreciation of illiquid securities or the depreciation of liquid
securities, the Fund should be in a position where more than 15%
(10% for Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds) of the
value of its net assets is invested in illiquid assets, including
restricted securities, the Fund will take appropriate steps to
protect liquidity.
Notwithstanding the above, the Fund may purchase securities
which, while privately placed, are eligible for purchase and sale
under Rule 144A under the 1933 Act. This rule permits certain
qualified institutional buyers, such as the Fund, to trade in
privately placed securities even though such securities are not
registered under the 1933 Act. T. Rowe Price under the
supervision of the Fund's Board of Directors/Trustees, will
consider whether securities purchased under Rule 144A are
illiquid and thus subject to the Fund's restriction of investing
no more than 15% (10% for Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money
Funds) of its net assets in illiquid securities. A determination
of whether a Rule 144A security is liquid or not is a question of
fact. In making this determination, T. Rowe Price will consider
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the trading markets for the specific security taking into account
the unregistered nature of a Rule 144A security. In addition, T.
Rowe Price could consider the (1) frequency of trades and quotes,
(2) number of dealers and potential purchases, (3) dealer
undertakings to make a market, and (4) the nature of the security
and of marketplace trades (e.g., the time needed to dispose of
the security, the method of soliciting offers and the mechanics
of transfer). The liquidity of Rule 144A securities would be
monitored, and if as a result of changed conditions it is
determined that a Rule 144A security is no longer liquid, the
Fund's holdings of illiquid securities would be reviewed to
determine what, if any, steps are required to assure that the
Fund does not invest more than 15% (10% for Prime Reserve and
U.S. Treasury Money Funds) of its net assets in illiquid
securities. Investing in Rule 144A securities could have the
effect of increasing the amount of the Fund's assets invested in
illiquid securities if qualified institutional buyers are
unwilling to purchase such securities.
New Income and Short-Term Bond Funds
Industry Concentration
When the market for corporate debt securities is dominated
by issues in the gas utility, gas transmission utility, electric
utility, telephone utility, or petroleum industry, the Fund will
as a matter of fundamental policy concentrate more than 25%, but
not more than 50%, of its assets, in any one such industry, if
the Fund has cash for such investment (i.e., will not sell
portfolio securities to raise cash) and, if in T. Rowe Price's
judgment, the return available and the marketability, quality,
and availability of the debt securities of such industry
justifies such concentration in light of the Fund's investment
objective. Domination would exist with respect to any one such
industry, when, in the preceding 30-day period, more than 25% of
all new-issue corporate debt offerings (within the four highest
grades of Moody's or S&P and with maturities of 10 years or less)
of $25,000,000 or more consisted of issues in such industry.
Although the Fund will normally purchase corporate debt
securities in the secondary market as opposed to new offerings,
T. Rowe Price believes that the new issue-based dominance
standard, as defined above, is appropriate because it is easily
determined and represents an accurate correlation to the
secondary market. Investors should understand that concentration
in any industry may result in increased risk. Investments in any
of these industries may be affected by environmental conditions,
energy conservation programs, fuel shortages, difficulty in
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obtaining adequate return on capital in financing operations and
large construction programs, and the ability of the capital
markets to absorb debt issues. In addition, it is possible that
the public service commissions which have jurisdiction over these
industries may not grant future increases in rates sufficient to
offset increases in operating expenses. These industries also
face numerous legislative and regulatory uncertainties at both
federal and state government levels. Management believes that
any risk to the Fund which might result from concentration in any
industry will be minimized by the Fund's practice of diversifying
its investments in other respects. The Fund's policy with
respect to industry concentration is a fundamental policy. (For
investment restriction on industry concentration, see Investment
Restriction (3) on page 45.)
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Lending of Portfolio Securities
Securities loans are made to broker-dealers or institutional
investors or other persons, pursuant to agreements requiring that
the loans be continuously secured by collateral at least equal at
all times to the value of the securities lent marked to market on
a daily basis. The collateral received will consist of cash,
U.S. government securities, letters of credit or such other
collateral as may be permitted under its investment program.
While the securities are being lent, the Fund will continue to
receive the equivalent of the interest or dividends paid by the
issuer on the securities, as well as interest on the investment
of the collateral or a fee from the borrower. The Fund has a
right to call each loan and obtain the securities on five
business days' notice or, in connection with securities trading
on foreign markets, within such longer period of time which
coincides with the normal settlement period for purchases and
sales of such securities in such foreign markets. The Fund will
not have the right to vote securities while they are being lent,
but it will call a loan in anticipation of any important vote.
The risks in lending portfolio securities, as with other
extensions of secured credit, consist of possible delay in
receiving additional collateral or in the recovery of the
securities or possible loss of rights in the collateral should
the borrower fail financially. Loans will only be made to firms
deemed by T. Rowe Price to be of good standing and will not be
made unless, in the judgment of T. Rowe Price, the consideration
to be earned from such loans would justify the risk.
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Other Lending/Borrowing
Subject to approval by the Securities and Exchange
Commission and certain state regulatory agencies, the Fund may
make loans to, or borrow funds from, other mutual funds sponsored
or advised by T. Rowe Price or Rowe Price-Fleming International,
Inc. (collectively, "Price Funds"). The Fund has no current
intention of engaging in these practices at this time.
Repurchase Agreements
The Fund may enter into a repurchase agreement through which
an investor (such as the Fund) purchases a security (known as the
"underlying security") from a well-established securities dealer
or a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System. Any
such dealer or bank will be on T. Rowe Price's approved list. At
that time, the bank or securities dealer agrees to repurchase the
underlying security at the same price, plus specified interest.
Repurchase agreements are generally for a short period of time,
often less than a week. Repurchase agreements which do not
provide for payment within seven days will be treated as illiquid
securities. The Fund will only enter into repurchase agreements
where (i) (A) Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds--the
underlying securities are either U.S. government securities or
securities that, at the time the repurchase agreement is entered
into, are rated in the highest rating category by the requisite
number of NRSROs (as required by Rule 2a-7 under the 1940 Act)
and otherwise are of the type (excluding maturity limitations)
which the Fund's investment guidelines would allow it to purchase
directly, (B) GNMA, High Yield, New Income, Personal Strategy,
Short-Term Bond, Short-Term U.S. Government, and U.S. Treasury
Intermediate and Long-Term Funds--the underlying securities are
of the type (excluding maturity limitations) which the Fund's
investment guidelines would allow it to purchase directly, (ii)
the market value of the underlying security, including interest
accrued, will be at all times equal to or exceed the value of the
repurchase agreement, and (iii) payment for the underlying
security is made only upon physical delivery or evidence of book-
entry transfer to the account of the custodian or a bank acting
as agent. In the event of a bankruptcy or other default of a
seller of a repurchase agreement, the Fund could experience both
delays in liquidating the underlying security and losses,
including: (a) possible decline in the value of the underlying
security during the period while the Fund seeks to enforce its
rights thereto; (b) possible subnormal levels of income and lack
of access to income during this period; and (c) expenses of
enforcing its rights.
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Reverse Repurchase Agreements
Although the Fund has no current intention, in the
foreseeable future, of engaging in reverse repurchase agreements,
the Fund reserves the right to do so. Reverse repurchase
agreements are ordinary repurchase agreements in which a Fund is
the seller of, rather than the investor in, securities, and
agrees to repurchase them at an agreed upon time and price. Use
of a reverse repurchase agreement may be preferable to a regular
sale and later repurchase of the securities because it avoids
certain market risks and transaction costs. A reverse repurchase
agreement may be viewed as a type of borrowing by the Fund,
subject to Investment Restriction (1). (See "Investment
Restrictions," page 45.)
High Yield Fund
Short Sales
The Fund may make short sales for hedging purposes to
protect the Fund against companies whose credit is deteriorating.
Short sales are transactions in which the Fund sells a security
it does not own in anticipation of a decline in the market value
of that security. The Fund's short sales would be limited to
situations where the Fund owns a debt security of a company and
would sell short the common or preferred stock or another debt
security at a different level of the capital structure of the
same company. No securities will be sold short if, after the
effect is given to any such short sale, the total market value of
all securities sold short would exceed 2% of the value of the
Fund's net assets.
To complete a short sale transaction, the Fund must borrow
the security to make delivery to the buyer. The Fund then is
obligated to replace the security borrowed by purchasing it at
the market price at the time of replacement. The price at such
time may be more or less than the price at which the security was
sold by the Fund. Until the security is replaced, the Fund is
required to pay to the lender amounts equal to any dividends or
interest which accrue during the period of the loan. To borrow
the security, the Fund also may be required to pay a premium,
which would increase the cost of the security sold. The proceeds
of the short sale will be retained by the broker, to the extent
necessary to meet margin requirements, until the short position
is closed out.
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Until the Fund replaces a borrowed security in connection
with a short sale, the Fund will: (a) maintain daily a segregated
account, containing cash or U.S. government securities, at such a
level that (i) the amount deposited in the account plus the
amount deposited with the broker as collateral will equal the
current value of the security sold short and (ii) the amount
deposited in the segregated account plus the amount deposited
with the broker as collateral will not be less than the market
value of the security at the time its was sold short; or (b)
otherwise cover its short position.
The Fund will incur a loss as a result of the short sale if
the price of the security sold short increases between the date
of the short sale and the date on which the Fund replaces the
borrowed security. The Fund will realize a gain if the security
sold short declines in price between those dates. This result is
the opposite of what one would expect from a cash purchase of a
long position in a security. The amount of any gain will be
decreased, and the amount of any loss increased, by the amount of
any premium, dividends or interest the Fund may be required to
pay in connection with a short sale. Any gain or loss on the
security sold short would be separate from a gain or loss on the
Fund security being hedged by the short sale.
All Funds (except Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds)
Options
Options are a type of potentially high-risk
derivative.
Writing Covered Call Options
The Fund may write (sell) American or European style
"covered" call options and purchase options to close out options
previously written by a Fund. In writing covered call options,
the Fund expects to generate additional premium income which
should serve to enhance the Fund's total return and reduce the
effect of any price decline of the security or currency involved
in the option. Covered call options will generally be written on
securities or currencies which, in T. Rowe Price's opinion, are
not expected to have any major price increases or moves in the
near future but which, over the long term, are deemed to be
attractive investments for the Fund.
A call option gives the holder (buyer) the "right to
purchase" a security or currency at a specified price (the
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exercise price) at expiration of the option (European style) or
at any time until a certain date (the expiration date) (American
style). So long as the obligation of the writer of a call option
continues, he may be assigned an exercise notice by the broker-
dealer through whom such option was sold, requiring him to
deliver the underlying security or currency against payment of
the exercise price. This obligation terminates upon the
expiration of the call option, or such earlier time at which the
writer effects a closing purchase transaction by repurchasing an
option identical to that previously sold. To secure his
obligation to deliver the underlying security or currency in the
case of a call option, a writer is required to deposit in escrow
the underlying security or currency or other assets in accordance
with the rules of a clearing corporation.
The Fund will write only covered call options. This means
that the Fund will own the security or currency subject to the
option or an option to purchase the same underlying security or
currency, having an exercise price equal to or less than the
exercise price of the "covered" option, or will establish and
maintain with its custodian for the term of the option, an
account consisting of cash, U.S. government securities or other
liquid high-grade debt obligations having a value equal to the
fluctuating market value of the optioned securities or
currencies.
Portfolio securities or currencies on which call options may
be written will be purchased solely on the basis of investment
considerations consistent with the Fund's investment objective.
The writing of covered call options is a conservative investment
technique believed to involve relatively little risk (in contrast
to the writing of naked or uncovered options, which the Fund will
not do), but capable of enhancing the Fund's total return. When
writing a covered call option, a Fund, in return for the premium,
gives up the opportunity for profit from a price increase in the
underlying security or currency above the exercise price, but
conversely retains the risk of loss should the price of the
security or currency decline. Unlike one who owns securities or
currencies not subject to an option, the Fund has no control over
when it may be required to sell the underlying securities or
currencies, since it may be assigned an exercise notice at any
time prior to the expiration of its obligation as a writer. If a
call option which the Fund has written expires, the Fund will
realize a gain in the amount of the premium; however, such gain
may be offset by a decline in the market value of the underlying
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security or currency during the option period. If the call
option is exercised, the Fund will realize a gain or loss from
the sale of the underlying security or currency. The Fund does
not consider a security or currency covered by a call to be
"pledged" as that term is used in the Fund's policy which limits
the pledging or mortgaging of its assets.
The premium received is the market value of an option. The
premium the Fund will receive from writing a call option will
reflect, among other things, the current market price of the
underlying security or currency, the relationship of the exercise
price to such market price, the historical price volatility of
the underlying security or currency, and the length of the option
period. Once the decision to write a call option has been made,
T. Rowe Price, in determining whether a particular call option
should be written on a particular security or currency, will
consider the reasonableness of the anticipated premium and the
likelihood that a liquid secondary market will exist for those
options. The premium received by the Fund for writing covered
call options will be recorded as a liability of the Fund. This
liability will be adjusted daily to the option's current market
value, which will be the latest sale price at the time at which
the net asset value per share of the Fund is computed (close of
the New York Stock Exchange), or, in the absence of such sale,
the latest asked price. The option will be terminated upon
expiration of the option, the purchase of an identical option in
a closing transaction, or delivery of the underlying security or
currency upon the exercise of the option.
Closing transactions will be effected in order to realize a
profit on an outstanding call option, to prevent an underlying
security or currency from being called, or, to permit the sale of
the underlying security or currency. Furthermore, effecting a
closing transaction will permit the Fund to write another call
option on the underlying security or currency with either a
different exercise price or expiration date or both. If the Fund
desires to sell a particular security or currency from its
portfolio on which it has written a call option, or purchased a
put option, it will seek to effect a closing transaction prior
to, or concurrently with, the sale of the security or currency.
There is, of course, no assurance that the Fund will be able to
effect such closing transactions at favorable prices. If the
Fund cannot enter into such a transaction, it may be required to
hold a security or currency that it might otherwise have sold.
When the Fund writes a covered call option, it runs the risk of
not being able to participate in the appreciation of the
underlying securities or currencies above the exercise price, as
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well as the risk of being required to hold on to securities or
currencies that are depreciating in value. This could result in
higher transaction costs. The Fund will pay transaction costs in
connection with the writing of options to close out previously
written options. Such transaction costs are normally higher than
those applicable to purchases and sales of portfolio securities.
Call options written by the Fund will normally have
expiration dates of less than nine months from the date written.
The exercise price of the options may be below, equal to, or
above the current market values of the underlying securities or
currencies at the time the options are written. From time to
time, the Fund may purchase an underlying security or currency
for delivery in accordance with an exercise notice of a call
option assigned to it, rather than delivering such security or
currency from its portfolio. In such cases, additional costs may
be incurred.
The Fund will realize a profit or loss from a closing
purchase transaction if the cost of the transaction is less or
more than the premium received from the writing of the option.
Because increases in the market price of a call option will
generally reflect increases in the market price of the underlying
security or currency, any loss resulting from the repurchase of a
call option is likely to be offset in whole or in part by
appreciation of the underlying security or currency owned by the
Fund.
In order to comply with the requirements of several states,
the Fund will not write a covered call option if, as a result,
the aggregate market value of all portfolio securities or
currencies covering call or put options exceeds 25% of the market
value of the Fund's net assets. Should these state laws change
or should the Fund obtain a waiver of its application, the Fund
reserves the right to increase this percentage. In calculating
the 25% limit, the Fund will offset, against the value of assets
covering written calls and puts, the value of purchased calls and
puts on identical securities or currencies with identical
maturity dates.
Writing Covered Put Options
The Fund may write American or European style covered put
options and purchase options to close out options previously
written by the Fund. A put option gives the purchaser of the
option the right to sell, and the writer (seller) has the
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obligation to buy, the underlying security or currency at the
exercise price during the option period (American style) or at
the expiration of the option (European style). So long as the
obligation of the writer continues, he may be assigned an
exercise notice by the broker-dealer through whom such option was
sold, requiring him to make payment of the exercise price against
delivery of the underlying security or currency. The operation
of put options in other respects, including their related risks
and rewards, is substantially identical to that of call options.
The Fund would write put options only on a covered basis,
which means that the Fund would maintain in a segregated account
cash, U.S. government securities or other liquid high-grade debt
obligations in an amount not less than the exercise price or the
Fund will own an option to sell the underlying security or
currency subject to the option having an exercise price equal to
or greater than the exercise price of the "covered" option at all
times while the put option is outstanding. (The rules of a
clearing corporation currently require that such assets be
deposited in escrow to secure payment of the exercise price.)
The Fund would generally write covered put options in
circumstances where T. Rowe Price wishes to purchase the
underlying security or currency for the Fund's portfolio at a
price lower than the current market price of the security or
currency. In such event the Fund would write a put option at an
exercise price which, reduced by the premium received on the
option, reflects the lower price it is willing to pay. Since the
Fund would also receive interest on debt securities or currencies
maintained to cover the exercise price of the option, this
technique could be used to enhance current return during periods
of market uncertainty. The risk in such a transaction would be
that the market price of the underlying security or currency
would decline below the exercise price less the premiums
received. Such a decline could be substantial and result in a
significant loss to the Fund. In addition, the Fund, because it
does not own the specific securities or currencies which it may
be required to purchase in exercise of the put, cannot benefit
from appreciation, if any, with respect to such specific
securities or currencies.
In order to comply with the requirements of several states,
the Fund will not write a covered put option if, as a result, the
aggregate market value of all portfolio securities or currencies
covering put or call options exceeds 25% of the market value of
the Fund's net assets. Should these state laws change or should
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the Fund obtain a waiver of its application, the Fund reserves
the right to increase this percentage. In calculating the 25%
limit, the Fund will offset, against the value of assets covering
written puts and calls, the value of purchased puts and calls on
identical securities or currencies with identical maturity dates.
Purchasing Put Options
The Fund may purchase American or European style put
options. As the holder of a put option, the Fund has the right
to sell the underlying security or currency at the exercise price
at any time during the option period (American style) or at the
expiration of the option (European style). The Fund may enter
into closing sale transactions with respect to such options,
exercise them or permit them to expire. The Fund may purchase
put options for defensive purposes in order to protect against an
anticipated decline in the value of its securities or currencies.
An example of such use of put options is provided below.
The Fund may purchase a put option on an underlying security
or currency (a "protective put") owned by the Fund as a defensive
technique in order to protect against an anticipated decline in
the value of the security or currency. Such hedge protection is
provided only during the life of the put option when the Fund, as
the holder of the put option, is able to sell the underlying
security or currency at the put exercise price regardless of any
decline in the underlying security's market price or currency's
exchange value. For example, a put option may be purchased in
order to protect unrealized appreciation of a security or
currency where T. Rowe Price deems it desirable to continue to
hold the security or currency because of tax considerations. The
premium paid for the put option and any transaction costs would
reduce any capital gain otherwise available for distribution when
the security or currency is eventually sold.
The Fund may also purchase put options at a time when the
Fund does not own the underlying security or currency. By
purchasing put options on a security or currency it does not own,
the Fund seeks to benefit from a decline in the market price of
the underlying security or currency. If the put option is not
sold when it has remaining value, and if the market price of the
underlying security or currency remains equal to or greater than
the exercise price during the life of the put option, the Fund
will lose its entire investment in the put option. In order for
the purchase of a put option to be profitable, the market price
of the underlying security or currency must decline sufficiently
below the exercise price to cover the premium and transaction
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costs, unless the put option is sold in a closing sale
transaction.
To the extent required by the laws of certain states, the
Fund may not be permitted to commit more than 5% of its assets to
premiums when purchasing put and call options. Should these
state laws change or should the Fund obtain a waiver of its
application, the Fund may commit more than 5% of its assets to
premiums when purchasing call and put options. The premium paid
by the Fund when purchasing a put option will be recorded as an
asset of the Fund. This asset will be adjusted daily to the
option's current market value, which will be the latest sale
price at the time at which the net asset value per share of the
Fund is computed (close of New York Stock Exchange), or, in the
absence of such sale, the latest bid price. This asset will be
terminated upon expiration of the option, the selling (writing)
of an identical option in a closing transaction, or the delivery
of the underlying security or currency upon the exercise of the
option.
Purchasing Call Options
The Fund may purchase American or European style call
options. As the holder of a call option, the Fund has the right
to purchase the underlying security or currency at the exercise
price at any time during the option period (American style) or at
the expiration of the option (European style). The Fund may
enter into closing sale transactions with respect to such
options, exercise them or permit them to expire. The Fund may
purchase call options for the purpose of increasing its current
return or avoiding tax consequences which could reduce its
current return. The Fund may also purchase call options in order
to acquire the underlying securities or currencies. Examples of
such uses of call options are provided below.
Call options may be purchased by the Fund for the purpose of
acquiring the underlying securities or currencies for its
portfolio. Utilized in this fashion, the purchase of call
options enables the Fund to acquire the securities or currencies
at the exercise price of the call option plus the premium paid.
At times the net cost of acquiring securities or currencies in
this manner may be less than the cost of acquiring the securities
or currencies directly. This technique may also be useful to the
Fund in purchasing a large block of securities or currencies that
would be more difficult to acquire by direct market purchases.
So long as it holds such a call option rather than the underlying
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security or currency itself, the Fund is partially protected from
any unexpected decline in the market price of the underlying
security or currency and in such event could allow the call
option to expire, incurring a loss only to the extent of the
premium paid for the option.
To the extent required by the laws of certain states, the
Fund may not be permitted to commit more than 5% of its assets to
premiums when purchasing call and put options. Should these
state laws change or should the Fund obtain a waiver of its
application, the Fund may commit more than 5% of its assets to
premiums when purchasing call and put options. The Fund may also
purchase call options on underlying securities or currencies it
owns in order to protect unrealized gains on call options
previously written by it. A call option would be purchased for
this purpose where tax considerations make it inadvisable to
realize such gains through a closing purchase transaction. Call
options may also be purchased at times to avoid realizing losses.
Dealer (Over-the-Counter) Options
The Fund may engage in transactions involving dealer
options. Certain risks are specific to dealer options. While
the Fund would look to a clearing corporation to exercise
exchange-traded options, if the Fund were to purchase a dealer
option, it would rely on the dealer from whom it purchased the
option to perform if the option were exercised. Failure by the
dealer to do so would result in the loss of the premium paid by
the Fund as well as loss of the expected benefit of the
transaction.
Exchange-traded options generally have a continuous liquid
market while dealer options have none. Consequently, the Fund
will generally be able to realize the value of a dealer option it
has purchased only by exercising it or reselling it to the dealer
who issued it. Similarly, when the Fund writes a dealer option,
it generally will be able to close out the option prior to its
expiration only by entering into a closing purchase transaction
with the dealer to which the Fund originally wrote the option.
While the Fund will seek to enter into dealer options only with
dealers who will agree to and which are expected to be capable of
entering into closing transactions with the Fund, there can be no
assurance that the Fund will be able to liquidate a dealer option
at a favorable price at any time prior to expiration. Until the
Fund, as a covered dealer call option writer, is able to effect a
closing purchase transaction, it will not be able to liquidate
securities (or other assets) or currencies used as cover until
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the option expires or is exercised. In the event of insolvency
of the contra party, the Fund may be unable to liquidate a dealer
option. With respect to options written by the Fund, the
inability to enter into a closing transaction may result in
material losses to the Fund. For example, since the Fund must
maintain a secured position with respect to any call option on a
security it writes, the Fund may not sell the assets which it has
segregated to secure the position while it is obligated under the
option. This requirement may impair a Fund's ability to sell
portfolio securities or currencies at a time when such sale might
be advantageous.
The Staff of the SEC has taken the position that purchased
dealer options and the assets used to secure the written dealer
options are illiquid securities. The Fund may treat the cover
used for written OTC options as liquid if the dealer agrees that
the Fund may repurchase the OTC option it has written for a
maximum price to be calculated by a predetermined formula. In
such cases, the OTC option would be considered illiquid only to
the extent the maximum repurchase price under the formula exceeds
the intrinsic value of the option. Accordingly, the Fund will
treat dealer options as subject to the Fund's limitation on
illiquid securities. If the SEC changes its position on the
liquidity of dealer options, the Fund will change its treatment
of such instrument accordingly.
High Yield Fund
Spread Option Transactions
The Fund may purchase from and sell to securities dealers
covered spread options. Such covered spread options are not
presently exchange listed or traded. The purchase of a spread
option gives the Fund the right to put, or sell, a security that
it owns at a fixed dollar spread or fixed yield spread in
relationship to another security that the Fund does not own, but
which is used as a benchmark. The risk to the Fund in purchasing
covered spread options is the cost of the premium paid for the
spread option and any transaction costs. In addition, there is
no assurance that closing transactions will be available. The
purchase of spread options will be used to protect the Fund
against adverse changes in prevailing credit quality spreads,
i.e., the yield spread between high quality and lower quality
securities. Such protection is only provided during the life of
the spread option. The security covering the spread option will
be maintained in a segregated account by the Fund's custodian.
The Fund does not consider a security covered by a spread option
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to be "pledged" as that term is used in the Fund's policy
limiting the pledging or mortgaging of its assets. The Fund may
also buy and sell uncovered spread options. Such options would
be used for the same purposes and be subject to similar risks as
covered spread options. However, in an uncovered spread option,
the Fund would not own either of the securities involved in the
spread.
All Funds (except Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds)
Futures Contracts
Futures are a type of potentially high-risk
derivative.
Transactions in Futures
The Fund may enter into futures contracts, including stock
index, interest rate and currency futures ("futures or futures
contracts").
Stock index futures contracts may be used to provide a hedge
for a portion of the Fund's portfolio, as a cash management tool,
or as an efficient way for T. Rowe Price to implement either an
increase or decrease in portfolio market exposure in response to
changing market conditions. The Fund may purchase or sell
futures contracts with respect to any stock index. Nevertheless,
to hedge the Fund's portfolio successfully, the Fund must sell
futures contacts with respect to indices or subindices whose
movements will have a significant correlation with movements in
the prices of the Fund's portfolio securities.
Interest rate or currency futures contracts may be used as a
hedge against changes in prevailing levels of interest rates or
currency exchange rates in order to establish more definitely the
effective return on securities or currencies held or intended to
be acquired by the Fund. In this regard, the Fund could sell
interest rate or currency futures as an offset against the effect
of expected increases in interest rates or currency exchange
rates and purchase such futures as an offset against the effect
of expected declines in interest rates or currency exchange
rates.
The Fund will enter into futures contracts which are traded
on national or foreign futures exchanges, and are standardized as
to maturity date and underlying financial instrument. Futures
exchanges and trading in the United States are regulated under
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the Commodity Exchange Act by the CFTC. Futures are traded in
London, at the London International Financial Futures Exchange,
in Paris, at the MATIF, and in Tokyo, at the Tokyo Stock
Exchange. Although techniques other than the sale and purchase
of futures contracts could be used for the above-referenced
purposes, futures contracts offer an effective and relatively low
cost means of implementing the Fund's objectives in these areas.
Regulatory Limitations
The Fund will engage in futures contracts and options
thereon only for bona fide hedging, yield enhancement, and risk
management purposes, in each case in accordance with rules and
regulations of the CFTC and applicable state law.
The Fund may not purchase or sell futures contracts or
related options if, with respect to positions which do not
qualify as bona fide hedging under applicable CFTC rules, the sum
of the amounts of initial margin deposits and premiums paid on
those positions would exceed 5% of the net asset value of the
Fund after taking into account unrealized profits and unrealized
losses on any such contracts it has entered into; provided,
however, that in the case of an option that is in-the-money at
the time of purchase, the in-the-money amount may be excluded in
calculating the 5% limitation. For purposes of this policy
options on futures contracts and foreign currency options traded
on a commodities exchange will be considered "related options".
This policy may be modified by the Board of Directors/Trustees
without a shareholder vote and does not limit the percentage of
the Fund's assets at risk to 5%.
In accordance with the rules of the State of California, the
Fund may have to apply the above 5% test without excluding the
value of initial margin and premiums paid for bona fide hedging
positions.
The Fund's use of futures contracts will not result in
leverage. Therefore, to the extent necessary, in instances
involving the purchase of futures contracts or the writing of
call or put options thereon by the Fund, an amount of cash, U.S.
government securities or other liquid, high-grade debt
obligations, equal to the market value of the futures contracts
and options thereon (less any related margin deposits), will be
identified in an account with the Fund's custodian to cover the
position, or alternative cover (such as owning an offsetting
position) will be employed. Assets used as cover or held in an
identified account cannot be sold while the position in the
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corresponding option or future is open, unless they are replaced
with similar assets. As a result, the commitment of a large
portion of a Fund's assets to cover or identified accounts could
impede portfolio management or the fund's ability to meet
redemption requests or other current obligations.
If the CFTC or other regulatory authorities adopt different
(including less stringent) or additional restrictions, the Fund
would comply with such new restrictions.
Trading in Futures Contracts
A futures contract provides for the future sale by one party
and purchase by another party of a specified amount of a specific
financial instrument (e.g., units of a debt security) for a
specified price, date, time and place designated at the time the
contract is made. Brokerage fees are incurred when a futures
contract is bought or sold and margin deposits must be
maintained. Entering into a contract to buy is commonly referred
to as buying or purchasing a contract or holding a long position.
Entering into a contract to sell is commonly referred to as
selling a contract or holding a short position.
Unlike when the Fund purchases or sells a security, no price
would be paid or received by the Fund upon the purchase or sale
of a futures contract. Upon entering into a futures contract,
and to maintain the Fund's open positions in futures contracts,
the Fund would be required to deposit with its custodian in a
segregated account in the name of the futures broker an amount of
cash, U.S. government securities, suitable money market
instruments, or liquid, high-grade debt securities, known as
"initial margin." The margin required for a particular futures
contract is set by the exchange on which the contract is traded,
and may be significantly modified from time to time by the
exchange during the term of the contract. Futures contracts are
customarily purchased and sold on margins that may range upward
from less than 5% of the value of the contract being traded.
If the price of an open futures contract changes (by
increase in the case of a sale or by decrease in the case of a
purchase) so that the loss on the futures contract reaches a
point at which the margin on deposit does not satisfy margin
requirements, the broker will require an increase in the margin.
However, if the value of a position increases because of
favorable price changes in the futures contract so that the
margin deposit exceeds the required margin, the broker will pay
the excess to the Fund.
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These subsequent payments, called "variation margin," to and
from the futures broker, are made on a daily basis as the price
of the underlying assets fluctuate making the long and short
positions in the futures contract more or less valuable, a
process known as "marking to the market." The Fund expects to
earn interest income on its margin deposits.
Although certain futures contracts, by their terms, require
actual future delivery of and payment for the underlying
instruments, in practice most futures contracts are usually
closed out before the delivery date. Closing out an open futures
contract purchase or sale is effected by entering into an
offsetting futures contract sale or purchase, respectively, for
the same aggregate amount of the identical securities and the
same delivery date. If the offsetting purchase price is less
than the original sale price, the Fund realizes a gain; if it is
more, the Fund realizes a loss. Conversely, if the offsetting
sale price is more than the original purchase price, the Fund
realizes a gain; if it is less, the Fund realizes a loss. The
transaction costs must also be included in these calculations.
There can be no assurance, however, that the Fund will be able to
enter into an offsetting transaction with respect to a particular
futures contract at a particular time. If the Fund is not able
to enter into an offsetting transaction, the Fund will continue
to be required to maintain the margin deposits on the futures
contract.
As an example of an offsetting transaction in which the
underlying instrument is not delivered, the contractual
obligations arising from the sale of one contract of September
Treasury Bills on an exchange may be fulfilled at any time before
delivery of the contract is required (i.e., on a specified date
in September, the "delivery month") by the purchase of one
contract of September Treasury Bills on the same exchange. In
such instance, the difference between the price at which the
futures contract was sold and the price paid for the offsetting
purchase, after allowance for transaction costs, represents the
profit or loss to the Fund.
A futures contract on the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index,
composed of 500 selected common stocks, most of which are listed
on the New York Stock Exchange, provides an example of how
futures contracts operate. The S&P 500 Index assigns relative
weightings to the common stocks included in the Index, and the
Index fluctuates with changes in the market values of those
common stocks. In the case of futures contracts on the S&P 500
Index, the contracts are to buy or sell 500 units. Thus, if the
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value of the S&P 500 Index were $150, one contract would be worth
$75,000 (500 units x $150). The contract specifies that no
delivery of the actual stocks making up the index will take
place. Instead, settlement in cash occurs. Over the life of the
contract, the gain or loss realized by the Fund will equal the
difference between the purchase (or sale) price of the contract
and the price at which the contract is terminated. For example,
if the Fund enters into the example contract above and the S&P
500 Index is at $154 on the termination date, the Fund will gain
$2,000 (500 units x gain of $4). If, however, the S&P 500 Index
is at $148 on that future date, the Fund will lose $1,000 (500
units x loss of $2).
Special Risks of Transactions in Futures Contracts
Volatility and Leverage. The prices of futures contracts
are volatile and are influenced, among other things, by actual
and anticipated changes in the market and interest rates, which
in turn are affected by fiscal and monetary policies and national
and international political and economic events.
Most United States futures exchanges limit the amount of
fluctuation permitted in futures contract prices during a single
trading day. The daily limit establishes the maximum amount that
the price of a futures contract may vary either up or down from
the previous day's settlement price at the end of a trading
session. Once the daily limit has been reached in a particular
type of futures contract, no trades may be made on that day at a
price beyond that limit. The daily limit governs only price
movement during a particular trading day and therefore does not
limit potential losses, because the limit may prevent the
liquidation of unfavorable positions. Futures contract prices
have occasionally moved to the daily limit for several
consecutive trading days with little or no trading, thereby
preventing prompt liquidation of futures positions and subjecting
some futures traders to substantial losses.
Because of the low margin deposits required, futures trading
involves an extremely high degree of leverage. As a result, a
relatively small price movement in a futures contract may result
in immediate and substantial loss, as well as gain, to the
investor. For example, if at the time of purchase, 10% of the
value of the futures contract is deposited as margin, a
subsequent 10% decrease in the value of the futures contract
would result in a total loss of the margin deposit, before any
deduction for the transaction costs, if the account were then
closed out. A 15% decrease would result in a loss equal to 150%
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of the original margin deposit, if the contract were closed out.
Thus, a purchase or sale of a futures contract may result in
losses in excess of the amount invested in the futures contract.
However, the Fund would presumably have sustained comparable
losses if, instead of the futures contract, it had invested in
the underlying financial instrument and sold it after the
decline. Furthermore, in the case of a futures contract
purchase, in order to be certain that the Fund has sufficient
assets to satisfy its obligations under a futures contract, the
Fund earmarks to the futures contract money market instruments
equal in value to the current value of the underlying instrument
less the margin deposit.
Liquidity. The Fund may elect to close some or all of its
futures positions at any time prior to their expiration. The
Fund would do so to reduce exposure represented by long futures
positions or short futures positions. The Fund may close its
positions by taking opposite positions which would operate to
terminate the Fund's position in the futures contracts. Final
determinations of variation margin would then be made, additional
cash would be required to be paid by or released to the Fund, and
the Fund would realize a loss or a gain.
Futures contracts may be closed out only on the exchange or
board of trade where the contracts were initially traded.
Although the Fund intends to purchase or sell futures contracts
only on exchanges or boards of trade where there appears to be an
active market, there is no assurance that a liquid market on an
exchange or board of trade will exist for any particular contract
at any particular time. In such event, it might not be possible
to close a futures contract, and in the event of adverse price
movements, the Fund would continue to be required to make daily
cash payments of variation margin. However, in the event futures
contracts have been used to hedge the underlying instruments, the
Fund would continue to hold the underlying instruments subject to
the hedge until the futures contracts could be terminated. In
such circumstances, an increase in the price of underlying
instruments, if any, might partially or completely offset losses
on the futures contract. However, as described below, there is
no guarantee that the price of the underlying instruments will,
in fact, correlate with the price movements in the futures
contract and thus provide an offset to losses on a futures
contract.
Hedging Risk. A decision of whether, when, and how to hedge
involves skill and judgment, and even a well-conceived hedge may
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be unsuccessful to some degree because of unexpected market
behavior, market or interest rate trends. There are several
risks in connection with the use by the Fund of futures contracts
as a hedging device. One risk arises because of the imperfect
correlation between movements in the prices of the futures
contracts and movements in the prices of the underlying
instruments which are the subject of the hedge. T. Rowe Price
will, however, attempt to reduce this risk by entering into
futures contracts whose movements, in its judgment, will have a
significant correlation with movements in the prices of the
Fund's underlying instruments sought to be hedged.
Successful use of futures contracts by the Fund for hedging
purposes is also subject to T. Rowe Price's ability to correctly
predict movements in the direction of the market. It is possible
that, when the Fund has sold futures to hedge its portfolio
against a decline in the market, the index, indices, or
instruments underlying futures might advance and the value of the
underlying instruments held in the Fund's portfolio might
decline. If this were to occur, the Fund would lose money on the
futures and also would experience a decline in value in its
underlying instruments. However, while this might occur to a
certain degree, T. Rowe Price believes that over time the value
of the Fund's portfolio will tend to move in the same direction
as the market indices used to hedge the portfolio. It is also
possible that if the Fund were to hedge against the possibility
of a decline in the market (adversely affecting the underlying
instruments held in its portfolio) and prices instead increased,
the Fund would lose part or all of the benefit of increased value
of those underlying instruments that it has hedged, because it
would have offsetting losses in its futures positions. In
addition, in such situations, if the Fund had insufficient cash,
it might have to sell underlying instruments to meet daily
variation margin requirements. Such sales of underlying
instruments might be, but would not necessarily be, at increased
prices (which would reflect the rising market). The Fund might
have to sell underlying instruments at a time when it would be
disadvantageous to do so.
In addition to the possibility that there might be an
imperfect correlation, or no correlation at all, between price
movements in the futures contracts and the portion of the
portfolio being hedged, the price movements of futures contracts
might not correlate perfectly with price movements in the
underlying instruments due to certain market distortions. First,
all participants in the futures market are subject to margin
deposit and maintenance requirements. Rather than meeting
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additional margin deposit requirements, investors might close
futures contracts through offsetting transactions, which could
distort the normal relationship between the underlying
instruments and futures markets. Second, the margin requirements
in the futures market are less onerous than margin requirements
in the securities markets, and as a result the futures market
might attract more speculators than the securities markets do.
Increased participation by speculators in the futures market
might also cause temporary price distortions. Due to the
possibility of price distortion in the futures market and also
because of the imperfect correlation between price movements in
the underlying instruments and movements in the prices of futures
contracts, even a correct forecast of general market trends by T.
Rowe Price might not result in a successful hedging transaction
over a very short time period.
Options on Futures Contracts
The Fund may purchase and sell options on the same types of
futures in which it may invest.
Options on futures are similar to options on underlying
instruments except that options on futures give the purchaser the
right, in return for the premium paid, to assume a position in a
futures contract (a long position if the option is a call and a
short position if the option is a put), rather than to purchase
or sell the futures contract, at a specified exercise price at
any time during the period of the option. Upon exercise of the
option, the delivery of the futures position by the writer of the
option to the holder of the option will be accompanied by the
delivery of the accumulated balance in the writer's futures
margin account which represents the amount by which the market
price of the futures contract, at exercise, exceeds (in the case
of a call) or is less than (in the case of a put) the exercise
price of the option on the futures contract. Purchasers of
options who fail to exercise their options prior to the exercise
date suffer a loss of the premium paid.
As an alternative to writing or purchasing call and put
options on interest rate futures, the Fund may write or purchase
call and put options on financial indices. Such options would be
used in a manner similar to the use of options on futures
contracts. From time to time, a single order to purchase or sell
futures contracts (or options thereon) may be made on behalf of
the Fund and other T. Rowe Price Funds. Such aggregated orders
would be allocated among the Funds and the other T. Rowe Price
Funds in a fair and non-discriminatory manner.
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Special Risks of Transactions in Options on Futures Contracts
The risks described under "Special Risks of Transactions on
Futures Contracts" are substantially the same as the risks of
using options on futures. In addition, where the Fund seeks to
close out an option position by writing or buying an offsetting
option covering the same index, underlying instrument or contract
and having the same exercise price and expiration date, its
ability to establish and close out positions on such options will
be subject to the maintenance of a liquid secondary market.
Reasons for the absence of a liquid secondary market on an
exchange include the following: (i) there may be insufficient
trading interest in certain options; (ii) restrictions may be
imposed by an exchange on opening transactions or closing
transactions or both; (iii) trading halts, suspensions or other
restrictions may be imposed with respect to particular classes or
series of options, or underlying instruments; (iv) unusual or
unforeseen circumstances may interrupt normal operations on an
exchange; (v) the facilities of an exchange or a clearing
corporation may not at all times be adequate to handle current
trading volume; or (vi) one or more exchanges could, for economic
or other reasons, decide or be compelled at some future date to
discontinue the trading of options (or a particular class or
series of options), in which event the secondary market on that
exchange (or in the class or series of options) would cease to
exist, although outstanding options on the exchange that had been
issued by a clearing corporation as a result of trades on that
exchange would continue to be exercisable in accordance with
their terms. There is no assurance that higher than anticipated
trading activity or other unforeseen events might not, at times,
render certain of the facilities of any of the clearing
corporations inadequate, and thereby result in the institution by
an exchange of special procedures which may interfere with the
timely execution of customers' orders.
Additional Futures and Options Contracts
Although the Fund has no current intention of engaging in
futures or options transactions other than those described above,
it reserves the right to do so. Such futures and options trading
might involve risks which differ from those involved in the
futures and options described above.
Foreign Futures and Options
Participation in foreign futures and foreign options
transactions involves the execution and clearing of trades on or
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subject to the rules of a foreign board of trade. Neither the
National Futures Association nor any domestic exchange regulates
activities of any foreign boards of trade, including the
execution, delivery and clearing of transactions, or has the
power to compel enforcement of the rules of a foreign board of
trade or any applicable foreign law. This is true even if the
exchange is formally linked to a domestic market so that a
position taken on the market may be liquidated by a transaction
on another market. Moreover, such laws or regulations will vary
depending on the foreign country in which the foreign futures or
foreign options transaction occurs. For these reasons, when the
Fund trades foreign futures or foreign options contracts, it may
not be afforded certain of the protective measures provided by
the Commodity Exchange Act, the CFTC's regulations and the rules
of the National Futures Association and any domestic exchange,
including the right to use reparations proceedings before the
Commission and arbitration proceedings provided by the National
Futures Association or any domestic futures exchange. In
particular, funds received from the Fund for foreign futures or
foreign options transactions may not be provided the same
protections as funds received in respect of transactions on
United States futures exchanges. In addition, the price of any
foreign futures or foreign options contract and, therefore, the
potential profit and loss thereon may be affected by any variance
in the foreign exchange rate between the time the Fund's order is
placed and the time it is liquidated, offset or exercised.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate and Long-Term Funds
Limitations on Futures and Options for
Intermediate and Long-Term Funds
The Funds will not purchase a futures contract or option
thereon if, with respect to positions in futures or options on
futures which do not represent bona fide hedging, the aggregate
initial margin and premiums on such positions would exceed 5% of
the Fund's net asset value. In addition, neither of the Funds
will enter into a futures transaction if it would be obligated to
purchase or deliver under outstanding open futures contracts
amounts which would exceed 15% of the Fund's total assets.
A Fund will not write a covered call option if, as a result,
the aggregate market value of all portfolio securities covering
call options or subject to delivery under put options exceeds 15%
of the market value of the Fund's total assets.
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A Fund will not write a covered put option if, as a result,
the aggregate market value of all portfolio securities subject to
such put options or covering call options exceeds 15% of the
market value of the Fund's total assets.
In order to comply with the laws of certain states, a Fund
will not invest more than 5% of its total assets in premiums on
put options. Should these state laws change or should a Fund
obtain a waiver of their applications, the Fund may invest up to
15% of its total assets in premiums on put options.
In order to comply with the laws of certain states, a Fund
will not invest more than 5% of its total assets in premiums on
call options. Should these state laws change or should a Fund
obtain a waiver of their applications, the Fund may invest up to
15% of its total assets in premiums on call options.
In order to comply with the laws of certain states, a Fund
will not purchase puts, calls, straddles, spreads and any
combination thereof if by reason thereof the value of its
aggregate investment in such classes of securities will exceed 5%
of its total assets. Should these state laws change or should a
Fund obtain a waiver of their application, the Fund may invest a
higher percentage of its total assets in puts, calls, straddles,
or spreads.
The total amount of a Fund's total assets invested in
futures and options under any combination of the limitations
described above will not exceed 15% of the Fund's total assets.
High Yield, New Income, Personal Strategy, and Short-Term Bond
Funds
Foreign Currency Transactions
A forward foreign currency exchange contract involves an
obligation to purchase or sell a specific currency at a future
date, which may be any fixed number of days from the date of the
contract agreed upon by the parties, at a price set at the time
of the contract. These contracts are principally traded in the
interbank market conducted directly between currency traders
(usually large, commercial banks) and their customers. A forward
contract generally has no deposit requirement, and no commissions
are charged at any stage for trades.
The Fund may enter into forward contracts for a variety of
purposes in connection with the management of the foreign
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securities portion of its portfolio. The Fund's use of such
contracts would include, but not be limited to, the following:
First, when the Fund enters into a contract for the purchase
or sale of a security denominated in a foreign currency, it may
desire to "lock in" the U.S. dollar price of the security. By
entering into a forward contract for the purchase or sale, for a
fixed amount of dollars, of the amount of foreign currency
involved in the underlying security transactions, the Fund will
be able to protect itself against a possible loss resulting from
an adverse change in the relationship between the U.S. dollar and
the subject foreign currency during the period between the date
the security is purchased or sold and the date on which payment
is made or received.
Second, when T. Rowe Price believes that one currency may
experience a substantial movement against another currency,
including the U.S. dollar, it may enter into a forward contract
to sell or buy the amount of the former foreign currency,
approximating the value of some or all of the Fund's portfolio
securities denominated in such foreign currency. Alternatively,
where appropriate, the Fund may hedge all or part of its foreign
currency exposure through the use of a basket of currencies or a
proxy currency where such currency or currencies act as an
effective proxy for other currencies. In such a case, the Fund
may enter into a forward contract where the amount of the foreign
currency to be sold exceeds the value of the securities
denominated in such currency. The use of this basket hedging
technique may be more efficient and economical than entering into
separate forward contracts for each currency held in the Fund.
The precise matching of the forward contract amounts and the
value of the securities involved will not generally be possible
since the future value of such securities in foreign currencies
will change as a consequence of market movements in the value of
those securities between the date the forward contract is entered
into and the date it matures. The projection of short-term
currency market movement is extremely difficult, and the
successful execution of a short-term hedging strategy is highly
uncertain. Under normal circumstances, consideration of the
prospect for currency parities will be incorporated into the
longer term investment decisions made with regard to overall
diversification strategies. However, T. Rowe Price believes that
it is important to have the flexibility to enter into such
forward contracts when it determines that the best interests of
the Fund will be served.
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Third, the Fund may use forward contracts when the Fund
wishes to hedge out of the dollar into a foreign currency in
order to create a synthetic bond or money market instrument--the
security would be issued in U.S. dollars but the dollar component
would be transformed into a foreign currency through a forward
contract.
The Fund may enter into forward contacts for any other
purpose consistent with the Fund's investment objective and
program. However, the Fund will not enter into a forward
contract, or maintain exposure to any such contract(s), if the
amount of foreign currency required to be delivered thereunder
would exceed the Fund's holdings of liquid, high-grade debt
securities and currency available for cover of the forward
contract(s). In determining the amount to be delivered under a
contract, the Fund may net offsetting positions.
At the maturity of a forward contract, the Fund may sell the
portfolio security and make delivery of the foreign currency, or
it may retain the security and either extend the maturity of the
forward contract (by "rolling" that contract forward) or may
initiate a new forward contract.
If the Fund retains the portfolio security and engages in an
offsetting transaction, the Fund will incur a gain or a loss (as
described below) to the extent that there has been movement in
forward contract prices. If the Fund engages in an offsetting
transaction, it may subsequently enter into a new forward
contract to sell the foreign currency. Should forward prices
decline during the period between the Fund's entering into a
forward contract for the sale of a foreign currency and the date
it enters into an offsetting contract for the purchase of the
foreign currency, the Fund will realize a gain to the extent the
price of the currency it has agreed to sell exceeds the price of
the currency it has agreed to purchase. Should forward prices
increase, the Fund will suffer a loss to the extent of the price
of the currency it has agreed to purchase exceeds the price of
the currency it has agreed to sell.
The Fund's dealing in forward foreign currency exchange
contracts will generally be limited to the transactions described
above. However, the Fund reserves the right to enter into
forward foreign currency contracts for different purposes and
under different circumstances. Of course, the Fund is not
required to enter into forward contracts with regard to its
foreign currency-denominated securities and will not do so unless
deemed appropriate by T. Rowe Price. It also should be realized
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that this method of hedging against a decline in the value of a
currency does not eliminate fluctuations in the underlying prices
of the securities. It simply establishes a rate of exchange at a
future date. Additionally, although such contracts tend to
minimize the risk of loss due to a decline in the value of the
hedged currency, at the same time, they tend to limit any
potential gain which might result from an increase in the value
of that currency.
Although the Fund values its assets daily in terms of U.S.
dollars, it does not intend to convert its holdings of foreign
currencies into U.S. dollars on a daily basis. It will do so
from time to time, and investors should be aware of the costs of
currency conversion. Although foreign exchange dealers do not
charge a fee for conversion, they do realize a profit based on
the difference (the "spread") between the prices at which they
are buying and selling various currencies. Thus, a dealer may
offer to sell a foreign currency to the Fund at one rate, while
offering a lesser rate of exchange should the Fund desire to
resell that currency to the dealer.
Federal Tax Treatment of Options, Futures Contracts and Forward
Foreign Exchange Contracts
The Fund may enter into certain option, futures, and forward
foreign exchange contracts, including options and futures on
currencies, which will be treated as Section 1256 contracts or
straddles.
Transactions which are considered Section 1256 contracts
will be considered to have been closed at the end of the Fund's
fiscal year and any gains or losses will be recognized for tax
purposes at that time. Such gains or losses from the normal
closing or settlement of such transactions will be characterized
as 60% long-term capital gain or loss and 40% short-term capital
gain or loss regardless of the holding period of the instrument.
The Fund will be required to distribute net gains on such
transactions to shareholders even though it may not have closed
the transaction and received cash to pay such distributions.
Options, futures and forward foreign exchange contracts,
including options and futures on currencies, which offset a
foreign dollar denominated bond or currency position may be
considered straddles for tax purposes, in which case a loss on
any position in a straddle will be subject to deferral to the
extent of unrealized gain in an offsetting position. The holding
period of the securities or currencies comprising the straddle
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will be deemed not to begin until the straddle is terminated.
For securities offsetting a purchased put, this adjustment of the
holding period may increase the gain from sales of securities
held less than three months. The holding period of the security
offsetting an "in-the-money qualified covered call" option on an
equity security will not include the period of time the option is
outstanding.
Losses on written covered calls and purchased puts on
securities, excluding certain "qualified covered call" options on
equity securities, may be long-term capital loss, if the security
covering the option was held for more than twelve months prior to
the writing of the option.
In order for the Fund to continue to qualify for federal
income tax treatment as a regulated investment company, at least
90% of its gross income for a taxable year must be derived from
qualifying income; i.e., dividends, interest, income derived from
loans of securities, and gains from the sale of securities or
currencies. Pending tax regulations could limit the extent that
net gain realized from option, futures or foreign forward
exchange contracts on currencies is qualifying income for
purposes of the 90% requirement. In addition, gains realized on
the sale or other disposition of securities, including option,
futures or foreign forward exchange contracts on securities or
securities indexes and, in some cases, currencies, held for less
than three months, must be limited to less than 30% of the Fund's
annual gross income. In order to avoid realizing excessive gains
on securities or currencies held less than three months, the Fund
may be required to defer the closing out of option, futures or
foreign forward exchange contracts) beyond the time when it would
otherwise be advantageous to do so. It is anticipated that
unrealized gains on Section 1256 option, futures and foreign
forward exchange contracts, which have been open for less than
three months as of the end of the Fund's fiscal year and which
are recognized for tax purposes, will not be considered gains on
securities or currencies held less than three months for purposes
of the 30% test.
INVESTMENT RESTRICTIONS
Fundamental policies may not be changed without the approval
of the lesser of (1) 67% of the Fund's shares present at a
meeting of shareholders if the holders of more than 50% of the
outstanding shares are present in person or by proxy or (2) more
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than 50% of the Fund's outstanding shares. Other restrictions in
the form of operating policies are subject to change by the
Fund's Board of Directors/Trustees without shareholder approval.
Any investment restriction which involves a maximum percentage of
securities or assets shall not be considered to be violated
unless an excess over the percentage occurs immediately after,
and is caused by, an acquisition of securities or assets of, or
borrowings by, the Fund.
Fundamental Policies
As a matter of fundamental policy, the Fund may not:
(1) Borrowing. Borrow money except that the Fund may
(i) borrow for non-leveraging, temporary or
emergency purposes and (ii) engage in reverse
repurchase agreements and make other investments
or engage in other transactions, which may involve
a borrowing, in a manner consistent with the
Fund's investment objective and program, provided
that the combination of (i) and (ii) shall not
exceed 33 1/3% of the value of the Fund's total
assets (including the amount borrowed) less
liabilities (other than borrowings) or such other
percentage permitted by law. Any borrowings which
come to exceed this amount will be reduced in
accordance with applicable law. The Fund may
borrow from banks, other Price Funds or other
persons to the extent permitted by applicable law.
(2) Commodities. Purchase or sell physical
commodities; except that the Fund (other than the
Prime Reserve and Treasury Money Funds) may enter
into futures contracts and options thereon;
(3) (a) Industry Concentration (All Funds, except High
Yield, New Income, Prime Reserve and Short-Term
Bond Funds). Purchase the securities of any
issuer if, as a result, more than 25% of the value
of the Fund's total assets would be invested in
the securities of issuers having their principal
business activities in the same industry;
(b) Industry Concentration (High Yield Fund).
Purchase the securities of any issuer if, as a
result, more than 25% of the value of the Fund's
total assets would be invested in the securities
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of issuers having their principal business
activities in the same industry; provided,
however, that the Fund will normally invest more
than 25% of its total assets in the securities of
the banking industry including, but not limited
to, bank certificates of deposit and bankers'
acceptances, when the Fund's position in issues
maturing in one year or less equals 35% or more of
the Fund's total assets;
(c) Industry Concentration (New Income Fund).
Purchase the securities of any issuer if, as a
result, more than 25% of the value of the Fund's
total assets would be invested in the securities
of issuers having their principal business
activities in the same industry; provided,
however, that the Fund will invest more than 25%
of its total assets, but not more than 50%, in any
one of the gas utility, gas transmission utility,
electric utility, telephone utility, and petroleum
industries under certain circumstances, and
further provided that this limitation does not
apply to securities of the banking industry
including, but not limited to, certificates of
deposit and bankers' acceptances;
(d) Industry Concentration (Prime Reserve Fund).
Purchase the securities of any issuer if, as a
result, more than 25% of the value of the Fund's
total assets would be invested in the securities
of issuers having their principal business
activities in the same industry; provided,
however, that this limitation does not apply to
securities of the banking industry including, but
not limited to, certificates of deposit and
bankers' acceptances; and
(e) Industry Concentration (Short-Term Bond Fund).
Purchase the securities of any issuer if, as a
result, more than 25% of the value of the Fund's
total assets would be invested in the securities
of issuers having their principal business
activities in the same industry; provided,
however, that the Fund will normally invest more
than 25% of its total assets in the securities of
the banking industry including, but not limited
to, bank certificates of deposit and bankers'
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acceptances when the Fund's position in issues
maturing in one year or less equals 35% or more of
the Fund's total assets; provided, further, that
the Fund will invest more than 25% of its total
assets, but not more than 50%, in any one of the
gas utility, gas transmission utility, electric
utility, telephone utility, and petroleum
industries under certain circumstances;
(4) Loans. Make loans, although the Fund may (i) lend
portfolio securities and participate in an
interfund lending program with other Price Funds
provided that no such loan may be made if, as a
result, the aggregate of such loans would exceed
33 1/3% of the value of the Fund's total assets;
(ii) purchase money market securities and enter
into repurchase agreements; and (iii) acquire
publicly-distributed or privately-placed debt
securities and purchase debt;
(5) Percent Limit on Assets Invested in Any One
Issuer. Purchase a security if, as a result, with
respect to 75% of the value of its total assets,
more than 5% of the value of the Fund's total
assets would be invested in the securities of a
single issuer, except securities issued or
guaranteed by the U.S. Government or any of its
agencies or instrumentalities;
(6) Percent Limit on Share Ownership of Any One
Issuer. Purchase a security if, as a result, with
respect to 75% of the value of the Fund's total
assets, more than 10% of the outstanding voting
securities of any issuer would be held by the Fund
(other than obligations issued or guaranteed by
the U.S. Government, its agencies or
instrumentalities);
(7) Real Estate. Purchase or sell real estate unless
acquired as a result of ownership of securities or
other instruments (but this shall not prevent the
Fund from investing in securities or other
instruments backed by real estate or securities of
companies engaged in the real estate business);
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(8) Senior Securities. Issue senior securities except
in compliance with the Investment Company Act of
1940; or
(9) Underwriting. Underwrite securities issued by
other persons, except to the extent that the Fund
may be deemed to be an underwriter within the
meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 in
connection with the purchase and sale of its
portfolio securities in the ordinary course of
pursuing its investment program.
NOTES
The following Notes should be read in connection
with the above-described fundamental policies.
The Notes are not fundamental policies.
With respect to investment restrictions (1) and
(4) the Fund will not borrow from or lend to any
other T. Rowe Price Fund unless each Fund applies
for and receives an exemptive order from the SEC
or the SEC issues rules permitting such
transactions. The Fund has no current intention
of engaging in any such activity and there is no
assurance the SEC would grant any order requested
by the Fund or promulgate any rules allowing the
transactions.
With respect to investment restriction (1), the
Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds have
no current intention of engaging in any borrowing
transactions.
With respect to investment restriction (2), the
Fund does not consider currency contracts or
hybrid instruments to be commodities.
For purposes of investment restriction (3), U.S.,
state or local governments, or related agencies or
instrumentalities, are not considered an industry.
Industries are determined by reference to the
classifications of industries set forth in the
Fund's Semi-annual and Annual Reports.
For purposes of investment restriction (4), the
Fund will consider the acquisition of a debt
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security to include the execution of a note or
other evidence of an extension of credit with a
term of more than nine months.
For purposes of investment restriction (5), the
Fund will consider a repurchase agreement fully
collateralized with U.S. government securities to
be U.S. government securities.
Operating Policies
As a matter of operating policy, the Fund may not:
(1) Borrowing. The Fund will not purchase additional
securities when money borrowed exceeds 5% of its
total assets.
(2) Control of Portfolio Companies. Invest in
companies for the purpose of exercising management
or control;
(3) (a) Equity Securities (All Funds, except High
Yield, New Income, and Personal Strategy Funds).
Purchase any common stocks or other equity
securities, or securities convertible into equity
securities except as set forth in its operating
policy on investment companies;
(b) Equity Securities (High Yield Fund). Invest
more than 20% of the Fund's total assets in equity
securities (including up to 5% in warrants);
(c) Equity Securities (New Income Fund). Invest
more than 25% of its total assets in equity
securities;
(d) Equity Securities (Personal Strategy Funds).
Purchase any common stocks or other equity
securities, except as set forth in its prospectus
and operating policy on investment companies;
(4) Futures Contracts. Purchase a futures contract or
an option thereon if, with respect to positions in
futures or options on futures which do not
represent bona fide hedging, the aggregate initial
margin and premiums on such positions would exceed
5% of the Fund's net asset value.
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(5) (a) Illiquid Securities (All Funds, except
Personal Strategy Funds). Purchase illiquid
securities if, as a result, more than 15% (10% for
the Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds)
of its net assets would be invested in such
securities;
(b) Illiquid Securities (Personal Strategy Funds).
Purchase illiquid securities and securities of
unseasoned issuers if, as a result, more than 15%
of a Fund's net assets would be invested in such
securities, provided that the Fund will not invest
more than 5% of its total assets in restricted
securities and not more than 5% in securities of
unseasoned issuers. Securities eligible for
resale under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of
1933 are not included in the 5% limitation but are
subject to the 15% limitation;
(6) Investment Companies. Purchase securities of
open-end or closed-end investment companies except
in compliance with the Investment Company Act of
1940 and applicable state law, and in the case of
the Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds,
only securities of other money market funds.
Duplicate fees may result from such purchases;
(7) Margin. Purchase securities on margin, except (i)
for use of short-term credit necessary for
clearance of purchases of portfolio securities and
(ii) it may make margin deposits in connection
with futures contracts or other permissible
investments;
(8) Mortgaging. Mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or, in
any manner, transfer any security owned by the
Fund as security for indebtedness except as may be
necessary in connection with permissible
borrowings or investments and then such
mortgaging, pledging or hypothecating may not
exceed 33 1/3% of the Fund's total assets at the
time of borrowing or investment;
(9) Oil and Gas Programs. Purchase participations or
other direct interests or enter into leases with
respect to, oil, gas, or other mineral exploration
or development programs;
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(10) Options, Etc. Invest in puts, calls, straddles,
spreads, or any combination thereof, except to the
extent permitted by the prospectus and Statement
of Additional Information;
(11) Ownership of Portfolio Securities by Officers and
Directors. Purchase or retain the securities of
any issuer if those officers and directors of the
Fund, and of its investment manager, who each own
beneficially more than .5% of the outstanding
securities of such issuer, together own
beneficially more than 5% of such securities.
(12) (a) Short Sales (All Funds except High Yield
Fund). Effect short sales of securities;
(b) Short Sales (High Yield Fund). Effect short
sales of securities, other than as set forth in
its prospectus and Statement of Additional
Information;
(13) Unseasoned Issuers. Purchase a security (other
than obligations issued or guaranteed by the U.S.,
any foreign, state or local government, their
agencies or instrumentalities) if, as a result,
more than 5% of the value of the Fund's total
assets would be invested in the securities issuers
which at the time of purchase had been in
operation for less than three years (for this
purpose, the period of operation of any issuer
shall include the period of operation of any
predecessor or unconditional guarantor of such
issuer). This restriction does not apply to
securities of pooled investment vehicles or
mortgage or asset-backed securities; or
(14) Warrants. Invest in warrants if, as a result
thereof, more than 2% of the value of the net
assets of the Fund would be invested in warrants
which are not listed on the New York Stock
Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or a
recognized foreign exchange, or more than 5% of
the value of the net assets of the Fund would be
invested in warrants whether or not so listed.
For purposes of these percentage limitations, the
warrants will be valued at the lower of cost or
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market and warrants acquired by the Fund in units
or attached to securities may be deemed to be
without value.
Personal Strategy Funds
Notwithstanding anything in the above fundamental and
operating restrictions to the contrary, the Fund may invest all
of its assets in a single investment company or a series thereof
in connection with a "master-feeder" arrangement. Such an
investment would be made where the Fund (a "Feeder"), and one or
more other Funds with the same investment objective and program
as the Fund, sought to accomplish its investment objective and
program by investing all of its assets in the shares of another
investment company (the "Master"). The Master would, in turn,
have the same investment objective and program as the Fund. The
Fund would invest in this manner in an effort to achieve the
economies of scale associated with having a Master fund make
investments in portfolio companies on behalf of a number of
Feeder funds.
MANAGEMENT OF FUND
The officers and directors/trustees of the Fund are
listed below. Unless otherwise noted, the address of each is 100
East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. Except as
indicated, each has been an employee of T. Rowe Price for more
than five years. In the list below, the Fund's
directors/trustees who are considered "interested persons" of T.
Rowe Price as defined under Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment
Company Act of 1940 are noted with an asterisk (*). These
directors/trustees are referred to as inside directors by virtue
of their officership, directorship, and/or employment with T.
Rowe Price.
All Funds, except Personal Strategy Funds
Independent Directors/Trustees
ROBERT P. BLACK, Retired; formerly President, Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond; Address: 10 Dahlgren Road, Richmond, Virginia
23233
CALVIN W. BURNETT, PH.D., President, Coppin State College;
Director, Maryland Chamber of Commerce and Provident Bank of
Maryland; President, Baltimore Area Council Boy Scouts of
America; Vice President, Board of Directors, The Walters Art
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Gallery; Address: 2500 West North Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland
21216
ANTHONY W. DEERING, Director, President and Chief Operating
Officer, The Rouse Company, real estate developers, Columbia,
Maryland; Advisory Director, Kleinwort, Benson (North America)
Corporation, a registered broker-dealer; Address: 10275 Little
Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, Maryland 21044
F. PIERCE LINAWEAVER, President, F. Pierce Linaweaver &
Associates, Inc.; formerly (1987-1991) Executive Vice President,
EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., and (1987-1990)
President, EA Engineering, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland; Address:
The Legg Mason Tower, 111 South Calvert Street, Suite 2700,
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
JOHN G. SCHREIBER, President, Schreiber Investments, Inc., a real
estate investment company; Director, AMCI Residential Properties
Trust; Partner, Blackstone Real Estate Partners, L.P.; Director
and formerly (1/80-12/90) Executive Vice President, JMB Realty
Corporation, a national real estate investment manager and
developer; Address: 1115 East Illinois Road, Lake Forest,
Illinois 60045
ANNE MARIE WHITTEMORE, Partner, law firm of McGuire, Woods,
Battle & Boothe, Richmond, Virginia; formerly, Chairman (1991-
1993) and Director (1989-1993), Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond;
Director, Owens & Minor, Inc., USF&G Corporation, Old Dominion
University, and James River Corporation; Member, Richmond Bar
Association and American Bar Association; Address: One James
Center, 901 East Cary Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030
Personal Strategy Funds
LEO C. BAILEY, Retired; Address: 3396 South Placita Fabula, Green
Valley, Arizona 85614
DONALD W. DICK, JR., Principal, Overseas Partners, Inc., a
financial investment firm; Director, Waverly Press, Inc.,
Baltimore, Maryland; Address: 375 Park Avenue, Suite 2201, New
York, New York 10152
DAVID K. FAGIN, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director,
Golden Star Resources, Ltd.; formerly (1986-7/91) President,
Chief Operating Officer and Director, Homestake Mining Company;
Address: One Norwest Center, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 1950,
Denver, Colorado 80203
ADDISON LANIER, Financial management; President and Director,
Thomas Emery's Sons, Inc., and Emery Group, Inc.; Director,
Scinet Development and Holdings, Inc.; Address: 441 Vine Street,
#2310, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-2913
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JOHN K. MAJOR, Chairman of the Board and President, KCMA
Incorporated, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Address: 126 E. 26 Place, Tulsa,
Oklahoma 74114-2422
HANNE M. MERRIMAN, Retail business consultant; formerly,
President and Chief Operating Officer, Nan Duskin, Inc., a
women's specialty store, Director and Chairman Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, and President and Chief Executive Officer,
Honeybee, Inc., a division of Spiegel, Inc; Director, Ann Taylor
Stores Corporation, Central Illinois Public Service Company,
CIPSCO Incorporated, The Rouse Company, State Farm Mutual
Automobile Insurance Company and USAir Group, Inc., Member,
National Women's Forum; Trustee, American-Scandinavian
Foundation; Address: One James Center, 901 East Cary Street,
Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030
HUBERT D. VOS, President, Stonington Capital Corporation, a
private investment company; Address: 1231 State Street, Suite
210, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-0409
PAUL M. WYTHES, Founding General Partner, Sutter Hill Ventures, a
venture capital limited partnership providing equity capital to
young high technology companies throughout the United States;
Director, Teltone Corporation, Interventional Technologies Inc.,
and Stuart Medical, Inc.; Address: 755 Page Mill Road, Suite
A200, Palo Alto, California 94304
Officers
*JAMES S. RIEPE, Vice President and Director--Managing
Director, T. Rowe Price; Chairman of the Board, T. Rowe Price
Services, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.;
President and Director, T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc;
President and Trust Officer, T. Rowe Price Trust Company,
Director, Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc. and Rhone-
Poulenc Rorer, Inc.
HENRY H. HOPKINS, Vice President--Managing Director, T. Rowe
Price; Vice President and Director, T. Rowe Price Investment
Services, Inc., T. Rowe Price Services, Inc., and T. Rowe Price
Trust Company; Vice President, Rowe Price-Fleming International,
Inc. and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.
LENORA V. HORNUNG, Secretary--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
PATRICIA S. BUTCHER, Assistant Secretary--Assistant Vice
President, T. Rowe Price and T. Rowe Price Investment Services,
Inc.
CARMEN F. DEYESU, Treasurer--Vice President, T. Rowe Price, T.
Rowe Price Services, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
DAVID S. MIDDLETON, Controller--Vice President, T. Rowe Price,
and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
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ROGER L. FIERY, III, Assistant Vice President--Vice President,
Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc. and T. Rowe Price
EDWARD T. SCHNEIDER, Assistant Vice President--Vice President,
T. Rowe Price
INGRID I. VORDEMBERGE, Assistant Vice President--Employee, T.
Rowe Price
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GNMA Fund
*GEORGE J. COLLINS, Chairman of the Board--President, Managing
Director and Chief Executive Officer, T. Rowe Price; Director,
Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc., T. Rowe Price Trust
Company and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.;
Chartered Investment Counselor
PETER VAN DYKE, President--Managing Director, T. Rowe Price; Vice
President, Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc. and T. Rowe
Price Trust Company
ROBERT P. CAMPBELL, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc.; formerly (4/80-5/90)
Vice President and Director, Private Finance, New York Life
Insurance Company, New York, New York
VEENA A. KUTLER, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc.
HEATHER R. LANDON, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
JAMES M. McDONALD, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
EDMUND M. NOTZON, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and T. Rowe Price Trust Company; formerly (1972-1989) charter
member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service and Director,
Analysis and Evaluation Division in the Office of Water
Regulations and Standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
CHARLES P. SMITH, Vice President--Managing Director, T. Rowe
Price; Vice President, Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc.
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High Yield Fund
*GEORGE J. COLLINS, Chairman of the Board--President, Managing
Director, and Chief Executive Officer, T. Rowe Price; Director,
Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc., T. Rowe Price Trust
Company and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.,
Chartered Investment Counselor
*RICHARD S. SWINGLE, President and Director--Managing Director,
T. Rowe Price
CATHERINE B. BRAY, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
ANDREW M. BROOKS, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
WILLIAM T. REYNOLDS, Vice President--Managing Director, T.
Rowe Price
HUBERT M. STILES, JR., Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe
Price
JAY W. VAN ERT, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
MARK J. VASELKIV, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
THEA N. WILLIAMS, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
JAMES M. McDONALD, Assistant Vice President--Vice President, T.
Rowe Price
New Income Fund
*GEORGE J. COLLINS, Chairman of the Board--President, Managing
Director, and Chief Executive Officer, T. Rowe Price; Director,
Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc., T. Rowe Price Trust
Company and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.,
Chartered Investment Counselor
*CARTER O. HOFFMAN, Vice President and Director--Managing
Director, T. Rowe Price; Chartered Investment Counselor
*CHARLES P. SMITH, President and Director--Managing Director, T.
Rowe Price; Vice President, Rowe Price-Fleming International,
Inc.
ROBERT P. CAMPBELL, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and Rowe Price Fleming International, Inc.; formerly (4/80-5/90)
Vice President and Director, Private Finance, New York Life
Insurance Company, New York, New York
HEATHER R. LANDON, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
JAMES M. McDONALD, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
EDMUND M. NOTZON, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and T. Rowe Price Trust Company; formerly (1972-1989) charter
member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service and Director,
Analysis and Evaluation Division in the Office of Water
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Regulations and Standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
JOAN R. POTEE, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
ROBERT M. RUBINO, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
THOMAS E. TEWKSBURY, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe
Price; formerly (1/89-12/93) senior bond trader, Scudder, Stevens
& Clark, Boston, Massachusetts
PETER VAN DYKE, Vice President--Managing Director, T. Rowe Price;
Vice President, Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc. and T.
Rowe Price Trust Company
Personal Strategy Balanced, Growth and Income Funds
M. DAVID TESTA, Chairman of the Board--Managing Director, T. Rowe
Price; Chairman of the Board, Rowe Price-Fleming International,
Inc.; Director and Vice President, T. Rowe Price Trust Company;
Chartered Financial Analyst
JAMES S. RIEPE, Vice President and Director--Managing Director,
T. Rowe Price; Chairman of the Board, T. Rowe Price Services,
Inc. and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.; President
and Director, T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc; President
and Trust Officer, T. Rowe Price Trust Company, Director, Rowe
Price-Fleming International, Inc. and Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Inc.
PETER VAN DYKE, President--Managing Director, T. Rowe Price; Vice
President of Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc., T. Rowe
Price Trust Company and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services,
Inc., Chartered Investment Counselor
STEPHEN W. BOESEL, Executive Vice President--Vice President, T.
Rowe Price
JOHN D. GILLESPIE, Executive Vice President--Vice President, T.
Rowe Price
EDMUND M. NOTZON, Executive Vice President--Vice President, T.
Rowe Price and T. Rowe Price Trust Company; formerly (1972-1989)
charter member of the U.S. Senior Executive Service and Director,
Analysis and Evaluation Division in the Office of Water
Regulations and Standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
JOHN H. LAPORTE, Vice President--Managing Director, T. Rowe
Price; Chartered Financial Analyst
WILLIAM T. REYNOLDS, Vice President--Managing Director, T. Rowe
Price
BRIAN C. ROGERS, Vice President--Managing Director, T. Rowe Price
Prime Reserve Fund
*WILLIAM T. REYNOLDS, Chairman of the Board--Managing
Director, T. Rowe Price
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*GEORGE J. COLLINS, Vice President and Director--President,
Managing Director, and Chief Executive Officer, T. Rowe Price;
Director, Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc., T. Rowe Price
Trust Company and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.,
Chartered Investment Counselor
EDWARD A. WIESE, President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price, Rowe
Price-Fleming International, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
ROBERT P. CAMPBELL, Executive Vice President--Vice President, T.
Rowe Price and Rowe Price-Fleming International Inc.; formerly
(4/80-5/90) Vice President and Director, Private Finance, New
York Life Insurance Company, New York, New York
JAMES M. MCDONALD, Executive Vice President--Vice President, T.
Rowe Price
PATRICE L. BERCHTENBREITER, Vice President--Vice President, T.
Rowe Price
PAUL W. BOLTZ, Vice President--Vice President and Financial
Economist of T. Rowe Price
JOAN R. POTEE, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
ROBERT M. RUBINO, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
BRIAN E. BURNS, Assistant Vice President--Assistant Vice
President, T.Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
GWENDOLYN G. WAGNER, Assistant Vice President--Assistant Vice
President, T. Rowe Price
Short-Term Bond Fund
*GEORGE J. COLLINS, Chairman of the Board--President, Managing
Director, and Chief Executive Officer, T. Rowe Price; Director,
Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc., T. Rowe Price Trust
Company and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.,
Chartered Investment Counselor
EDWARD A. WIESE, President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price, Rowe
Price-Fleming International, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
ROBERT P. CAMPBELL, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc.; formerly (4/80-5/90)
Vice President and Director, Private Finance, New York Life
Insurance Company, New York, New York
CHRISTY M. DIPIETRO, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe
Price and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
JAMES M. MCDONALD, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
ROBERT M. RUBINO, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
CHARLES P. SMITH, Vice President--Managing Director, T. Rowe
Price; Vice President, Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc.
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THOMAS E. TEWKSBURY, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe
Price; formerly (1/89-12/93) senior bond trader, Scudder, Stevens
& Clark, New York, New York
CHERYL A. REDWOOD, Assistant Vice President--Employee, T. Rowe
Price
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Short-Term U.S. Government Fund
*GEORGE J. COLLINS, Chairman of the Board--President, Managing
Director, and Chief Executive Officer, T. Rowe Price; Director,
Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc., T. Rowe Price Trust
Company and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.,
Chartered Investment Counselor
*PETER VAN DYKE, President and Director--Managing Director, T.
Rowe Price; Vice President of Rowe Price-Fleming International,
Inc. and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
HEATHER R. LANDON, Executive Vice President--Vice President, T.
Rowe Price and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
JAMES M. MCDONALD, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
EDMUND M. NOTZON, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and T. Rowe Price Trust Company; formerly, (1972-1989) charter
member of the U.S. Senior Executive Services and Director,
Analysis and Evaluation Division in the Office of Water
Regulations and Standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency
CHARLES P. SMITH, Vice President--Managing Director, T. Rowe
Price; Vice President, Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc.
GWENDOLYN G. WAGNER, Vice President--Assistant Vice President, T.
Rowe Price
DONNA M. ENNIS-DAVIS, Assistant Vice President--Employee, T. Rowe
Price
U.S. Treasury Intermediate, Long-Term and Money Funds
*GEORGE J. COLLINS, President and Director--President, Managing
Director, and Chief Executive Officer, T. Rowe Price; Director,
Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc., T. Rowe Price Trust
Company and T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.,
Chartered Investment Counselor
*CHARLES P. SMITH, Executive Vice President and Director--
Managing Director, T. Rowe Price; Vice President, Rowe Price-
Fleming International, Inc.
*PETER VAN DYKE, Executive Vice President and Director--Managing
Director, T. Rowe Price; Vice President, Rowe Price-Fleming
International, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
EDWARD A. WIESE, Executive Vice President--Vice President, T.
Rowe Price, Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc. and T. Rowe
Price Trust Company
PAUL W. BOLTZ, Vice President--Vice President and Financial
Economist of T. Rowe Price
ROBERT P. CAMPBELL, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and Rowe Price-Fleming International Inc.; formerly (4/80-5/90)
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Vice President and Director, Private Finance, New York Life
Insurance Company, New York, New York
HEATHER R. LANDON, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
and T. Rowe Price Trust Company
JAMES M. McDONALD, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
JOAN R. POTEE, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe Price
THOMAS E. TEWKSBURY, Vice President--Vice President, T. Rowe
Price; formerly (1/89-12/93) senior bond trader, Scudder, Stevens
& Clark, Boston, Massachusetts
Each Fund's Executive Committee, consisting of the Fund's
interested directors/trustees, has been authorized by its
respective Board of Directors/Trustees to exercise all powers of
the Board to manage the Fund in the intervals between meetings of
the Board, except the powers prohibited by statute from being
delegated.
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COMPENSATION TABLE
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Pension or Total Compensation
Aggregate Retirement from Fund and
Name of Compensation Benefits Fund Complex
Person, from Accrued as Paid to
Position Fund(a) Part of Fund(b) Directors(c)
_________________________________________________________________
GNMA Fund
Robert P. Black, $2,545 N/A $52,667
Trustee
Calvin W. Burnett, 2,545 N/A 55,583
PH.D, Trustee
Anthony W. Deering, 2,545 N/A 66,333
Trustee
F. Pierce Linaweaver, 2,545 N/A 55,583
Trustee
John G. Schreiber, 2,545 N/A 55,667
Trustee
Anne Marie Whittemore, 2,545 N/A 32,667
Trustee
George J. Collins, 0 N/A 0
Chairman of the Board(d)
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Trustee(d)
_________________________________________________________________
High Yield Fund
Robert P. Black, $3,463 N/A $52,667
Director
Calvin W. Burnett, 3,463 N/A 55,583
PH.D, Director
Anthony W. Deering, 3,463 N/A 66,333
Director
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F. Pierce Linaweaver, 3,463 N/A 55,583
Director
John G. Schreiber, 3,463 N/A 55,667
Director
Anne Marie Whittemore, 3,463 N/A 32,667
Director
George J. Collins, 0 N/A 0
Chairman of the Board(d)
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
Richard S. Swingle, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
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New Income Fund
Robert P. Black, $3,981 N/A $52,667
Director
Calvin W. Burnett, 3,981 N/A 55,583
PH.D, Director
Anthony W. Deering, 3,981 N/A 66,333
Director
F. Pierce Linaweaver, 3,981 N/A 55,583
Director
John G. Schreiber, 3,981 N/A 55,667
Director
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Anne Marie Whittemore, 3,981 N/A 32,667
Director
George J. Collins, 0 N/A 0
Chairman of the Board(d)
Carter O. Hoffman, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
Charles P. Smith, 0 N/A 0
Director(b)
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Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
Leo C. Bailey, $536 N/A $64,583
Director
Donald W. Dick, Jr., 536 N/A 64,833
Director
David K. Fagin, 536 N/A 53,833
Director
Addison Lanier, 536 N/A 64,583
Director
John K. Major, 536 N/A 54,583
Director
Hanne M. Merriman, 536 N/A 42,083
Director
Hubert D. Vos, 536 N/A 54,583
Director
Paul M. Wythes, 536 N/A 54,333
Director
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
M. David Testa, 0 N/A 0
Chairman of the Board(d)
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Personal Strategy Growth
Leo C. Bailey, $533 N/A $64,583
Director
Donald W. Dick, Jr., 533 N/A 64,833
Director
David K. Fagin, 533 N/A 53,833
Director
Addison Lanier, 533 N/A 64,583
Director
John K. Major, 533 N/A 54,583
Director
Hanne M. Merriman, 533 N/A 42,083
Director
Hubert D. Vos, 533 N/A 54,583
Director
Paul M. Wythes, 533 N/A 54,333
Director
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
M. David Testa, 0 N/A 0
Chairman of the Board(d)
________________________________________________________________
Personal Strategy Income
Leo C. Bailey, $539 N/A $64,583
Director
Donald W. Dick, Jr., 539 N/A 64,833
Director
David K. Fagin, 539 N/A 53,833
Director
Addison Lanier, 539 N/A 64,583
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Director
John K. Major, 539 N/A 54,583
Director
Hanne M. Merriman, 539 N/A 42,083
Director
Hubert D. Vos, 539 N/A 54,583
Director
Paul M. Wythes, 539 N/A 54,333
Director
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Directord
M. David Testa, 0 N/A 0
Chairman of the Board(d)
_________________________________________________________________
Prime Reserve Fund
Robert P. Black, $7,560 N/A $52,667
Director
Calvin W. Burnett, 7,560 N/A 55,583
PH.D, Director
Anthony W. Deering, 7,560 N/A 66,333
Director
F. Pierce Linaweaver, 7,560 N/A 55,583
Director
John G. Schreiber, 7,560 N/A 55,667
Director
Anne Marie Whittemore, 7,560 N/A 32,667
Director
George J. Collins, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
Carter O. Hoffman, 0 N/A 0
Chairman of the Board(d)
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James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
_________________________________________________________________
Short-Term Bond Fund
Robert P. Black, $1,964 N/A $52,667
Director
Calvin W. Burnett, 1,964 N/A 55,583
PH.D, Director
Anthony W. Deering, 1,964 N/A 66,333
Director
F. Pierce Linaweaver, 1,964 N/A 55,583
Director
John G. Schreiber, 1,964 N/A 55,667
Director
Anne Marie Whittemore, 1,964 N/A 32,667
Director
George J. Collins, 0 N/A 0
Chairman of the Board(d)
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
_________________________________________________________________
Short-Term U.S. Government Fund
Robert P. Black, $1,080 N/A $52,667
Director
Calvin W. Burnett, 1,080 N/A 55,583
PH.D, Director
Anthony W. Deering, 1,080 N/A 66,333
Director
F. Pierce Linaweaver, 1,080 N/A 55,583
Director
John G. Schreiber, 1,080 N/A 55,667
Director
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Anne Marie Whittemore, 1,080 N/A 32,667
Director
George J. Collins, 0 N/A 0
Chairman of the Board(d)
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
Peter Van Dyke, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
_________________________________________________________________
U.S. Treasury Intermediate
Robert P. Black, $1,082 N/A $52,667
Director
Calvin W. Burnett, 1,082 N/A 55,583
PH.D, Director
Anthony W. Deering, 1,082 N/A 66,333
Director
F. Pierce Linaweaver, 1,082 N/A 55,583
Director
John G. Schreiber, 1,082 N/A 55,667
Director
Anne Marie Whittemore, 1,082 N/A 32,667
Director
George J. Collins, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
Charles P. Smith, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
Peter Van Dyke, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
_________________________________________________________________
U.S. Treasury Long-Term
Robert P. Black, $992 N/A $52,667
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Director
Calvin W. Burnett, 992 N/A 55,583
PH.D, Director
Anthony W. Deering, 992 N/A 66,333
Director
F. Pierce Linaweaver, 992 N/A 55,583
Director
John G. Schreiber, 992 N/A 55,667
Director
Anne Marie Whittemore, 992 N/A 32,667
Director
George J. Collins, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
Charles P. Smith, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
Peter Van Dyke, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
_________________________________________________________________
U.S. Treasury Money
Robert P. Black, $2,306 N/A $64,583
Director
Calvin W. Burnett, 2,306 N/A 55,583
PH.D, Director
Anthony W. Deering, 2,306 N/A 66,333
Director
F. Pierce Linaweaver, 2,306 N/A 55,583
Director
John G. Schreiber, 2,306 N/A 55,667
Director
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Anne Marie Whittemore, 2,306 N/A 32,667
Director
George J. Collins, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
James S. Riepe, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
Charles P. Smith, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
Peter Van Dyke, 0 N/A 0
Director(d)
(a) Amounts in this Column are for the period June 1, 1994
through May 31, 1995.
(b) Not applicable. The Fund does not pay pension or retirement
benefits to officers or directors/trustees of the Fund.
(c) Amounts in this column are for calendar year 1994.
(d) Any director/trustee of the Fund who is an officer or
employee of T. Rowe Price receives no remuneration from the
Fund.
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PRINCIPAL HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
As of the date of the prospectus, the officers and directors
of the Fund, as a group, owned less than 1% of the outstanding
shares of the Fund.
As of August 31, 1995, Yachtcrew & Co., FBO Spectrum
Income Account, State Street Bank and Trust Co., 1776 Heritage
Drive-4W, North Quincy, MA 02171-2010 beneficially owned more
than 5% of the outstanding shares of the GNMA, High Yield, New
Income and Short-Term Bond Funds; FTC & Co., #002, P. O. Box
5508, Attn: Datalynx, Denver, CO 80217-5508 and T. Rowe Price
Trust Company, Assoc. in Surgery PAPP (UMSA), Attn: Installation
Team for Conversion Plan #800302, P. O. Box 17215, Baltimore, MD
21203-7999 beneficially owned more than 5% of the outstanding
shares of the U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund; and T. Rowe Price
Trust Co. Inc., Attn: Installation Team for Conversion Assets,
New England Electric Plan, 25 Research Drive, Westborough, MA
01582 beneficially owned more than 5% of the outstanding shares
of the U.S. Treasury Money Fund.
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Services
Under the Management Agreement, T. Rowe Price provides the
Fund with discretionary investment services. Specifically, T.
Rowe Price is responsible for supervising and directing the
investments of the Fund in accordance with the Fund's investment
objectives, program, and restrictions as provided in its
prospectus and this Statement of Additional Information. T. Rowe
Price is also responsible for effecting all security transactions
on behalf of the Fund, including the negotiation of commissions
and the allocation of principal business and portfolio brokerage.
In addition to these services, T. Rowe Price provides the Fund
with certain corporate administrative services, including:
maintaining the Fund's corporate existence and corporate records;
registering and qualifying Fund shares under federal and state
laws; monitoring the financial, accounting, and administrative
functions of the Fund; maintaining liaison with the agents
employed by the Fund such as the Fund's custodian and transfer
agent; assisting the Fund in the coordination of such agents'
activities; and permitting T. Rowe Price's employees to serve as
officers, directors, and committee members of the Fund without
cost to the Fund.
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The Management Agreement also provides that T. Rowe Price,
its directors, officers, employees, and certain other persons
performing specific functions for the Fund will only be liable to
the Fund for losses resulting from willful misfeasance, bad
faith, gross negligence, or reckless disregard of duty.
Management Fee
The Fund pays T. Rowe Price a fee ("Fee") which consists of
two components: a Group Management Fee ("Group Fee") and an
Individual Fund Fee ("Fund Fee"). The Fee is paid monthly to T.
Rowe Price on the first business day of the next succeeding
calendar month and is calculated as described below.
The monthly Group Fee ("Monthly Group Fee") is the sum of the
daily Group Fee accruals ("Daily Group Fee Accruals") for each
month. The Daily Group Fee Accrual for any particular day is
computed by multiplying the Price Funds' group fee accrual as
determined below ("Daily Price Funds' Group Fee Accrual") by the
ratio of the Fund's net assets for that day to the sum of the
aggregate net assets of the Price Funds for that day. The Daily
Price Funds' Group Fee Accrual for any particular day is
calculated by multiplying the fraction of one (1) over the number
of calendar days in the year by the annualized Daily Price Funds'
Group Fee Accrual for that day as determined in accordance with
the following schedule:
Price Funds'
Annual Group Base Fee
Rate for Each Level of Assets
0.480% First $1 billion
0.450% Next $1 billion
0.420% Next $1 billion
0.390% Next $1 billion
0.370% Next $1 billion
0.360% Next $2 billion
0.350% Next $2 billion
0.340% Next $5 billion
0.330% Next $10 billion
0.320% Next $10 billion
0.310% Thereafter
For the purpose of calculating the Group Fee, the Price
Funds include all the mutual funds distributed by T. Rowe Price
Investment Services, Inc., (excluding T. Rowe Price Spectrum
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Fund, Inc. and any institutional or private label mutual funds).
For the purpose of calculating the Daily Price Funds' Group Fee
Accrual for any particular day, the net assets of each Price Fund
are determined in accordance with the Fund's prospectus as of the
close of business on the previous business day on which the Fund
was open for business.
The monthly Fund Fee ("Monthly Fund Fee") is the sum of the
daily Fund Fee accruals ("Daily Fund Fee Accruals") for each
month. The Daily Fund Fee Accrual for any particular day is
computed by multiplying the fraction of one (1) over the number
of calendar days in the year by the individual Fund Fee Rate and
multiplying this product by the net assets of the Fund for that
day, as determined in accordance with the Fund's prospectus as of
the close of business on the previous business day on which the
Fund was open for business. The individual fund fees for each
Fund are listed in the chart below:
Individual Fund Fees
GNMA Fund 0.15%
High Yield Fund 0.30%
New Income Fund 0.15%
Personal Strategy Growth Fund 0.30%
Personal Strategy Balanced Fund 0.25%
Personal Strategy Income Fund 0.15%
Prime Reserve Fund 0.05%
Short-Term Bond Fund 0.10%
Short-Term U.S. Government Fund 0.10%
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund 0.05%
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund 0.05%
U.S. Treasury Money Fund 0.00%
The following chart sets forth the total management fees,
if any, paid to T. Rowe Price by each Fund, for the fiscal year
ended May 31, 1995, three-month fiscal year ended May 31, 1994
and for the fiscal years ended February 28, 1994, and February
28, 1993:
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Fund 1995 1994* 1994 1993
GNMA $3,835,000 $ 1,034,000 $ 4,626,000$ 4,102,000
High Yield 7,367,000 2,197,000 10,554,000 8,014,000
New Income 6,972,000 1,748,000 7,750,000 7,113,000
Prime Reserve 14,784,000 3,601,000 13,617,000 15,620,000
Short-Term Bond 2,280,000 708,000 2,873,000 2,136,000
Short-Term U.S.
Government 284,000 100,000 526,000 627,000
U.S. Treasury 671,000 173,000 755,000 571,000
Intermediate
U.S. Treasury 157,000 26,000 180,000 125,000
Long-Term
U.S. Treasury 2,341,000 569,000 2,084,000 165,000
Money
Personal Strategy **
Income
Personal Strategy **
Balance
Personal Strategy **
Growth
* For the three-month fiscal year ended May 31, 1994.
** Due to the Fund's expense limitation in effect at that time,
no management fee was paid by the Fund to T. Rowe Price.
Limitation on Fund Expenses
The Management Agreement between the Fund and T. Rowe Price
provides that the Fund will bear all expenses of its operations
not specifically assumed by T. Rowe Price. However, in
compliance with certain state regulations, T. Rowe Price will
reimburse the Fund for certain expenses which in any year exceed
the limits prescribed by any state in which the Fund's shares are
qualified for sale. Presently, the most restrictive expense
ratio limitation imposed by any state is 2.5% of the first $30
million of the Fund's average daily net assets, 2% of the next
$70 million of the Fund's assets, and 1.5% of net assets in
excess of $100 million. Reimbursement by the Fund to T. Rowe
Price of any expenses paid or assumed under a state expense
limitation may not be made more than two years after the end of
the fiscal year in which the expenses were paid or assumed.
The following chart sets forth expense ratio limitations and
the periods for which they are effective. For each, T. Rowe
Price has agreed to bear any Fund expenses which would cause the
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Fund's ratio of expenses to average net assets to exceed the
indicated percentage limitations. The expenses borne by T. Rowe
Price are subject to reimbursement by the Fund through the
indicated reimbursement date, provided no reimbursement will be
made if it would result in the Fund's expense ratio exceeding its
applicable limitation.
Expense
Limitation Ratio Reimbursement
Fund Period Limitation Date
Personal Strategy July 1, 1994- 0.95% May 31, 1998
Income Fund May 31, 1996
Personal Strategy July 1, 1994- 1.05% May 31, 1998
Balanced Fund May 31, 1996
Personal Strategy July 1, 1994- 1.10% May 31, 1998
Growth Fund May 31, 1996
Short-Term U.S.
Government+
March 1, 1994- 0.70% May 31, 1998
May 31, 1996
U.S. Treasury March 1, 1995- 0.80% May 31, 1999
Long-Term++ May 31, 1997
+ The Short-Term U.S. Government Fund previously operated under
a 0.40% limitation that expired December 31, 1993. The
reimbursement period for this limitation extends through June
30, 1995.
++ The Long-Term Fund operated under a 0.80% limitation that
expired February 28, 1995. The reimbursement period for this
limitation extends through February 28, 1997.
Each of the above-referenced Fund's Management Agreement also
provides that one or more additional expense limitation periods
(of the same or different time periods) may be implemented after
the expiration of the current expense limitation, and that with
respect to any such additional limitation period, the Fund may
reimburse T. Rowe Price, provided the reimbursement does not
result in the Fund's aggregate expenses exceeding the additional
expense limitation.
Pursuant to the Short-Term U.S. Government Fund's current
expense limitation, $329,000 of management fees were not accrued
by the Fund for the fiscal year ended May 31, 1995. Pursuant to a
previous agreement, $267,000 of unaccrued fees from the prior
periods are subject to reimbursement through May 31, 1996.
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Pursuant to the Long-Term Fund's current expense limitation,
$66,000 of management fees were not accrued by the Fund for the
fiscal year ended May 31, 1995, of which $58,000 are subject to
reimbursement through February 28, 1997 and $8,000 are subject to
reimbursement through May 31, 1999. Additionally, $89,000 of
unaccrued management fees related to a previous expense
limitation are subject to reimbursement through February 28,
1997. Additionally, $303,000 of unaccrued fees from the prior
period for the Fund was subject to reimbursement through February
28, 1995.
GNMA, High Yield, New Income, Prime Reserve and Short-Term Bond
Funds
T. Rowe Price Spectrum Fund, Inc.
The Fund is a party to a Special Servicing Agreement
("Agreement") between and among T. Rowe Price Spectrum Fund, Inc.
("Spectrum Fund"), T. Rowe Price, T. Rowe Price Services, Inc.
and various other T. Rowe Price funds which, along with the Fund,
are funds in which Spectrum Fund invests (collectively all such
funds "Underlying Price Funds").
The Agreement provides that, if the Board of
Directors/Trustees of any Underlying Price Fund determines that
such Underlying Fund's share of the aggregate expenses of
Spectrum Fund is less than the estimated savings to the
Underlying Price Fund from the operation of Spectrum Fund, the
Underlying Price Fund will bear those expenses in proportion to
the average daily value of its shares owned by Spectrum Fund,
provided further that no Underlying Price Fund will bear such
expenses in excess of the estimated savings to it. Such savings
are expected to result primarily from the elimination of numerous
separate shareholder accounts which are or would have been
invested directly in the Underlying Price Funds and the resulting
reduction in shareholder servicing costs. Although such cost
savings are not certain, the estimated savings to the Underlying
Price Funds generated by the operation of Spectrum Fund are
expected to be sufficient to offset most, if not all, of the
expenses incurred by Spectrum Fund.
All Funds
DISTRIBUTOR FOR FUND
T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc. ("Investment
Services"), a Maryland corporation formed in 1980 as a wholly-
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owned subsidiary of T. Rowe Price, serves as the Fund's
distributor. Investment Services is registered as a broker-
dealer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and is a member
of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. The
offering of the Fund's shares is continuous.
Investment Services is located at the same address as the
Fund and T. Rowe Price -- 100 East Pratt Street, Baltimore,
Maryland 21202.
Investment Services serves as distributor to the Fund
pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement ("Underwriting Agreement"),
which provides that the Fund will pay all fees and expenses in
connection with: registering and qualifying its shares under the
various state "blue sky" laws; preparing, setting in type,
printing, and mailing its prospectuses and reports to
shareholders; and issuing its shares, including expenses of
confirming purchase orders.
The Underwriting Agreement provides that Investment Services
will pay all fees and expenses in connection with: printing and
distributing prospectuses and reports for use in offering and
selling Fund shares; preparing, setting in type, printing, and
mailing all sales literature and advertising; Investment
Services' federal and state registrations as a broker-dealer; and
offering and selling Fund shares, except for those fees and
expenses specifically assumed by the Fund. Investment Services'
expenses are paid by T. Rowe Price.
Investment Services acts as the agent of the Fund in
connection with the sale of its shares in all states in which the
shares are qualified and in which Investment Services is
qualified as a broker-dealer. Under the Underwriting Agreement,
Investment Services accepts orders for Fund shares at net asset
value. No sales charges are paid by investors or the Fund.
CUSTODIAN
State Street Bank and Trust Company is the custodian for
the Fund's domestic securities and cash, but it does not
participate in the Fund's investment decisions. Portfolio
securities purchased in the U.S. are maintained in the custody of
the Bank and may be entered into the Federal Reserve Book Entry
System, or the security depository system of the Depository Trust
Corporation. The Fund (other than the GNMA, Prime Reserve and
U.S. Treasury Intermediate, Long-Term and Money Funds) has
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entered into a Custodian Agreement with The Chase Manhattan Bank,
N.A., London, pursuant to which portfolio securities which are
purchased outside the United States are maintained in the custody
of various foreign branches of The Chase Manhattan Bank and such
other custodians, including foreign banks and foreign securities
depositories as are approved by the Fund's Board of
Directors/Trustees in accordance with regulations under the
Investment Company Act of 1940. State Street's main office is at
225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110. The address
for The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., London is Woolgate House,
Coleman Street, London, EC2P 2HD, England.
CODE OF ETHICS
The Funds' investment adviser (T. Rowe Price) has a
written Code of Ethics which requires all employees to obtain
prior clearance before engaging in any personal securities
transactions. In addition, all employees must report their
personal securities transactions within ten days of their
execution. Employees will not be permitted to effect
transactions in a security: If there are pending client orders in
the security; the security has been purchased or sold by a client
within seven calendar days; the security is being considered for
purchase for a client; a change has occurred in T. Rowe Price's
rating of the security within five days; or the security is
subject to internal trading restrictions. In addition, employees
are prohibited from engaging in short-term trading (e.g.,
purchases and sales involving the same security within 60 days).
Any material violation of the Code of Ethics is reported to the
Board of the Fund. The Board also reviews the administration of
the Code of Ethics on an annual basis.
PORTFOLIO TRANSACTIONS
Investment or Brokerage Discretion
Decisions with respect to the purchase and sale of portfolio
securities on behalf of the Fund are made by T. Rowe Price. T.
Rowe Price is also responsible for implementing these decisions,
including the negotiation of commissions and the allocation of
portfolio brokerage and principal business. The Fund's purchases
and sales of fixed-income portfolio securities are normally done
on a principal basis and do not involve the payment of a
commission although they may involve the designation of selling
concessions. That part of the discussion below relating solely
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to brokerage commissions would not normally apply to the Fund
(except to the extent it purchases equity securities (High Yield,
New Income, and Personal Strategy Funds only)). However, it is
included because T. Rowe Price does manage a significant number
of common stock portfolios which do engage in agency transactions
and pay commissions and because some research and services
resulting from the payment of such commissions may benefit the
Fund.
How Brokers and Dealers are Selected
Equity Securities
In purchasing and selling the Fund's portfolio securities, it
is T. Rowe Price's policy to obtain quality execution at the most
favorable prices through responsible brokers and dealers and, in
the case of agency transactions, at competitive commission rates.
However, under certain conditions, the Fund may pay higher
brokerage commissions in return for brokerage and research
services. As a general practice, over-the-counter orders are
executed with market-makers. In selecting among market-makers,
T. Rowe Price generally seeks to select those it believes to be
actively and effectively trading the security being purchased or
sold. In selecting broker-dealers to execute the Fund's
portfolio transactions, consideration is given to such factors as
the price of the security, the rate of the commission, the size
and difficulty of the order, the reliability, integrity,
financial condition, general execution and operational
capabilities of competing brokers and dealers, and brokerage and
research services provided by them. It is not the policy of T.
Rowe Price to seek the lowest available commission rate where it
is believed that a broker or dealer charging a higher commission
rate would offer greater reliability or provide better price or
execution.
Fixed Income Securities
Fixed income securities are generally purchased from the
issuer or a primary market-maker acting as principal for the
securities on a net basis, with no brokerage commission being
paid by the client although the price usually includes an
undisclosed compensation. Transactions placed through dealers
serving as primary market-makers reflect the spread between the
bid and asked prices. Securities may also be purchased from
underwriters at prices which include underwriting fees.
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With respect to equity and fixed income securities, T. Rowe
Price may effect principal transactions on behalf of the Fund
with a broker or dealer who furnishes brokerage and/or research
services, designate any such broker or dealer to receive selling
concessions, discounts or other allowances, or otherwise deal
with any such broker or dealer in connection with the acquisition
of securities in underwritings. T. Rowe Price may receive
research services in connection with brokerage transactions,
including designations in fixed price offerings.
How Evaluations are Made of the Overall Reasonableness of
Brokerage Commissions Paid
On a continuing basis, T. Rowe Price seeks to determine what
levels of commission rates are reasonable in the marketplace for
transactions executed on behalf of the Fund. In evaluating the
reasonableness of commission rates, T. Rowe Price considers: (a)
historical commission rates, both before and since rates have
been fully negotiable; (b) rates which other institutional
investors are paying, based on available public information; (c)
rates quoted by brokers and dealers; (d) the size of a particular
transaction, in terms of the number of shares, dollar amount, and
number of clients involved; (e) the complexity of a particular
transaction in terms of both execution and settlement; (f) the
level and type of business done with a particular firm over a
period of time; and (g) the extent to which the broker or dealer
has capital at risk in the transaction.
Description of Research Services Received from Brokers and
Dealers
T. Rowe Price receives a wide range of research services from
brokers and dealers. These services include information on the
economy, industries, groups of securities, individual companies,
statistical information, accounting and tax law interpretations,
political developments, legal developments affecting portfolio
securities, technical market action, pricing and appraisal
services, credit analysis, risk measurement analysis, performance
analysis and analysis of corporate responsibility issues. These
services provide both domestic and international perspective.
Research services are received primarily in the form of written
reports, computer generated services, telephone contacts and
personal meetings with security analysts. In addition, such
services may be provided in the form of meetings arranged with
corporate and industry spokespersons, economists, academicians
and government representatives. In some cases, research services
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are generated by third parties but are provided to T. Rowe Price
by or through broker-dealers.
Research services received from brokers and dealers are
supplemental to T. Rowe Price's own research effort and, when
utilized, are subject to internal analysis before being
incorporated by T. Rowe Price into its investment process. As a
practical matter, it would not be possible for T. Rowe Price's
Equity Research Division to generate all of the information
presently provided by brokers and dealers. T. Rowe Price pays
cash for certain research services received from external
sources. T. Rowe Price also allocates brokerage for research
services which are available for cash. While receipt of research
services from brokerage firms has not reduced T. Rowe Price's
normal research activities, the expenses of T. Rowe Price could
be materially increased if it attempted to generate such
additional information through its own staff. To the extent that
research services of value are provided by brokers or dealers, T.
Rowe Price may be relieved of expenses which it might otherwise
bear.
T. Rowe Price has a policy of not allocating brokerage
business in return for products or services other than brokerage
or research services. In accordance with the provisions of
Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, T. Rowe
Price may from time to time receive services and products which
serve both research and non-research functions. In such event,
T. Rowe Price makes a good faith determination of the anticipated
research and non-research use of the product or service and
allocates brokerage only with respect to the research component.
Commissions to Brokers who Furnish Research Services
Certain brokers and dealers who provide quality brokerage and
execution services also furnish research services to T. Rowe
Price. With regard to the payment of brokerage commissions, T.
Rowe Price has adopted a brokerage allocation policy embodying
the concepts of Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, which permits an investment adviser to cause an account to
pay commission rates in excess of those another broker or dealer
would have charged for effecting the same transaction, if the
adviser determines in good faith that the commission paid is
reasonable in relation to the value of the brokerage and research
services provided. The determination may be viewed in terms of
either the particular transaction involved or the overall
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responsibilities of the adviser with respect to the accounts over
which it exercises investment discretion. Accordingly, while T.
Rowe Price cannot readily determine the extent to which
commission rates or net prices charged by broker-dealers reflect
the value of their research services, T. Rowe Price would expect
to assess the reasonableness of commissions in light of the total
brokerage and research services provided by each particular
broker. T. Rowe Price may receive research, as defined in
Section 28(e), in connection with selling concessions and
designations in fixed price offerings in which the Funds
participate.
Internal Allocation Procedures
T. Rowe Price has a policy of not precommitting a specific
amount of business to any broker or dealer over any specific time
period. Historically, the majority of brokerage placement has
been determined by the needs of a specific transaction such as
market-making, availability of a buyer or seller of a particular
security, or specialized execution skills. However, T. Rowe
Price does have an internal brokerage allocation procedure for
that portion of its discretionary client brokerage business where
special needs do not exist, or where the business may be
allocated among several brokers or dealers which are able to meet
the needs of the transaction.
Each year, T. Rowe Price assesses the contribution of the
brokerage and research services provided by brokers or dealers,
and attempts to allocate a portion of its brokerage business in
response to these assessments. Research analysts, counselors,
various investment committees, and the Trading Department each
seek to evaluate the brokerage and research services they receive
from brokers or dealers and make judgments as to the level of
business which would recognize such services. In addition,
brokers or dealers sometimes suggest a level of business they
would like to receive in return for the various brokerage and
research services they provide. Actual brokerage received by any
firm may be less than the suggested allocations but can, and
often does, exceed the suggestions, because the total business is
allocated on the basis of all the considerations described above.
In no case is a broker or dealer excluded from receiving business
from T. Rowe Price because it has not been identified as
providing research services.
Miscellaneous
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T. Rowe Price's brokerage allocation policy is consistently
applied to all its fully discretionary accounts, which represent
a substantial majority of all assets under management. Research
services furnished by brokers or dealers through which T. Rowe
Price effects securities transactions may be used in servicing
all accounts (including non-Fund accounts) managed by T. Rowe
Price. Conversely, research services received from brokers or
dealers which execute transactions for the Fund are not
necessarily used by T. Rowe Price exclusively in connection with
the management of the Fund.
From time to time, orders for clients may be placed through a
computerized transaction network.
The Fund does not allocate business to any broker-dealer on
the basis of its sales of the Fund's shares. However, this does
not mean that broker-dealers who purchase Fund shares for their
clients will not receive business from the Fund.
Some of T. Rowe Price's other clients have investment
objectives and programs similar to those of the Fund. T. Rowe
Price may occasionally make recommendations to other clients
which result in their purchasing or selling securities
simultaneously with the Fund. As a result, the demand for
securities being purchased or the supply of securities being sold
may increase, and this could have an adverse effect on the price
of those securities. It is T. Rowe Price's policy not to favor
one client over another in making recommendations or in placing
orders. T. Rowe Price frequently follows the practice of
grouping orders of various clients for execution which generally
results in lower commission rates being attained. In certain
cases, where the aggregate order is executed in a series of
transactions at various prices on a given day, each participating
client's proportionate share of such order reflects the average
price paid or received with respect to the total order. T. Rowe
Price has established a general investment policy that it will
ordinarily not make additional purchases of a common stock of a
company for its clients (including the T. Rowe Price Funds) if,
as a result of such purchases, 10% or more of the outstanding
common stock of such company would be held by its clients in the
aggregate.
To the extent possible, T. Rowe Price intends to recapture
solicitation fees paid in connection with tender offers through
T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc., the Fund's distributor.
At the present time, T. Rowe Price does not recapture commissions
or underwriting discounts or selling group concessions in
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connection with taxable securities acquired in underwritten
offerings. T. Rowe Price does, however, attempt to negotiate
elimination of all or a portion of the selling-group concession
or underwriting discount when purchasing tax-exempt municipal
securities on behalf of its clients in underwritten offerings.
High Yield, New Income, Personal Strategy, Short-Term Bond, and
Short-Term U.S. Government Funds
Transactions with Related Brokers and Dealers
As provided in the Investment Management Agreement between
the Fund and T. Rowe Price, T. Rowe Price is responsible not only
for making decisions with respect to the purchase and sale of the
Fund's portfolio securities, but also for implementing these
decisions, including the negotiation of commissions and the
allocation of portfolio brokerage and principal business. It is
expected that T. Rowe Price may place orders for the Fund's
portfolio transactions with broker-dealers through the same
trading desk T. Rowe Price uses for portfolio transactions in
domestic securities. The trading desk accesses brokers and
dealers in various markets in which the Fund's foreign securities
are located. These brokers and dealers may include certain
affiliates of Robert Fleming Holdings Limited ("Robert Fleming
Holdings") and Jardine Fleming Group Limited ("JFG"), persons
indirectly related to T. Rowe Price. Robert Fleming Holdings,
through Copthall Overseas Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary,
owns 25% of the common stock of Rowe Price-Fleming International,
Inc. ("RPFI"), an investment adviser registered under the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Fifty percent of the common
stock of RPFI is owned by TRP Finance, Inc., a wholly-owned
subsidiary of T. Rowe Price, and the remaining 25% is owned by
Jardine Fleming Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of JFG. JFG is
50% owned by Robert Fleming Holdings and 50% owned by Jardine
Matheson Holdings Limited. Orders for the Fund's portfolio
transactions placed with affiliates of Robert Fleming Holdings
and JFG will result in commissions being received by such
affiliates.
The Board of Directors/Trustees of the Fund has authorized T.
Rowe Price to utilize certain affiliates of Robert Fleming and
JFG in the capacity of broker in connection with the execution of
the Fund's portfolio transactions. These affiliates include, but
are not limited to, Jardine Fleming Securities Limited ("JFS"), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of JFG, Robert Fleming & Co. Limited
("RF&Co."), Jardine Fleming Australia Securities Limited, and
Robert Fleming, Inc. (a New York brokerage firm). Other
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affiliates of Robert Fleming Holding and JFG also may be used.
Although it does not believe that the Fund's use of these brokers
would be subject to Section 17(e) of the Investment Company Act
of 1940, the Board of Directors/Trustees of the Fund has agreed
that the procedures set forth in Rule 17e-1 under that Act will
be followed when using such brokers.
Other
For the fiscal years ended May 31, 1995, February 28, 1994,
and February 28, 1993, the Funds engaged in portfolio
transactions involving broker-dealers in the following amounts:
Fund 1995 1994 1993
______ ____ ____ ____
GNMA $2,605,743,000 $ 2,306,951,000 $ 1,528,454,000
High Yield 14,045,057,000 18,554,222,000 16,168,606,000
New Income 5,469,278,000 20,265,475,000 15,193,999,000
Prime Reserve 53,302,615,000 29,024,172,000 36,478,989,000
Short-Term Bond 4,874,827,000 4,266,837,000 5,805,958,000
Short-Term U.S.
Government 1,033,107,000 793,565,000 1,876,498,000
U.S. Treasury 235,797,000 81,970,000 91,923,000
Intermediate
U.S. Treasury 185,478,000 142,513,000 192,941,000
Long-Term
U.S. Treasury 5,593,158,000 3,449,951,000 2,804,196,000
Money
Personal Strategy 178,662,000
Income
Personal Strategy 70,729,000
Balanced
Personal Strategy 111,347,000
Growth
The Funds engaged in portfolio transactions involving
broker-dealers in the following amounts for the three-month
fiscal year ended May 31, 1994:
Fund 1994
_____ ____
GNMA $ 620,027,000
High Yield 4,476,795,000
New Income 1,649,029,000
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Prime Reserve 5,945,733,000
Short-Term Bond 1,149,888,000
Short-Term U.S. Government 63,449,000
U.S. Treasury Intermediate 35,433,000
U.S. Treasury Long-Term 85,972,000
U.S. Treasury Money 10,087,000
The entire amount for each of these years represented
principal transactions as to which the GNMA, Prime Reserve,
Short-Term U.S. Government, U.S. Treasury Intermediate, Long-Term
and Money Funds have no knowledge of the profits or losses
realized by the respective broker-dealers for the fiscal year
ended May 31, 1995, three-month fiscal year ended May 31, 1994,
and for the fiscal years ended February 28, 1994, and February
28, 1993.
With respect to the New Income and Short-Term Bond Funds,
the entire amount for the three-month fiscal year ended May 31,
1994 represented principal transactions as to which the Bond
Funds have no knowledge of the profits or losses realized by the
respective broker-dealers.
With respect to the High Yield Fund, for the fiscal year
ended May 31, 1995, $4,398,879,000 consisted of principal
transactions as to which the Fund has no knowledge of the profits
or losses realized by the respective broker-dealers; and
$77,916,000 involved trades with brokers acting as agents or
underwriters, in which such broker received total commissions,
including discounts received in connection with underwritings of
$1,385,000.
With respect to the High Yield, New Income, Short-Term
Bond, Personal Strategy Income, Personal Strategy Growth, and
Personal Strategy Balanced Funds, the following amounts consisted
of principal transactions as to which the Funds have no knowledge
of the profits or losses realized by the respective broker-
dealers for the fiscal years ended May 31, 1995, February 28,
1994, and February 28, 1993:
Fund 1995 1994 1993
______ ____ ____ ____
High Yield $13,782,740,000 $17,956,306,000 $15,737,460,000
New Income 5,469,278,000 20,206,382,000 15,189,019,000
Short-Term Bond 4,874,827,000 4,266,837,000 5,805,958,000
Personal Strategy
Income 170,562,000 -- --
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Personal Strategy
Growth 62,481,000 -- --
Personal Strategy
Balanced 103,137,000 -- --
The following amounts involved trades with brokers acting as
agents or underwriters for the fiscal years ended May 31, 1995,
February 28, 1994, and February 28, 1993:
Fund 1995 1994 1993
______ ____ ____ ____
High Yield $262,317,000 $597,916,000 $ 431,147,000
New Income 0 59,093,000 4,980,000
Short-Term Bond 0 0 0
Personal Strategy 8,100,000 -- --
Income
Personal Strategy 8,248,000 -- --
Growth
Personal Strategy 8,210,000 -- --
Balanced
The amounts shown below involved trades with brokers acting
as agents or underwriters, in which such brokers received total
commissions, including discounts received in connection with
underwritings for the fiscal years ended May 31, 1995, February
28, 1994, and February 28, 1993:
Fund 1995 1994 1993
______ ____ ____ ____
High Yield $4,704,000 $16,730,000 $3,661,000
New Income 0 169,000 20,000
Short-Term Bond 0 0 0
GNMA 3,000 -- --
Personal Strategy 47,000 -- --
Income
Personal Strategy 11,000 -- --
Growth
Personal Strategy 13,000 -- --
Balanced
The percentage of total portfolio transactions, placed
with firms which provided research, statistical, or other
services to T. Rowe Price in connection with the management of
the Funds, or in some cases, to the Funds for the fiscal year
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ended May 31, 1995, three-month fiscal year ended May 31, 1994,
and for the fiscal years ended February 28, 1994, and February
28, 1993, are shown below:
Fund 1995 1994* 1994 1993
______ ____ ____ ____ ____
GNMA 97% 98% 91% 91%
High Yield 97% 48% 70% 70%
New Income 73% 68% 61% 61%
Prime Reserve 90% 78% 87% 81%
Short-Term Bond 66% 83% 61% 84%
Short-Term U.S. 81%
Government 100% 100% 94%
U.S. Treasury 95% 87% 85% 98%
Intermediate
U.S. Treasury Long-Term 100% 100% 98% 99%
U.S. Treasury Money 67% 32% 66% 75%
Personal Strategy 30% -- -- --
Income
Personal Strategy 30% -- -- --
Growth
Personal Strategy 40% -- -- --
Balanced
* For the three-month fiscal year ended May 31, 1994.
The portfolio turnover rates for the following Funds for the
fiscal year ended May 31, 1995, the three-month fiscal year ended
May 31, 1994, and for the fiscal years ended February 28, 1994,
and February 28, 1993, are as follows:
Fund 1995 1994* 1994 1993
______ _____ ____ ____ ____
GNMA 121.3% 151.8% 92.5% 94.2%
High Yield 74.2% 62.5% 107.0% 104.4%
New Income 54.1% 91.5% 58.3% 85.8%
Short-Term Bond 136.9% 222.8% 90.8% 68.4%
Short-Term U.S.
Government 100.0% 27.6% 70.4% 110.8%
U.S. Treasury
Intermediate 81.1% 45.5% 20.2% 22.8%
U.S. Treasury Long-Term 99.3% 246.9% 59.4% 165.4%
Personal Strategy
Income 50.5% -- -- --
Personal Strategy
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Growth 25.7% -- -- --
Personal Strategy
Balanced 25.8% -- -- --
* For the three-month fiscal year ended May 31, 1994
(annualized).
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Prime Reserve Fund
The Fund, in pursuing its objectives, may engage in short-term
trading to take advantage of market variations. The Fund will
seek to protect principal, improve liquidity of its securities,
or enhance yield by purchasing and selling securities based upon
existing or anticipated market discrepancies.
Money Fund
The Fund, in pursuing its objectives, may engage in short-term
trading to take advantage of market variations. The Fund will
seek to protect principal, improve liquidity of its securities,
or enhance yield by purchasing and selling securities based upon
existing or anticipated market discrepancies.
PRICING OF SECURITIES
GNMA, High Yield, New Income, Short-Term Bond, Short-Term U.S.
Government, U.S. Treasury Intermediate and Long-Term Funds
Fixed income securities are generally traded in the over-the-
counter market. Investments in domestic securities with
remaining maturities of one year or more and foreign securities
are stated at fair value using a bid-side valuation as furnished
by dealers who make markets in such securities or by an
independent pricing service, which considers yield or price of
bonds of comparable quality, coupon, maturity, and type, as well
as prices quoted by dealers who make markets in such securities.
Domestic securities with remaining maturities less than one year
are stated at fair value which is determined by using a matrix
system that establishes a value for each security based on bid-
side money market yields.
There are a number of pricing services available, and the
Board of Directors, on the basis of ongoing evaluation of these
services, may use or may discontinue the use of any pricing
service in whole or in part.
High Yield, New Income, and Personal Strategy Funds
Equity securities listed or regularly traded on a securities
exchange are valued at the last quoted sales price on the day the
valuations are made. A security which is listed or traded on
more than one exchange is valued at the quotation on the exchange
determined to be the primary market for such security. Listed
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securities that are not traded on a particular day and securities
that are regularly traded in the over-the-counter market valued
at the mean of the latest bid and asked prices. Other equity
securities are valued at a price within the limits of the latest
bid and asked prices deemed by the Board of Directors/Trustees,
or by persons delegated by the Board, best to reflect fair
value.
Debt securities are generally traded in the over-the-counter
market and are valued at a price deemed best to reflect fair
value as quoted by dealers who make markets in these securities
or by an independent pricing service. Short-term debt securities
are valued at their cost in local currency which, when combined
with accrued interest, approximates fair value.
Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds
Securities with more than 60 days remaining to maturity are
stated at fair value which is determined by using a matrix system
that establishes a value for each security based on money market
yields. Securities originally purchased with remaining
maturities of 60 days or less are valued at amortized cost. In
addition, securities purchased with maturities in excess of 60
days, but which currently have maturities of 60 days or less, are
valued at their amortized cost for the 60 days prior to maturity-
-such amortization being based on the fair value of the
securities on the 61st day prior to maturity.
All Funds
For the purposes of determining the Fund's net asset value
per share, all assets and liabilities initially expressed in
foreign currencies are converted into U.S. dollars at the mean of
the bid and offer prices of such currencies against U.S. dollars
quoted by any major bank.
Assets and liabilities for which the above valuation
procedures are inappropriate or are deemed not to reflect fair
value are stated at fair value, as determined in good faith by or
under the supervision of officers of the Funds, as authorized by
the Board of Directors.
Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds
Maintenance of Net Asset Value Per Share
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It is the policy of the Fund to attempt to maintain a net
asset value of $1.00 per share by rounding to the nearest one
cent. This method of valuation is commonly referred to as "penny
rounding" and is permitted by Rule 2a-7 under the Investment
Company Act of 1940. Under Rule 2a-7:
(a) the Board of Directors of the Fund must undertake to
assure, to the extent reasonably practical taking into
account current market conditions affecting the Fund's
investment objectives, that the Fund's net asset value will
not deviate from $1.00 per share;
Prime Reserve Fund
(b) the Fund must (i) maintain a dollar-weighted average
portfolio maturity appropriate to its objective of
maintaining a stable price per share, (ii) not purchase any
instrument with a remaining maturity greater than 397 days
(or in the case of U.S. government securities greater than
762 days), and (iii) maintain a dollar-weighted average
portfolio maturity of 90 days or less;
Money Fund
(b) The Fund must (i) maintain a dollar-weighted average
portfolio maturity appropriate to its objective of
maintaining a stable price per share, (ii) not purchase any
instrument with a remaining maturity greater than 762 days,
and (iii) maintain a dollar-weighted average portfolio
maturity of 90 days or less;
Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds
(c) the Fund must limit its purchase of portfolio
instruments, including repurchase agreements, to those U.S.
dollar-denominated instruments which the Fund's Board of
Directors determines present minimal credit risks, and which
are eligible securities as defined by Rule 2a-7; and
(d) the Board of Directors must determine that (i) it is in
the best interest of the Fund and its shareholders to
maintain a stable price per share under the penny rounding
method; and (ii) the Fund will continue to use the penny
rounding method only so long as the Board of Directors
believes that it fairly reflects the market based net asset
value per share.
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Although the Fund believes that it will be able to maintain
its net asset value at $1.00 per share under most conditions,
there can be no absolute assurance that it will be able to do so
on a continuous basis. If the Fund's net asset value per share
declined, or was expected to decline, below $1.00 (rounded to the
nearest one cent), the Board of Directors of the Fund might
temporarily reduce or suspend dividend payments in an effort to
maintain the net asset value at $1.00 per share. As a result of
such reduction or suspension of dividends, an investor would
receive less income during a given period than if such a
reduction or suspension had not taken place. Such action could
result in an investor receiving no dividend for the period during
which he holds his shares and in his receiving, upon redemption,
a price per share lower than that which he paid. On the other
hand, if the Fund's net asset value per share were to increase,
or were anticipated to increase above $1.00 (rounded to the
nearest one cent), the Board of Directors of the Fund might
supplement dividends in an effort to maintain the net asset value
at $1.00 per share.
Prime Reserve Fund
Prime Money Market Securities Defined. Prime money market
securities are those which are described as First Tier Securities
under Rule 2a-7 of the Investment Company Act of 1940. These
include any security with a remaining maturity of 397 days or
less that is rated (or that has been issued by an issuer that is
rated with respect to a class of short-term debt obligations, or
any security within that class that is comparable in priority and
security with the security) by any two nationally recognized
statistical rating organizations (NRSROs) (or if only one NRSRO
has issued a rating, that NRSRO) in the highest rating category
for short-term debt obligations (within which there may be sub-
categories). First Tier Securities also include unrated
securities comparable in quality to rated securities, as
determined by T. Rowe Price under the supervision of the Fund's
Board of Directors.
All Funds
NET ASSET VALUE PER SHARE
The purchase and redemption price of the Fund's shares is
equal to the Fund's net asset value per share or share price.
The Fund determines its net asset value per share by subtracting
the Fund's liabilities (including accrued expenses and dividends
payable) from its total assets (the market value of the \
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securities the Fund holds plus cash and other assets, including
income accrued but not yet received) and dividing the result by
the total number of shares outstanding. The net asset value per
share of the Fund is normally calculated as of the close of
trading on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") every day the
NYSE is open for trading. The NYSE is closed on the following
days: New Year's Day, Washington's Birthday, Good Friday,
Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and
Christmas Day.
Determination of net asset value (and the offering, sale
redemption and repurchase of shares) for the Fund may be
suspended at times (a) during which the NYSE is closed, other
than customary weekend and holiday closings, (b) during which
trading on the NYSE is restricted, (c) during which an emergency
exists as a result of which disposal by the Fund of securities
owned by it is not reasonably practicable or it is not reasonably
practicable for the Fund fairly to determine the value of its net
assets, or (d) during which a governmental body having
jurisdiction over the Fund may by order permit such a suspension
for the protection of the Fund's shareholders; provided that
applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (or any succeeding governmental authority) shall
govern as to whether the conditions prescribed in (b), (c), or
(d) exist.
DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS
Unless you elect otherwise, the Fund's annual capital gain
distribution, if any, will be reinvested on the reinvestment date
using the NAV per share of that date. The reinvestment date
normally precedes the payment date by about 10 days although the
exact timing is subject to change.
TAX STATUS
The Fund intends to qualify as a "regulated investment
company" under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended ("Code").
A portion of the dividends paid by the Fund may be eligible
for the dividends-received deduction for corporate shareholders.
For tax purposes, it does not make any difference whether
dividends and capital gain distributions are paid in cash or in
additional shares. The Fund must declare dividends by December
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31 of each year equal to at least 98% of ordinary income (as of
December 31) and capital gains (as of October 31) in order to
avoid a federal excise tax and distribute within 12 months 100%
of ordinary income and capital gains as of its tax year-end to
avoid federal income tax.
At the time of your purchase, the Fund's net asset value
may reflect undistributed capital gains or net unrealized
appreciation of securities held by the Fund. A subsequent
distribution to you of such amounts, although constituting a
return of your investment, would be taxable as a capital gain
distribution. For federal income tax purposes, the Fund is
permitted to carry forward its net realized capital losses, if
any, for eight years and realize net capital gains up to the
amount of such losses without being required to pay taxes on, or
distribute such gains. On May 31, 1995, the books of each Fund
indicated that each Fund's aggregate net assets included
undistributed net income, net realized capital gains, and
unrealized appreciation which are listed below.
Net Realized Unrealized
Undistributed Capital Appreciation/
Fund Net Income Gains/(Losses) (Depreciation)
GNMA $(4,773,629) $(6,992,148) $37,254,075
High Yield 2,561,608 (79,799,320) 50,036,921
New Income 2,666,066 (11,115,122) 68,296,084
Prime Reserve 1,764,968 613,219 2,004,740
Short-Term Bond 311,727 (28,959,393) 15,247,053
Short-Term U.S.
Government (587,703) (5,752,700) 4,951,808
U.S. Treasury Intermediate 250,112 (2,130,422) 6,380,170
U.S. Treasury Long-Term 12,190 (1,278,210) 5,909,908
U.S. Treasury Money 81,340 57,856 147,449
Personal Strategy Income 127,910 50,942 1,677,355
Personal Strategy Balanced 47,182 1,402 1,161,787
Personal Strategy Growth 81,023 10,512 991,622
If, in any taxable year, the Fund should not qualify as a
regulated investment company under the Code: (i) the Fund would
be taxed at normal corporate rates on the entire amount of its
taxable income, if any, without deduction for dividends or other
distributions to shareholders; and (ii) the Fund's distributions
to the extent made out of the Fund's current or accumulated
earnings and profits would be taxable to shareholders as ordinary
dividends (regardless of whether they would otherwise have been
considered capital gain dividends).
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Taxation of Foreign Shareholders
The Code provides that dividends from net income will be
subject to U.S. tax. For shareholders who are not engaged in a
business in the U.S., this tax would be imposed at the rate of
30% upon the gross amount of the dividends in the absence of a
Tax Treaty providing for a reduced rate or exemption from U.S.
taxation. Distributions of net long-term capital gains realized
by the Fund are not subject to tax unless the foreign shareholder
is a nonresident alien individual who was physically present in
the U.S. during the tax year for more than 182 days.
To the extent a Fund invests in foreign securities, the
following would apply:
Passive Foreign Investment Companies
Each Fund may purchase the securities of certain foreign
investment funds or trusts called passive foreign investment
companies. Capital gains on the sale of such holdings will be
deemed to be ordinary income regardless of how long the Fund
holds its investment. In addition to bearing their proportionate
share of the funds expenses (management fees and operating
expenses) shareholders will also indirectly bear similar expenses
of such funds. In addition, the Funds may be subject to
corporate income tax and an interest charge on certain dividends
and capital gains earned from these investments, regardless of
whether such income and gains were distributed to shareholders.
To avoid such tax and interest, the Funds in accordance
with tax regulations, intend to treat these securities as sold on
the last day of a Fund's fiscal year and recognize any gains for
tax purposes at that time; losses will not be recognized. Such
gains will be considered ordinary income which a Fund will be
required to distribute even though it has not sold the security
and received cash to pay such distributions.
Foreign Currency Gains and Losses
Foreign currency gains and losses, including the portion of
gain or loss on the sale of debt securities attributable to
foreign exchange rate fluctuations, are taxable as ordinary
income. If the net effect of these transactions is a gain, the
ordinary income dividend paid by the Fund will be increased; if
the result is a loss, a portion of its ordinary income dividend
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may be classified as a return of capital. Adjustments to reflect
these gains and losses will be made at the end of the Fund's
taxable year.
YIELD INFORMATION
From time to time, the Fund may advertise a yield figure
calculated in the following manner:
GNMA and Short-Term U.S. Government Funds
In conformity with regulations of the Securities and
Exchange Commission, an income factor is calculated for each
security in the portfolio based upon the security's coupon rate.
The income factors are then adjusted for any gains or losses
which have resulted from prepayments of principal during the
period. The income factors are then totalled for all securities
in the portfolio. Next, expenses of the Fund for the period net
of expected reimbursements, are deducted from the income to
arrive at net income, which is then converted to a per-share
amount by dividing net income by the average number of shares
outstanding during the period. The net income per share is
divided by the net asset value on the last day of the period to
produce a monthly yield which is then annualized. Quoted yield
factors are for comparison purposes only, and are not intended to
indicate future performance or forecast the dividend per share of
the Fund.
The yields of the GNMA and Short-Term U.S. Government
Funds calculated under the above-described method for the month
ended May 31, 1995 were 7.16% and 5.89%, respectively.
High Yield, New Income, Short-Term Bond, U.S. Treasury
Intermediate and U.S. Treasury Long-Term Funds
An income factor is calculated for each security in the
portfolio based upon the security's market value at the beginning
of the period and yield as determined in conformity with
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The
income factors are then totalled for all securities in the
portfolio. Next, expenses of the Fund for the period net of
expected reimbursements are deducted from the income to arrive at
net income, which is then converted to a per-share amount by
dividing net income by the average number of shares outstanding
during the period. The net income per share is divided by the
net asset value on the last day of the period to produce a
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monthly yield which is then annualized. Quoted yield factors are
for comparison purposes only, and are not intended to indicate
future performance or forecast the dividend per share of the
Fund.
The yields of the High Yield, New Income, Short-Term
Bond, Intermediate and Long-Term Funds calculated under the
above-described method for the month ended May 31, 1995, were
9.03%, 6.53%, 5.94%, 6.02% and 6.48%, respectively.
Prime Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds
The Fund's current and historical yield for a period is
calculated by dividing the net change in value of an account
(including all dividends accrued and dividends reinvested in
additional shares) by the account value at the beginning of the
period to obtain the base period return. This base period return
is divided by the number of days in the period then multiplied by
365 to arrive at the annualized yield for that period. The
Fund's annualized compound yield for such period is compounded by
dividing the base period return by the number of days in the
period, and compounding that figure over 365 days.
The seven-day yields ending May 31, 1995 for the Prime
Reserve and U.S. Treasury Money Funds were 5.47% and 5.32%,
respectively, and the Funds' compound yield for the same period
were 5.62% and 5.46%, respectively.
All Funds
INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE
Total Return Performance
The Fund's calculation of total return performance includes
the reinvestment of all capital gain distributions and income
dividends for the period or periods indicated, without regard to
tax consequences to a shareholder in the Fund. Total return is
calculated as the percentage change between the beginning value
of a static account in the Fund and the ending value of that
account measured by the then current net asset value, including
all shares acquired through reinvestment of income and capital
gains dividends. The results shown are historical and should not
be considered indicative of the future performance of the Fund.
Each average annual compound rate of return is derived from the
cumulative performance of the Fund over the time period
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specified. The annual compound rate of return for the Fund over
any other period of time will vary from the average.
Cumulative Performance Percentage Change
1 Yr. 5 Yrs. 10 Yrs. Since
Ended Ended Ended Inception-
5/31/95 5/31/95 5/31/95 5/31/95
GNMA Fund
T. Rowe Price GNMA Fund 12.11% 53.09% 113.86%
(11/26/85)
Salomon Brothers 30-Year
GNMA Index 11.32 57.28 143.34
Lehman Brothers GNMA
Bond Index 11.57 55.87 139.23
Lipper GNMA Funds Average 10.18 49.86 115.84
High Yield Fund
T. Rowe Price High
Yield Fund 7.09% 68.43% 150.74% 176.85%
(12/31/84)
Merrill Lynch High
Yield Index 14.43 96.75 217.54 253.79
Merrill Lynch Medium Quality
Long Corporate Index 16.25 76.97 215.65 257.08
Lipper's Average of High
Current Yield Funds 7.67 84.71 156.57 182.67
New Income Fund
T. Rowe Price New
Income Fund 11.13% 54.75% 139.69% 563.52%
(8/31/73)
Salomon Bros. Broad
Investment Grade Index 11.52 59.07 162.24 N/A
Salomon Bros. High Grade
Corporate Bond Index 15.79 72.73 205.69 672.74
Lehman Bros. Govt./Corp.
Bond Index 11.61 59.48 158.85 626.52
Lipper Corporate Bond Fund's
-A Rated Average 10.67 56.68 148.15 562.22
Personal Strategy Funds
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Personal Strategy Income 12.90%
(7/29/94)
S&P 500 19.30
Lehman Bros. Gov't/Corp. 9.68
Bond Index
Personal Strategy Balanced 14.35
(7/29/94)
S&P 500 19.30
Lehman Bros. Gov't/Corp. 9.68
Bond Index
Personal Strategy Growth 15.65%
(7/29/94)
S&P 500 19.30
Lehman Bros. Gov't/Corp. 9.68
Bond Index
Short-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term
Bond Fund 3.41% 34.89% 93.11% 126.51%
(3/2/84)
T. Rowe Price Prime
Reserve Fund 4.85 24.08 76.35 336.68
(1/26/76)
IBC/Donoghue Average of all
Taxable Money Funds 4.83 24.38 76.01* 319.15*
(1/21.76)
Lehman Bros. 1-3 Year
Govt./Corp. Bond Index 7.46 42.96 114.27 155.17
(2/29/84)
Lipper Short Investment
Grade Debt Funds Average 6.69 41.75 113.19 151.07
(2/29/84)
Short-Term U.S. Government Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term
U.S. Government Fund, Inc.6.14% 14.88%
(9/30/91)
Lipper Average of Adjustable
Rate Mortgage Funds 1.62 13.88
Merrill Lynch 1-3 Year
Govt. Index 7.44 24.04
Salomon Brothers 1-Year
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Treasury Index 6.41 19.16
Salomon Brothers 2-Year
Treasury Index 7.55 24.26
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury
Intermediate Fund 9.29% 50.81 58.05%
(9/29/89)
Salomon 1-7 year
Treasury Index 8.40 49.37 57.12
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury
Long-Term Fund 15.24 62.70 67.60
(9/29/89)
Salomon Treasury Index 10.90 57.66 64.38
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Average Annual Compound Rates of Return
1 Yr. 5 Yrs. 10 Yrs. Since
Ended Ended Ended Inception-
5/31/95 5/31/95 5/31/95 5/31/95
GNMA Fund
T. Rowe Price GNMA Fund 12.11% 8.89% 8.32%
(11/26/85)
Salomon Brothers 30-Year
GNMA Index 11.32 9.48 9.82
Lehman Brothers GNMA Bond
Index 11.57 9.28 9.62
Lipper GNMA Funds Average 10.18 8.42 8.42
High Yield Fund
T. Rowe Price
High Yield Fund 7.09% 10.99% 9.63% 10.10%
(12/31/84)
Merrill Lynch High
Yield Index 14.43 14.49 12.25 12.68
Merrill Lynch Medium Quality
Long Corporate Index 16.25 12.09 12.18 12.78
Lipper's Average of High
Current Yield Funds 7.67 12.99 9.78 10.39
New Income Fund
T. Rowe Price
New Income Fund 11.13% 9.13% 9.14% 9.09%
(8/31/73)
Salomon Bros. Broad
Investment Grade Index 11.52 9.73 10.12 N/A
Salomon Bros. High Grade
Corporate Bond Index 15.79 11.55 11.82 9.86
Lehman Bros. Govt./Corp.
Bond Index 11.61 9.79 9.98 9.55
Lipper Corporate Bond Fund's
-A Rated Average 10.67 9.38 9.49 9.05
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Personal Strategy Funds
Personal Strategy Income N/A
(7/29/94)
Personal Strategy Balanced N/A
(7/29/94)
Personal Strategy Growth N/A
(7/29/94)
Short-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term
Bond Fund 3.41 6.17 6.91 7.54
(3/2/84)
T. Rowe Price Prime
Reserve Fund 4.85 4.41 5.84 7.92
(1/26/76)
IBC/Donoghue Average of all
Taxable Money Funds 4.83 4.46 5.82 7.69
(1/31/76)
Lehman Bros. 1-3 Year
Govt./Corp. Bond Index 7.46 7.41 7.92 8.69
(2/29/84)
Lipper Short Investment
Grade Debt Funds Average 6.69 7.23 7.86 8.53
(2/29/84)
Short-Term U.S. Government Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term U.S.
Government Fund, Inc. 6.14% 3.86%
(9/30/91)
Lipper Average of Adjustable
Rate Mortgage Funds 1.62 3.59
Merrill Lynch 1-3 Year
Govt. Index 7.44 6.05
Salomon Brothers 1-Year
Treasury Index 6.41 4.89
Salomon Brothers 2-Year
Treasury Index 7.55 6.10
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury
Intermediate Fund 9.29 8.56 8.41
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(9/29/89)
Salomon 1-7 Year Treasury
Index 8.40 8.36 8.30
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury
Long-Term Fund 15.24 10.22 9.54
(9/29/89)
Salomon Treasury Index 10.90 9.53 9.16
Outside Sources of Information
From time to time, in reports and promotional literature,
one or more of the T. Rowe Price funds, including this Fund, may
compare its performance to Overnight Government Repurchase
Agreements, Treasury bills, notes, and bonds, certificates of
deposit, and six-month money market certificates. Bank
certificates of deposit differ from mutual funds in several ways:
the interest rate established by the sponsoring bank is fixed for
the term of a CD; there are penalties for early withdrawal from
CDs; and the principal on a CD is insured. Performance may also
be compared to (1) indices of broad groups of managed or
unmanaged securities considered to be representative of or
similar to Fund portfolio holdings; such as: Lipper Analytical
Services, Inc., "Lipper-Fixed Income Fund Performance Analysis"
is a monthly publication which tracks net assets, total return,
principal return and yield on approximately 950 fixed income
mutual funds offered in the United States; Morningstar, Inc., is
a widely used independent research firm which rates mutual funds
by overall performance, investment objectives and assets.; (2)
other mutual funds; or (3) other measures of performance set
forth in publications such as:
Advertising News Service, Inc., "Bank Rate Monitor+ - The
Weekly Financial Rate Reporter" is a weekly publication which
lists the yields on various money market instruments offered to
the public by 100 leading banks and thrift institutions in the
U.S., including loan rates offered by these banks.
IBC/Donoghue Organization, Inc., "IBC/Donoghue's Money Fund
Report" is a weekly publication which tracks net assets, yield,
maturity and portfolio holdings on approximately 380 money
market mutual funds offered in the U.S. These funds are broken
down into various categories such as U.S. Treasury, Domestic
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Prime and Euros, Domestic Prime and Euros and Yankees, and
Aggressive.
First Boston High Yield Index. It shows statistics on the
Composite Index and analytical data on new issues in the
marketplace and low-grade issuers.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., "Taxable Bond
Indices" is a monthly publication which lists principal, coupon
and total return on over 100 different taxable bond indices
tracked by Merrill Lynch, together with the par weighted
characteristics of each Index. The index used as a benchmark
for the High Yield Fund is the High Yield Index. The two
indices used as benchmarks for the Short-Term Bond Fund are the
91-Day Treasury Bill Index and the 1-2.99 Year Treasury Note
Index.
Salomon Brothers Inc., "Analytical Record of Yields and Yield
Spreads" is a publication which tracks historical yields and
yield spreads on short-term market rates, public obligations of
the U.S. Treasury and agencies of the U.S. government, public
corporate debt obligations, municipal debt obligations and
preferred stocks.
Salomon Brothers Inc., "Bond Market Round-up" is a weekly
publication which tracks the yields and yield spreads on a
large, but select, group of money market instruments, public
corporate debt obligations, and public obligations of the U.S.
Treasury and agencies of the U.S. Government.
Salomon Brothers Inc., "High Yield Composite Index" is an index
which provides performance and statistics for the high yield
market place.
Salomon Brothers Inc., "Market Performance" is a monthly
publication which tracks principal return, total return and
yield on the Salomon Brothers Broad investment - Grade Bond
Index and the components of the Index.
Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc., "The Bond Market Report" is a
monthly publication which tracks principal, coupon and total
return on the Shearson Lehman Govt./Corp. Index and Shearson
Lehman Aggregate Bond Index, as well as all the components of
these Indices.
Telerate Systems, Inc., is a market data distribution network
which tracks a broad range of financial markets including, the
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daily rates on money market instruments, public corporate debt
obligations and public obligations of the U.S. Treasury and
agencies of the U.S. Government.
Wall Street Journal, is a national daily financial news
publication which lists the yields and current market values on
money market instruments, public corporate debt obligations,
public obligations of the U.S. Treasury and agencies of the
U.S. government as well as common stocks, preferred stocks,
convertible preferred stocks, options and commodities.
Indices prepared by the research departments of such financial
organizations as Shearson Lehman/American Express Inc., and
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc., including
information provided by the Federal Reserve Board.
Performance rankings and ratings reported periodically in
national financial publications such as MONEY, FORBES, BUSINESS
WEEK, BARRON'S, etc. will also be used.
All Funds
IRAs
An IRA is a long-term investment whose objective is to
accumulate personal savings for retirement. Due to the long-term
nature of the investment, even slight differences in performance
will result in significantly different assets at retirement.
Mutual funds, with their diversity of choice, can be used for IRA
investments. Generally, individuals may need to adjust their
underlying IRA investments as their time to retirement and
tolerance for risk changes.
Other Features and Benefits
The Fund is a member of the T. Rowe Price Family of Funds
and may help investors achieve various long-term investment
goals, such as investing money for retirement, saving for a down
payment on a home, or paying college costs. To explain how the
Fund could be used to assist investors in planning for these
goals and to illustrate basic principles of investing, various
worksheets and guides prepared by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
and/or T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc. may be made
available. These currently include: the Asset Mix Worksheet
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which is designed to show shareholders how to reduce their
investment risk by developing a diversified investment plan; the
College Planning Guide which discusses various aspects of
financial planning to meet college expenses and assists parents
in projecting the costs of a college education for their
children; the Retirement Planning Kit (also available in a PC
version) includes a detailed workbook to determine how much money
you may need for retirement and suggests how you might invest to
achieve your objectives; and the Retirees Financial Guide which
includes a detailed workbook to determine how much money you can
afford to spend and still preserve your purchasing power and
suggests how you might invest to reach your goal. Tax
Considerations for Investors discusses the tax advantages of
annuities and municipal bonds and how to assess whether they are
suitable for your portfolio, reviews pros and cons of placing
assets in a gift to minors account and summarizes the benefits
and types of tax-deferred retirement plans currently available.
Personal Strategy Planner simplifies investment decision making
by helping investors define personal financial goals, establish
length of time the investor intends to invest, determine risk
"comfort zone" and select diversified investment mix; and the How
to Choose a Bond Fund guide which discusses how to choose an
appropriate bond fund for your portfolio. From time to time,
other worksheets and guides may be made available as well. Of
course, an investment in the Fund cannot guarantee that such
goals will be met.
To assist investors in understanding the different returns
and risk characteristics of various investments, the
aforementioned guides will include presentation of historical
returns of various investments using published indices. An
example of this is shown below.
Historical Returns for Different Investments
Annualized returns for periods ended 12/31/94
50 years 20 years 10 years 5 years
Small-Company Stocks 14.4% 20.3% 11.1% 11.8%
Large-Company Stocks 11.9 14.6 14.4 8.7
Foreign Stocks N/A 16.3 17.9 1.8
Long-Term Corporate Bonds 5.3 10.0 11.6 8.4
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Intermediate-Term U.S.
Gov't. Bonds 5.6 9.3 9.4 7.5
Treasury Bills 4.7 7.3 5.8 4.7
U.S. Inflation 4.5 5.5 3.6 3.5
Sources: Ibbotson Associates, Morgan Stanley. Foreign stocks
reflect performance of The Morgan Stanley Capital International
EAFE Index, which includes some 1,000 companies representing the
stock markets of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Far
East. This chart is for illustrative purposes only and should
not be considered as performance for, or the annualized return
of, any T. Rowe Price Fund. Past performance does not guarantee
future results.
Also included will be various portfolios demonstrating how
these historical indices would have performed in various
combinations over a specified time period in terms of return. An
example of this is shown below.
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Performance of Retirement Portfolios*
Asset Mix Average Annualized Value
Returns 20 Years of
Ended 12/31/94 $10,000
Investment
After Period
________________ __________________ ____________
Nominal Real Best Worst
Portfolio Growth Income Safety Return Return** Year Year
I. Low
Risk 40% 40% 20% 12.4% 6.9% 24.9% 0.1%$ 92,515
II. Moderate
Risk 60% 30% 10% 13.5% 8.1% 29.1% -1.8%$118,217
III. High
Risk 80% 20% 0% 14.5% 9.1% 33.4% -5.2%$149,200
Source: T. Rowe Price Associates; data supplied by Lehman
Brothers, Wilshire Associates, and Ibbotson Associates.
* Based on actual performance for the 20 years ended 1994 of
stocks (85% Wilshire 5000 and 15% Europe, Australia, Far East
[EAFE] Index), bonds (Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index
from 1976-94 and Lehman Brothers Government/Corporate Bond
Index from 1975), and 30-day Treasury bills from January 1975
through December 1994. Past performance does not guarantee
future results. Figures include changes in principal value
and reinvested dividends and assume the same asset mix is
maintained each year. This exhibit is for illustrative
purposes only and is not representative of the performance of
any T. Rowe Price fund.
** Based on inflation rate of 5.5% for the 20-year period ended
12/31/94.
Insights
From time to time, Insights, a T. Rowe Price publication of
reports on specific investment topics and strategies, may be
included in the Fund's fulfillment kit. Such reports may include
information concerning: calculating taxable gains and losses on
mutual fund transactions, coping with stock market volatility,
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benefiting from dollar cost averaging, understanding
international markets, investing in high-yield "junk" bonds,
growth stock investing, conservative stock investing, value
investing, investing in small companies, tax-free investing,
fixed income investing, investing in mortgage-backed securities,
as well as other topics and strategies.
Other Publications
From time to time, in newsletters and other publications
issued by T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc., reference may
be made to economic, financial and political developments in the
U.S. and abroad and their effect on securities prices. Such
discussions may take the form of commentary on these developments
by T. Rowe Price mutual fund portfolio managers and their views
and analysis on how such developments could affect investments in
mutual funds.
Redemptions in Kind
In the unlikely event a shareholder were to receive an in
kind redemption of portfolio securities of the Fund, brokerage
fees could be incurred by the shareholder in a subsequent sale of
such securities.
Issuance of Fund Shares for Securities
Transactions involving issuance of Fund shares for
securities or assets other than cash will be limited to (1) bona
fide reorganizations; (2) statutory mergers; or (3) other
acquisitions of portfolio securities that: (a) meet the
investment objective and policies of the Fund; (b) are acquired
for investment and not for resale except in accordance with
applicable law; (c) have a value that is readily ascertainable
via listing on or trading in a recognized United States or
international exchange or market; and (d) are not illiquid.
All Funds, except GNMA Fund
CAPITAL STOCK
The Fund's Charter authorizes the Board of Directors to
classify and reclassify any and all shares which are then
unissued, including unissued shares of capital stock into any
number of classes or series, each class or series consisting of
such number of shares and having such designations, such powers,
preferences, rights, qualifications, limitations, and
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restrictions, as shall be determined by the Board subject to the
Investment Company Act and other applicable law. The shares of
any such additional classes or series might therefore differ from
the shares of the present class and series of capital stock and
from each other as to preferences, conversions or other rights,
voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends,
qualifications or terms or conditions of redemption, subject to
applicable law, and might thus be superior or inferior to the
capital stock or to other classes or series in various
characteristics. The Board of Directors may increase or decrease
the aggregate number of shares of stock or the number of shares
of stock of any class or series that the Fund has authorized to
issue without shareholder approval.
Except to the extent that the Fund's Board of Directors
might provide by resolution that holders of shares of a
particular class are entitled to vote as a class on specified
matters presented for a vote of the holders of all shares
entitled to vote on such matters, there would be no right of
class vote unless and to the extent that such a right might be
construed to exist under Maryland law. The Charter contains no
provision entitling the holders of the present class of capital
stock to a vote as a class on any matter. Accordingly, the
preferences, rights, and other characteristics attaching to any
class of shares, including the present class of capital stock,
might be altered or eliminated, or the class might be combined
with another class or classes, by action approved by the vote of
the holders of a majority of all the shares of all classes
entitled to be voted on the proposal, without any additional
right to vote as a class by the holders of the capital stock or
of another affected class or classes.
Shareholders are entitled to one vote for each full share
held (and fractional votes for fractional shares held) and will
vote in the election of or removal of directors (to the extent
hereinafter provided) and on other matters submitted to the vote
of shareholders. There will normally be no meetings of
shareholders for the purpose of electing directors unless and
until such time as less than a majority of the directors holding
office have been elected by shareholders, at which time the
directors then in office will call a shareholders' meeting for
the election of directors. Except as set forth above, the
directors shall continue to hold office and may appoint successor
directors. Voting rights are not cumulative, so that the holders
of more than 50% of the shares voting in the election of
directors can, if they choose to do so, elect all the directors
of the Fund, in which event the holders of the remaining shares
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will be unable to elect any person as a director. As set forth
in the By-Laws of the Fund, a special meeting of shareholders of
the Fund shall be called by the Secretary of the Fund on the
written request of shareholders entitled to cast at least 10% of
all the votes of the Fund entitled to be cast at such meeting.
Shareholders requesting such a meeting must pay to the Fund the
reasonably estimated costs of preparing and mailing the notice of
the meeting. The Fund, however, will otherwise assist the
shareholders seeking to hold the special meeting in communicating
to the other shareholders of the Fund to the extent required by
Section 16(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
GNMA Fund
DESCRIPTION OF THE FUND
For tax and business reasons, the Fund was organized in 1985
as a Massachusetts Business Trust and is registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 as a diversified, open-end investment company,
commonly known as a "mutual fund."
The Declaration of Trust permits the Board of Trustees to
issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of a
single class. The Declaration of Trust also provides that the
Board of Trustees may issue additional series or classes of
shares. Each share represents an equal proportionate beneficial
interest in the Fund. In the event of the liquidation of the
Fund, each share is entitled to a pro rata share of the net
assets of the Fund.
Shareholders are entitled to one vote for each full share
held (and fractional votes for fractional shares held) and will
vote in the election of or removal of trustees (to the extent
hereinafter provided) and on other matters submitted to the vote
of shareholders. There will normally be no meetings of
shareholders for the purpose of electing trustees unless and
until such time as less than a majority of the trustees holding
office have been elected by shareholders, at which time the
trustees then in office will call a shareholders' meeting for the
election of trustees. Pursuant to Section 16(c) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, holders of record of not less
than two-thirds of the outstanding shares of the Fund may remove
a trustee by a vote cast in person or by proxy at a meeting
called for that purpose. Except as set forth above, the trustees
shall continue to hold office and may appoint successor trustees.
Voting rights are not cumulative, so that the holders of more
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than 50% of the shares voting in the election of trustees can, if
they choose to do so, elect all the trustees of the Trust, in
which event the holders of the remaining shares will be unable to
elect any person as a trustee. No amendments may be made to the
Declaration of Trust without the affirmative vote of a majority
of the outstanding shares of the Trust.
Shares have no preemptive or conversion rights; the right of
redemption and the privilege of exchange are described in the
prospectus. Shares are fully paid and nonassessable, except as
set forth below. The Trust may be terminated (i) upon the sale
of its assets to another diversified, open-end management
investment company, if approved by the vote of the holders of
two-thirds of the outstanding shares of the Trust, or (ii) upon
liquidation and distribution of the assets of the Trust, if
approved by the vote of the holders of a majority of the
outstanding shares of the Trust. If not so terminated, the Trust
will continue indefinitely.
Under Massachusetts law, shareholders could, under certain
circumstances, be held personally liable for the obligations of
the Fund. However, the Declaration of Trust disclaims
shareholder liability for acts or obligations of the Fund and
requires that notice of such disclaimer be given in each
agreement, obligation or instrument entered into or executed by
the Fund or a Trustee. The Declaration of Trust provides for
indemnification from Fund property for all losses and expenses of
any shareholder held personally liable for the obligations of the
Fund. Thus, the risk of a shareholder incurring financial loss
on account of shareholder liability is limited to circumstances
in which the Fund itself would be unable to meet its obligations,
a possibility which T. Rowe Price believes is remote. Upon
payment of any liability incurred by the Fund, the shareholders
of the Fund paying such liability will be entitled to
reimbursement from the general assets of the Fund. The Trustees
intend to conduct the operations of the Fund in such a way so as
to avoid, as far as possible, ultimate liability of the
shareholders for liabilities of such Fund.
FEDERAL AND STATE REGISTRATION OF SHARES
The Fund's shares are registered for sale under the
Securities Act of 1933, and the Fund or its shares are registered
under the laws of all states which require registration, as well
as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
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LEGAL COUNSEL
Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman, & Goodman, L.L.P., whose address
is 919 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10022, is legal counsel
to the Fund.
INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
GNMA, High Yield, Intermediate, Long-Term, New Income, Prime
Reserve, Short-Term Bond and Money Funds
Price Waterhouse LLP, 7 St. Paul Street, Suite 1700,
Baltimore, Maryland 21202, are independent accountants to the
Fund.
Effective June 1, 1994, Price Waterhouse LLP became the
independent accountants to the Intermediate and Long-Term
Funds.
Personal Strategy, and Short-Term U.S. Government Funds
Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P., 217 East Redwood Street,
Baltimore, Maryland 21202, are independent accountants to the
Fund.
Financial Statements
The financial statements of the Fund for the year ended May
31, 1995, and the report of independent accountants are included
in the Fund's Annual Report for the year ended May 31, 1995.
A copy of the Annual Report accompanies this Statement of
Additional Information. The following financial statements and
the report of independent accountants appearing in the Annual
Report for the year ended May 31, 1995, are incorporated into
this Statement of Additional Information by reference:
ANNUAL REPORT REFERENCES:
HIGH NEW PRIME
GNMA YIELD INCOME RESERVE
____ ______ _______ ________
Report of Independent
Accountants 13 18 15 13
Statement of Net Assets,
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May 31, 1995 6-7 7-12 6-10 5-8
Statement of Operations,
fiscal year ended
May 31, 1995 8 13 10 9
Statement of Changes in Net
Assets, fiscal year
ended May 31, 1995, three
months ended May 31, 1994,
and fiscal year ended
February 28, 1994 9 14 11 10
Notes to Financial
Statements
May 31, 1995 10-11 15-16 12-13 10-11
Financial Highlights 12 17 14 12
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U.S.
SHORT- TREASURY
TERM BOND MONEY
_____________ ____________
Report of Independent
Accountants 15 19
Statement of Net Assets,
May 31, 1995 6-9 7-10
Statement of Operations,
fiscal year ended
May 31, 1995 10 10
Statement of Changes in Net
Assets, fiscal year
ended May 31, 1995, three
months ended May 31, 1994,
and fiscal year ended
February 28, 1994 11 11
Notes to Financial Statements
May 31, 1995 12-13 14-16
Financial Highlights 14 16
SHORT-TERM U.S. U.S.
U.S. TREASURY TREASURY
GOVERNMENT INTERMEDIATE LONG-TERM
______________ __________ __________
Report of Independent
Accountants 13 19 19
Statement of Net Assets,
May 31, 1995 7 7-10 7-10
Statement of Operations,
fiscal year ended
May 31, 1995 8 10 10
Statement of Changes in Net
Assets, fiscal year
ended May 31, 1995, three
months ended May 31, 1994,
and fiscal year ended
February 28, 1994. 9 12 13
Notes to Financial Statements
May 31, 1995 10-11 14-16 14-16
Financial Highlights 12 17 18
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Personal Strategy
Balanced Fund
Annual
Report Page
Statement of Net Assets,
May 31, 1995 12-16
Statement of Operations, July 29, 1994
(Commencement of Operations) to
May 31, 1995 22
Statement of Changes in Net Assets, July 29,
1994 (Commencement of Operations) to
May 31, 1995 23
Notes to Financial Statements,
May 31, 1995 24-26
Financial Highlights, July 29, 1994
(Commencement of Operations) to
May 31, 1995 26
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Personal Strategy
Growth Fund
Annual
Report Page
Statement of Net Assets,
May 31, 1995 17-21
Statement of Operations, July 29, 1994
(Commencement of Operations) to
May 31, 1995 22
Statement of Changes in Net Assets, July 29,
1994 (Commencement of Operations) to
May 31, 1995 23
Notes to Financial Statements,
May 31, 1995 24-26
Financial Highlights, July 29, 1994
(Commencement of Operations) to
May 31, 1995 26
Personal Strategy
Income Fund
Annual
Report Page
Statement of Net Assets,
May 31, 1995 7-11
Statement of Operations, July 29, 1994
(Commencement of Operations) to
May 31, 1995 22
Statement of Changes in Net Assets, July 29,
1994 (Commencement of Operations) to
May 31, 1995 23
Notes to Financial Statements,
May 31, 1995 24-26
Financial Highlights, July 29, 1994
(Commencement of Operations) to
May 31, 1995 26
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RATINGS OF COMMERCIAL PAPER
High Yield, Prime Reserve, Short-Term Bond, and Short-Term U.S.
Government Funds
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.: The rating of Prime-1 is the
highest commercial paper rating assigned by Moody's. Among the
factors considered by Moody's in assigning ratings are the
following: valuation of the management of the issuer; economic
evaluation of the issuer's industry or industries and an
appraisal of speculative-type risks which may be inherent in
certain areas; evaluation of the issuer's products in relation to
competition and customer acceptance; liquidity; amount and
quality of long-term debt; trend of earnings over a period of 10
years; financial strength of the parent company and the
relationships which exist with the issuer; and recognition by the
management of obligations which may be present or may arise as a
result of public interest questions and preparations to meet such
obligations. These factors are all considered in determining
whether the commercial paper is rated P1, P2, or P3.
Standard & Poor's Corporation: Commercial paper rated A (highest
quality) by S&P has the following characteristics: liquidity
ratios are adequate to meet cash requirements; long-term senior
debt is rated "A" or better, although in some cases "BBB" credits
may be allowed. The issuer has access to at least two additional
channels of borrowing. Basic earnings and cash flow have an
upward trend with allowance made for unusual circumstances.
Typically, the issuer's industry is well established and the
issuer has a strong position within the industry. The
reliability and quality of management are unquestioned. The
relative strength or weakness of the above factors determines
whether the issuer's commercial paper is rated A1, A2, or A3.
Prime Reserve Fund
Fitch Investors Service, Inc.: Fitch 1 - Highest grade.
Commercial paper assigned this rating is regarded as having the
strongest degree of assurance for timely payment. Fitch 2 - Very
good grade. Issues assigned this rating reflect an assurance of
timely payment only slightly less in degree than the strongest
issues.
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RATINGS OF CORPORATE DEBT SECURITIES
High Yield, New Income, Personal Strategy, Short-Term Bond, and
Short-Term U.S. Government Funds
Moody's Investors Services, Inc. (Moody's)
Aaa-Bonds rated Aaa are judged to be of the best quality.
They carry the smallest degree of investment risk and are
generally referred to as "gilt edge."
Aa-Bonds rated Aa are judged to be of high quality by all
standards. Together with the Aaa group they comprise what are
generally known as high grade bonds.
A-Bonds rated A possess many favorable investment attributes
and are to be considered as upper medium grade obligations.
Baa-Bonds rated Baa are considered as medium grade
obligations, i.e., they are neither highly protected nor poorly
secured. Interest payments and principal security appear
adequate for the present but certain protective elements may be
lacking or may be characteristically unreliable over any great
length of time. Such bonds lack outstanding investment
characteristics and in fact have speculative characteristics as
well.
Ba-Bonds rated Ba are judged to have speculative elements:
their futures cannot be considered as well assured. Often the
protection of interest and principal payments may be very
moderate and thereby not well safeguarded during both good and
bad times over the future. Uncertainty of position characterize
bonds in this class.
B-Bonds rated B generally lack the characteristics of a
desirable investment. Assurance of interest and principal
payments or of maintenance of other terms of the contract over
any long period of time may be small.
Caa-Bonds rated Caa are of poor standing. Such issues may be
in default or there may be present elements of danger with
respect to principal or interest.
Ca-Bonds rated Ca represent obligations which are speculative
in a high degree. Such issues are often in default or have other
marked short-comings.
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Standard & Poor's Corporation (S&P)
AAA-This is the highest rating assigned by Standard & Poor's
to a debt obligation and indicates an extremely strong capacity
to pay principal and interest.
AA-Bonds rated AA also qualify as high-quality debt
obligations. Capacity to pay principal and interest is very
strong.
A-Bonds rated A have a strong capacity to pay principal and
interest, although they are somewhat more susceptible to the
adverse effects of changes in circumstances and economic
conditions.
BBB-Bonds rated BBB are regarded as having an adequate
capacity to pay principal and interest. Whereas they normally
exhibit adequate protection parameters, adverse economic
conditions or changing circumstances are more likely to lead to a
weakened capacity to pay principal and interest for bonds in this
category than for bonds in the A category.
BB, C, CCC, CC-Bonds rated BB, B, CCC, and CC are regarded on
balance, as predominantly speculative with respect to the
issuer's capacity to pay interest and repay principal. BB
indicates the lowest degree of speculation and CC the highest
degree of speculation. While such bonds will likely have some
quality and protective characteristics, these are outweighed by
large uncertainties or major risk exposures to adverse
conditions.
D-In default.
Fitch Investors Service, Inc.
AAA-High grade, broadly marketable, suitable for investment by
trustees and fiduciary institutions, and liable to but slight
market fluctuation other than through changes in the money rate.
The prime feature of a "AAA" bond is the showing of earnings
several times or many times interest requirements for such
stability of applicable interest that safety is beyond reasonable
question whenever changes occur in conditions. Other features
may enter, such as a wide margin of protection through
collateral, security or direct lien on specific property.
Sinking funds or voluntary reduction of debt by call or purchase
or often factors, while guarantee or assumption by parties other
than the original debtor may influence their rating.
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AA-Of safety virtually beyond question and readily salable.
Their merits are not greatly unlike those of "AAA" class but a
bond so rated may be junior though of strong lien, or the margin
of safety is less strikingly broad. The issue may be the
obligation of a small company, strongly secured, but influenced
as to rating by the lesser financial power of the enterprise and
more local type of market.
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PART C
OTHER INFORMATION
Item 24. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(a) Financial Statements.
Condensed Financial Information (Financial Highlights table)
is included in Part A of the Registration Statement.
Statement of Net Assets, Statement of Operations, and
Statement of Changes in Net Assets are included in the
Annual Report to Shareholders, the pertinent portions of
which are incorporated by reference in Part B of the
Registration Statement.
(b) Exhibits.
(1)(a) Articles of Incorporation of Registrant, dated July
19, 1989 (electronically filed with Amendment No. 8
dated April 25, 1994)
(1)(b) Articles of Amendment, dated July 1, 1991
(electronically filed with Amendment No. 8 dated
April 25, 1994)
(1)(c) Articles Supplementary, dated November 13, 1992
(electronically filed with Amendment No. 6 dated June
12, 1992)
(1)(d) Articles of Amendment, dated July 21, 1994
(2) By-Laws of Registrant, as amended January 18, 1994
(electronically filed with Amendment No. 8 dated
April 25, 1994)
(3) Inapplicable
(4) Article Fifth, Paragraph (E) subparagraphs (iv)
through (viii) and Article SEVENTH in its entirety,
from the Registrant's Articles of Incorporation, is
hereby incorporated by reference from Amendment No. 8
electronically filed and dated April 25, 1994 and
Article II, Stockholders, in its entirety, and
Article VIII, Capital Stock, in its entirety, from
the Registrant's By-Laws are also hereby incorporated
by reference from Amendment No. 8 electronically
filed and dated April 25, 1994.
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(5)(a) Investment Management Agreement between the
Registrant, on behalf of the U.S. Treasury Money
Fund, and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., dated July
1, 1991 (electronically filed with Amendment No. 8
dated April 25, 1994)
(5)(b) Investment Management Agreement between the
Registrant, on behalf of U.S. Treasury Intermediate
Fund, and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., dated July
1, 1990 (electronically filed with Amendment No. 8
dated April 25, 1994)
(5)(c) Investment Management Agreement between the
Registrant, on behalf of U.S. Treasury Long-Term
Fund, and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., dated July
1, 1990 (electronically filed with Amendment No. 8
dated April 25, 1994)
(6) Underwriting Agreement between the Registrant, on
behalf of U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund and the
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund, and T. Rowe Price
Investment Services, Inc., dated September 15, 1989
(electronically filed with Amendment No. 8 dated
April 25, 1994)
(7) Inapplicable
(8) Custodian Agreement between T. Rowe Price Funds and
State Street Bank and Trust Company, dated September
28, 1987, as amended to June 24, 1988, October 19,
1988, February 22, 1989, July 19, 1989, September 15,
1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989, January
25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6,
1991, September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23,
1992, September 2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December
16, 1992, December 21, 1992, January 28, 1993, April
22, 1993, September 16, 1993, November 3, 1993, March
1, 1994, April 21, 1994, July 27, 1994, September 21,
1994, November 1, 1994, November 2, 1994, and January
25, 1995
(9)(a) Transfer Agency and Service Agreement between T. Rowe
Price Services, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Funds, dated
January 1, 1995, as amended January 25, 1995
(9)(b) Agreement between T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and
T. Rowe Price Funds for Fund Accounting Services,
dated January 1, 1995, as amended January 25, 1995
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(9)(c) Agreement between T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan
Services, Inc. and the Taxable Funds, dated January
1, 1995, as amended January 25, 1995
(10) Opinion of Counsel, dated September 12, 1995
(11) Consent of Independent Accountants
(12) Inapplicable
(13) Inapplicable
(14) Inapplicable
(15) Inapplicable
(16) Incorporated by reference from Post-Effective
Amendment No. 42 and Amendment No. 19 of the T. Rowe
Price New Income Fund, Inc. (SEC. File Nos. 2-48848
and 811-2396 and CIK 80249) electronically filed and
dated April 25, 1994.
(17) Financial Data Schedule for T. Rowe Price U.S.
Treasury Intermediate Fund, T. Rowe Price U.S.
Treasury Long-Term Fund, and T. Rowe Price U.S.
Treasury Money Fund as of May 31, 1995.
(18) Inapplicable
(19) Other Exhibits:
Power of Attorney for the T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury
Funds, Inc.
Item 25. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control With
Registrant.
None.
Item 26. Number of Holders of Securities
As of August 31, 1995, there were 7,012 shareholders in the
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
As of August 31, 1995, there were 3,510 shareholders in the
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund.
As of August 31, 1995, there were 21,751 shareholders in the
U.S. Treasury Money Fund.
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Item 27. Indemnification
The Registrant maintains comprehensive Errors and Omissions
and Officers and Directors insurance policies written by the
Evanston Insurance Company, The Chubb Group, and ICI Mutual. The
policies provide coverage for the named insureds, which include
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. ("Manager"), Rowe Price-Fleming
International, Inc. ("Price-Fleming"), T. Rowe Price Investment
Services, Inc., T. Rowe Price Services, Inc., T. Rowe Price Trust
Company, T. Rowe Price Stable Asset Management, Inc., RPF
International Bond Fund and thirty-nine other investment
companies, namely, T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund, Inc., T. Rowe
Price New Horizons Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price New Era Fund, Inc.,
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price Prime Reserve
Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Income Fund, Inc., T. Rowe
Price Tax-Exempt Money Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price International
Funds, Inc., T. Rowe Price Growth & Income Fund, Inc., T. Rowe
Price Tax-Free Short-Intermediate Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price
Short-Term Bond Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund, Inc.,
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free High Yield Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price New
America Growth Fund, T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund, T. Rowe
Price GNMA Fund, T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund, T. Rowe
Price State Tax-Free Income Trust, T. Rowe Price California Tax-
Free Income Trust, T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund, Inc.,
T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Value Fund, Inc., Institutional
International Funds, Inc., T. Rowe Price Index Trust, Inc., T.
Rowe Price Spectrum Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price Balanced Fund,
Inc., T. Rowe Price Adjustable Rate U.S. Government Fund, Inc.,
T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price OTC Fund,
Inc., T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Insured Intermediate Bond Fund,
Inc., T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price
Blue Chip Growth Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price Summit Funds, Inc., T.
Rowe Price Summit Municipal Funds, Inc., T. Rowe Price Equity
Series, Inc., T. Rowe Price International Series, Inc., and T.
Rowe Price Fixed Income Series, Inc., T. Rowe Price Personal
Strategy Funds, Inc., T. Rowe Price Value Fund, Inc., and T. Rowe
Price Capital Opportunity Fund, Inc. The Registrant and the
thirty-nine investment companies listed above with the exception
of Institutional International Funds, Inc., will be collectively
referred to as the Price Funds. The investment manager for the
Price Funds, except for T. Rowe Price International Funds, Inc.
and T. Rowe Price International Series, Inc., is the Manager.
Price-Fleming is the investment manager to T. Rowe Price
International Funds, Inc., T. Rowe Price International Series,
Inc. and Institutional International Funds, Inc. and is 50% owned
by TRP Finance, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager,
25% owned by Copthall Overseas Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Robert Fleming Holdings Limited, and 25% owned by Jardine
Fleming Holdings Limited. In addition to the corporate insureds,
the policies also cover the officers, directors, and employees of
each of the named insureds. The premium is allocated among the
named corporate
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insureds in accordance with the provisions of Rule 17d-1(d)(7)
under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Article X, Section 10.01 of the Registrant's By-Laws
provides as follows:
Section 10.01. Indemnification and Payment of
Expenses in Advance. The Corporation shall indemnify any
individual ("Indemnitee") who is a present or former
director, officer, employee, or agent of the Corporation, or
who is or has been serving at the request of the Corporation
as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, who, by reason of his position was, is, or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending, or
completed action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative, or investigative (hereinafter
collectively referred to as a "Proceeding") against any
judgments, penalties, fines, settlements, and reasonable
expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred by such
Indemnitee in connection with any Proceeding, to the fullest
extent that such indemnification may be lawful under
Maryland law. The Corporation shall pay any reasonable
expenses so incurred by such Indemnitee in defending a
Proceeding in advance of the final disposition thereof to
the fullest extent that such advance payment may be lawful
under Maryland law. Subject to any applicable limitations
and requirements set forth in the Corporation's Articles of
Incorporation and in these By-Laws, any payment of
indemnification or advance of expenses shall be made in
accordance with the procedures set forth in Maryland law.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall
protect or purport to protect any Indemnitee against any
liability to which he would otherwise be subject by reason
of willful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence, or
reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of
his office ("Disabling Conduct").
Anything in this Article X to the contrary
notwithstanding, no indemnification shall be made by the
Corporation to any Indemnitee unless:
(a) there is a final decision on the merits by a
court or other body before whom the Proceeding
was brought that the Indemnitee was not liable
by reason of Disabling Conduct; or
(b) in the absence of such a decision, there is a
reasonable determination, based upon a review of
the facts, that the Indemnitee was not liable by
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reason of Disabling Conduct, which determination
shall be made by:
(i) the vote of a majority of a quorum of
directors who are neither "interested
persons" of the Corporation as defined in
Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company
Act of 1940, nor parties to the
Proceeding; or
(ii) an independent legal counsel in a written
opinion.
Anything in this Article X to the contrary
notwithstanding, any advance of expenses by the Corporation
to any Indemnitee shall be made only upon the undertaking by
such Indemnitee to repay the advance unless it is ultimately
determined that such Indemnitee is entitled to
indemnification as above provided, and only if one of the
following conditions is met:
(a) the Indemnitee provides a security for his
undertaking; or
(b) the Corporation shall be insured against losses
arising by reason of any lawful advances; or
(c) there is a determination, based on a review of
readily available facts, that there is reason to
believe that the Indemnitee will ultimately be
found entitled to indemnification, which
determination shall be made by:
(i) a majority of a quorum of directors who
are neither "interested persons" of the
Corporation as defined in Section 2(a)(19)
of the Investment Company Act of 1940, nor
parties to the Proceeding; or
(ii) an independent legal counsel in a written
opinion.
Section 10.02 of the Registrant's By-Laws provides as
follows:
Section 10.02. Insurance of Officers, Directors,
Employees and Agents. To the fullest extent permitted by
applicable Maryland law and by Section 17(h) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as from time to time
amended, the Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance
on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer,
employee, or
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agent of the Corporation, or who is or was serving at the
request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee,
or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, or other enterprise, against any liability asserted
against him and incurred by him in or arising out of his
position, whether or not the Corporation would have the
power to indemnify him against such liability.
Insofar as indemnification for liability arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,
officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant
to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant
has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public
policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the
payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a
director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in
the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is
asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the
Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to
a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
Item 28. Business and Other Connections of Investment Manager.
Rowe Price-Fleming International, Inc. ("Price-Fleming"), a
Maryland corporation, is a corporate joint venture 50% owned by
TRP Finance, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager.
Price-Fleming was organized in 1979 to provide investment counsel
service with respect to foreign securities for institutional
investors in the United States. In addition to managing private
counsel client accounts, Price-Fleming also sponsors registered
investment companies which invest in foreign securities, serves
as general partner of RPFI International Partners, Limited
Partnership, and provides investment advice to the T. Rowe Price
Trust Company, trustee of the International Common Trust
Fund.
T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc. ("Investment Services"),
a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager, is a Maryland
corporation organized in 1980 for the purpose of acting as the
principal underwriter and distributor for the Price Funds.
Investment Services is registered as a broker-dealer under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and is a member of the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. In 1984, Investment
Services expanded its activities to include a discount brokerage
service.
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TRP Distribution, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Investment
Services, is a Maryland corporation organized in 1991. It was
organized for and engages in the sale of certain investment
related products prepared by Investment Services.
T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation, Inc., was organized in 1981
for the purpose of making charitable contributions to religious,
charitable, scientific, literary and educational organizations.
The Foundation (which is not a subsidiary of the Manager) is
funded solely by contributions from the Manager and income from
investments.
T. Rowe Price Services, Inc. ("Price Services"), a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Manager, is a Maryland corporation organized in
1982 and is registered as a transfer agent under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. Price Services provides transfer agent,
dividend disbursing, and certain other services, including
shareholder services, to the Price Funds.
T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc. ("RPS"), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager, was incorporated in
Maryland in 1991 and is registered as a transfer agent under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. RPS provides administrative,
recordkeeping, and subaccounting services to administrators of
employee benefit plans.
T. Rowe Price Trust Company ("Trust Company"), a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Manager, is a Maryland-chartered limited
purpose trust company, organized in 1983 for the purpose of
providing fiduciary services. The Trust Company serves as
trustee/custodian for employee benefit plans, individual
retirement accounts and common trust funds and as
trustee/investment agent for a few trusts.
T. Rowe Price Threshold Fund Associates, Inc., a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Manager, is a Maryland corporation organized in
1994 and serves as the general partner of T. Rowe Price Threshold
Fund III, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership established in
1994.
T. Rowe Price Threshold Fund II, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership, was organized in 1986 by the Manager, and invests in
private financings of small companies with high growth potential;
the Manager is the General Partner of the partnership.
T. Rowe Price Threshold Fund III, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership was organized in 1994 by the Manager, and invests in
private financings of small companies with high growth potential;
T. Rowe Price Threshold Fund Associates, Inc. is the General
Partner of this partnership.
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RPFI International Partners, Limited Partnership, is a Delaware
limited partnership organized in 1985 for the purpose of
investing in a diversified group of small and medium-sized
non-U.S. companies. Price-Fleming is the general partner of this
partnership, and certain institutional investors, including
advisory clients of Price-Fleming are its limited partners.
T. Rowe Price Real Estate Group, Inc. ("Real Estate Group"), is a
Maryland corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager
established in 1986 to provide real estate services.
Subsidiaries of Real Estate Group are: T. Rowe Price Realty
Income Fund I Management, Inc., a Maryland corporation (General
Partner of T. Rowe Price Realty Income Fund I, A No-Load Limited
Partnership), T. Rowe Price Realty Income Fund II Management,
Inc., a Maryland corporation (General Partner of T. Rowe Price
Realty Income Fund II, America's Sales-Commission-Free Real
Estate Limited Partnership), T. Rowe Price Realty Income Fund III
Management, Inc., a Maryland corporation (General Partner of T.
Rowe Price Realty Income Fund III, America's
Sales-Commission-Free Real Estate Limited Partnership, a Delaware
limited partnership), and T. Rowe Price Realty Income Fund IV
Management, Inc., a Maryland corporation (General Partner of T.
Rowe Price Realty Income Fund IV, America's Sales-Commission-Free
Real Estate Limited Partnership). Real Estate Group serves as
investment manager to T. Rowe Price Renaissance Fund, Ltd., A
Sales-Commission-Free Real Estate Investment, established in 1989
as a Maryland corporation which qualifies as a REIT.
T. Rowe Price Stable Asset Management, Inc. ("Stable Asset
Management") is a Maryland corporation organized in 1988 as a
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager. Stable Asset Management,
which is registered as an investment adviser under the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940, specializes in the management of investment
portfolios which seek stable and consistent investment returns
through the use of guaranteed investment contracts, bank
investment contracts, structured investment contracts, and
short-term fixed-income securities.
T. Rowe Price Recovery Fund Associates, Inc., a Maryland
corporation, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager
organized in 1988 for the purpose of serving as the General
Partner of T. Rowe Price Recovery Fund, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership which invests in financially distressed companies.
T. Rowe Price (Canada), Inc. ("TRP Canada") is a Maryland
corporation organized in 1988 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
Manager. This entity is registered as an investment adviser
under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and as a non-Canadian
Adviser under the Securities Act (Ontario). TRP Canada provides
certain
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services to the RPF International Bond Fund, a trust (whose
shares are sold in Canada), and Price-Fleming serves as
investment adviser to TRP Canada.
Since 1983, the Manager has organized several distinct Maryland
limited partnerships, which are informally called the Pratt
Street Ventures partnerships, for the purpose of acquiring
interests in growth-oriented businesses.
Tower Venture, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager, is
a Maryland corporation organized in 1989 for the purpose of
serving as a general partner of 100 East Pratt St., L.P., a
Maryland limited partnership whose limited partners also include
the Manager. The purpose of the partnership is to further
develop and improve the property at 100 East Pratt Street, the
site of the Manager's headquarters, through the construction of
additional office, retail and parking space.
TRP Suburban, Inc. is a Maryland corporation organized in 1990 as
a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager. TRP Suburban has
entered into agreements with McDonogh School and
CMANE-McDonogh-Rowe Limited Partnership to construct an office
building in Owings Mills, Maryland, which houses the Manager's
transfer agent, plan administrative services, retirement plan
services and operations support functions.
TRP Finance, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager,
and TRP Finance MRT, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of TRP
Finance, Inc., are Delaware corporations organized in 1990 to
manage certain passive corporate investments and other intangible
assets. TRP Finance MRT, Inc. was dissolved on October 4,
1993.
T. Rowe Price Strategic Partners Fund, L.P. is a Delaware limited
partnership organized in 1990 for the purpose of investing in
small public and private companies seeking capital for expansion
or undergoing a restructuring of ownership. The general partner
of the Fund is T. Rowe Price Strategic Partners, L.P., a Delaware
limited partnership whose general partner is T. Rowe Price
Strategic Partners Associates, Inc., ("Strategic Associates"), a
Maryland corporation which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
Manager. Strategic Associates also serves as the general partner
of T. Rowe Price Strategic Partners II, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership established in 1992, which in turn serves as general
partner of T. Rowe Price Strategic Partners Fund II, L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership organized in 1992.
Listed below are the directors of the Manager who have other
substantial businesses, professions, vocations, or employment
aside from that of Director of the Manager:
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JAMES E. HALBKAT, JR., Director of the Manager. Mr. Halbkat is
President of U.S. Monitor Corporation, a provider of public
response systems. Mr. Halbkat's address is: P.O. Box 23109,
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 29925.
JOHN W. ROSENBLUM, Director of the Manager. Mr. Rosenblum is the
Tayloe Murphy Professor at the University of Virginia, and a
director of: Chesapeake Corporation, a manufacturer of paper
products, Cadmus Communications Corp., a provider of printing and
communication services; Comdial Corporation, a manufacturer of
telephone systems for businesses; and Cone Mills Corporation, a
textiles producer. Mr. Rosenblum's address is: P.O. Box 6550,
Charlottesville, Virginia 22906.
ROBERT L. STRICKLAND, Director of the Manager. Mr. Strickland
is Chairman of Lowe's Companies, Inc., a retailer of specialty
home supplies and a Director of Hannaford Bros., Co., a food
retailer. Mr. Strickland's address is 604 Two Piedmont Plaza
Building, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27104.
PHILIP C. WALSH, Director of the Manager. Mr. Walsh is a
Consultant to Cyprus Amax Minerals Company, Englewood, Colorado,
and a director of Piedmont Mining Company, Inc., Charlotte, North
Carolina. Mr. Walsh's address is: 200 East 66th Street, Apt. A-
1005, New York, New York 10021.
With the exception of Messrs. Halbkat, Rosenblum, Strickland, and
Walsh, all of the directors of the Manager are employees of the
Manager.
George J. Collins, who is Chief Executive Officer, President, and
a Managing Director of the Manager, is a Director of
Price-Fleming.
George A. Roche, who is Chief Financial Officer and a Managing
Director of the Manager, is a Vice President and a Director of
Price-Fleming.
M. David Testa, who is a Managing Director of the Manager, is
Chairman of the Board of Price-Fleming.
Henry H. Hopkins, Charles P. Smith, and Peter Van Dyke, who are
Managing Directors of the Manager, are Vice Presidents of
Price-Fleming.
Robert P. Campbell, Roger L. Fiery, III, Robert C. Howe, Veena
A. Kutler, Heather R. Landon, Nancy M. Morris, George A.
Murnaghan, William F. Wendler, II, and Edward A. Wiese, who are
Vice Presidents of the Manager, are Vice Presidents of
Price-Fleming.
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Michael J. Conelius, who is an Assistant Vice President of the
Manager, is a Vice President of Price-Fleming.
Kimberly A. Haker, an employee of the Manager, is Assistant Vice
President and Controller of Price-Fleming.
Alvin M. Younger, Jr., who is a Managing Director and the
Secretary and Treasurer of the Manager, is Secretary and
Treasurer of Price-Fleming.
Nolan L. North, who is a Vice President and Assistant Treasurer
of the Manager, is Assistant Treasurer of Price-Fleming.
Leah P. Holmes, who is an Assistant Vice President of the
Manager, is a Vice President of Price-Fleming.
Barbara A. Van Horn, who is Assistant Secretary of the Manager,
is Assistant Secretary of Price-Fleming.
Certain directors and officers of the Manager are also officers
and/or directors of one or more of the Price Funds and/or one or
more of the affiliated entities listed herein.
See also "Management of Fund," in Registrant's Statement of
Additional Information.
Item 29. Principal Underwriters.
(a) The principal underwriter for the Registrant is
Investment Services. Investment Services acts as the principal
underwriter for the other sixty-nine Price Funds. Investment
Services is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Manager, is
registered as a broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 and is a member of the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. Investment Services has been formed for the
limited purpose of distributing the shares of the Price Funds and
will not engage in the general securities business. Since the
Price Funds are sold on a no-load basis, Investment Services will
not receive any commissions or other compensation for acting as
principal underwriter.
(b) The address of each of the directors and officers of
Investment Services listed below is 100 East Pratt Street,
Baltimore, Maryland 21202.
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Positions and
Name and Principal Positions and Offices Offices With
Business Address With Underwriter Registrant
__________________ ______________________ ______________
James Sellers Riepe President and Director Vice President
and Trustee
Henry Holt Hopkins Vice President and Vice President
Director
Charles E. Vieth Vice President and None
Director
Mark E. Rayford Director None
Patricia M. Archer Vice President None
Edward C. Bernard Vice President None
Joseph C. Bonasorte Vice President None
Meredith C. Callanan Vice President None
Laura H. Chasney Vice President None
Victoria C. Collins Vice President None
Christopher W. Dyer Vice President None
Forrest R. Foss Vice President None
Patricia O'Neil Goodyear Vice President None
James W. Graves Vice President None
Andrea G. Griffin Vice President None
David J. Healy Vice President None
Joseph P. Healy Vice President None
Walter J. Helmlinger Vice President None
Eric G. Knauss Vice President None
Douglas G. Kremer Vice President None
Sharon Renae Krieger Vice President None
Keith Wayne Lewis Vice President None
David L. Lyons Vice President None
Sarah McCafferty Vice President None
Maurice Albert Minerbi Vice President None
Nancy M. Morris Vice President None
George A. Murnaghan Vice President None
Steven Ellis Norwitz Vice President None
Kathleen M. O'Brien Vice President None
Pamela D. Preston Vice President None
Lucy Beth Robins Vice President None
John Richard Rockwell Vice President None
Monica R. Tucker Vice President None
William F. Wendler, II Vice President None
Terri L. Westren Vice President None
Jane F. White Vice President None
Thomas R. Woolley Vice President None
Alvin M. Younger, Jr. Secretary and None
Treasurer
Mark S. Finn Controller None
Richard J. Barna Assistant Vice President None
Catherine L. Berkenkemper Assistant Vice President None
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Ronae M. Brock Assistant Vice President None
Brenda E. Buhler Assistant Vice President None
Patricia S. Butcher Assistant Vice President Assistant
Secretary
John A. Galateria Assistant Vice President None
Janelyn A. Healey Assistant Vice President None
Keith J. Langrehr Assistant Vice President None
C. Lillian Matthews Assistant Vice President None
Janice D. McCrory Assistant Vice President None
Sandra J. McHenry Assistant Vice President None
JeanneMarie B. Patella Assistant Vice President None
Kristin E. Seeberger Assistant Vice President None
Arthur J. Silber Assistant Vice President None
Nolan L. North Assistant Treasurer None
Barbara A. VanHorn Assistant Secretary None
(c) Not applicable. Investment Services will not receive
any compensation with respect to its activities as underwriter
for the Price Funds since the Price Funds are sold on a no-load
basis.
Item 30. Location of Accounts and Records.
All accounts, books, and other documents required to be
maintained by T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc. under
Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the
rules thereunder will be maintained by T. Rowe Price U.S.
Treasury Funds, Inc. at its offices at 100 East Pratt
Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. Transfer, dividend
disbursing, and shareholder service activities are performed
by T. Rowe Price Services, Inc., at 100 East Pratt Street,
Baltimore, Maryland 21202. Custodian activities for T. Rowe
Price U.S. Treasury Funds,Inc. will be performed at State
Street Bank and Trust Company's Service Center (State Street
South), 1776 Heritage Drive, Quincy, Massachusetts 02171.
Item 31. Management Services.
Registrant is not a party to any management related service
contract, other than as set forth in the Prospectus.
Item 32. Undertakings.
(a) Each series of the Registrant agrees to furnish, upon
request and without charge, a copy of its latest
Annual Report to each person to whom its prospectus is
delivered.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended,
the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements
for effectiveness of this registration statement pursuant to Rule
485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Baltimore,
State of Maryland, this 12th day of September, 1995.
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
/s/George J. Collins
By: George J. Collins,
President and Director
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by
the following persons in the capacities and on the dates
indicated:
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE
_________ ______ _____
/s/George J. Collins President and Director September 12, 1995
George J. Collins (Chief Executive Officer)
/s/Carmen F. Deyesu Treasurer September 12, 1995
Carmen F. Deyesu (Chief Financial Officer)
* Director September 12, 1995
Robert P. Black
* Director September 12, 1995
Calvin W. Burnett
* Director September 12, 1995
Anthony W. Deering
* Director September 12, 1995
F. Pierce Linaweaver
/s/James S. Riepe Vice President and September 12, 1995
James S. Riepe Director
* Director September 12, 1995
John G. Schreiber
/s/Charles P. Smith Executive Vice President September 12, 1995
Charles P. Smith and Director
/s/Peter Van Dyke Executive Vice President September 12, 1995
Peter Van Dyke and Director
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*/s/Henry H. Hopkins, Attorney-In-Fact
Henry H. Hopkins, Attorney-In-Fact
The Custodian Agreement dated September 28, 1987, as
amended, between State Street Bank and Trust Company and T. Rowe
Price Funds should be inserted here.
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CUSTODIAN CONTRACT
Between
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
and
EACH OF THE PARTIES INDICATED
ON APPENDIX A
DATED: SEPTEMBER 28, 1987
FRF 07/87
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Employment of Custodian and Property to be Held By It1
2. Duties of the Custodian with Respect to Property of the Fund
Held by the Custodian in the United States. . . 2
2.1 Holding Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.2 Delivery of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1) Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2) Repurchase Agreement . . . . . . . . . . 2
3) Securities System . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4) Tender Offer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5) Redemption by Issuer . . . . . . . . . . 3
6) Transfer to Issuer, Nominee, Exchange . . 3
7) Sale to Broker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
8) Exchange or Conversion . . . . . . . . . 4
9) Warrants, Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
10) Loans of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . 4
11) Borrowings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
12) Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
13) Futures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
14) In-Kind Distributions . . . . . . . . . . 5
15) Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
16) Type of Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3 Registration of Securities . . . . . . . . . 6
2.4 Bank Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.5 Sale of Shares and Availability of Federal Funds7
2.6 Collection of Income, Dividends . . . . . . . 7
2.7 Payment of Fund Monies . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1) Purchases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2) Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3) Redemptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4) Expense and Liability . . . . . . . . . . 9
5) Dividends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6) Short Sale Dividend . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7) Loan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8) Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.8 Liability for Payment in Advance of Receipt of
Securities Purchased . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.9 Appointment of Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.10 Deposit of Securities in Securities System . 10
1) Account of Custodian . . . . . . . . . . 11
2) Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3) Payment of Fund Monies, Delivery of
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4) Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5) Annual Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6) Indemnification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.11 Fund Assets Held in the Custodian's Direct Paper
System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.12 Segregated Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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2.13 Ownership Certificates for Tax Purposes . . . 15
2.14 Proxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.15 Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.16 Reports to Fund by Independent Public
Accountants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3. Duties of the Custodian with Respect to Property
of the Fund Held Outside of the United States . 16
3.1 Appointment of Foreign Sub-Custodians . . . . 16
3.2 Assets to be Held . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.3 Foreign Securities Depositories . . . . . . . 17
3.4 Segregation of Securities . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.5 Access of Independent Accountants of the Fund 17
3.6 Reports by Custodian . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.7 Transactions in Foreign Assets of the Fund . 18
3.8 Responsibility of Custodian, Sub-Custodian and
Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.9 Monitoring Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . 19
3.10 Branches of U.S. Banks . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4. Payments for Repurchases or Redemptions and Sales of
Shares of the Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5. Proper Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6. Actions Permitted Without Express Authority . . . 21
7. Evidence of Authority, Reliance on Documents . . . 21
8. Duties of Custodian with Respect to the Books of
Account and Calculations of Net Asset Value and
Net Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
9. Records, Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
10. Opinion of Fund's Independent Accountant . . . . . 23
11. Compensation of Custodian . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
12. Responsibility of Custodian . . . . . . . . . . . 23
13. Effective Period, Termination and Amendment . . . 25
14. Successor Custodian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
15. Interpretive and Additional Provisions . . . . . . 28
16. Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
17. Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
18. Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
19. Exemption from Liens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
20. Massachusetts Law to Apply . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
21. Prior Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
22. The Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
23. Governing Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
24. Subcustodian Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
25. Directors and Trustees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
26. Massachusetts Business Trust . . . . . . . . . . . 30
27. Successors of Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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CUSTODIAN CONTRACT
This Contract by and between State Street Bank and Trust
Company, a Massachusetts trust company, having its principal
place of business at 225 Franklin Street, Boston, Massachusetts,
02110 (hereinafter called the "Custodian"), and each fund which
is listed on Appendix A (as such Appendix may be amended from
time to time) and which evidences its agreement to be bound
hereby by executing a copy of this Contract (each such fund
individually hereinafter called the "Fund," whose definition may
be found in Section 22),
WITNESSETH: That in consideration of the mutual covenants
and agreements hereinafter contained, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
1. Employment of Custodian and Property to be Held by It
The Fund hereby employs the Custodian as the custodian of
its assets, including securities it desires to be held in places
within the United States ("domestic securities") and securities
it desires to be held outside the United States ("foreign
securities") pursuant to the Governing Documents of the Fund.
The Fund agrees to deliver to the Custodian all securities and
cash now or hereafter owned or acquired by it, and all payments
of income, payments of principal or capital distributions
received by it with respect to all securities owned by the Fund
from time to time, and the cash consideration received by it for
such new or treasury shares of capital stock ("Shares") of the
Fund as may be issued or sold from time to time. The Custodian
shall not be responsible for any property of the Fund held or
received by the Fund and not delivered to the Custodian.
With respect to domestic securities, upon receipt of "Proper
Instructions" (within the meaning of Article 5), the Custodian
shall from time to time employ one or more sub-custodians located
in the United States, but only in accordance with an applicable
vote by the Board of Directors/Trustees of the Fund, and provided
that the Custodian shall have no more or less responsibility or
liability to the Fund on account of any actions or omissions of
any sub-custodian so employed than any such sub-custodian has to
the Custodian, and further provided that the Custodian shall not
release the sub-custodian from any responsibility or liability
unless mutually agreed upon by the parties in writing. With
respect to foreign securities and other assets of the Fund held
outside the United States, the Custodian shall employ Chase
Manhattan Bank, N.A., as a sub-custodian for the Fund in
accordance with the provisions of Article 3.
2. Duties of the Custodian with Respect to Property of the Fund
Held By the Custodian in the United States
2.1 Holding Securities. The Custodian shall hold and
physically segregate for the account of the Fund all
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non-cash property, to be held by it in the United States,
including all domestic securities owned by the Fund, other
than (a) securities which are maintained pursuant to Section
2.10 in a clearing agency which acts as a securities
depository or in a book-entry system authorized by the U.S.
Department of the Treasury, collectively referred to herein
as "Securities System," and (b) commercial paper of an
issuer for which the Custodian acts as issuing and paying
agent ("Direct Paper") which is deposited and/or maintained
in the Direct Paper System of the Custodian pursuant to
Section 2.11.
2.2 Delivery of Securities. The Custodian shall release
and deliver domestic securities owned by the Fund held by
the Custodian or in a Securities System account of the
Custodian or in the Custodian's Direct Paper book entry
system account ("Direct Paper System Account") only upon
receipt of Proper Instructions, which may be continuing
instructions when deemed appropriate by mutual agreement of
the parties, and only in the following cases:
1) Sale. Upon sale of such securities for the
account of the Fund and receipt of payment
therefor;
2) Repurchase Agreement. Upon the receipt of payment
in connection with any repurchase agreement
related to such securities entered into by the
Fund;
3) Securities System. In the case of a sale effected
through a Securities System, in accordance with
the provisions of Section 2.10 hereof;
4) Tender Offer. To the depository agent or other
receiving agent in connection with tender or other
similar offers for portfolio securities of the
Fund;
5) Redemption by Issuer. To the issuer thereof or
its agent when such securities are called,
redeemed, retired or otherwise become payable;
provided that, in any such case, the cash or other
consideration is to be delivered to the Custodian;
6) Transfer to Issuer, Nominee. Exchange. To the
issuer thereof, or its agent, for transfer into
the name of the Fund or into the name of any
nominee or nominees of the Custodian or into the
name or nominee name of any agent appointed
pursuant to Section 2.9 or into the name or
nominee name of any sub-custodian appointed
pursuant to Article 1; or for exchange for a
different number of bonds, certificates or other
evidence representing the same aggregate face
amount or number of units and bearing the same
interest rate, maturity date and call provisions,
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if any; provided that, in any such case, the new
securities are to be delivered to the Custodian;
7) Sale to Broker or Dealer. Upon the sale of such
securities for the account of the Fund, to the
broker or its clearing agent or dealer, against a
receipt, for examination in accordance with
"street delivery" custom; provided that in any
such case, the Custodian shall have no
responsibility or liability for any loss arising
from the delivery of such securities prior to
receiving payment for such securities except as
may arise from the Custodian's failure to act in
accordance with its duties as set forth in
Section 12.
8) Exchange or Conversion. For exchange or
conversion pursuant to any plan of merger,
consolidation, recapitalization, reorganization,
split-up of shares, change of par value or
readjustment of the securities of the issuer of
such securities, or pursuant to provisions for
conversion contained in such securities, or
pursuant to any deposit agreement provided that,
in any such case, the new securities and cash, if
any, are to be delivered to the Custodian;
9) Warrants, Rights. In the case of warrants, rights
or similar securities, the surrender thereof in
the exercise of such warrants, rights or similar
securities or the surrender of interim receipts or
temporary securities for definitive securities;
provided that, in any such case, the new
securities and cash, if any, are to be delivered
to the Custodian;
10) Loans of Securities. For delivery in connection
with any loans of securities made by the Fund, but
only against receipt of adequate collateral as
agreed upon from time to time by the Custodian and
the Fund, which may be in the form of cash,
obligations issued by the United States
government, its agencies or instrumentalities, or
such other property as mutually agreed by the
parties, except that in connection with any loans
for which collateral is to be credited to the
Custodian's account in the book-entry system
authorized by the U.S. Department of the Treasury,
the Custodian will not be held liable or
responsible for the delivery of securities owned
by the Fund prior to the receipt of such
collateral, unless the Custodian fails to act in
accordance with its duties set forth in
Article 12;
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11) Borrowings. For delivery as security in
connection with any borrowings by the Fund
requiring a pledge of assets by the Fund, but only
against receipt of amounts borrowed, except where
additional collateral is required to secure a
borrowing already made, subject to Proper
Instructions, further securities may be released
for that purpose;
12) Options. For delivery in accordance with the
provisions of any agreement among the Fund, the
Custodian and a broker-dealer registered under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange
Act") and a member of The National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD"), relating to
compliance with the rules of The Options Clearing
Corporation, any registered national securities
exchange, any similar organization or
organizations, or the Investment Company Act of
1940, regarding escrow or other arrangements in
connection with transactions by the Fund;
13) Futures. For delivery in accordance with the
provisions of any agreement among the Fund, the
Custodian, and a Futures Commission Merchant
registered under the Commodity Exchange Act,
relating to compliance with the rules of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission and/or any
Contract Market, any similar organization or
organizations, or the Investment Company Act of
1940, regarding account deposits in connection
with transactions by the Fund;
14) In-Kind Distributions. Upon receipt of
instructions from the transfer agent ("Transfer
Agent") for the Fund, for delivery to such
Transfer Agent or to the holders of shares in
connection with distributions in kind, as may be
described from time to time in the Fund's
currently effective prospectus and statement of
additional information ("prospectus"), in
satisfaction of requests by holders of Shares for
repurchase or redemption;
15) Miscellaneous. For any other proper corporate
purpose, but only upon receipt of, in addition to
Proper Instructions, a certified copy of a
resolution of the Board of Directors/Trustees or
of the Executive Committee signed by an officer of
the Fund and certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary, specifying the securities to
be delivered, setting forth the purpose for which
such delivery is to be made, declaring such
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purpose to be a proper corporate purpose, and
naming the person or persons to whom delivery of
such securities shall be made; and
16) Type of Payment. In any or all of the above
cases, payments to the Fund shall be made in cash,
by a certified check upon or a treasurer's or
cashier's check of a bank, by effective bank wire
transfer through the Federal Reserve Wire System
or, if appropriate, outside of the Federal Reserve
Wire System and subsequent credit to the Fund's
Custodian account, or, in case of delivery through
a stock clearing company, by book-entry credit by
the stock clearing company in accordance with the
then current street custom, or such other form of
payment as may be mutually agreed by the parties,
in all such cases collected funds to be promptly
credited to the Fund.
2.3 Registration of Securities. Domestic securities held
by the Custodian (other than bearer securities) shall be
registered in the name of the Fund or in the name of any
nominee of the Fund or of any nominee of the Custodian which
nominee shall be assigned exclusively to the Fund, unless
the Fund has authorized in writing the appointment of a
nominee to be used in common with other registered
investment companies having the same investment adviser as
the Fund, or in the name or nominee name of any agent
appointed pursuant to Section 2.9 or in the name or nominee
name of any sub-custodian appointed pursuant to Article 1.
All securities accepted by the Custodian on behalf of the
Fund under the terms of this Contract shall be in "street
name" or other good delivery form.
2.4 Bank Accounts. The Custodian shall open and maintain a
separate bank account or accounts in the United States in
the name of the Fund, subject only to draft or order by the
Custodian acting pursuant to the terms of this Contract, and
shall hold in such account or accounts, subject to the
provisions hereof all cash received by it from or for the
account of the Fund, other than cash maintained by the Fund
in a bank account established and used in accordance with
Rule 17f-3 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Funds
held by the Custodian for the Fund may be deposited for the
Fund's credit in the Banking Department of the Custodian or
in such other banks or trust companies as the Custodian may
in its discretion deem necessary or desirable; provided,
however, that every such bank or trust company shall be
qualified to act as a custodian under the Investment Company
Act of 1940 and that each such bank or trust company and the
funds to be deposited with each such bank or trust company
shall be approved by vote of a majority of the Board of
Directors/Trustees of the Fund. Such funds shall be
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deposited by the Custodian in its capacity as Custodian and
shall be withdrawable by the Custodian only in that
capacity.
2.5 Sale of Shares and Availability of Federal Funds. Upon
mutual agreement between the Fund and the Custodian, the
Custodian shall, upon the receipt of Proper Instructions,
make federal funds available to the Fund as of specified
times agreed upon from time to time by the Fund and the
Custodian in the amount of checks received in payment for
Shares of the Fund which are deposited into the Fund's
account.
2.6 Collection of Income, Dividends. The Custodian shall
collect on a timely basis all income and other payments with
respect to United States registered securities held
hereunder to which the Fund shall be entitled either by law
or pursuant to custom in the securities business, and shall
collect on a timely basis all income and other payments with
respect to United States bearer securities if, on the date
of payment by the issuer, such securities are held by the
Custodian or its agent thereof and shall credit such income
or other payments, as collected, to the Fund's custodian
account. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
the Custodian shall detach and present for payment all
coupons and other income items requiring presentation as and
when they become due and shall collect interest when due on
securities held hereunder. The Custodian will also receive
and collect all stock dividends, rights and other items of
like nature as and when they become due or payable. Income
due the Fund on United States securities loaned pursuant to
the provisions of Section 2.2 (10) shall be the
responsibility of the Fund. The Custodian will have no duty
or responsibility in connection therewith, other than to
provide the Fund with such information or data as may be
necessary to assist the Fund in arranging for the timely
delivery to the Custodian of the income to which the Fund is
properly entitled.
2.7 Payment of Fund Monies. Upon receipt of Proper
Instructions,
which may be continuing instructions when deemed appropriate
by mutual agreement of the parties, the Custodian shall pay
out monies of the Fund in the following cases only:
1) Purchases. Upon the purchase of domestic
securities, options, futures contracts or options
on futures contracts for the account of the Fund
but only (a) against the delivery of such
securities, or evidence of title to such options,
futures contracts or options on futures contracts,
to the Custodian (or any bank, banking firm or
trust company doing business in the United States
or abroad which is qualified under the Investment
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Company Act of 1940, as amended, to act as a
custodian and has been designated by the Custodian
as its agent for this purpose in accordance with
Section 2.9 hereof) registered in the name of the
Fund or in the name of a nominee of the Fund or of
the Custodian referred to in Section 2.3 hereof or
in other proper form for transfer; (b) in the case
of a purchase effected through a Securities
System, in accordance with the conditions set
forth in Section 2.10 hereof or (c) in the case of
a purchase involving the Direct Paper System, in
accordance with the conditions set forth in
Section 2.11; or (d) in the case of repurchase
agreements entered into between the Fund and the
Custodian, or another bank, or a broker-dealer
which is a member of NASD, (i) against delivery of
the securities either in certificate form or
through an entry crediting the Custodian's account
at the Federal Reserve Bank with such securities
or (ii) against delivery of the receipt evidencing
purchase by the Fund of securities owned by the
Custodian along with written evidence of the
agreement by the Custodian to repurchase such
securities from the Fund. All coupon bonds
accepted by the Custodian shall have the coupons
attached or shall be accompanied by a check
payable on coupon payable date for the interest
due on such date.
2) Exchanges. In connection with conversion,
exchange or surrender of securities owned by the
Fund as set forth in Section 2.2 hereof;
3) Redemptions. For the redemption or repurchase of
Shares issued by the Fund as set forth in Article
4 hereof;
4) Expense and Liability. For the payment of any
expense or liability incurred by the Fund,
including but not limited to the following
payments for the account of the Fund: interest,
taxes, management, accounting, transfer agent and
legal fees, and operating expenses of the Fund
whether or not such expenses are to be in whole or
part capitalized or treated as deferred expenses;
5) Dividends. For the payment of any dividends or
other distributions to shareholders declared
pursuant to the Governing Documents of the Fund;
6) Short Sale Dividend. For payment of the amount of
dividends received in respect of securities sold
short;
7) Loan. For repayment of a loan upon redelivery of
pledged securities and upon surrender of the
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note(s), if any, evidencing the loan;
8) Miscellaneous. For any other proper purpose, but
only upon receipt of, in addition to Proper
Instructions, a certified copy of a resolution of
the Board of Directors/Trustees or of the
Executive Committee of the Fund signed by an
officer of the Fund and certified by its Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary, specifying the amount
of such payment, setting forth the purpose for
which such payment is to be made, declaring such
purpose to be a proper purpose, and naming the
person or persons to whom such payment is to be
made.
2.8 Liability for Payment in Advance of Receipt of
Securities Purchased. In any and every case where payment
for purchase of domestic securities for the account of the
Fund is made by the Custodian in advance of receipt of the
securities purchased in the absence of specific written
instructions from the Fund to so pay in advance, the
Custodian shall be absolutely liable to the Fund for such
securities to the same extent as if the securities had been
received by the Custodian.
2.9 Appointment of Agents. The Custodian may at any time
or times in its discretion appoint (and may at any time
remove) any other bank or trust company, which is itself
qualified under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, to act as a custodian, as its agent to carry out
such of the provisions of this Article 2 as the Custodian
may from time to time direct; provided, however, that the
appointment of any agent shall not relieve the Custodian of
its responsibilities or liabilities hereunder.
2.10 Deposit of Securities in Securities Systems. The
Custodian may deposit and/or maintain domestic securities
owned by the Fund in a clearing agency registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission under Section 17A of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which acts as a securities
depository, or in the book-entry system authorized by the
U.S. Department of the Treasury and certain federal
agencies, collectively referred to herein as "Securities
System" in accordance with applicable Federal Reserve Board
and Securities and Exchange Commission rules and
regulations, if any, and subject to the following
provisions:
1) Account of Custodian. The Custodian may keep
domestic securities of the Fund in a Securities
System provided that such securities are
represented in an account ("Account") of the
Custodian in the Securities System which shall not
include any assets of the Custodian other than
assets held as a fiduciary, custodian or otherwise
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for customers;
2) Records. The records of the Custodian, with
respect to domestic securities of the Fund which
are maintained in a Securities System, shall
identify by book-entry those securities belonging
to the Fund;
3) Payment of Fund Monies, Delivery of Securities.
Subject to Section 2.7, the Custodian shall pay
for domestic securities purchased for the account
of the Fund upon (i) receipt of advice from the
Securities System that such securities have been
transferred to the Account, and (ii) the making of
an entry on the records of the Custodian to
reflect such payment and transfer for the account
of the Fund. Subject to Section 2.2, the
Custodian shall transfer domestic securities sold
for the account of the Fund upon (i) receipt of
advice from the Securities System that payment for
such securities has been transferred to the
Account, and (ii) the making of an entry on the
records of the Custodian to reflect such transfer
and payment for the account of the Fund. Copies
of all advices from the Securities System of
transfers of domestic securities for the account
of the Fund shall identify the Fund, be maintained
for the Fund by the Custodian and be provided to
the Fund at its request. The Custodian shall
furnish the Fund confirmation of each transfer to
or from the account of the Fund in the form of a
written advice or notice and shall furnish to the
Fund copies of daily transaction sheets reflecting
each day's transactions in the Securities System
for the account of the Fund;
4) Reports. The Custodian shall provide the Fund
with any report obtained by the Custodian on the
Securities System's accounting system, internal
accounting control and procedures for safeguarding
domestic securities deposited in the Securities
System, and further agrees to provide the Fund
with copies of any documentation it has relating
to its arrangements with the Securities Systems as
set forth in this Agreement or as otherwise
required by the Securities and Exchange
Commission;
5) Annual Certificate. The Custodian shall have
received the initial or annual certificate, as the
case may be, required by Article 13 hereof;
6) Indemnification. Anything to the contrary in this
Contract notwithstanding, the Custodian shall be
liable to the Fund for any loss or expense,
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including reasonable attorneys fees, or damage to
the Fund resulting from use of the Securities
System by reason of any failure by the Custodian
or any of its agents or of any of its or their
employees or agents or from failure of the
Custodian or any such agent to enforce effectively
such rights as it may have against the Securities
System; at the election of the Fund, it shall be
entitled to be subrogated to the rights of the
Custodian with respect to any claim against the
Securities System or any other person which the
Custodian may have as a consequence of any such
loss, expense or damage if and to the extent that
the Fund has not been made whole for any such
loss, expense or damage.
2.11 Fund Assets Held in the Custodian's Direct Paper
System. The Custodian may deposit and/or maintain
securities owned by the Fund in the Direct Paper System of
the Custodian subject to the following provisions:
1) No transaction relating to securities in the
Direct Paper System will be effected in the
absence of Proper Instructions;
2) The Custodian may keep securities of the Fund in
the Direct Paper System only if such securities
are represented in an account ("Account") of the
Custodian in the Direct Paper System which shall
not include any assets of the Custodian other than
assets held as a fiduciary, custodian or otherwise
for customers;
3) The records of the Custodian with respect to
securities of the Fund which are maintained in the
Direct Paper System shall identify by book-entry
those securities belonging to the Fund;
4) The Custodian shall pay for securities purchased
for the account of the Fund upon the making of an
entry on the records of the Custodian to reflect
such payment and transfer of securities to the
account of the Fund. The Custodian shall transfer
securities sold for the account of the Fund upon
the making of an entry on the records of the
Custodian to reflect such transfer and receipt of
payment for the account of the Fund;
5) The Custodian shall furnish the Fund confirmation
of each transfer to or from the account of the
Fund, in the form of a written advice or notice,
of Direct Paper on the next business day following
such transfer and shall furnish to the Fund copies
of daily transaction sheets reflecting each day's
transaction in the Securities System for the
account of the Fund;
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6) The Custodian shall provide the Fund with any
report on its system of internal accounting
control as the Fund may reasonably request from
time to time;
2.12 Segregated Account. The Custodian shall, upon receipt
of Proper Instructions, which may be of a continuing nature
where deemed appropriate by mutual agreement of the parties,
establish and maintain a segregated account or accounts for
and on behalf of the Fund, into which account or accounts
may be transferred cash and/or securities, including
securities maintained in an account by the Custodian
pursuant to Section 2.10 hereof, (i) in accordance with the
provisions of any agreement among the Fund, the Custodian
and a broker-dealer registered under the Exchange Act and a
member of the NASD (or any futures commission merchant
registered under the Commodity Exchange Act), relating to
compliance with the rules of The Options Clearing
Corporation and of any registered national securities
exchange (or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission or any
registered contract market), or of any similar organization
or organizations, regarding escrow or other arrangements in
connection with transactions by the Fund, (ii) for purposes
of segregating cash or government securities in connection
with options purchased, sold or written by the Fund or
commodity futures contracts or options thereon purchased or
sold by the Fund, (iii) for the purposes of compliance by
the Fund with the procedures required by Investment Company
Act Release No. 10666, or any subsequent release, rule or
policy, of the Securities and Exchange Commission relating
to the maintenance of segregated accounts by registered
investment companies and (iv) for other proper corporate
purposes, but only, in the case of clause (iv), upon receipt
of, in addition to Proper Instructions, a certified copy of
a resolution of the Board of Directors/Trustees or of the
Executive Committee signed by an officer of the Fund and
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary,
setting forth the purpose or purposes of such segregated
account and declaring such purposes to be proper corporate
purposes.
2.13 Ownership Certificates for Tax Purposes. The Custodian
shall execute ownership and other certificates and
affidavits for all federal and state tax purposes in
connection with receipt of income or other payments with
respect to domestic securities of the Fund held by it and in
connection with transfers of such securities.
2.14 Proxies. If the securities are registered other than
in the name of the Fund or a nominee of the Fund, the
Custodian shall, with respect to the domestic securities
held hereunder, cause to be promptly executed by the
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registered holder of such securities, all proxies, without
indication of the manner in which such proxies are to be
voted, and shall promptly deliver to the Fund such proxies,
all proxy soliciting materials and all notices relating to
such securities.
2.15 Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities.
The Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all
written information (including, without limitation, pendency
of calls and maturities of domestic securities and
expirations of rights in connection therewith and notices of
exercise of call and put options written by the Fund and the
maturity of futures contracts purchased or sold by the Fund)
received by the Custodian from issuers of the domestic
securities being held for the Fund by the Custodian, an
agent appointed under Section 2.9, or sub-custodian
appointed under Section 1. With respect to tender or
exchange offers, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to
the Fund all written information received by the Custodian,
an agent appointed under Section 2.9, or sub-custodian
appointed under Section 1 from issuers of the domestic
securities whose tender or exchange is sought and from the
party (or his agents) making the tender or exchange offer.
If the Fund desires to take action with respect to any
tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar
transaction, the Fund shall notify the Custodian of such
desired action at least 72 hours (excluding holidays and
weekends) prior to the time such action must be taken under
the terms of the tender, exchange offer, or other similar
transaction, and it will be the responsibility of the
Custodian to timely transmit to the appropriate person(s)
the Fund's notice. Where the Fund does not notify the
Custodian of its desired action within the aforesaid 72 hour
period, the Custodian shall use its best efforts to timely
transmit the Fund's notice to the appropriate person.
2.16 Reports to Fund by Independent Public Accountants. The
Custodian shall provide the Fund, at such times as the Fund
may reasonably require, with reports by independent public
accountants on the accounting system, internal accounting
control and procedures for safeguarding securities, futures
contracts and options on futures contracts, including
domestic securities deposited and/or maintained in a
Securities System, relating to the services provided by the
Custodian under this Contract; such reports shall be of
sufficient scope and in sufficient detail, as may reasonably
be required by the Fund to provide reasonable assurance that
any material inadequacies existing or arising since the
prior examination would be disclosed by such examination.
The reports must describe any material inadequacies
disclosed and, if there are no such inadequacies, the
reports shall so state.
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3. Duties of the Custodian with Respect to Property of the Fund
Held Outside of the United States
3.1 Appointment of Foreign Sub-Custodians. The Custodian
is authorized and instructed to employ Chase Manhattan Bank,
N.A, ("Chase") as sub-custodian for the Fund's securities,
cash and other assets maintained outside of the United
States ("foreign assets") all as described in the
Subcustodian Agreement between the Custodian and Chase.
Upon receipt of "Proper Instructions", together with a
certified resolution of the Fund's Board of
Directors/Trustees, the Custodian and the Fund may agree to
designate additional proper institutions and foreign
securities depositories to act as sub-custodians of the
Fund's foreign assets. Upon receipt of Proper Instructions
from the Fund, the Custodian shall cease the employment of
any one or more of such sub-custodians for maintaining
custody of the Fund's foreign assets.
3.2 Assets to be Held. The Custodian shall limit the
foreign assets maintained in the custody of foreign sub-
custodians to foreign assets specified under the terms of
the Subcustodian Agreement between the Custodian and Chase.
3.3 Foreign Securities Depositories. Except as may
otherwise be agreed upon in writing by the Custodian and the
Fund, foreign assets of the Fund shall be maintained in
foreign securities depositories only through arrangements
implemented by the banking institutions serving as sub-
custodians pursuant to the terms hereof.
3.4 Segregation of Securities. The Custodian shall
identify on its books as belonging to the Fund, the foreign
assets of the Fund held by Chase and by each foreign sub-
custodian.
3.5 Access of Independent Accountants of the Fund. Upon
request of the Fund, the Custodian will use its best efforts
(subject to applicable law) to arrange for the independent
accountants, officers or other representatives of the Fund
or the Custodian to be afforded access to the books and
records of Chase and any banking or other institution
employed as a sub-custodian for the Fund by Chase or the
Custodian insofar as such books and records relate to the
performance of Chase or such banking or other institution
under any agreement with the Custodian or Chase. Upon
request of the Fund, the Custodian shall furnish to the Fund
such reports (or portions thereof) of Chase's external
auditors as are available to the Custodian and which relate
directly to Chase's system of internal accounting controls
applicable to Chase's duties as a subcustodian or which
relate to the internal accounting controls of any
subcustodian employed by Chase with respect to foreign
assets of the Fund.
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3.6 Reports by Custodian. The Custodian will supply to the
Fund from time to time, as mutually agreed upon, statements
in respect of the foreign assets of the Fund held pursuant
to the terms of the Subcustodian Agreement between the
Custodian and Chase, including but not limited, to an
identification of entities having possession of the Fund's
foreign assets and advices or notifications of any transfers
of foreign assets to or from each custodial account
maintained by any sub-custodian on behalf of the Fund
indicating, as to foreign assets acquired for the Fund, the
identity of the entity having physical possession of such
foreign assets.
3.7 Transactions in Foreign Assets of the Fund. All
transactions with respect to the Fund's foreign assets shall
be in accordance with, and subject to, the provisions of the
Subcustodian Agreement between Chase and the Custodian.
3.8 Responsibility of Custodian, Sub-Custodian, and Fund.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Custodian
Contract, the Custodian shall not be liable to the Fund for
any loss, damage, cost, expense, liability or claim arising
out of or in connection with the maintenance of custody of
the Fund's foreign assets by Chase or by any other banking
institution or securities depository employed pursuant to
the terms of any Subcustodian Agreement between Chase and
the Custodian, except that the Custodian shall be liable for
any such loss, damage, cost, expense, liability or claim to
the extent provided in the Subcustodian Agreement between
Chase and the Custodian or attributable to the failure of
the Custodian to exercise the standard of care set forth in
Article 12 hereof in the performance of its duties under
this Contract or such Subcustodian Agreement. At the
election of the Fund, the Fund shall be entitled to be
subrogated to the rights of the Custodian under the
Subcustodian Agreement with respect to any claims arising
thereunder against Chase or any other banking institution or
securities depository employed by Chase if and to the extent
that the Fund has not been made whole therefor. As between
the Fund and the Custodian, the Fund shall be solely
responsible to assure that the maintenance of foreign
securities and cash pursuant to the terms of the
Subcustodian Agreement complies with all applicable rules,
regulations, interpretations and orders of the Securities
and Exchange Commission, and the Custodian assumes no
responsibility and makes no representations as to such
compliance.
3.9 Monitoring Responsibilities. With respect to the
Fund's foreign assets, the Custodian shall furnish annually
to the Fund, during the month of June, information
concerning the sub-custodians employed by the Custodian.
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Such information shall be similar in kind and scope to that
furnished to the Fund in connection with the initial
approval of this Contract. In addition, the Custodian will
promptly inform the Fund in the event that the Custodian
learns of a material adverse change in the financial
condition of a sub-custodian.
3.10 Branches of U.S. Banks. Except as otherwise set forth
in this Contract, the provisions of this Article 3 shall not
apply where the custody of the Fund's assets is maintained
in a foreign branch of a banking institution which is a
"bank" as defined by Section 2(a)(5) of the Investment
Company Act of 1940 which meets the qualification set forth
in Section 26(a) of said Act. The appointment of any such
branch as a sub-custodian shall be governed by Section 1 of
this Contract.
4. Payments for Repurchases or Redemptions and Sales of Shares
of the Fund
From such funds as may be available for the purpose but
subject to the limitations of the Governing Documents of the Fund
and any applicable votes of the Board of Directors/Trustees of
the Fund pursuant thereto, the Custodian shall, upon receipt of
instructions from the Transfer Agent, make funds available for
payment to holders of Shares who have delivered to the Transfer
Agent a request for redemption or repurchase of their Shares. In
connection with the redemption or repurchase of Shares of the
Fund, the Custodian is authorized upon receipt of instructions
from the Transfer Agent to wire funds to or through a commercial
bank designated by the redeeming shareholder. In connection with
the redemption or repurchase of Shares of the Fund, the Custodian
shall honor checks drawn on the Custodian by a holder of Shares,
which checks have been furnished by the Fund to the holder of
Shares, when presented to the Custodian in accordance with such
procedures and controls as are mutually agreed upon from time to
time between the Fund and the Custodian.
The Custodian shall receive from the distributor for the
Fund's Shares or from the Transfer Agent of the Fund and deposit
as received into the Fund's account such payments as are received
for Shares of the Fund issued or sold from time to time by the
Fund. The Custodian will provide timely notification to the Fund
and the Transfer Agent of any receipt by it of payments for
Shares of the Fund.
5. Proper Instructions
Proper Instructions as used herein means a writing signed or
initialled by one or more person or persons as the Board of
Directors/Trustees shall have from time to time authorized. Each
such writing shall set forth the specific transaction or type of
transaction involved, including a specific statement of the
purpose for which such action is requested, or shall be a blanket
instruction authorizing specific transactions of a repeated or
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routine nature. Oral instructions will be considered Proper
Instructions if the Custodian reasonably believes them to have
been given by a person authorized to give such instructions with
respect to the transaction involved. The Fund shall cause all
oral instructions to be confirmed in writing. Upon receipt of a
certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary as to the
authorization by the Board of Directors/Trustees of the Fund
accompanied by a detailed description of procedures approved by
the Board of Directors/Trustees, Proper Instructions may include
communications effected directly between electro-mechanical or
electronic devices provided that the Board of Directors/Trustees
and the Custodian are satisfied that such procedures afford
adequate safeguards for the Fund's assets.
6. Actions Permitted without Express Authority
The Custodian may in its discretion, without express
authority from the Fund:
1) make payments to itself or others for minor
expenses of handling securities or other similar
items relating to its duties under this Contract,
provided that all such payments shall be accounted
for to the Fund;
2) surrender securities in temporary form for
securities in definitive form;
3) endorse for collection, in the name of the Fund,
checks, drafts and other negotiable instruments on
the same day as received; and
4) in general, attend to all non-discretionary
details in connection with the sale, exchange,
substitution, purchase, transfer and other
dealings with the securities and property of the
Fund except as otherwise directed by the Board of
Directors/Trustees of the Fund.
7. Evidence of Authority, Reliance on Documents
The Custodian shall be protected in acting upon any
instructions, notice, request, consent, certificate or other
instrument or paper reasonably and in good faith believed by it
to be genuine and to have been properly executed by or on behalf
of the Fund in accordance with Article 5 hereof. The Custodian
may receive and accept a certified copy of a vote of the Board of
Directors/Trustees of the Fund as conclusive evidence (a) of the
authority of any person to act in accordance with such vote or
(b) of any determination or of any action by the Board of
Directors/Trustees pursuant to the Governing Documents of the
Fund as described in such vote, and such vote may be considered
as in full force and effect until receipt by the Custodian of
written notice to the contrary. So long as and to the extent
that it is in the exercise of the standard of care set forth in
Article 12 hereof, the Custodian shall not be responsible for the
title, validity or genuineness of any property or evidence of
title thereto received by it or delivered by it pursuant to this
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Contract and shall be held harmless in acting upon any notice,
request, consent, certificate or other instrument reasonably
believed by it to be genuine and to be signed by the proper party
or parties.
8. Duties of Custodian with Respect to the Books of Account and
Calculation of Net Asset Value and Net Income
The Custodian shall cooperate with and supply necessary
information to the person or persons appointed by the Board of
Directors/Trustees of the Fund to keep the books of account of
the Fund and/or compute the net asset value per share of the
outstanding shares of the Fund or, if directed in writing to do
so by the Fund, shall itself keep such books of account and/or
compute such net asset value per share. If so directed, the
Custodian shall also calculate daily the net income of the Fund
as described in the Fund's currently effective prospectus and
shall advise the Fund and the Transfer Agent daily of the total
amounts of such net income and, if instructed in writing by an
officer of the Fund to do so, shall advise the Transfer Agent
periodically of the division of such net income among its various
components. The calculations of the net asset value per share
and the daily income of the Fund shall be made at the time or
times and in the manner described from time to time in the Fund's
currently effective prospectus.
9. Records, Inventory
The Custodian shall create and maintain all records relating
to its activities and obligations under this Contract in such
manner as will meet the obligations of the Fund under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, with particular attention to
Section 31 thereof and Rules 31a-1 and 31a-2 thereunder,
applicable federal and state tax laws and any other law or
administrative rules or procedures which may be applicable to the
Fund. All such records shall be the property of the Fund and
shall at all times during the regular business hours of the
Custodian be open for inspection and audit by duly authorized
officers, employees or agents of the Fund and employees and
agents of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and, in the
event of termination of this Agreement, will be delivered in
accordance with Section 14 hereof. The Custodian shall, at the
Fund's request, supply the Fund with a tabulation of securities
owned by the Fund and held by the Custodian and shall, when
requested to do so by the Fund and for such compensation as shall
be agreed upon between the Fund and the Custodian, include
certificate numbers in such tabulations. The Custodian shall
conduct a periodic inventory of all securities and other property
subject to this Agreement and provide to the Fund a periodic
reconciliation of the vaulted position of the Fund to the
appraised position of the Fund. The Custodian will promptly
report to the Fund the results of the reconciliation, indicating
any shortages or discrepancies uncovered thereby, and take
appropriate action to remedy any such shortages or discrepancies.
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10. Opinion of Fund's Independent Accountant
The Custodian shall cooperate with the Fund's independent
public accountants in connection with the annual and other audits
of the books and records of the Fund and take all reasonable
action, as the Fund may from time to time request, to provide
from year to year the necessary information to such accountants
for the expression of their opinion without any qualification as
to the scope of their examination, including but not limited to,
any opinion in connection with the preparation of the Fund's Form
N-lA, and Form N-SAR or other annual reports to the Securities
and Exchange Commission and with respect to any other
requirements of such Commission.
11. Compensation of Custodian
The Custodian shall be entitled to reasonable compensation
for its services and expenses as Custodian, as agreed upon from
time to time between the Fund and the Custodian.
12. Responsibility of Custodian
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement,
the Custodian shall be held to the exercise of reasonable care in
carrying out the provisions of this Contract, but shall be kept
indemnified by and shall be without liability to the Fund for any
action taken or omitted by it in good faith without negligence.
In order for the indemnification provision contained in this
Section to apply, it is understood that if in any case the Fund
may be asked to indemnify or save the Custodian harmless, the
Fund shall be fully and promptly advised of all pertinent facts
concerning the situation in question, and it is further
understood that the Custodian will use all reasonable care to
identify and notify the Fund promptly concerning any situation
which presents or appears likely to present the probability of
such a claim for indemnification against the Fund. The Fund,
shall have the option to defend the Custodian against any claim
which may be the subject of this indemnification, and in the
event that the Fund so elects, it will so notify the Custodian,
and thereupon the Fund shall take over complete defense of the
claim and the Custodian shall in such situation initiate no
further legal or other expenses for which it shall seek
indemnification under this Section. The Custodian shall in no
case confess any claim or make any compromise in any case in
which the Fund will be asked to indemnify the Custodian except
with the Fund's prior written consent. Nothing herein shall be
construed to limit any right or cause of action on the part of
the Custodian under this Contract which is independent of any
right or cause of action on the part of the Fund. The Custodian
shall be entitled to rely on and may act upon advice of counsel
(who may be counsel for the Fund or such other counsel as may be
agreed to by the parties) on all matters, and shall be without
liability for any action reasonably taken or omitted pursuant to
such advice. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the responsibility
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of the Custodian with respect to redemptions effected by check
shall be in accordance with a separate Agreement entered into
between the Custodian and the Fund.
If the Fund requires the Custodian to take any action with
respect to securities, which action involves the payment of money
or which action may, in the opinion of the Custodian, result in
the Custodian or its nominee assigned to the Fund being liable
for the payment of money or incurring liability of some other
form, the Fund, as a prerequisite to requiring the Custodian to
take such action, shall provide indemnity to the Custodian in an
amount and form satisfactory to it.
If the Fund requires the Custodian to advance cash or
securities for any purpose or in the event that the Custodian or
its nominee shall incur or be assessed any taxes, charges,
expenses, assessments, claims or liabilities in connection with
the performance of this Contract, except such as may arise from
its or its nominee's own negligent action, negligent failure to
act or willful misconduct, any property at any time held for the
account of the Fund shall be security therefor and should the
Fund fail to repay the Custodian promptly, the Custodian shall be
entitled to utilize available cash and to dispose of the Fund's
assets to the extent necessary to obtain reimbursement, provided
that the Custodian gives the Fund reasonable notice to repay such
cash or securities advanced, however, such notice shall not
preclude the Custodian's right to assert any lien under this
provision.
13. Effective Period, Termination and Amendment
This Contract shall become effective as of its execution,
shall continue in full force and effect until terminated as
hereinafter provided, may be amended at any time by mutual
agreement of the parties hereto and may be terminated by either
party by an instrument in writing delivered or mailed, postage
prepaid to the other party, such termination to take effect not
sooner than sixty (60) days after the date of such delivery or
mailing in the case of a termination by the Fund, and not sooner
than 180 days after the date of such delivery or mailing in the
case of a termination by the Custodian; provided, however that
the Custodian shall not act under Section 2.10 hereof in the
absence of receipt of an initial certificate of the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary that the Board of Directors/Trustees of
the Fund has approved the initial use of a particular Securities
System and the receipt of an annual certificate of the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary that the Board of Directors/Trustees
has reviewed the use by the Fund of such Securities System, as
required in each case by Rule 17f-4 under the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended and that the Custodian shall not act
under Section 2.11 hereof in the absence of receipt of an initial
certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary that the
Board of Directors/Trustees has approved the initial use of the
Direct Paper System and the receipt of an annual certificate of
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the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary that the Board of
Directors/Trustees has reviewed the use by the Fund of the Direct
Paper System; provided further, however, that the Fund shall not
amend or terminate this Contract in contravention of any
applicable federal or state regulations, or any provision of the
Governing Documents of the Fund, and further provided, that the
Fund may at any time by action of its Board of Directors/Trustees
(i) substitute another bank or trust company for the Custodian by
giving notice as described above to the Custodian, or (ii)
immediately terminate this Contract in the event of the
appointment of a conservator or receiver for the Custodian by the
Comptroller of the Currency or upon the happening of a like event
at the direction of an appropriate regulatory agency or court of
competent jurisdiction.
Upon termination of the Contract, the Fund shall pay to the
Custodian such compensation as may be due as of the date of such
termination and shall likewise reimburse the Custodian for its
costs, expenses and disbursements, provided that the Custodian
shall not incur any costs, expenses or disbursements specifically
in connection with such termination unless it has received prior
approval from the Fund, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
14. Successor Custodian
If a successor custodian shall be appointed by the Board of
Directors/Trustees of the Fund, the Custodian shall, upon
termination, deliver to such successor custodian at the office of
the Custodian, duly endorsed and in the form for transfer, all
securities, funds and other properties then held by it hereunder
and shall transfer to an account of the successor custodian all
of the Fund's securities held in a Securities System. The
Custodian shall also use its best efforts to assure that the
successor custodian will continue any subcustodian agreement
entered into by the Custodian and any subcustodian on behalf of
the Fund.
If no such successor custodian shall be appointed, the
Custodian shall, in like manner, upon receipt of a certified copy
of a vote of the Board of Directors/Trustees of the Fund, deliver
at the office of the Custodian and transfer such securities,
funds and other properties in accordance with such vote.
In the event that no written order designating a successor
custodian or certified copy of a vote of the Board of
Directors/Trustees shall have been delivered to the Custodian on
or before the date when such termination shall become effective,
then the Custodian shall have the right to deliver to a bank
or trust company, which is a "bank" as defined in the Investment
Company Act of 1940, doing business in Boston, Massachusetts, of
its own selection, having an aggregate capital, surplus, and
undivided profits, as shown by its last published report, of not
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less than $25,000,000, all securities, funds and other properties
held by the Custodian and all instruments held by the Custodian
relative thereto and all other property held by it under this
Contract and to transfer to an account of such successor
custodian all of the Fund's securities held in any Securities
System. Thereafter, such bank or trust company shall be the
successor of the Custodian under this Contract.
In the event that securities, funds and other properties
remain in the possession of the Custodian after the date of
termination hereof owing to failure of the Fund to procure the
certified copy of the vote referred to or of the Board of
Directors/Trustees to appoint a successor custodian, the
Custodian shall be entitled to fair compensation for its services
during such period as the Custodian retains possession of such
securities, funds and other properties and the provisions of this
Contract relating to the duties and obligations of the Custodian
shall remain in full force and effect. If while this Contract is
in force the Fund shall be liquidated pursuant to law, the
Custodian shall distribute, either in cash or (if the Fund so
orders) in the portfolio securities and other assets of the Fund,
pro rata among the holders of shares of the Fund as certified by
the Transfer Agent, the property of the Fund which remains after
paying or satisfying all expenses and liabilities of the Fund.
Section 12 hereof shall survive any termination of this Contract.
15. Interpretive and Additional Provisions
In connection with the operation of this Contract, the
Custodian and the Fund may from time to time agree on such
provisions interpretive of or in addition to the provisions of
this Contract as may in their joint opinion be consistent with
the general tenor of this Contract. Any such interpretive or
additional provisions shall be in a writing signed by both
parties and shall be annexed hereto, provided that no such
interpretive or additional provisions shall contravene any
applicable federal or state regulations or any provision of the
Governing Documents of the Fund. No interpretive or additional
provisions made as provided in the preceding sentence shall be
deemed to be an amendment of this Contract.
16. Notice
Any notice shall be sufficiently given when sent by
registered or certified mail, or by such other means as the
parties shall agree, to the other party at the address of such
party set forth above or at such other address as such party may
from time to time specify in writing to the other party.
17. Bond
The Custodian shall, at all times, maintain a bond in such
form and amount as is acceptable to the Fund which shall be
issued by a reputable fidelity insurance company authorized to do
business in the place where such bond is issued against larceny
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and embezzlement, covering each officer and employee of the
Custodian who may, singly or jointly with others, have access to
securities or funds of the Fund, either directly or through
authority to receive and carry out any certificate instruction,
order request, note or other instrument required or permitted by
this Agreement. The Custodian agrees that it shall not cancel,
terminate or modify such bond insofar as it adversely affects the
Fund except after written notice given to the Fund not less than
10 days prior to the effective date of such cancellation,
termination or modification. The Custodian shall furnish to the
Fund a copy of each such bond and each amendment thereto.
18. Confidentiality
The Custodian agrees to treat all records and other
information relative to the Fund and its prior, present or future
shareholders as confidential, and the Custodian, on behalf of
itself and its employees, agrees to keep confidential all such
information except, after prior notification to and approval in
writing by the Fund, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld and may not be withheld where the Custodian may be
exposed to civil or criminal contempt proceedings for failure to
comply, when requested to divulge such information by duly
constituted authorities, or when so requested by the Fund.
19. Exemption from Liens
The securities and other assets held by the Custodian for
the Fund shall be subject to no lien or charge of any kind in
favor of the Custodian or any person claiming through the
Custodian, but nothing herein shall be deemed to deprive the
Custodian of its right to invoke any and all remedies available
at law or equity to collect amounts due it under this Agreement.
Neither the Custodian nor any sub-custodian appointed pursuant to
Section 1 hereof shall have any power or authority to assign,
hypothecate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any securities held
by it for the Fund, except upon the direction of the Fund, duly
given as herein provided, and only for the account of the Fund.
20. Massachusetts Law to Apply
This Contract shall be construed and the provisions thereof
interpreted under and in accordance with laws of The Commonwealth
of Massachusetts.
21. Prior Contracts
Without derogating any of the rights established by such
contracts, this Contract supersedes and terminates, as of the
date hereof, all prior contracts between the Fund and the
Custodian relating to the custody of the Fund's assets.
22. The Parties
All references herein to "the Fund" are to each of the funds
listed on Appendix A individually, as if this Contract were
between such individual fund and the Custodian. In the case of a
series fund or trust, all references to "the Fund" are to the
individual series or portfolio of such fund or trust, or to such
fund or trust on behalf of the individual series or portfolio, as
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appropriate. Any reference in this Contract to "the parties"
shall mean the Custodian and such other individual Fund as to
which the matter pertains.
23. Governing Documents.
The term "Governing Documents" means the Articles of
Incorporation, Agreement of Trust, By-Laws and Registration
Statement filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from
time to time.
24. Subcustodian Agreement.
Reference to the "Subcustodian Agreement" between the
Custodian and Chase shall mean any such agreement which shall be
in effect from time to time between Chase and the Custodian with
respect to foreign assets of the Fund.
25. Directors and Trustees.
It is understood and is expressly stipulated that neither
the holders of shares in the Fund nor any Directors or Trustees
of the Fund shall be personally liable hereunder.
26. Massachusetts Business Trust
With respect to any Fund which is a party to this Contract
and which is organized as a Massachusetts business trust, the
term Fund means and refers to the trustees from time to time
serving under the applicable trust agreement (Declaration of
Trust) of such Trust as the same may be amended from time to
time. It is expressly agreed that the obligations of any such
Trust 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 Trust,
as provided in the Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The
execution and delivery of this Contract has been authorized by
the trustees and signed by an authorized officer of the Trust,
acting as such, and neither such authorization by such Trustees
nor such execution and delivery by such officer shall be deemed
to have been made by any of them but shall bind only the trust
property of the Trust as provided in its Declaration of Trust.
27. Successors of Parties.
This Contract shall be binding on and shall inure to the
benefit of the Fund and the Custodian and their respective
successors.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties has caused this
instrument to be executed in its name and behalf by its duly
authorized representative and its seal to be hereunder affixed as
of the dates indicated below.
DATED: September 28, 1987
__________________
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STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST
COMPANY
ATTEST:
/s/Kathleen M. Kubit By/s/Charles Cassidy
_____________________ _________________________________
Assistant Secretary Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
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(SIGNATURES CONTINUED)
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
DATED: September 28, 1987
___________________
ATTEST:
/s/Nancy J. Wortman By/s/Carmen F. Deyesu
____________________________ __________________________________
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Appendix A
The following Funds are parties to this Agreement and have
so indicated their intention to be bound by such Agreement by
executing the Agreement on the dates indicated thereon.
T. Rowe Price California Tax-Free Income Trust on behalf of
the
California Tax-Free Bond Fund and
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund
T. Rowe Price GNMA Fund
T. Rowe Price Growth & Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Institutional Trust on behalf of the
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. Rowe Price International Trust on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund and
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price New Era Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Prime Reserve Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Bond Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price State Tax-Free Income Trust on behalf of the
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund,
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund and
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. Rowe Price Tax-Exempt Money Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free High Yield Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Short-Intermediate Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Money Fund, Inc.
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AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
THIS AGREEMENT, made as of this 24th day of June, 1988, by
and between: T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price
New Horizons Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price New Era Fund, Inc., T.
Rowe Price New Income Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price Prime Reserve
Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price International Trust, T. Rowe Price U.S.
Treasury Money Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price Growth & Income Fund,
Inc., T. Rowe Price Tax-Exempt Money Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price
Tax-Free Income Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Short-
Intermediate Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price Short-Term Bond Fund,
Inc., T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price Tax-Free
High Yield Fund, Inc., T. Rowe Price New America Growth Fund, T.
Rowe Price Equity Income Fund, T. Rowe Price GNMA Fund, T. Rowe
Price Capital Appreciation Fund, T. Rowe Price Institutional
Trust, T. Rowe Price State Tax-Free Income Trust, T. Rowe Price
California Tax-Free Income Trust, T. Rowe Price Science &
Technology Fund, Inc., (hereinafter together called the "Funds"
and individually "Fund") and State Street Bank and Trust Company,
a Massachusetts trust,
W I T N E S S E T H:
It is mutually agreed that the Custodian Contract made by
the parties on the 28th day of September, 1987, is hereby amended
by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Value Fund, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
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(SIGNATURES CONTINUED)
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY MONEY FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H.Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
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(SIGNATURES CONTINUED)
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
/s/ Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
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(SIGNATURES CONTINUED)
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/William Blackwell
______________________________________________
By:
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AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, between State Street Bank and Trust Company and
each of the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby
further amended, as of October 19, 1988, by adding thereto the T.
Rowe Price International Discovery Fund, Inc., a separate series
of T. Rowe Price International Trust.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
PAGE 35
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/Guy R. Sturgeon
______________________________________________
By:
PAGE 36
AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988 and October 19, 1988, between State Street Bank and
Trust Company and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A
thereto is hereby further amended, as of February 22, 1989, by
adding thereto the T. Rowe Price International Equity Fund, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
PAGE 37
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/K. Donelson
______________________________________________
By:
PAGE 38
AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988 and February 22, 1989, between
State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties
listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of
July 19, 1989, by adding thereto the Institutional International
Funds, Inc., on behalf of the Foreign Equity Fund.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
PAGE 39
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
______________________________________________
By:
PAGE 40
AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, and July 19,
1989 between State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the
Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended,
as of September 15, 1989, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price
U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc., on behalf of the U.S. Treasury
Intermediate Fund and the U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
PAGE 41
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
____________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
____________________________________
By:
PAGE 42
AMENDMENT NO. 6 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19, 1989
and September 15, 1989, between State Street Bank and Trust
Company and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is
hereby further amended, as of December 15, 1989, by restating
Section 2.15 as follows:
2.15 Communications Relating to Fund Portfolio Securities. The
Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all written
information (including, without limitation, pendency of calls and
maturities of domestic securities and expirations of rights in
connection therewith and notices of exercise of call and put
options written by the Fund and the maturity of futures contracts
purchased or sold by the Fund) received by the Custodian from
issuers of the domestic securities being held for the Fund by the
Custodian, an agent appointed under Section 2.9, or sub-custodian
appointed under Section 1. With respect to tender or exchange
offers, the Custodian shall transmit promptly to the Fund all
written information received by the Custodian, an agent appointed
under Section 2.9, or sub-custodian appointed under Section 1
from issuers of the domestic securities whose tender or exchange
is sought and from the party (or his agents) making the tender or
exchange offer. If the Fund desires to take action with respect
to any tender offer, exchange offer or any other similar
transaction, the Fund shall notify the Custodian of such desired
action at least 48 hours (excluding holidays and weekends) prior
to the time such action must be taken under the terms of the
tender, exchange offer, or other similar transaction, and it will
be the responsibility of the Custodian to timely transmit to the
appropriate person(s) the Fund's notice. Where the Fund does not
notify the custodian of its desired action within the aforesaid
48 hour period, the Custodian shall use its best efforts to
timely transmit the Fund's notice to the appropriate person. It
is expressly noted that the parties may negotiate and agree to
alternative procedures with respect to such 48 hour notice period
on a selective and individual basis.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
PAGE 43
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
PAGE 44
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U. S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U. S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U. S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
/s/Carmen F. Deyesu
_________________________________________
By: Carmen F. Deyesu,
Treasurer
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/ E. D. Hawkes, Jr.
_________________________________________
By: E. D. Hawkes, Jr.
Vice President
PAGE 45
Amendment No. 7 filed on Form SE January 25, 1990 with
International Trust (CIK 313212) Post Effective Amendment No. 17.
PAGE 46
AMENDMENT NO. 8 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, and December 20,
1989, between State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the
Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended,
as of January 25, 1990, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price
European Stock Fund, a separate series of T. Rowe Price
International Trust.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
PAGE 47
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
_________________________________________
By:
PAGE 48
AMENDMENT NO. 9 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
and January 25, 1990 between State Street Bank and Trust Company
and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby
further amended, as of February 21, 1990, by adding thereto the
T. Rowe Price Index Trust, Inc., on behalf of the T. Rowe Price
Equity Index Fund.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
PAGE 49
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_____________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins
Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
______________________________________
By:
PAGE 50
AMENDMENT NO. 10 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, between State Street Bank
and Trust Company and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A
thereto is hereby further amended, as of June 12, 1990, by adding
thereto the T. Rowe Price Spectrum Fund, Inc., on behalf of the
Spectrum Growth Fund and the Spectrum Income Fund.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
PAGE 51
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_____________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
______________________________________
By:
PAGE 52
AMENDMENT NO. 11 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, and June 12, 1990 between
State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties
listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of
July 18, 1990, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund,
a separate series of the T. Rowe Price International Funds, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
PAGE 53
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_____________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/ Guy R. Sturgeon
______________________________________
By: Guy R. Sturgeon
PAGE 54
AMENDMENT NO. 12 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, and July 18,
1990 between State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the
Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended,
as of October 15, 1990, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price
Global Government Bond Fund, a separate series of the T. Rowe
Price International Funds, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
PAGE 55
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE INSTITUTIONAL TRUST
Tax-Exempt Reserve Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_____________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/ Guy R. Sturgeon
______________________________________
By:
PAGE 56
AMENDMENT NO. 13 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, and October 15, 1990, between State Street Bank and Trust
Company and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is
hereby further amended, as of February 13, 1991, by adding
thereto the Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund and New Jersey Tax-Free
Bond Fund, two separate series of the T. Rowe Price State Tax-
Free Income Trust
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
PAGE 57
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_____________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/ Guy Sturgeon
______________________________________
By: Vice President
PAGE 58
AMENDMENT NO. 14 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, and February 13, 1991, between State
Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties listed on
Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of March 6,
1991, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Balanced Fund, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
PAGE 59
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_____________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
______________________________________
By:
PAGE 60
AMENDMENT NO. 15 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, and March 6, 1991,
between State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the
Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended,
as of September 12, 1991, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price
Adjustable Rate U.S. Government Fund, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
PAGE 61
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S.
GOVERNMENT FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_____________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
PAGE 62
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
______________________________________
By:
PAGE 63
AMENDMENT NO. 16 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991 and
September 12, 1991, between State Street Bank and Trust Company
and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby
further amended, as of November 6, 1991, by adding thereto the T.
Rowe Price Japan Fund, a separate series of the T. Rowe Price
International Funds, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
PAGE 64
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL
EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S.
GOVERNMENT FUND, INC.
PAGE 65
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_____________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
______________________________________
By:
PAGE 66
AMENDMENT NO. 17 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991 and November 6, 1991, between State Street
Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties listed on
Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of April 23,
1992, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund,
Inc. and T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund, a separate
series of the T. Rowe Price International Funds, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
PAGE 67
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
PAGE 68
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
____________________________________
By:
PAGE 69
AMENDMENT NO. 18 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, and April 23, 1992, between
State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties
listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of
September 2, 1992, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price OTC Fund,
a series of the T. Rowe Price OTC Fund, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
PAGE 70
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
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/s/Henry H. Hopkins
__________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
__________________________________
By:
PAGE 72
AMENDMENT NO. 19 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, and
September 2, 1992, between State Street Bank and Trust Company
and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby
further amended, as of November 3, 1992, by adding thereto the T.
Rowe Price Tax-Free Insured Intermediate Bond Fund, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
_________________________________________
By:
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AMENDMENT NO. 20 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, and November 3, 1992, between State Street Bank and
Trust Company and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A
thereto is hereby further amended, as of December 16, 1992, by
adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
_________________________________________
By:
PAGE 78
AMENDMENT NO. 21 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, and December 16, 1992, between State
Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties listed on
Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of December 21,
1992, by adding thereto the Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond
Fund, an additional series to the T. Rowe Price State Tax-Free
Income Trust.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
_________________________________________
By:
PAGE 81
AMENDMENT NO. 22 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, and December 21,
1992, between State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the
Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended,
as of January 28, 1993, by adding thereto the Georgia Tax-Free
Bond Fund and the Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund,
additional series to the T. Rowe Price State Tax-Free Income
Trust.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
_________________________________________
By:
PAGE 84
AMENDMENT NO. 23 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
and January 28, 1993, between State Street Bank and Trust Company
and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby
further amended, as of April 22, 1993, by adding thereto the T.
Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
_________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
__________________________________________
By:
PAGE 87
AMENDMENT NO. 24 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
January 28, 1993, April 22, 1993, between State Street Bank and
Trust Company and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A
thereto is hereby further amended, as of September 16, 1993, by
adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Summit Funds, Inc. and T. Rowe
Price Summit Municipal Funds, Inc.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, it is
understood that the T. Rowe Price Summit Funds, Inc. and T. Rowe
Price Summit Municipal Funds, Inc. (collectively referred to as
the "Funds") shall not be responsible for paying any of the fees
or expenses set forth herein but that, in accordance with the
Investment Management Agreement, dated September 16, 1993,
between the Funds and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. ("T. Rowe
Price"), the Funds will require T. Rowe Price to pay all such
fees and expenses.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
________________________________________
By:
PAGE 90
AMENDMENT NO. 25 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
January 28, 1993, April 22, 1993, and September 16, 1993, between
State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties
listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of
November 3, 1993, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Latin
America Fund, a separate series of the T. Rowe Price
International Funds, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
PAGE 92
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
________________________________________
By:
PAGE 93
AMENDMENT NO. 26 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
January 28, 1993, April 22, 1993, September 16, 1993, and
November 3, 1993, between State Street Bank and Trust Company and
each of the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby
further amended, as of March 1, 1994, by adding thereto the T.
Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio and T. Rowe Price New America
Growth Portfolio, two separate series of the T. Rowe Price Equity
Series, Inc. and T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio, a
separate series of the T. Rowe Price International Series, Inc.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, it is
understood that the T. Rowe Price Equity Series, Inc. and T. Rowe
Price International Series, Inc. (collectively referred to as the
"Funds") shall not be responsible for paying any of the fees or
expenses set forth herein but that, in accordance with the
Investment Management Agreements, dated March 1, 1994, between
the Funds and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Rowe Price-
Fleming International, Inc. (collectively referred to as "T. Rowe
Price"), the Funds will require T. Rowe Price to pay all such
fees and expenses.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
PAGE 94
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
PAGE 95
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
PAGE 96
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
________________________________________
By:
PAGE 97
AMENDMENT NO. 27 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
January 28, 1993, April 22, 1993, September 16, 1993, November 3,
1993, and March 1, 1994, between State Street Bank and Trust
Company and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is
hereby further amended, as of April 21, 1994, by adding thereto
the T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio, a separate series
of the T. Rowe Price Fixed Income Series, Inc.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, it is
understood that the T. Rowe Price Fixed Income Series, Inc.
(referred to as the "Fund") shall not be responsible for paying
any of the fees or expenses set forth herein but that, in
accordance with the Investment Management Agreement, dated April
21, 1994, between the Fund and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
(referred to as "T. Rowe Price"), the Fund will require T. Rowe
Price to pay all such fees and expenses.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
PAGE 98
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
PAGE 99
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE FIXED INCOME SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
PAGE 100
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
________________________________________
By:
PAGE 101
AMENDMENT NO. 28 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
January 28, 1993, April 22, 1993, September 16, 1993, November 3,
1993, March 1, 1994, and April 21, 1994, between State Street
Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties listed on
Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of July 27,
1994, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy
Balanced Fund, T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund, and
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund, three separate
series of the T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Funds, Inc.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, it is
understood that the T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Funds, Inc.
(collectively referred to as the "Funds") shall not be
responsible for paying any of the fees or expenses set forth
herein but that, in accordance with the Investment Management
Agreements, dated July 27, 1994, between the Funds and T. Rowe
Price Associates, Inc. (referred to as "T. Rowe Price"), the
Funds will require T. Rowe Price to pay all such fees and
expenses.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
PAGE 102
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
PAGE 103
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
PAGE 104
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE FIXED INCOME SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
________________________________________
By:
PAGE 105
AMENDMENT NO. 29 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
January 28, 1993, April 22, 1993, September 16, 1993, November 3,
1993, March 1, 1994, and April 21, 1994, between State Street
Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties listed on
Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of July 27,
1994, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy
Balanced Strategy Balanced Portfolio, a separate series of the T.
Rowe Price Equity Series, Inc.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, it is
understood that the T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Portfolio, a separate series of the T. Rowe Price Equity Series,
Inc. (referred to as the "Fund) shall not be responsible for
paying any of the fees or expenses set forth herein but that, in
accordance with the Investment Management Agreement, dated July
27, 1994, between the Fund and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
(referred to as "T. Rowe Price"), the Fund will require T. Rowe
Price to pay all such fees and expenses.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
PAGE 106
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
PAGE 107
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Portfolio
PAGE 108
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE FIXED INCOME SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/
________________________________________
By:
PAGE 109
AMENDMENT NO. 30 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
January 28, 1993, April 22, 1993, September 16, 1993, November 3,
1993, March 1, 1994, April 21, 1994, and July 27, 1994 between
State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties
listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of
September 21, 1994, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Value
Fund, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
PAGE 110
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE FIXED INCOME SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE VALUE FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
________________________________________
By:Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/Carol C. Ayotte
________________________________________
By:Carol C. Ayotte, Vice President
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AMENDMENT NO. 31 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
January 28, 1993, April 22, 1993, September 16, 1993, November 3,
1993, March 1, 1994, April 21, 1994, July 27, 1994, and September
21, 1994 between State Street Bank and Trust Company and each of
the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby further
amended, as of November 1, 1994, by adding thereto the T. Rowe
Price Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund, a separate series
of the T. Rowe Price State Tax-Free Income Trust.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE FIXED INCOME SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE VALUE FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/Carol C. Ayotte
________________________________________
By:Carol C. Ayotte, Vice President
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AMENDMENT NO. 32 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
January 28, 1993, April 22, 1993, September 16, 1993, November 3,
1993, March 1, 1994, April 21, 1994, July 27, 1994, September 21,
1994, and November 1, 1994 between State Street Bank and Trust
Company and each of the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is
hereby further amended, as of November 2, 1994, by adding thereto
the T. Rowe Price Capital Opportunity Fund, Inc. and the T. Rowe
Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund, a separate series of the T.
Rowe Price International Funds, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE FIXED INCOME SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE VALUE FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC.
/s/Henry H. Hopkins
________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
/s/Carol C. Ayotte
________________________________________
By:Carol C. Ayotte, Vice President
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AMENDMENT NO. 33 TO CUSTODIAN CONTRACT BETWEEN
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY AND
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
W I T N E S S E T H:
The Custodian Contract of September 28, 1987, as amended
June 24, 1988, October 19, 1988, February 22, 1989, July 19,
1989, September 15, 1989, December 15, 1989, December 20, 1989,
January 25, 1990, February 21, 1990, June 12, 1990, July 18,
1990, October 15, 1990, February 13, 1991, March 6, 1991,
September 12, 1991, November 6, 1991, April 23, 1992, September
2, 1992, November 3, 1992, December 16, 1992, December 21, 1992,
January 28, 1993, April 22, 1993, September 16, 1993, November 3,
1993, March 1, 1994, April 21, 1994, July 27, 1994, September 21,
1994, November 1, 1994, and November 2, 1994 between State Street
Bank and Trust Company and each of the Parties listed on
Appendix A thereto is hereby further amended, as of January 25,
1995, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Stock
Fund, a separate series of the T. Rowe Price International Funds,
Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Stock Fund
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE FIXED INCOME SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE VALUE FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC.
_____________________________________________
By: Henry H. Hopkins, Vice President
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
_____________________________________________
By: Carol C. Ayotte, Vice President
The Transfer Agency and Service Agreement between T. Rowe
Price Services, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Funds, dated January 1,
1995, as amended, should be inserted here.
PAGE 1
TRANSFER AGENCY AND SERVICE AGREEMENT
between
T. ROWE PRICE SERVICES, INC.
and
EACH OF THE PARTIES INDICATED ON APPENDIX A
PAGE 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Article A Terms of Appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Article B Duties of Price Services . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1. Receipt of Orders/Payments . . . . . . . . 3
2. Written Redemptions . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Transfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Confirmations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Returned Checks and ACH Debits . . . . . . 6
6. Redemptions of Shares under Ten Day Hold . 6
7. Dividends, Distributions and Other
Corporate Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8. Unclaimed Payments and Certificates . . . 9
9. Books and Records . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10. Authorized Issued and Outstanding Shares 11
11. Tax Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
12. Information to be Furnished to the Fund 12
13. Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
14. Lost or Stolen Securities . . . . . . . 12
15. Telephone Services . . . . . . . . . . . 12
16. Proxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
17. Form N-SAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
18. Cooperation With Accountants . . . . . . 13
19. Blue Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
20. Other Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
21. Fees and Out-of-Pocket Expenses . . . . 14
Article C Representations and Warranties of the Price
Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Article D Representations and Warranties of the Fund . 16
Article E Standard of Care/Indemnification . . . . . . 17
Article F Dual Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Article G Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Article H References to Price Services . . . . . . . . 20
Article I Compliance with Governmental Rules and
Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Article J Ownership of Software and Related Material . 21
Article K Quality Service Standards . . . . . . . . . . 21
Article L As of Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Article M Term and Termination of Agreement . . . . . . 24
Article N Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Article O Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Article P Amendment/Interpretive Provisions . . . . . . 25
Article Q Further Assurances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Article R Maryland Law to Apply . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Article S Merger of Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Article T Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Article U The Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Article V Directors, Trustees, Shareholders and
Massachusetts Business Trust . . . . . . . . 26
Article W Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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TRANSFER AGENCY AND SERVICE AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT made as of the first day of January, 1995, by and
between T. ROWE PRICE SERVICES, INC., a Maryland corporation
having its principal office and place of business at 100 East
Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 ("Price Services"), and
EACH FUND WHICH IS LISTED ON APPENDIX A (as such Appendix may be
amended from time to time) and which evidences its agreement to
be bound hereby by executing a copy of this Agreement (each such
Fund individually hereinafter referred to as "the Fund", whose
definition may be found in Article U);
WHEREAS, the Fund desires to appoint Price Services as its
transfer agent, dividend disbursing agent and agent in connection
with certain other activities, and Price Services desires to
accept such appointment;
WHEREAS, Price Services represents that it is registered
with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a Transfer Agent
under Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("'34
Act") and will notify each Fund promptly if such registration is
revoked or if any proceeding is commenced before the Securities
and Exchange Commission which may lead to such revocation;
WHEREAS, certain of the Funds are named investment options
under various tax-sheltered retirement plans including, but not
limited to, individual retirement accounts, simplified employee
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pension plans, deferred compensation plans, 403(b) plans, and
profit sharing, thrift, and money purchase pension plans for
self-employed individuals and professional partnerships and
corporations, (collectively referred to as "Retirement Plans");
WHEREAS, Price Services has the capability of providing
special services, on behalf of the Funds, for the accounts of
shareholders participating in these Retirement Plans ("Retirement
Accounts").
WHEREAS, Price Services may subcontract or jointly contract
with other parties, on behalf of the Funds, including, but not
limited to, DST, SRI, Moore Business Forms, Boston Financial Data
Services, Inc., and The Analytical Sciences Corporation, to
perform certain of the functions and services described herein
including services to Retirement Plans and Retirement Accounts.
Price Services may also enter into, on behalf of the Funds,
certain banking relationships to perform various banking services
including, but not limited to, check deposits, check
disbursements, automated clearing house transactions ("ACH") and
wire transfers. Subject to guidelines mutually agreed upon by
the Funds and Price Services, excess balances, if any, resulting
from these banking relationships will be invested and the income
therefrom will be used to offset fees which would otherwise be
charged to the Funds under this Agreement.
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NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants
herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
A. Terms of Appointment
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement, the Fund hereby employs and appoints Price Services to
act, and Price Services agrees to act, as the Fund's transfer
agent, dividend disbursing agent and agent in connection with:
(1) the Fund's authorized and issued shares of its common stock
or shares of beneficial interest (all such stock and shares to be
referred to as "Shares"); (2) any accumulation, open-account or
similar plans provided to the shareholders of the Fund
("Shareholders"), including, without limitation, any periodic
investment plan or periodic withdrawal program; and (3) certain
Retirement Plan and Retirement Accounts as agreed upon by the
parties.
The parties to the Agreement hereby acknowledge that from
time to time, Price Services and T. Rowe Price Trust Company may
enter into contracts ("Other Contracts") with employee benefit
plans and/or their sponsors for the provision of certain plan
participant services to Retirement Plans and Retirement Accounts.
Compensation paid to Price Services pursuant to this Agreement
is with respect to the services described herein and not with
respect to services provided under Other Contracts.
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B. Duties of Price Services
Price Services agrees that it will perform the following
services:
1. Receipt of Orders/Payments
Receive for acceptance, orders/payments for the
purchase of Shares and promptly deliver payment and
appropriate documentation thereof to the authorized
custodian of the Fund (the "Custodian"). Upon receipt of
any check or other instrument drawn or endorsed to it as
agent for, or identified as being for the account of, the
Fund, Price Services will process the order as follows:
o Examine the check to determine if the check conforms to
the Funds' acceptance procedures (including certain
third-party check procedures). If the check conforms,
Price Services will endorse the check and include the
date of receipt, will process the same for payment, and
deposit the net amount to the parties agreed upon
designated bank account prior to such deposit in the
Custodial account, and will notify the Fund and the
Custodian, respectively, of such deposits (such
notification to be given on a daily basis of the total
amount deposited to said accounts during the prior
business day);
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o Open a new account, if necessary, and credit the
account of the investor with the number of Shares to be
purchased according to the price of the Fund's Shares
in effect for purchases made on that date, subject to
any instructions which the Fund may have given to Price
Services with respect to acceptance of orders for
Shares relating to payments so received by it;
o Maintain a record of all unpaid purchases and report
such information to the Fund daily;
o Process periodic payment orders, as authorized by
investors, in accordance with the payment procedures
for pre-authorized checking ("PAC") and ACH purchases
mutually agreed upon by both parties;
o Receive monies from Retirement Plans and determine the
proper allocation of such monies to the Retirement
Accounts based upon instructions received from
Retirement Plan participants or Retirement Plan
administrators ("Administrators"); and
o Process telephone orders for purchases of Fund shares
from the Shareholder's bank account (via wire or ACH)
to the Fund in accordance with procedures mutually
agreed upon by both parties.
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Upon receipt of funds through the Federal Reserve Wire
System that are designated for purchases in Funds which declare
dividends at 12:00 p.m. (or such time as set forth in the Fund's
current prospectus), Price Services shall promptly notify the
Fund and the Custodian of such deposit.
2. Redemptions
Receive for acceptance redemption requests, including
telephone redemptions and requests received from
Administrators for distributions to participants or their
designated beneficiaries or for payment of fees due the
Administrator or such other person, including Price
Services, and deliver the appropriate documentation thereof
to the Custodian. Price Services shall receive and stamp
with the date of receipt, all requests for redemptions of
Shares (including all certificates delivered to it for
redemption) and shall process said redemption requests as
follows, subject to the provisions of Section 7 hereof:
o Examine the redemption request and, for written
redemptions, the supporting documentation, to determine
that the request is in good order and all requirements
have been met;
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o Notify the Fund on the next business day of the total
number of Shares presented and covered by all such
requests;
o As set forth in the prospectus of the Fund, and in any
event, on or prior to the seventh (7th) calendar day
succeeding any such request for redemption, Price
Services shall, from funds available in the accounts
maintained by Price Services as agent for the Funds,
pay the applicable redemption price in accordance with
the current prospectus of the Fund, to the investor,
participant, beneficiary, Administrator or such other
person, as the case may be;
o If any request for redemption does not comply with the
Fund's requirements, Price Services shall promptly
notify the investor of such fact, together with the
reason therefore, and shall effect such redemption at
the price in effect at the time of receipt of all
appropriate documents;
o Make such withholdings as may be required under
applicable Federal and State
taxlaw;
o In the event redemption proceeds for the payment of
fees are to be wired through the Federal Reserve Wire
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System or by bank wire, Price Services shall cause such
proceeds to be wired in Federal funds to the bank
account designated; and
o Process periodic redemption orders as authorized by the
investor in accordance with the periodic withdrawal
procedures for Systematic Withdrawal Plan ("SWP") and
systematic ACH redemptions mutually agreed upon by both
parties.
Procedures and requirements for effecting and accepting
redemption orders from investors by telephone, Tele*Access,
Mailgram, or written instructions shall be established by
mutual agreement between Price Services and the Fund
consistent with the Fund's current prospectus.
3. Transfers
Effect transfers of Shares by the registered owners
thereof upon receipt of appropriate instructions and
documentation and examine such instructions for conformance
with appropriate procedures and requirements. In this
regard, Price Services, upon receipt of a proper request for
transfer, including any transfer involving the surrender of
certificates of Shares, is authorized to transfer, on the
records of the Fund, Shares of the Fund, including
cancellation of surrendered certificates, if any, to credit
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a like amount of Shares to the transferee and to
countersign, issue and deliver new certificates, if
requested, for those Funds issuing certificates.
4. Confirmations
Mail all confirmations and other enclosures requested
by the Fund to the shareholder, and in the case of
Retirement Accounts, to the Administrators, as may be
required by the Funds or by applicable Federal or state law.
5. Returned Checks and ACH Debits
In order to minimize the risk of loss to the Fund by
reason of any check being returned unpaid, Price Services
will promptly identify and follow-up on any check or ACH
debit returned unpaid. For items returned, Price Services
may telephone the investor and/or redeposit the check or
debit for collection or cancel the purchase, as deemed
appropriate.
6. Redemption of Shares under Ten Day Hold
o Uncollected Funds
Shares purchased by personal, corporate, or
governmental check, or by ACH will be considered
uncollected until the tenth calendar date following the
trade date of the trade ("Uncollected Funds");
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o Good Funds
Shares purchased by treasurer's, cashier, certified, or
official check, or by wire transfer will be considered
collected immediately ("Good Funds"). Absent
information to the contrary (i.e., notification from
the payee institution), Uncollected Funds will be
considered Good Funds on the tenth calendar day
following trade date.
o Redemption of Uncollected Funds
o Shareholders making telephone requests for
redemption of shares purchased with Uncollected
Funds will be given two options:
1. The Shareholder will be permitted to exchange
to a money market fund to preserve principal until
the payment is deemed Good Funds,
2. The redemption can be processed utilizing the
same procedures for written redemptions described
below.
o If a written redemption request is made for shares
where any portion of the payment for said shares
is in Uncollected Funds, and the request is in
good order, Price Services will promptly obtain
the information relative to the payment necessary
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to determine when the payment becomes Good Funds.
The redemption will be processed in accordance
with normal procedures, and the proceeds will be
held until confirmation that the payment is Good
Funds. On the seventh (7th) calendar day after
trade date, and each day thereafter until either
confirmation is received or the tenth (10th)
calendar day, Price Services will call the paying
institution to request confirmation that the check
or ACH in question has been paid. On the tenth
calendar day after trade date, the redemption
proceeds will be released, regardless of whether
confirmation has been received.
o Checkwriting Redemptions.
o Daily, all checkwriting redemptions $10,000 and
over reported as Uncollected Funds or insufficient
funds will be reviewed. An attempt will be made
to contact the shareholder to make good the funds
(through wire, exchange, transfer). Generally by
12:00 p.m. the same day, if the matter has not
been resolved, the redemption request will be
rejected and the check returned to the
Shareholder.
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o All checkwriting redemptions under $10,000
reported as Uncollected or insufficient funds will
be rejected and the check returned to the
Shareholder.
o Confirmations of Available Funds
The Fund expects that situations may develop whereby it
would be beneficial to determine if a person who has
placed an order for Shares has sufficient funds in his
or her checking account to cover the payment for the
Shares purchased. When this situation occurs, Price
Services may call the bank in question and request that
it confirm that sufficient funds to cover the purchase
are currently credited to the account in question.
Price Services will maintain written documentation or a
recording of each telephone call which is made under
the procedures outlined above. None of the above
procedures shall preclude Price Services from inquiring
as to the status of any check received by it in payment
for the Fund's Shares as Price Services may deem
appropriate or necessary to protect both the Fund and
Price Services. If a conflict arises between Section 2
and this Section 7, Section 7 will govern.
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7. Dividends, Distributions and Other Corporate Actions
o The Fund will promptly inform Price Services of the
declaration of any dividend, distribution, stock split
or any other distributions of a similar kind on account
of its Capital Stock.
o Price Services shall act as Dividend Disbursing Agent
for the Fund, and as such, shall prepare and make
income and capital gain payments to investors. As
Dividend Disbursing Agent, Price Services will on or
before the payment date of any such dividend or
distribution, notify the Custodian of the estimated
amount required to pay any portion of said dividend or
distribution which is payable in cash, and the Fund
agrees that on or before the payment date of such
distribution, it shall instruct the Custodian to make
available to Price Services sufficient funds for the
cash amount to be paid out. If an investor is entitled
to receive additional Shares by virtue of any such
distribution or dividend, appropriate credits will be
made to his or her account.
8. Unclaimed Payments and Certificates
In accordance with procedures agreed upon by both
parties, report abandoned property to appropriate state and
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governmental authorities of the Fund. Price Services shall,
90 days prior to the annual reporting of abandoned property
to each of the states, make reasonable attempts to locate
Shareholders for which (a) checks or share certificates have
been returned; (b) for which accounts have aged outstanding
checks; or (c) accounts with unissued shares that have been
coded with stop mail and meet the dormancy period guidelines
specified in the individual states. Price Services shall
make reasonable attempts to contact shareholders for those
accounts which have significant aged outstanding checks.
9. Books and Records
Maintain records showing for each Shareholder's
account, Retirement Plan or Retirement Account, as the case
may be, the following:
o Names, address and tax identification number;
o Number of Shares held;
o Certain historical information regarding the
account of each Shareholder, including dividends
and distributions distributed in cash or invested
in Shares;
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o Pertinent information regarding the establishment
and maintenance of Retirement Plans and Retirement
Accounts necessary to properly administer each
account;
o Information with respect to the source of
dividends and distributions allocated among income
(taxable and nontaxable income), realized short-
term gains and realized long-term gains;
o Any stop or restraining order placed against a
Shareholder's account;
o Information with respect to withholdings on
domestic and foreign accounts;
o Any instructions from a Shareholder including, all
forms furnished by the Fund and executed by a
Shareholder with respect to (i) dividend or
distribution elections, and (ii) elections with
respect to payment options in connection with the
redemption of Shares;
o Any correspondence relating to the current
maintenance of a Shareholder's account;
o Certificate numbers and denominations for any
Shareholder holding certificates;
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o Any information required in order for Price
Services to perform the calculations contemplated
under this Agreement.
Price Services shall maintain files and furnish
statistical and other information as required under this
Agreement and as may be agreed upon from time to time by
both parties or required by applicable law. However, Price
Services reserves the right to delete, change or add any
information to the files maintained; provided such
deletions, changes or additions do not contravene the terms
of this Agreement or applicable law and do not materially
reduce the level of services described in this Agreement.
Price Services shall also use its best efforts to obtain
additional statistical and other information as each Fund
may reasonably request for additional fees as may be agreed
to by both parties.
Any such records maintained pursuant to Rule 31a-1
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("the Act") will be
preserved for the periods and maintained in a manner
prescribed in Rule 31a-2 thereunder. Disposition of such
records after such prescribed periods shall be as mutually
agreed upon by the Fund and Price Services. The retention
of such records, which may be inspected by the Fund at
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reasonable times, shall be at the expense of the Fund. All
records maintained by Price Services in connection with the
performance of its duties under this Agreement will remain
the property of the Fund and, in the event of termination of
this Agreement, will be delivered to the Fund as of the date
of termination or at such other time as may be mutually
agreed upon.
All books, records, information and data pertaining to
the business of the other party which are exchanged or
received pursuant to the negotiation or the carrying out of
this Agreement shall remain confidential, and shall not be
voluntarily disclosed to any other person, except after
prior notification to and approval by the other party
hereto, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld
and may not be withheld where Price Services or the Fund may
be exposed to civil or criminal contempt proceedings for
failure to comply; when requested to divulge such
information by duly constituted governmental authorities; or
after so requested by the other party hereto.
10. Authorized Issued and Outstanding Shares
Record the issuance of Shares of the Fund and maintain,
pursuant to Rule 17Ad-10(e) of the '34 Act, a record of the
total number of Shares of the Fund which are authorized,
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issued and outstanding, based upon data provided to it by
the Fund. Price Services shall also provide the Fund on a
regular basis the total number of Shares which are
authorized and issued and outstanding. Price Services shall
have no obligation, when recording the issuance of Shares,
to monitor the issuance of such Shares or to take cognizance
of any laws relating to the issuance or sale of such Shares.
11. Tax Information
Prepare and file with the Internal Revenue Service and
with other appropriate state agencies and, if required, mail
to investors, those returns for reporting dividends and
distributions paid as required to be so filed and mailed,
and shall withhold such sums required to be withheld under
applicable Federal and state income tax laws, rules, and
regulations. Additionally, Price Services will file and, as
applicable, mail to investors, any appropriate information
returns required to be filed in connection with Retirement
Plan processing, such as 1099R, 5498, as well as any other
appropriate forms that the Fund or Price Services may deem
necessary. The Fund and Price Services shall agree to
procedures to be followed with respect to Price Services'
responsibilities in connection with compliance with back-up
withholding and other tax laws.
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12. Information to be Furnished to the Fund
Furnish to the Fund such information as may be agreed
upon between the Fund and Price Services including any
information that the Fund and Price Services agree is
necessary to the daily operations of the business.
13. Correspondence
Promptly and fully answer correspondence from
shareholders and Administrators relating to Shareholder
Accounts, Retirement Accounts, transfer agent procedures,
and such other correspondence as may from time to time be
mutually agreed upon with the Funds. Unless otherwise
instructed, copies of all correspondence will be retained by
Price Services in accordance with applicable law and
procedures.
14. Lost or Stolen Securities
Pursuant to Rule 17f-1 of the '34 Act, report to the
Securities Information Center and/or the FBI or other
appropriate person on Form X-17-F-1A all lost, stolen,
missing or counterfeit securities. Provide any other
services relating to lost, stolen or missing securities as
may be mutually agreed upon by both parties.
15. Telephone Services
Maintain a Telephone Servicing Staff of representatives
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("Representatives") sufficient to timely respond to all
telephonic inquiries reasonably foreseeable. The
Representatives will also effect telephone purchases,
redemptions, exchanges, and other transactions mutually
agreed upon by both parties, for those Shareholders who have
authorized telephone services. The Representatives shall
require each Shareholder effecting a telephone transaction
to properly identify himself/herself before the transaction
is effected, in accordance with procedures agreed upon
between by both parties. Procedures for processing
telephone transactions will be mutually agreed upon by both
parties. Price Services will also be responsible for
providing Tele*Access, PC*Access and such other Services as
may be offered by the Funds from time to time. Price
Services will maintain a special Shareholder Servicing staff
to service certain Shareholders with substantial
relationships with the Funds.
16. Proxies
Monitor the mailing of proxy cards and other material
supplied to it by the Fund in connection with Shareholder
meetings of the Fund and shall coordinate the receipt,
examination and tabulation of returned proxies and the
certification of the vote to the Fund.
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17. Form N-SAR
Maintain such records, if any, as shall enable the Fund
to fulfill the requirements of Form N-SAR.
18. Cooperation With Accountants
Cooperate with each Fund's independent public
accountants and take all reasonable action in the
performance of its obligations under the Agreement to assure
that the necessary information is made available to such
accountants for the expression of their opinion without any
qualification as to the scope of their examination,
including, but not limited to, their opinion included in
each such Fund's annual report on Form N-SAR and annual
amendment to Form N-1A.
19. Blue Sky
Provide to the Fund or its agent, on a daily, weekly,
monthly and quarterly basis, and for each state in which the
Fund's Shares are sold, sales reports and other materials
for blue sky compliance purposes as shall be agreed upon by
the parties.
20. Other Services
Provide such other services as may be mutually agreed
upon between Price Services and the Fund.
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21. Fees and Out-of-Pocket Expenses
Each Fund shall pay to Price Services and/or its agents
for its Transfer Agent Services hereunder, fees computed as
set forth in Schedule A attached. Except as provided below,
Price Services will be responsible for all expenses relating
to the providing of Services. Each Fund, however, will
reimburse Price Services for the following out-of-pocket
expenses and charges incurred in providing Services:
o Postage. The cost of postage and freight for
mailing materials to Shareholders and Retirement
Plan participants, or their agents, including
overnight delivery, UPS and other express mail
services and special courier services required to
transport mail between Price Services locations
and mail processing vendors.
o Proxies. The cost to mail proxy cards and other
material supplied to it by the Fund and costs
related to the receipt, examination and tabulation
of returned proxies and the certification of the
vote to the Fund.
o Communications
o Print. The printed forms used internally and
externally for documentation and processing
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Shareholder and Retirement Plan participant,
or their agent's inquiries and requests;
paper and envelope supplies for letters,
notices, and other written communications
sent to Shareholders and Retirement Plan
participants, or their agents.
o Print & Mail House. The cost of internal
and third party printing and mail house
services, including printing of statements
and reports.
o Voice and Data. The cost of equipment
(including associated maintenance), supplies
and services used for communicating to and
from the Shareholders of the Fund and
Retirement Plan participants, or their
agents, the Fund's transfer agent, other Fund
offices, and other agents of either the Fund
or Price Services. These charges shall
include:
o telephone toll charges (both incoming
and outgoing, local, long distance and
mailgrams); and
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o data and telephone lines and associated
equipment such as modems, multiplexers,
and facsimile equipment.
o Record Retention. The cost of maintenance
and supplies used to maintain, microfilm,
copy, record, index, display, retrieve, and
store, in microfiche or microfilm form,
documents and records.
o Disaster Recovery. The cost of services,
equipment, facilities and other charges
necessary to provide disaster recovery for
any and all services listed in this
Agreement.
Out-of-pocket costs will be billed at cost to the
Funds. Allocation of monthly costs among the Funds will
generally be made based upon the number of Shareholder and
Retirement Accounts serviced by Price Services each month. Some
invoices for these costs will contain costs for both the Funds
and other funds serviced by Price Services. These costs will be
allocated based on a reasonable allocation methodology. Where
possible, such as in the case of inbound and outbound WATS
charges, allocation will be made on the actual distribution or
usage.
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C. Representations and Warranties of Price Services
Price Services represents and warrants to the Fund that:
1. It is a corporation duly organized and existing and in
good standing under the laws of Maryland;
2. It is duly qualified to carry on its business in
Maryland, California and Florida;
3. It is empowered under applicable laws and by its
charter and by-laws to enter into and perform this
Agreement;
4. All requisite corporate proceedings have been taken to
authorize it to enter into and perform this Agreement;
5. It is registered with the Securities and Exchange
Commission as a Transfer Agent pursuant to Section 17A of
the '34 Act; and
6. It has and will continue to have access to the
necessary facilities, equipment and personnel to perform its
duties and obligations under this Agreement.
D. Representations and Warranties of the Fund
The Fund represents and warrants to Price Services that:
1. It is a corporation or business trust duly organized
and existing and in good standing under the laws of Maryland
or Massachusetts, as the case may be;
2. It is empowered under applicable laws and by its
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Articles of Incorporation or Declaration of Trust, as the
case may be, and By-Laws to enter into and perform this
Agreement;
3. All proceedings required by said Articles of
Incorporation or Declaration of Trust, as the case may be,
and By-Laws have been taken to authorize it to enter into
and perform this Agreement;
4. It is an investment company registered under the Act;
and
5. A registration statement under the Securities Act of
1933 ("the '33 Act") is currently effective and will remain
effective, and appropriate state securities law filings have
been made and will continue to be made, with respect to all
Shares of the Fund being offered for sale.
E. Standard of Care/Indemnification
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement:
1. Price Services shall not be liable to any Fund for any
act or failure to act by it or its agents or subcontractors
on behalf of the Fund in carrying or attempting to carry out
the terms and provisions of this Agreement provided Price
Services has acted in good faith and without negligence or
willful misconduct and selected and monitored the
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performance of its agents and subcontractors with reasonable
care.
2. The Fund shall indemnify and hold Price Services
harmless from and against all losses, costs, damages,
claims, actions and expenses, including reasonable expenses
for legal counsel, incurred by Price Services resulting
from: (i) any action or omission by Price Services or its
agents or subcontractors in the performance of their duties
hereunder; (ii) Price Services acting upon instructions
believed by it to have been executed by a duly authorized
officer of the Fund; or (iii) Price Services acting upon
information provided by the Fund in form and under policies
agreed to by Price Services and the Fund. Price Services
shall not be entitled to such indemnification in respect of
actions or omissions constituting negligence or willful
misconduct of Price Services or where Price Services has not
exercised reasonable care in selecting or monitoring the
performance of its agents or subcontractors.
3. Except as provided in Article L of this Agreement,
Price Services shall indemnify and hold harmless the Fund
from all losses, costs, damages, claims, actions and
expenses, including reasonable expenses for legal counsel,
incurred by the Fund resulting from the negligence or
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willful misconduct of Price Services or which result from
Price Services' failure to exercise reasonable care in
selecting or monitoring the performance of its agents or
subcontractors. The Fund shall not be entitled to such
indemnification in respect of actions or omissions
constituting negligence or willful misconduct of such Fund
or its agents or subcontractors; unless such negligence or
misconduct is attributable to Price Services.
4. In determining Price Services' liability, an isolated
error or omission will normally not be deemed to constitute
negligence when it is determined that:
o Price Services had in place "appropriate procedures".
o the employee(s) responsible for the error or omission
had been reasonably trained and were being
appropriately monitored; and
o the error or omission did not result from wanton or
reckless conduct on the part of the employee(s).
It is understood that Price Services is not obligated to
have in place separate procedures to prevent each and every
conceivable type of error or omission. The term
"appropriate procedures" shall mean procedures reasonably
designed to prevent and detect errors and omissions. In
determining the reasonableness of such procedures, weight
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will be given to such factors as are appropriate, including
the prior occurrence of any similar errors or omissions when
such procedures were in place and transfer agent industry
standards in place at the time of the occurrence.
5. In the event either party is unable to perform its
obligations under the terms of this Agreement because of
acts of God, strikes or other causes reasonably beyond its
control, such party shall not be liable to the other party
for any loss, cost, damage, claim, action or expense
resulting from such failure to perform or otherwise from
such causes.
6. In order that the indemnification provisions contained
in this Article E shall apply, upon the assertion of a claim
for which either party may be required to indemnify the
other, the party seeking indemnification shall promptly
notify the other party of such assertion, and shall keep the
other party advised with respect to all developments
concerning such claim. The party who may be required to
indemnify shall have the option to participate with the
party seeking indemnification in the defense of such claim,
or to defend against said claim in its own name or in the
name of the other party. The party seeking indemnification
shall in no case confess any claim or make any compromise in
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any case in which the other party may be required to
indemnify it except with the other party's prior written
consent.
7. Neither party to this Agreement shall be liable to the
other party for consequential damages under any provision of
this Agreement.
F. Dual Interests
It is understood that some person or persons may be
directors, officers, or shareholders of both the Funds and Price
Services (including Price Services's affiliates), and that the
existence of any such dual interest shall not affect the validity
of this Agreement or of any transactions hereunder except as
otherwise provided by a specific provision of applicable law.
G. Documentation
o As requested by Price Services, the Fund shall promptly
furnish to Price Services the following:
o A certified copy of the resolution of the
Directors/Trustees of the Fund authorizing the
appointment of Price Services and the execution and
delivery of this Agreement;
o A copy of the Articles of Incorporation or
Declaration of Trust, as the case may be, and By-
Laws of the Fund and all amendments thereto;
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o Specimens of all forms of outstanding and new
stock/share certificates in the forms approved by the
Board of Directors/Trustees of the Fund with a
certificate of the Secretary of the Fund as to such
approval;
o All account application forms and other documents
relating to Shareholders' accounts;
o An opinion of counsel for the Fund with respect to
the validity of the stock, the number of Shares
authorized, the status of redeemed Shares, and the
number of Shares with respect to which a
Registration Statement has been filed and is in
effect; and
o A copy of the Fund's current prospectus.
The delivery of any such document for the purpose of any
other agreement to which the Fund and Price Services are or were
parties shall be deemed to be delivery for the purposes of this
Agreement.
o As requested by Price Services, the Fund will also furnish
from time to time the following documents:
o Each resolution of the Board of Directors/Trustees of
the Fund authorizing the original issue of its Shares;
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o Each Registration Statement filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission and amendments and orders
thereto in effect with respect to the sale of Shares
with respect to the Fund;
o A certified copy of each amendment to the Articles of
Incorporation or Declaration of Trust, and the By-Laws
of the Fund;
o Certified copies of each vote of the Board of
Directors/Trustees authorizing officers to give
instructions to the Transfer Agent;
o Specimens of all new certificates accompanied by the
Board of Directors/Trustees' resolutions approving such
forms;
o Such other documents or opinions which Price Services,
in its discretion, may reasonably deem necessary or
appropriate in the proper performance of its duties;
and
o Copies of new prospectuses issued.
Price Services hereby agrees to establish and maintain
facilities and procedures reasonably acceptable to the Fund for
safekeeping of stock certificates, check forms and facsimile
signature imprinting devices, if any; and for the preparation or
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use, and for keeping account of, such certificates, forms and
devices.
H. References to Price Services
Each Fund agrees not to circulate any printed matter which
contains any reference to Price Services without the prior
approval of Price Services, excepting solely such printed matter
that merely identifies Price Services as agent of the Fund. The
Fund will submit printed matter requiring approval to Price
Services in draft form, allowing sufficient time for review by
Price Services and its legal counsel prior to any deadline for
printing.
I. Compliance With Governmental Rules and Regulations
Except as otherwise provided in the Agreement and except for
the accuracy of information furnished to the Fund by Price
Services, each Fund assumes full responsibility for the
preparation, contents and distribution of its prospectuses and
compliance with all applicable requirements of the Act, the '34
Act, the '33 Act, and any other laws, rules and regulations of
governmental authorities having jurisdiction over the Fund.
Price Services shall be responsible for complying with all laws,
rules and regulations of governmental authorities having
jurisdiction over transfer agents and their activities.
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J. Ownership of Software and Related Material
All computer programs, magnetic tapes, written procedures
and similar items purchased and/or developed and used by Price
Services in performance of the Agreement shall be the property of
Price Services and will not become the property of the Fund.
K. Quality Service Standards
Price Services and the Fund may from time to time agree to
certain quality service standards, as well as incentives and
penalties with respect to Price Services' hereunder.
L. As Of Transactions
For purposes of this Article L, the term "Transaction" shall
mean any single or "related transaction" (as defined below)
involving the purchase or redemption of Shares (including
exchanges) that is processed at a time other than the time of the
computation of the Fund's net asset value per Share next computed
after receipt of any such transaction order by Price Services.
If more than one Transaction ("Related Transaction") in the Fund
is caused by or occurs as a result of the same act or omission,
such transactions shall be aggregated with other transactions in
the Fund and be considered as one Transaction.
o Reporting
Price Services shall:
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1. Utilize a system to identify all Transactions,
and shall compute the net effect of such Transactions
upon the Fund on a daily, monthly and rolling 365 day
basis. The monthly and rolling 365 day periods are
hereafter referred to as "Cumulative".
2. Supply to the Fund, from time to time as mutually
agreed upon, a report summarizing the Transactions
and the daily and Cumulative net effects of such
Transactions both in terms of aggregate dilution and
loss ("Dilution") or gain and negative dilution
("Gain") experienced by the Fund, and the impact
such Gain or Dilution has had upon the Fund's net
asset value per Share.
3. With respect to any Transaction which causes
Dilution to the Fund of $25,000 or more, immediately
provide the Fund: (i) a report identifying the
Transaction and the Dilution resulting therefrom, (ii)
the reason such Transaction was processed as described
above, and (iii) the action that Price Services has or
intends to take to prevent the reoccurrence of such as
of processing ("Report").
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o Liability
1. It will be the normal practice of the Funds not
to hold Price Services liable with respect to any
Transaction which causes Dilution to any single Fund of
less than $25,000. Price Services will, however,
closely monitor for each Fund the daily and Cumulative
Gain/Dilution which is caused by Transactions of less
than $25,000. When the Cumulative Dilution to any Fund
exceeds 3/10 of 1% per share, Price Services, in
consultation with counsel to the Fund, will make
appropriate inquiry to determine whether it should take
any remedial action. Price Services will report to the
Board of Directors/Trustees of the Fund ("Board") any
action it has taken.
2. Where a Transaction causes Dilution to a Fund of
$25,000 or more ("Significant Transaction"), Price
Services will review with counsel to the Fund the
Report and the circumstances surrounding the underlying
Transaction to determine whether the Transaction was
caused by or occurred as a result of a negligent act or
omission by Price Services. If it is determined that
the Dilution is the result of a negligent action or
omission by Price Services, Price Services and outside
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counsel for the Fund will negotiate settlement. All
such Significant Transactions will be reported to the
Board at its next meeting (unless the settlement fully
compensates the Fund for any Dilution). Any
Significant Transaction, however, causing Dilution in
excess of the lesser of $100,000 or a penny per Share
will be promptly reported to the Board. Settlement
will not be entered into with Price Services until
approved by the Board. The factors the Board would be
expected to consider in making any determination
regarding the settlement of a Significant Transaction
would include but not be limited to:
o Procedures and controls adopted by Price Services to
prevent "As Of" processing;
o Whether such procedures and controls were being
followed at the time of the Significant Transaction;
o The absolute and relative volume of all transactions
processed by Price Services on the day of the
Significant Transaction;
o The number of Transactions processed by Price
Services during prior relevant periods, and the net
Dilution/Gain as a result of all such transactions
to the Fund and to all other Price Funds;
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o The prior response of Price Services to
recommendations made by the Funds regarding
improvement to the Transfer Agent's "As Of"
Processing Procedures.
3. In determining Price Services' liability with respect
to a Significant Transaction, an isolated error or
omission will normally not be deemed to constitute
negligence when it is determined that:
o Price Services had in place "appropriate
procedures".
o the employee(s) responsible for the error or
omission had been reasonably trained and were
being appropriately monitored; and
o the error or omission did not result from wanton
or reckless conduct on the part of the
employee(s).
It is understood that Price Services is not obligated
to have in place separate procedures to prevent each
and every conceivable type of error or omission. The
term "appropriate procedures" shall mean procedures
reasonably designed to prevent and detect errors and
omissions. In determining the reasonableness of such
procedures, weight will be given to such factors as are
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appropriate, including the prior occurrence of any
similar errors or omissions when such procedures were
in place and transfer agent industry standards in place
at the time of the occurrence.
M. Term and Termination of Agreement
o This Agreement shall run for a period of one (1) year from
the date first written above and will be renewed from year
to year thereafter unless terminated by either party as
provided hereunder.
o This Agreement may be terminated by the Fund upon one
hundred twenty (120) days' written notice to Price Services;
and by Price Services, upon three hundred sixty-five (365)
days' writing notice to the Fund.
o Upon termination hereof, the Fund shall pay to Price
Services such compensation as may be due as of the date of
such termination, and shall likewise reimburse for out-of-
pocket expenses related to its services hereunder.
N. Notice
Any notice as required by this Agreement shall be
sufficiently given (i) when sent to an authorized person of the
other party at the address of such party set forth above or at
such other address as such party may from time to time specify in
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writing to the other party; or (ii) as otherwise agreed upon by
appropriate officers of the parties hereto.
O. Assignment
Neither this Agreement nor any rights or obligations
hereunder may be assigned either voluntarily or involuntarily, by
operation of law or otherwise, by either party without the prior
written consent of the other party, provided this shall not
preclude Price Services from employing such agents and
subcontractors as it deems appropriate to carry out its
obligations set forth hereunder.
P. Amendment/Interpretive Provisions
The parties by mutual written agreement may amend this
Agreement at any time. In addition, in connection with the
operation of this Agreement, Price Services and the Fund may
agree from time to time on such provisions interpretive of or in
addition to the provisions of this Agreement as may in their
joint opinion be consistent with the general tenor of this
Agreement. Any such interpretive or additional provisions are to
be signed by all parties and annexed hereto, but no such
provision shall contravene any applicable Federal or state law or
regulation and no such interpretive or additional provision shall
be deemed to be an amendment of this Agreement.
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Q. Further Assurances
Each party agrees to perform such further acts and execute
such further documents as are necessary to effectuate the
purposes hereof.
R. Maryland Law to Apply
This Agreement shall be construed and the provisions thereof
interpreted under and in accordance with the laws of Maryland.
S. Merger of Agreement
This Agreement, including the attached Appendices and
Schedules supersedes any prior agreement with respect to the
subject hereof, whether oral or written.
T. Counterparts
This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto on any
number of counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken
together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same
instruments.
U. The Parties
All references herein to "the Fund" are to each of the Funds
listed on Appendix A individually, as if this Agreement were
between such individual Fund and Price Services. In the case of
a series Fund or trust, all references to "the Fund" are to the
individual series or portfolio of such Fund or trust, or to such
Fund or trust on behalf of the individual series or portfolio, as
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appropriate. The "Fund" also includes any T. Rowe Price Funds
which may be established after the execution of this Agreement.
Any reference in this Agreement to "the parties" shall mean Price
Services and such other individual Fund as to which the matter
pertains.
V. Directors, Trustees and Shareholders and Massachusetts
Business Trust
It is understood and is expressly stipulated that neither
the holders of Shares in the Fund nor any Directors or Trustees
of the Fund shall be personally liable hereunder. With respect to
any Fund which is a party to this Agreement and which is
organized as a Massachusetts business trust, the term "Fund"
means and refers to the trustees from time to time serving under
the applicable trust agreement (Declaration of Trust) of such
Trust as the same may be amended from time to time. It is
expressly agreed that the obligations of any such Trust 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 Trust, as provided in the
Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution and delivery of
this Agreement has been authorized by the trustees and signed by
an authorized officer of the Trust, acting as such, and neither
such authorization by such Trustees nor such execution and
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delivery by such officer shall be deemed to have been made by any
of them, but shall bind only the trust property of the Trust as
provided in its Declaration of Trust.
W. Captions
The captions in the Agreement are included for convenience
of reference only and in no way define or limit any of the
provisions hereof or otherwise affect their construction or
effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be executed in their names and on their behalf under
their seals by and through their duly authorized officers.
DATED: ______________________ T. ROWE PRICE SERVICES, INC.
ATTEST:
/s/Wayne D. O'Melia
___________________________ BY: _________________________
Wayne D. O'Melia
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T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE FIXED INCOME SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUNDS, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE VALUE FUND, INC.
DATED: ______________________
ATTEST:
/s/Carmen F. Deyesu
_________________________ BY: __________________________
Carmen F. Deyesu
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APPENDIX A
The following Funds are parties to this Agreement, and have so
indicated their intention to be bound by such Agreement by
executing the Agreement on the dates indicated thereon.
T. Rowe Price Adjustable Rate U.S. Government Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Balanced Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price California Tax-Free Income Trust on behalf of the
California Tax-Free Bond Fund and
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund
T. Rowe Price Capital Opportunity Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Equity Series, Inc. on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Fixed Income Series, Inc. on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. Rowe Price GNMA Fund
T. Rowe Price Growth & Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Index Trust, Inc. on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
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Institutional International Funds, Inc. on behalf of the
Foreign Equity Fund
T. Rowe Price International Funds, Inc. on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund and
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Series, Inc. on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price New Era Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Funds, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Prime Reserve Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund, Inc. on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Bond Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Value Fund, Inc.
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T. Rowe Price Spectrum Fund, Inc. on behalf of the
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. Rowe Price State Tax-Free Income Trust on behalf of the
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. Rowe Price Tax-Exempt Money Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free High Yield Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Insured Intermediate Bond Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Short-Intermediate Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc. on behalf of the
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. Rowe Price Value Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Summit Funds, Inc. on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Funds, Inc. on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
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SCHEDULE A - FEE SCHEDULE
Effective January 1, 1995 to December 31, 1995,
For the account of:
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
EQUITY FUNDS
T. Rowe Price New American Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Era Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Growth & Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund
T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Small Capital Value Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
Foreign Equity Fund
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Spectrum Growth Fund
T.Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Balanced Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Over-the-Counter Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Capital Opportunity Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Value Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Portfolio
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BOND FUNDS
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Short Term Bond Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Short Intermediate Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free High Yield Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Adjustable Rate U.S. Government Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price GNMA Fund
T. Rowe Price New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price California Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Spectrum Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-term Global Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Insured Intermediate Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
Money Market Funds
T. Rowe Price Prime Reserve Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Exempt Money Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. Rowe Price New York Tax-Free Money Fund
T. Rowe Price California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market Fund
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The following fees for services provided by T. Rowe Price
Services, Inc. (TRPS) and vendors will be billed by TRPS for
1995:
I. T. Rowe Price Services Maintenance and Transaction Charges -
Billable Monthly
A. Base Fee
1. Per Fund - Beginning January 1, 1995, chargeable at
the rate of $1,000 per month to each Fund shown on
the previous page. The fee is waived for new Funds
for the first 6 months after effective date.
2. Monthly - $5,987,000 payable in twelve monthly
installments of $498,917.
B. Per Account Annual Fee - $3.63 for each Equity, Bond, and
Money Market Account serviced.
The Per Account Annual Fee will be billed monthly at a
rate of 1/12 of the annual fee for each. Fund account
serviced during the month. Accounts serviced is defined
as all open accounts at month end plus accounts which
closed during the month.
C. Transaction Fees
1. New Account Fees
a. $3.00 for every account opened, including
fiduciary accounts, excluding those opened by
exchange and those established as described in
(b) below.
b. A fee of $1.00 will be assessed for accounts
established within the model and list functions
programs and under the agreement that the
registrant's name will be quality controlled
subsequent to its establishment.
2. Non-Automated Transactions
a. $1.05 for each non-automated transaction and
maintenance item processed for the Fund Group as
a whole during a month. The non-automated
transaction count will include all manually
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processed price dependent and maintenance
transactions. Also, the number of new account
setups will be excluded from the number of non-
automated transactions.
b. Fee to be charged to the Funds based on each
Fund's number of total non-automated
transactions and maintenance.
c. Fee to be billed monthly for that month.
d. NOTE: The transaction count should not include
correction of transactions caused by
non-shareholder errors.
D. Telephone Fee
Billed at the rate of $5.20 per call for shareholder
servicing calls received in excess of 34,000 calls per
month. Calls received in Retail Services are allocated
to the Funds based on accounts serviced and calls
received in Telephone Services are allocated based on
actual calls received.
E. Items Scanned
$.29 will be billed for each document page scanned. It
will be allocated based on the number of items indexed to
each Fund.
F. Tele*Access
Base fee, per month for all calls is $50,000.
G. Institutional Electronic Interface
Maximum fee calculated is 10 basis points or less per
Fund.
10 basis points < $500 million
8 basis points > $500 million < $1 billion
5 basis points > $1 billion < $2 billion
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H. Correspondence
$4.20 billed for each shareholder correspondence request
completed in writing or by phone. Allocated to the Funds
based on accounts serviced.
I. Telephone Transaction Fee
Each price dependent transaction initiated through the
Telephone Services Group will be charged $.50.
II. Vendor Fees
A. DST
1. Annual Open Account Fee
a. $1.82 for each Equity Fund account serviced.
b. $4.33 for each Bond Fund account serviced.
c. $4.33 for each Money Market Fund account
serviced.
The Open Account Fee will be billed monthly at a rate
of 1/12 of the annual fee for each Fund account
serviced during the month.
2. Closed Account Fee (Annualized)
Payable at an annual rate of $1.48. The Closed
Account Fee will be billed monthly at a rate of 1/12
of the annual rate and will be charged in the month
following the month during which such account is
closed and shall cease to be charged in the month
following the Purge Date.
3. Fiduciary Sub-Accounting
Payable at the rate of $1.00 per month for each
fiduciary account. Fiduciary accounts closed during
the prior year will not be included as billable
items.
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4. Annual Base Fee Per Fund
Annual Fee of $7,422.00 will be charged at a monthly
rate of $618.50. The fee is waived for the first six
(6) months after a new Fund is effective. The
definition of new Fund excludes Funds created by
mergers, purchases, or reorganizations.
5. Bank Account Reconciliation System (Comp/Recon)
Annual charge of $120,000 payable at a rate of
$10,000 per month.
6. TRAC 2000 - $7.00 per participant, per year; For
TRAC+ $5.00 per participant, per year.
7. Voice Response Unit
a. $500 Set-up Fee will be charged for each
investment company unit.
b. $2,500 Maintenance Fee will be billed each
month.
c. $.50 will be billed per call connected to the
VRU.
8. Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.
Billed to each Fund utilizing this service at an
annual rate of $1.06 per open account.
B. State Street Bank
1. NSCC Settlements
a. $11.65 for net redemptions
b. $ 5.30 per net purchases
2. Checkwriting Fees
$.585 for each checkwriting item processed (i.e.
those resulting in either redemptions or returned as
non-processable). This includes signature card
maintenance and verification, manual or special
processing of checks, stop payment processing,
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settlement functions, and postage and mailing
expenses to return canceled checks to shareholders.
3. ACH Transactions
$.06 for each ACH transaction processed by the Bank
and submitted to the ACH network.
4. Internal Book Transfers
$1.11 billed for money movement between TRP DDA's at
the Bank. Money is transferred by debit and credit
memos.
or Recon WT $.70 -$.35 credit
-$.35 debit
5. Wire Fees
$4.12 for each incoming, manual, and internal bank
transfer wire; $3.87 for each outgoing transmission
wire.
6. Paid checks
$.19 for each paid check processed.
7. DDA Research
$1.06 per request.
8. Nightly Audits
$.0310 per page for the audit of the DST nightly
update.
10. VAX Computer Usage
Billed at the rate of $8,709.56 per month which
covers both:
a. System Fee - for use of sub-systems such as
capital stock interface, PDPS, Direct Deposit,
etc.
b. Communication Fee - charge for the line, modems,
and statistical multiplexers.
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11. Abandoned Property
Services based on the following fee schedule:
a. Administrative charge $125/Fund
b. Processing charges $1.00/account
c. Due Diligence Mailings $1.35/account
d. Labor will be charged based on the number of
hours required.
e. Lost shareholder recovery $2.25/account
initial attempt
$5.00/s/o any s/o
located
$500.00 one time
set up charge
12. Account maintenance $16.49 per account per month
13. Reporting (SSCAN) for selected accounts - $51.54 per
account per month
14. FDIC Passthrough - charged at prevailing FDIC rates
C. J.P. Morgan Bank
1. Wire Transfer Fees
Annual Account Maintenance $250.00
Annual MORCOM/CASH
First Account $5,000.00
Subsequent Accounts $3,000.00
Batch File Transfer (BFT)
Transmission $15.00 each
(capped at 10 per month)
BFT Per Outgoing Wire
Peak (8 a.m. and 8 p.m.) $0.064
Off Peak (8 p.m. and 8 a.m.) $0.032
Outgoing Wires
Straight-through (Repetitive or Freetype)
80% of total volume $3.25
Book Transfer (IBT) $1.50
Repair (Freeform) $7.00
Zero Balance Transfer $1.00
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Incoming Wires
Fed or CHIPS $3.25
Book (IBT) $1.50
FDIC Passthrough - charged at prevailing FDIC rates
2. Controlled Disbursement Fees
Annual Account Maintenance
(capped at 6 accounts) $760.00 per
account
Annual MORCOM Next Day $1,385.00 per
account
Annual MORCOM Check $715.00 per
account
Batch File Transfer (BFT)
Transmission (capped at 10 per month) $15.00 each
Same Day Match Pay (Dividend & Redemption Checks)
DCD Match $2,500.00 per
account
TRPS Matches .005 per item
Checks Paid
Up to 500,000 items $0.051
Up to 750,000 items $0.042
Up to 1,000,000 items $0.035
Stops
On-line $3.00
Returned Checks $5.00 per item
3. The bank may charge interest at a rate in excess of
normal borrowing rates if the TRPS balance is
overdrawn or is in a negative collected balance
status.
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D. First National Bank of Maryland
1. Internal Fund Transfer $6.00
2. Returned Items $2.70
3. Deposit Items Charge varies
1
4. Deposit Tickets $.45
5. Return/redeposit items $3.00
6. Deposit Corrections $4.50
7. Check copy $9.00
8. First Facts
CDA Repetitive Wire $3.95
System Reports/Per Module $27.00
Per Report Previous Day $1.80
Per Report Current Day $3.60
9. Account maintenance $11.25
10. Debit item $.54
11. Credit transaction $.54
12. Foreign Deposit Check amount $1,000-$4,999 $7.50
$5,000-19,999 $15.00
< $20,000 $20.00
13. ACH Debit $.117
14. Tax Deposits $.90
15. Film - Monthly $121.50
16. TRPS may be charged interest when TRPS's
balance at FNB is in a negative collected
balance status. TRPS may also receive
balance credits on a positive investable balance
17. FDIC Passthrough charged at prevailing FDIC rates
III. New Funds
Funds added during the term of this contract may have their
Maintenance and Transaction charges and other charges (Section
I) waived for a period of time, as agreed to by TRPS and Fund
Directors, following the establishment of the Fund. Out-of-
pocket expenses will be billed to the Fund from the Fund's
inception.
____________________
1Charge varies by District, $ .0247 to $ .1147
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, T.Rowe Price Funds and T.Rowe Price Services,
Inc. have agreed upon this fee schedule to be executed in their
names and on their behalf through their duly authorized officers:
T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS T. ROWE PRICE SERVICES, INC.
NAME ____________________ NAME _________________________
TITLE ______________________ TITLE _________________________
DATE _______________________ DATE _________________________
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AMENDMENT NO. 1
TRANSFER AGENCY AND SERVICE AGREEMENT
Between
T. ROWE PRICE SERVICES, INC.
And
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
The Transfer Agency and Service Agreement of January 1,
1995, between T. Rowe Price Services, Inc. and each of the
Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby amended, as of
January 25, 1995, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Emerging
Markets Stock Fund, a separate series of the T. Rowe Price
International Funds, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE FIXED INCOME SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
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T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Stock Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUNDS, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE VALUE FUND, INC.
Attest:
/s/Patricia S. Butcher /s/Carmen F. Deyesu
______________________ ______________________________
Patricia S. Butcher, By: Carmen F. Deyesu
Assistant Secretary
Attest: T. ROWE PRICE SERVICES, INC.
/s/Barbara A. Van Horn /s/Henry H. Hopkins
______________________ ______________________________
Barbara A. Van Horn, By: Henry H. Hopkins,
Assistant Secretary Vice President
The Agreement between T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and
T. Rowe Price Funds for Fund Accounting Services, dated January
1, 1995, as amended, should be inserted here.
PAGE 1
AGREEMENT
between
T. ROWE PRICE ASSOCIATES, INC.
and
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
for
FUND ACCOUNTING SERVICES
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Article A Terms of Appointment/Duties of Price
Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Article B Fees and Out-of-Pocket Expenses . . . . . . . . 2
Article C Representations and Warranties of Price
Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Article D Representations and Warranties of the Fund . . 3
Article E Ownership of Software and Related Material . . 3
Article F Quality Service Standards . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Article G Standard of Care/Indemnification . . . . . . . 4
Article H Dual Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Article I Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Article J Recordkeeping/Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . 5
Article K Compliance with Governmental Rules and
Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Article L Terms and Termination of Agreement . . . . . . 6
Article M Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Article N Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Article O Amendment/Interpretive Provisions . . . . . . . 7
Article P Further Assurances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Article Q Maryland Law to Apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Article R Merger of Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Article S Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Article T The Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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Article U Directors, Trustee and Shareholders and
Massachusetts Business Trust . . . . . . . . . 8
Article V Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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AGREEMENT made as of the first day of January, 1995, by and
between T. ROWE PRICE ASSOCIATES, INC., a Maryland corporation
having its principal office and place of business at 100 East
Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 ("Price Associates"), and
each Fund which is listed on Appendix A (as such Appendix may be
amended from time to time) and which evidences its agreement to
be bound hereby by executing a copy of this Agreement (each such
Fund individually hereinafter referred to as "the Fund", whose
definition may be found in Article T);
WHEREAS, Price Associates has the capability of providing
the Funds with certain accounting services ("Accounting
Services");
WHEREAS, the Fund desires to appoint Price Associates to
provide these Accounting Services and Price Associates desires to
accept such appointment;
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Fund has authorized
the Fund to utilize various pricing services for the purpose of
providing to Price Associates securities prices for the
calculation of the Fund's net asset value.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants
herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
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A. Terms of Appointment/Duties of Price Associates
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement, the Fund hereby employs and appoints Price Associates
to provide, and Price Associates agrees to provide, the following
Accounting Services:
a. Maintain for each Fund a daily trial balance, a general
ledger, subsidiary records and capital stock accounts;
b. Maintain for each Fund an investment ledger, including
amortized bond and foreign dollar denominated costs
where applicable;
c. Maintain for each Fund all records relating to the
Fund's income and expenses;
d. Provide for the daily valuation of each Fund's
portfolio securities and the computation of each Fund's
daily net asset value per share. Such daily valuations
shall be made in accordance with the valuation policies
established by each of the Fund's Board of Directors
including, but not limited to, the utilization of such
pricing valuation sources and/or pricing services as
determined by the Boards. Price Associates shall have
no liability for any losses or damages incurred by the
Fund as a result of erroneous portfolio security
evaluations provided by such designated sources and/or
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pricing services; provided that, Price Associates
reasonably believes the prices are accurate, has
adhered to its normal verification control procedures,
and has otherwise met the standard of care as set forth
in Article G of this Agreement;
e. Provide daily cash flow and transaction status
information to each Fund's adviser;
f. Prepare for each Fund such financial information that
is reasonably necessary for shareholder reports,
reports to the Board of Directors and to the officers
of the Fund, and reports to the Securities and Exchange
Commission and the Internal Revenue Service and other
Federal and state regulatory agencies;
g. Provide each Fund with such advice that may be
reasonably necessary to properly account for all
financial transactions and to maintain the Fund's
accounting procedures and records so as to insure
compliance with generally accepted accounting and tax
practices and rules;
h. Maintain for each Fund all records that may be
reasonably required in connection with the audit
performed by each Fund's independent accountant, the
Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal
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Revenue Service or such other Federal or state
regulatory agencies; and
i. Cooperate with each Fund's independent public
accountants and take all reasonable action in the
performance of its obligations under the Agreement to
assure that the necessary information is made available
to such accountants for the expression of their opinion
without any qualification as to the scope of their
examination including, but not limited to, their
opinion included in each such Fund's annual report on
Form N-SAR and annual amendment to Form N-1A.
B. Fees and Out-of-Pocket Expenses
Each Fund shall pay to Price Associates for its Accounting
Services hereunder, fees as set forth in the Schedule attached
hereto. In addition, each Fund will reimburse Price Associates
for out-of-pocket expenses such as postage, printed forms, voice
and data transmissions, record retention, disaster recovery,
third party vendors, equipment leases and other similar items as
may be agreed upon between Price Associates and the Fund. Some
invoices will contain costs for both the Funds and other funds
services by Price Associates. In these cases, a reasonable
allocation methodology will be used to allocate these costs to
the Funds.
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C. Representations and Warrantees of Price Associates
Price Associates represents and warrants to the Fund that:
1. It is a corporation duly organized and existing in good
standing under the laws of Maryland.
2. It is duly qualified to carry on its business in
Maryland.
3. It is empowered under applicable laws and by its
charter and By-Laws to enter into and perform this Agreement.
4. All requisite corporate proceedings have been taken to
authorize it to enter into and perform this Agreement.
5. It has, and will continue to have, access to the
necessary facilities, equipment and personnel to perform its
duties and obligations under this Agreement.
D. Representations and Warrantees of the Fund
The Fund represents and warrants to Price Associates that:
1. It is a corporation or business trust, as the case may
be, duly organized and existing and in good standing under the
laws of Maryland or Massachusetts, as the case may be.
2. It is empowered under applicable laws and by its
Articles of Incorporation or Declaration of Trust, as the case
may be, and By-Laws have been taken to authorize it to enter into
and perform this Agreement.
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3. All proceedings required by said Articles of
Incorporation or Declaration of Trust, as the case may be, and
By-Laws have been taken to authorize it to enter into and perform
this Agreement.
E. Ownership of Software and Related Material
All computer programs, magnetic tapes, written procedures,
and similar items purchased and/or developed and used by Price
Associates in performance of the Agreement shall be the property
of Price Associates and will not become the property of the
Funds.
F. Quality Service Standards
Price Associates and the Fund may, from time to time, agree
to certain quality service standards, with respect to Price
Associates' services hereunder.
G. Standard of Care/Indemnification
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement:
1. Price Associates shall not be liable to any Fund for
any act or failure to act by it or its agents or subcontractors
on behalf of the Fund in carrying or attempting to carry out the
terms and provisions of the Agreement provided Price Associates
has acted in good faith and without negligence or willful
misconduct and selected and monitored the performance of its
agents and subcontractors with reasonable care.
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2. The Fund shall indemnify and hold Price Associates
harmless from and against all losses, costs, damages, claims,
actions, and expenses, including reasonable expenses for legal
counsel, incurred by Price Associates resulting from: (i) any
action or omission by Price Associates or its agents or
subcontractors in the performance of their duties hereunder; (ii)
Price Associates acting upon instructions believed by it to have
been executed by a duly authorized officer of the Fund; or (iii)
Price Associates acting upon information provided by the Fund in
form and under policies agreed to by Price Associates and the
Fund. Price Associates shall not be entitled to such
indemnification in respect of actions or omissions constituting
negligence or willful misconduct of Price Associates or where
Price Associates has not exercised reasonable care in selecting
or monitoring the performance of its agents or subcontractors.
3. Price Associates shall indemnify and hold harmless the
Fund from all losses, costs, damages, claims, actions and
expenses, including reasonable expenses for legal counsel,
incurred by the Fund resulting from the negligence or willful
misconduct of Price Associates or which result from Price
Associates' failure to exercise reasonable care in selecting or
monitoring the performance of its agents or subcontractors. The
Fund shall not be entitled to such indemnification with respect
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to actions or omissions constituting negligence or willful
misconduct of such Fund or its agents or subcontractors; unless
such negligence or misconduct is attributable to Price
Associates.
4. In the event either party is unable to perform its
obligations under the terms of this Agreement because of acts of
God, strikes or other causes reasonably beyond its control, such
party shall not be liable to the other party for any loss, cost,
damage, claim, action or expense resulting from such failure to
perform or otherwise from such causes.
5. In order that the indemnification provisions contained
in this Article F shall apply, upon the assertion of a claim for
which either party may be required to indemnify the other, the
party seeking indemnification shall promptly notify the other
party of such assertion, and shall keep the other party advised
with respect to all developments concerning such claim. The
party who may be required to indemnify shall have the option to
participate with the party seeking indemnification in the defense
of such claim, or to defend against said claim in its own name or
in the name of the other party. The party seeking
indemnification shall in no case confess any claim or make any
compromise in any case in which the other party may be required
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to indemnify it except with the other party's prior written
consent.
6. Neither party to this Agreement shall be liable to the
other party for consequential damages under any provision of this
Agreement.
H. Dual Interests
It is understood that some person or persons may be
directors, officers, or shareholders of both the Fund and Price
Associates (including Price Associates' affiliates), and that the
existence of any such dual interest shall not affect the validity
of this Agreement or of any transactions hereunder except as
otherwise provided by a specific provision of applicable law.
I. Documentation
As requested by Price Associates, the Fund shall promptly
furnish to Price Associates such documents as it may reasonably
request and as are necessary for Price Associates to carry out
its responsibilities hereunder.
J. Recordkeeping/Confidentiality
1. Price Associates shall keep records relating to the
services to be performed hereunder, in the form and manner as it
may deem advisable, provided that Price Associates shall keep all
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records in such form and in such manner as required by applicable
law, including the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("the Act") and
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("the '34 Act").
2. Price Associates and the Fund agree that all books,
records, information and data pertaining to the business of the
other party which are exchanged or received pursuant to the
negotiation or the carrying out of this Agreement shall remain
confidential, and shall not be voluntarily disclosed to any other
person, except: (a) after prior notification to and approval in
writing by the other party hereto, which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld and may not be withheld where Price
Associates or Fund may be exposed to civil or criminal contempt
proceedings for failure to comply; (b) when requested to divulge
such information by duly constituted governmental authorities; or
(c) after so requested by the other party hereto.
K. Compliance With Governmental Rules and Regulations
Except as otherwise provided in the Agreement and except for
the accuracy of information furnished to the Funds by Price
Associates, each Fund assumes full responsibility for the
preparation, contents and distribution of its prospectuses, and
for complying with all applicable requirements of the Act, the
'34 Act, the Securities Act of 1933 (the "33 Act"), and any laws,
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rules and regulations of governmental authorities having
jurisdiction over the Funds.
L. Term and Termination of Agreement
1. This Agreement shall run for a period of one (1) year
from the date first written above and will be renewed from year
to year thereafter unless terminated by either party as provided
hereunder.
2. This Agreement may be terminated by the Fund upon sixty
(60) days' written notice to Price Associates; and by Price
Associates, upon three hundred sixty-five (365) days' writing
notice to the Fund.
3. Upon termination hereof, the Fund shall pay to Price
Associates such compensation as may be due as of the date of such
termination, and shall likewise reimburse for out-of-pocket
expenses related to its services hereunder.
M. Notice
Any notice as required by this Agreement shall be
sufficiently given (i) when sent to an authorized person of the
other party at the address of such party set forth above or at
such other address as such party may from time to time specify in
writing to the other party; or (ii) as otherwise agreed upon by
appropriate officers of the parties hereto.
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N. Assignment
Neither this Agreement nor any rights or obligations
hereunder may be assigned either voluntarily or involuntarily, by
operation of law or otherwise, by either party without the prior
written consent of the other party, provided this shall not
preclude Price Associates from employing such agents and
subcontractors as it deems appropriate to carry out its
obligations set forth hereunder.
O. Amendment/Interpretive Provisions
The parties by mutual written agreement may amend this
Agreement at any time. In addition, in connection with the
operation of this Agreement, Price Associates and the Fund may
agree from time to time on such provisions interpretive of or in
addition to the provisions of this Agreement as may in their
joint opinion be consistent with the general tenor of this
Agreement. Any such interpretive or additional provisions are to
be signed by all parties and annexed hereto, but no such
provision shall contravene any applicable Federal or state law or
regulation and no such interpretive or additional provision shall
be deemed to be an amendment of this Agreement.
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P. Further Assurances
Each party agrees to perform such further acts and execute
such further documents as are necessary to effectuate the
purposes hereof.
Q. Maryland Law to Apply
This Agreement shall be construed and the provisions thereof
interpreted under and in accordance with the laws of Maryland.
R. Merger of Agreement
This Agreement, including the attached Appendices and
Schedules supersedes any prior agreement with respect to the
subject hereof, whether oral or written.
S. Counterparts
This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto on any
number of counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken
together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same
instruments.
T. The Parties
All references herein to "the Fund" are to each of the Funds
listed on Appendix A individually, as if this Agreement were
between such individual Fund and Price Associates. In the case
of a series Fund or trust, all references to "the Fund" are to
the individual series or portfolio of such Fund or trust, or to
such Fund or trust on behalf of the individual series or
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portfolio, as appropriate. The "Fund" also includes any T. Rowe
Price Funds which may be established after the execution of this
Agreement. Any reference in this Agreement to "the parties"
shall mean Price Associates and such other individual Fund as to
which the matter pertains.
U. Directors, Trustees and Shareholders and Massachusetts
Business Trust
It is understood and is expressly stipulated that neither
the holders of shares in the Fund nor any Directors or Trustees
of the Fund shall be personally liable hereunder.With respect to
any Fund which is a party to this Agreement and which is
organized as a Massachusetts business trust, the term "Fund"
means and refers to the trustees from time to time serving under
the applicable trust agreement (Declaration of Trust) of such
Trust as the same may be amended from time to time. It is
expressly agreed that the obligations of any such Trust 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 Trust, as provided in the
Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution and delivery of
this Agreement has been authorized by the trustees and signed by
an authorized officer of the Trust, acting as such, and neither
such authorization by such Trustees nor such execution and
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delivery by such officer shall be deemed to have been made by any
of them, but shall bind only the trust property of the Trust as
provided in its Declaration of Trust.
V. Captions
The captions in the Agreement are included for convenience
of reference only and in no way define or limit any of the
provisions hereof or otherwise affect their construction or
effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be executed in their names and on their behalf under
their seals by and through their duly authorized officers.
DATED: ______________________ T. ROWE PRICE ASSOCIATES, INC.
ATTEST:
/s/Barbara A. Van Horn /s/Alvin M. Younger, Jr.
______________________________ BY: __________________________
Barbara A. Van Horn, Managing Director
Assistant Secretary
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T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE FIXED INCOME SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUNDS, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE BOND
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
DATED: ______________________
ATTEST:
/s/Patricia S. Butcher /s/Carmen F. Deyesu
______________________________ BY: ___________________________
Patricia S. Butcher, Carmen F. Deyesu
Assistant Secretary
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APPENDIX A
The following Funds are parties to this Agreement, and have so
indicated their intention to be bound by such Agreement by
executing the Agreement on the dates indicated thereon.
T. Rowe Price Adjustable Rate U.S. Government
Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Balanced Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price California Tax-Free Income
Trust on behalf of the
California Tax-Free Bond Fund and
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund
T. Rowe Price Capital Opportunity Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Equity Series, Inc. on behalf
of the:
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Fixed Income Series, Inc. on
behalf of the:
T. Rowe Price Limited-Term Bond Portfolio
T. Rowe Price GNMA Fund
T. Rowe Price Growth & Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund, Inc.
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T. Rowe Price Index Trust, Inc. on behalf of
the:
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
Institutional International Funds, Inc. on
behalf of the:
Foreign Equity Fund
T. Rowe Price International Equity Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price International Funds, Inc. on
behalf of the:
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin American Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price New Era Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund, Inc. on behalf of
the:
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. Rowe Price Prime Reserve Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Bond Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Value Fund, Inc.
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T. Rowe Price Spectrum Fund, Inc. on behalf
of the:
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. Rowe Price State Tax-Free Income Trust on
behalf of the:
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund,
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund and
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Bond
Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Tax-Exempt Money Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Insured Intermediate
Bond Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free High Yield Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Tax-Free Short-Intermediate
Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc. on
behalf of the:
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Funds, Inc. on behalf of
the:
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
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T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Funds, Inc. on
behalf of the:
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money
Market Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal
Intermediate Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Value Fund, Inc.
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FUND ACCOUNTING SERVICES FEE SCHEDULE
Between
T. ROWE PRICE ASSOCIATES, INC.
And
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
January 1, 1995 to December 31, 1995
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FUND ACCOUNTING SERVICES
1995 FEE SCHEDULE
A. Fee Structure
1. Base Fee
Domestic Funds $60,000 each
International Funds $100,000 each
Spectrum Funds $35,000 each
Per Fund fee for basic recordkeeping
and financial reporting
2. Individual Fund Fee
Total fees reflecting special $ 933,000
characteristics of each Fund
3. Stock Lending Fee
Allocated to each Fund based $ 75,000
on ratio of net earnings from
stock loans
4. Additional Funds
Domestic Funds $60,000 each
International Funds $100,000 each
Spectrum Funds $35,000 each
B. Total Cost Per Fund
Growth Stock Fund $ 114,000
New Horizons Fund 95,000
Equity Income Fund 85,000
New Era Fund 72,000
International Stock Fund 115,000
Growth & Income Fund 85,000
New America Growth Fund 70,000
Capital Appreciation Fund 85,000
Small-Cap Value Fund 60,000
Foreign Equity Fund 105,000
International Discovery Fund 125,000
Science & Technology Fund 60,000
High Yield Fund 165,000
Tax-Free Income Fund 110,000
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New Income Fund 100,000
Tax-Free High Yield Fund 110,000
European Stock Fund 100,000
Equity Index Fund 60,000
New Asia Fund 110,000
Spectrum Growth Fund 35,000
GNMA Fund 120,000
International Bond Fund 125,000
Balanced Fund 90,000
Maryland Bond Fund 81,000
Tax-Free Short Intermediate Fund 85,000
Short-Term Bond Fund 120,000
California Bond Fund 72,000
New York Bond Fund 72,000
U.S. Treasury Short-Intermediate Fund 60,000
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Bond Fund 60,000
Spectrum Income Fund 35,000
Prime Reserve Fund 85,000
Tax-Exempt Money Fund 93,000
U.S. Treasury Money Fund 60,000
California Money Fund 67,000
New York Money Fund 67,000
Adjustable Rate Government Fund 110,000
Virginia Bond Fund 60,000
New Jersey Bond Fund 60,000
Global Government Bond Fund 100,000
OTC Fund 85,000
Japan Fund 100,000
Mid-Cap Growth Fund 60,000
Short-Term Global Fund 110,000
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund 60,000
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund 60,000
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund 60,000
Tax-Free Insured Intermediate Bond Fund 60,000
Blue Chip Growth Fund 60,000
Dividend Growth Fund 65,000
Latin America Fund 110,000
Summit Cash Reserve Fund 60,000
Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund 60,000
Summit GNMA Fund 60,000
Summit Municipal Money Market Fund 60,000
Summit Municipal Intermediate Fund 60,000
Summit Municipal Income Fund 60,000
International Stock Portfolio 100,000
Personal Strategy Income Fund 70,000
Equity Income Portfolio 60,000
Personal Strategy Balanced Fund 70,000
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New America Growth Portfolio 60,000
Personal Strategy Growth Fund 70,000
Limited-Term Bond Portfolio 60,000
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, T. Rowe Price Funds and T. Rowe Price
Associates, Inc. have agreed upon this fee schedule to be
executed in their names and on their behalf through their duly
authorized officers:
T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS T. ROWE PRICE ASSOCIATES, INC.
/s/Carmen F. Deyesu /s/Alvin M. Younger
Name _________________________ Name ______________________
Carmen F. Deyesu Alvin M. Younger
Title Treasurer Title Treasurer and Managing
Director
Date _________________________ Date ______________________
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AMENDMENT NO. 1
AGREEMENT
between
T. ROWE PRICE ASSOCIATES, INC.
and
THE T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS
for
FUND ACCOUNTING SERVICES
The Agreement for Fund Accounting Services of January 1,
1995, between T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and each of the
Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby amended, as of
January 25, 1995, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Emerging
Markets Stock Fund, a separate series of the T. Rowe Price
International Funds, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Portfolio
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Portfolio
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Portfolio
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T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Stock Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL SERIES, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Stock Portfolio
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUNDS, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
T.ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T.ROWE PRICE VALUE FUND, INC.
Attest:
/s/Patricia S. Butcher /s/Carmen F. Deyesu
________________________ ___________________________________
Patricia S. Butcher, By: Carmen F. Deyesu
Assistant Secretary
Attest: T. ROWE PRICE ASSOCIATES, INC.
/s/Barbara A. Van Horn /s/Henry H. Hopkins
________________________ ___________________________________
Barbara A. Van Horn, By: Henry H. Hopkins,
Assistant Secretary Managing Director
The Agreement between T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan
Services, Inc. and the Taxable Funds, dated January 1, 1995, as
amended, should be inserted here.
PAGE 1
AGREEMENT
between
T. ROWE PRICE RETIREMENT PLAN SERVICES, INC.
and
EACH OF THE PARTIES INDICATED ON APPENDIX A
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Article A Terms of Appointment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Article B Duties of RPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1. Purchases - Retirement Plans and Retirement
Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Retirement Plans - Redemptions to Cover
Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Exchanges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Shares held by Retirement Accounts . . . 4
5. Books and Records . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Tax Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7. Other Information to be furnished to the
Funds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8. Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9. Mailings/Confirmation Statements . . . . 6
10. Proxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
11. Form N-SAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
12. Backup Withholding . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Article C Fee and Out-of-Pocket Expenses . . . . . . . . 7
1. Postage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2. Proxies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Record Retention . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. Disaster Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Article D Representations and Warranties of RPS . . . . 8
Article E Representations and Warranties of the Fund . . 8
Article F Standard of Care/Indemnification . . . . . . . 9
Article G Dual Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Article H Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Article I Recordkeeping/Confidentiality . . . . . . . . 13
Article J Ownership of Software and Related Material . . 13
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Article K As of Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1. Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2. Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Article L Term and Termination of Agreement . . . . . . 16
Article M Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Article N Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Article O Amendment/Interpretive Provisions . . . . . . 17
Article P Further Assurances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Article Q Maryland Law to Apply . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Article R Merger of Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Article S Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Article T The Parties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Article U Directors, Trustees and Shareholders and
Massachusetts Business Trust . . . . . . . . . 18
Article V Captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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AGREEMENT, made as of the first day of January, 1995, by and
between T. ROWE PRICE RETIREMENT PLAN SERVICES, INC., a Maryland
corporation having its principal office and place of business at
100 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202 ("RPS"), and
EACH FUND WHICH IS LISTED ON APPENDIX A (as such Appendix may be
amended from time to time) and which evidences its agreement to
be bound hereby by executing a copy of this Agreement (each Fund
hereinafter referred to as "the Fund") whose definition may be
found in Article T;
WHEREAS, the Funds are named investment options under various
tax-sheltered plans, including, but not limited to, state
deferred compensation plans, 403(b) plans, and profit sharing,
thrift, and money purchase pension plans for self-employed
individuals, professional partnerships and corporations,
(collectively referred to as "Retirement Plans"); and the Fund
has determined that such investments of Retirement Plans in the
Funds are in the best long-term interest of the Funds;
WHEREAS, RPS has the capability of providing special
services, on behalf of the Fund, for the accounts ("Retirement
Accounts") of shareholders participating in these Retirement
Plans;
WHEREAS, RPS represents that it is registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission as a Transfer Agent under
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Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("the '34
Act").
WHEREAS, RPS may subcontract or jointly contract with other
parties on behalf of the Funds to perform certain of the
functions described herein, RPS may also enter into, on behalf of
the Funds, certain banking relationships to perform various
banking services, including, but not limited to, check deposits,
disbursements, automatic clearing house transactions ("ACH") and
wire transfers. Subject to guidelines mutually agreed upon by
the Funds and RPS, excess balances, if any, resulting from these
banking relationships will be invested and the income therefrom
will be used to offset fees which would otherwise be charged to
the Funds under this Agreement.
WHEREAS, the Fund desires to contract with RPS the foregoing
functions and services described herein in connection with the
Retirement Plans and Retirement Accounts;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants
herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
A. Terms of Appointment
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement, the Fund hereby employs and appoints RPS to perform
the services and functions described herein in connection with
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certain Retirement Plan and Retirement Accounts as agreed upon by
the parties.
B. Duties of RPS:
RPS agrees that it will perform the following services:
1. Purchases - Retirement Plans and Retirement Accounts
After RPS has received monies from Retirement Plans and
has determined the proper allocation of such monies to the
Retirement Accounts or Retirement Plan participants
("Participants") based upon instructions received from
Participants, Retirement Plans or their designees, or
Retirement Plan Administrator(s) ("Administrator(s)"), RPS
will, as a responsibility under the Agreement:
a. Transmit by check or wire the aggregate money
allocated to each Fund to the Fund's custodian;
b. In the case of a new Participant, establish and
maintain a Retirement Account for such Participant;
and
c. Compute the number of shares of each Fund to which
the Participant is entitled according to the price of
such Fund shares as provided by such Fund for
purchases made at that time and date, and credit each
such Account with the number of shares of the Fund so
purchased.
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2. Retirement Plans - Redemptions to Cover Distributions.
After RPS has received instructions from the Administrator
regarding distributions to be made to Participants or their
designated beneficiaries from Funds designated as investment
options under the Retirement Plan, RPS will, as a
responsibility under the Agreement:
a. Compute the amount due for shares to be redeemed from
each Retirement Account or compute the number of
shares to be redeemed from each such Retirement
Account for such distributions and the total number
of all shares of each Fund to be redeemed in
accordance with the price per share at that time and
date of such Fund as calculated and provided by the
Fund. After such computation, inform the Fund of the
amount necessary to be redeemed. Distribute to
Participants or their designated beneficiaries the
amount to be disbursed.
b. After RPS has received instructions from the
Administrator regarding disbursements to be made
regarding the payment of fees due the Administrator,
or other persons including RPS, RPS will, as a
responsibility under this Agreement:
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i. Compute the number of shares to be redeemed from
each Retirement Account to pay for such
disbursements and the total number of all shares
to be redeemed in accordance with the price per
share at that time and date, of such Fund as
calculated and provided by the Fund;
ii. Effect the necessary redemption from the Fund's
custodian to cover such disbursements; and
iii. Mail to the Administrator or such other person as
designated by the Administrator the amount to be
disbursed.
c. Other Provisions
i. If any instruction tendered by an Administrator to
redeem shares in a Retirement Account is not
satisfactory to RPS, RPS shall promptly notify the
Administrator of such fact together with the
reason therefor;
ii. The authority of RPS to perform its
responsibilities under Paragraph B(2) with respect
to each Fund shall be suspended upon receipt of
notification by such Fund of the suspension of the
determination of the Fund's net asset value per
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share and shall remain suspended until proper
notification; and
iii. The Fund will promptly inform RPS of the
declaration of any dividend or distribution on
account of the capital stock of any Fund so that
RPS may properly credit income and capital gain
payments to each Retirement Account.
3. Exchanges
Effect exchanges of shares of the Funds upon receipt of
appropriate instructions from the Administrator and/or
Participant.
4. Shares held by Retirement Accounts will be
Noncertificate Shares
RPS will have neither responsibility nor authority to
issue stock certificates evidencing ownership of Fund shares
held by Participants. All shares held in Retirement Accounts
maintained by RPS shall be noncertificated shares.
5. Books and Records
RPS shall maintain records showing for each Retirement
Plan or Retirement Account, the following:
a. Names, addresses and tax identification numbers, when
provided;
b. Number of shares held;
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c. Historical information regarding the account of each
Participant and/or Retirement Plan, including
dividends and distributions invested in shares;
d. Pertinent information regarding the establishment and
maintenance of Retirement Plans and Retirement
Accounts necessary to properly administer each
account.
e. Any instructions from a Participant or Administrator
including, all forms furnished by the Fund and
executed by a Participant with respect to elections
with respect to payment options in connection with
the redemption of shares; or distribution elections,
if applicable; and
f. Any information required in order for RPS to perform
the calculations contemplated under this Agreement.
Any such records maintained pursuant to Rule 31a-1 under
the Investment Company Act of 1940 ("the Act") will be
preserved for the periods prescribed in Rule 31a-2
thereunder. Disposition of such records after such
prescribed periods shall be as mutually agreed upon from time
to time by RPS and the Funds. The retention of such records,
which may be inspected by the Fund at reasonable times, shall
be at the expense of the Funds. All records maintained by
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RPS in connection with the performance of its duties under
this Agreement will remain the property of the Funds and, in
the event of termination of this Agreement, will be delivered
to the Fund as of the date of termination or at such other
time as may be mutually agreed upon.
6. Tax Information
RPS shall also prepare and file with appropriate federal
and state agencies, such information returns and reports as
required by applicable Federal and State statutes relating to
redemptions effected in Retirement Accounts which constitute
reportable distributions. RPS will also prepare and submit
to Participants, such reports containing information as is
required by applicable Federal and State law.
7. Other Information to be furnished to the Funds
RPS will furnish to the Fund, such information, including
shareholder lists and statistical information as may be
agreed upon from time to time between RPS and the Fund.
8. Correspondence
RPS will promptly and fully answer correspondence from
Administrators and in some cases, Participants, relating to
Retirement Accounts, transfer agent procedures, and such
other correspondence as may from time to time be mutually
agreed upon with the Funds. Unless otherwise instructed,
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copies of all correspondence will be retained by RPS in
accordance with applicable law.
9. Mailings/Confirmation Statements
RPS will be responsible for mailing all confirmations and
other enclosures and mailings, as requested by the
Administrators and as may be required of the Funds by
applicable Federal or state law.
10. Proxies
RPS shall monitor the mailing of proxy cards and other
material supplied to it by the Fund in connection with
shareholder meetings of the Fund and shall coordinate the
receipt, examination and tabulation of returned proxies and
the certification of the vote to the Fund.
11. Form N-SAR
RPS shall maintain such records, if any, as shall enable
the Fund to fulfill the requirements of Form N-SAR.
12. Withholding
The Fund and RPS shall agree to procedures to be followed
with respect to RPS's responsibilities in connection with
compliance for federal withholding for Participants.
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C. Fees and Out-of-Pocket Expenses
Each Fund shall pay to RPS for its services hereunder fees
computed as set forth in the Schedule attached hereto. Except as
provided below, RPS will be responsible for all expenses relating
to the providing of services. Each Fund, however, will reimburse
RPS for the following out-of-pocket expenses and charges incurred
in providing services:
1. Postage. The cost of postage and freight for mailing
materials to Participants, or their agents, including
overnight delivery, UPS and other express mail services
and special courier services required to transport mail
between RPS locations and mail processing vendors.
2. Proxies. The cost to mail proxy cards and other
material supplied to it by the Fund and costs related to
the receipt, examination and tabulation of returned
proxies and the certification of the vote to the Fund.
3. Communications
a. Print. The printed forms used internally and
externally for documentation and processing
Participant, or their agent's, inquiries and
requests; paper and envelope supplies for letters,
notices, and other written communications sent to
Administrators and Participants, or their agents.
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b. Print & Mail House. The cost of internal and third
party printing and mail house services, including
printing of statements and reports.
c. Voice and Data. The cost of equipment (including
associated maintenance), supplies and services used
for communicating to and from the Participants, or
their agents, the Fund's transfer agent, other Fund
offices, and other agents of either the Fund or RPS.
These charges shall include:
o telephone toll charges (both incoming and outgoing,
local, long distance and mailgrams); and
o data and telephone lines and associated equipment
such as modems, multiplexers, and facsimile
equipment.
4. Record Retention. The cost of maintenance and supplies
used to maintain, microfilm, copy, record, index,
display, retrieve, and store, in microfiche or microfilm
form, documents and records.
5. Disaster Recovery. The cost of services, equipment,
facilities and other charges necessary to provide
disaster recovery for any and all services listed in
this Agreement.
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D. Representations and Warranties of RPS
RPS represents and warrants to the Fund that:
1. It is a corporation duly organized and existing and in
good standing under the laws of Maryland.
2. It is duly qualified to carry on its business in
Maryland.
3. It is empowered under applicable laws and by its charter
and by-laws to enter into and perform this Agreement.
4. All requisite corporate proceedings have been taken to
authorize it to enter into and perform this Agreement.
5. It has and will continue to have access to the necessary
facilities, equipment and personnel to perform its duties and
obligations under this Agreement.
6. It is registered with the Securities and Exchange
Commission as a Transfer Agent pursuant to Section 17A of the
'34 Act.
E. Representations and Warranties of the Fund
The Fund represents and warrants to RPS that:
1. It is a corporation or business trust duly organized and
existing and in good standing under the laws of Maryland, or
Massachusetts, as the case may be.
2. It is empowered under applicable laws and by its
Articles of Incorporation or Declaration of Trust, as the
PAGE 16
case may be, and By-Laws to enter into and perform this
Agreement.
3. All proceedings required by said Articles of
Incorporation or Declaration of Trust, as the case may be,
and By-Laws have been taken to authorize it to enter into and
perform this Agreement.
4. It is an investment company registered under the Act.
5. A registration statement under the Securities Act of
1933 ("the '33 Act") is currently effective and will remain
effective, and appropriate state securities law filing have
been made and will continue to be made, with respect to all
shares of the Fund being offered for sale.
F. Standard of Care/Indemnification
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement:
1. RPS shall not be liable to the Fund for any act or
failure to act by it or its agents or subcontractors on
behalf of the Fund in carrying or attempting to carry out the
terms and provisions of this Agreement provided RPS has acted
in good faith and without negligence or willful misconduct
and selected and monitored the performance of its agents and
subcontractors with reasonable care.
2. The Fund shall indemnify and hold RPS harmless from and
against all losses, costs, damages, claims, actions and
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expenses, including reasonable expenses for legal counsel,
incurred by RPS resulting from: (i) any action or omission by
RPS or its agents or subcontractors in the performance of
their duties hereunder; (ii) RPS acting upon instructions
believed by it to have been executed by a duly authorized
officer of the Fund; or (iii) RPS acting upon information
provided by the Fund in form and under policies agreed to by
RPS and the Fund. RPS shall not be entitled to such
indemnification in respect of actions or omissions
constituting negligence or willful misconduct of RPS or where
RPS has not exercised reasonable care in selecting or
monitoring the performance of its agents or subcontractors.
3. Except as provided in Article K of this Agreement, RPS
shall indemnify and hold harmless the Fund from all losses,
costs, damages, claims, actions and expenses, including
reasonable expenses for legal counsel, incurred by the Fund
resulting from negligence or willful misconduct of RPS or
which result from RPS' failure to exercise reasonable care in
selecting or monitoring the performance of its agents or
subcontractors. The Fund shall not be entitled to such
indemnification in respect of actions or omissions
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constituting negligence or willful misconduct of such Fund or
its agents or subcontractors; unless such negligence or
misconduct is attributable to RPS.
4. In determining RPS' liability, an isolated error or
omission will normally not be deemed to constitute negligence
when it is determined that:
o RPS had in place "appropriate procedures".
o the employees responsible for the error or omission had
been reasonably trained and were being appropriately
monitored; and
o the error or omission did not result from wanton or
reckless conduct on the part of the employees.
It is understood that RPS is not obligated to have in place
separate procedures to prevent each and every conceivable
type of error or omission. The term "appropriate
procedures" shall mean procedures reasonably designed to
prevent and detect errors and omissions. In determining the
reasonableness of such procedures, weight will be given to
such factors as are appropriate, including the prior
occurrence of any similar errors or omissions when such
procedures were in place and transfer agent industry
standards in place at the time of the occurrence.
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5. In the event either party is unable to perform its
obligations under the terms of this Agreement because of
acts of God, strikes or other causes reasonably beyond its
control, such party shall not be liable to the other party
for any loss, cost, damage, claims, actions or expense
resulting from such failure to perform or otherwise from
such causes.
6. In order that the indemnification provisions contained
in this Article F shall apply, upon the assertion of a claim
for which either party may be required to indemnify the
other, the party seeking indemnification shall promptly
notify the other party of such assertion, and shall keep the
other party advised with respect to all developments
concerning such claim. The party who may be required to
indemnify shall have the option to participate with the
party seeking indemnification in the defense of such claim,
or to defend against said claim in its own name or in the
name of the other party. The party seeking indemnification
shall in no case confess any claim or make any compromise in
any case in which the other party may be required to
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indemnify it except with the other party's prior written
consent.
7. Neither party to this Agreement shall be liable to the
other party for consequential damages under any provision of
this Agreement.
G. Dual Interests
It is understood that some person or persons may be
directors, officers, or shareholders of both RPS and the Fund and
that the existence of any such dual interest shall not affect the
validity of this Agreement or of any transactions hereunder
except as otherwise provided by a specific provision of
applicable law.
H. Documentation
1. As requested by RPS, the Fund shall promptly furnish to
RPS the following:
a. A certified copy of the resolution of the
Directors/Trustees of the Fund authorizing the
appointment of RPS and the execution and delivery of
this Agreement;
b. A copy of the Articles of Incorporation or
Declaration of Trust, as the case may be, and By-Laws
of the Fund and all amendments thereto;
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c. Specimens of all forms of outstanding and new
stock/share certificates in the forms approved by the
Board of Directors/Trustees of the Fund with a
certificate of the Secretary of the Fund as to such
approval;
d. All account application forms and other documents
relating to shareholders' accounts;
e. An opinion of counsel for the Fund with respect to
the validity of the stock, the number of Shares
authorized, the status of redeemed Shares, and the
number of Shares with respect to which a Registration
Statement has been filed and is in effect; and
f. A copy of the Fund's current prospectus.
The delivery of any such document for the purpose of any
other agreement to which the Fund and RPS are or were parties
shall be deemed to be delivery for the purposes of this
Agreement.
2. As requested by RPS, the Fund will also furnish from
time to time the following documents:
a. Each resolution of the Board of Directors/Trustees of
the Fund authorizing the original issue of its
shares;
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b. Each Registration Statement filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission and amendments and orders
thereto in effect with respect to the sale of shares
with respect to the Fund;
c. A certified copy of each amendment to the Articles of
Incorporation or Declaration of Trust, and the
By-Laws of the Fund;
d. Certified copies of each vote of the Board of
Directors/Trustees authorizing officers to give
instructions to the Fund;
e. Specimens of all new certificates accompanied by the
Board of Directors/Trustees' resolutions approving
such forms;
f. Such other documents or opinions which RPS, in its
discretion, may reasonably deem necessary or
appropriate in the proper performance of its duties;
and
g. Copies of new prospectuses issued.
3. RPS hereby agrees to establish and maintain facilities
and procedures reasonably acceptable to the Fund for
safekeeping of check forms and facsimile signature imprinting
devices, if any, and for the preparation or use, and for
keeping account of, such forms and devices.
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I. Recordkeeping/Confidentiality
1. RPS shall keep records relating to the services to be
performed hereunder, in the form and manner as it may deem
advisable, provided that RPS shall keep all records in such
form and in such manner as required by applicable law,
including the Act and the '34 Act.
2. RPS and the Fund agree that all books, records,
information and data pertaining to the business of the other
party which are exchanged or received pursuant to the
negotiation or the carrying out of this Agreement shall
remain confidential, and shall not be voluntarily disclosed
to any other person, except: (a) after prior notification to
and approval in writing by the other party hereto, which
approval shall not be unreasonably withheld and may not be
withheld where RPS or the Fund may be exposed to civil or
criminal contempt proceedings for failure to comply; (b) when
requested to divulge such information by duly constituted
governmental authorities; or (c) after so requested by the
other party hereto.
J. Ownership of Software and Related Material
All computer programs, magnetic tapes, written procedures and
similar items purchased and/or developed and used by RPS in
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performance of the Agreement shall be the property of RPS and
will not become the property of the Fund.
K. As Of Transactions
For purposes of this Article K, the term "Transaction" shall
mean any single or "related transaction" (as defined below)
involving the purchase or redemption of shares (including
exchanges) that are processed at a time other than the time of
the computation of the Fund's net asset value per share next
computed after receipt of any such transaction order by RPS. If
more than one Transaction ("Related Transaction") in the Fund is
caused by or occurs as a result of the same act or omission, such
transactions shall be aggregated with other transactions in the
Fund and be considered as one Transaction.
1. Reporting
RPS shall:
a. Utilize a system to identify all Transactions, and
shall compute the net effect of such Transactions upon
the Fund on a daily, monthly and rolling 365 day basis.
The Monthly and rolling 365 day periods are hereinafter
referred to as ("Cumulative").
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b. Supply to the Fund, from time to time as mutually
agreed upon, a report summarizing the Transactions and
the daily and Cumulative net effects of such
Transactions both in terms of aggregate dilution and
loss ("Dilution") or gain and negative dilution
("Gain") experienced by the Fund, and the impact such
Gain or Dilution has had upon the Fund's net asset
value per share.
c. With respect to any Transaction which causes Dilution
to the Fund of $25,000 or more, immediately provide the
Fund: (i) a report identifying the Transaction and the
Dilution resulting therefrom, (ii) the reason such
Transaction was processed as described above, and (iii)
the action that RPS has or intends to take to prevent
the reoccurrence of such as of processing ("Report").
2. Liability
a. It will be the normal practice of the Fund not to hold
RPS liable with respect to any Transaction which causes
Dilution to any single Fund of less than $25,000. RPS
will, however, closely monitor for each Fund the daily
and Cumulative Gain/Dilution which is caused by
Transactions of less than $25,000. When the Cumulative
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Dilution to any Fund exceeds 3/10 of 1% per share, RPS,
in consultation with counsel to the Fund, will make
appropriate inquiry to determine whether it should take
any remedial action. RPS will report to the Board of
Directors/Trustees of the Fund ("Board"), as
appropriate, any action it has taken.
b. Where a Transaction causes Dilution to a Fund of
$25,000 or more ("Significant Transaction"), RPS will
review with counsel to the Fund, the Report and the
circumstances surrounding the underlying Transaction to
determine whether the Transaction was caused by or
occurred as a result of a negligent act or omission by
RPS. If it is determined that the Dilution is the
result of a negligent action or omission by RPS, RPS
and outside counsel for the Fund, as appropriate, will
negotiate settlement. All such Significant
Transactions will be reported to the Board at its next
meeting (unless the settlement fully compensates the
Fund for any Dilution). Any Significant Transaction,
however, causing Dilution in excess of the lesser of
$100,000 or a penny per share will be promptly reported
to the Board. Settlement will not be entered into with
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RPS until approved by the Board. The factors the Board
or the Funds would be expected to consider in making
any determination regarding the settlement of a
Significant Transaction would include but not be
limited to:
i. Procedures and controls adopted by RPS to prevent
As Of processing;
ii. Whether such procedures and controls were being
followed at the time of the Significant
Transaction;
iii. The absolute and relative volume of all
transactions processed by RPS on the day of the
Significant Transaction;
iv. The number of Transactions processed by RPS during
prior relevant periods, and the net Dilution/Gain
as a result of all such transactions to the Fund
and to all other Price Funds; and
v. The prior response of RPS to recommendations made
by the Funds regarding improvement to the Transfer
Agent's As Of Processing Procedures.
c. In determining RPS' liability with respect to a
Significant Transaction, an isolated error or omission will
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normally not be deemed to constitute negligence when it is
determined that:
o RPS had in place "appropriate procedures".
o the employees responsible for the error or
omission had been reasonably trained and were
being appropriately monitored; and
o the error or omission did not result from wanton
or reckless conduct on the part of the employees.
It is understood that RPS is not obligated to have in
place separate procedures to prevent each and every
conceivable type of error or omission. The term
"appropriate procedures" shall mean procedures
reasonably designed to prevent and detect errors and
omissions. In determining the reasonableness of such
procedures, weight will be given to such factors as are
appropriate, including the prior occurrence of any
similar errors or omissions when such procedures were
in place and transfer agent industry standards in place
at the time of the occurrence.
L. Term and Termination of Agreement
1. This Agreement shall run for a period of one (1) year
from the date first written above and will be renewed from
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year to year thereafter unless terminated by either party as
provided hereunder.
2. This Agreement may be terminated by the Funds upon one
hundred twenty (120) days' written notice to RPS; and by
RPS, upon three hundred sixty-five (365) days' writing
notice to the Fund.
3. Upon termination hereof, the Fund shall pay to RPS such
compensation as may be due as of the date of such
termination, and shall likewise reimburse for out-of-pocket
expenses related to its services hereunder.
M. Notice
Any notice as required by this Agreement shall be
sufficiently given (i) when sent to an authorized person of the
other party at the address of such party set forth above or at
such other address as such party may from time to time specify in
writing to the other party; or (ii) as otherwise agreed upon by
appropriate officers of the parties hereto.
N. Assignment
Neither this Agreement nor any rights or obligations
hereunder may be assigned either voluntarily or involuntarily, by
operation of law or otherwise, by either party without the prior
written consent of the other party
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O. Amendment/Interpretive Provisions
The parties by mutual written agreement may amend this
Agreement at any time. In addition, in connection with the
operation of this Agreement, RPS and the Fund may agree from time
to time on such provisions interpretive of or in addition to the
provisions of this Agreement as may in their joint opinion be
consistent with the general tenor of this Agreement. Any such
interpretive or additional provisions are to be signed by all
parties and annexed hereto, but no such provision shall
contravene any applicable federal or state law or regulation and
no such interpretive or additional provision shall be deemed to
be an amendment of this Agreement.
P. Further Assurances
Each party agrees to perform such further acts and execute
such further documents as are necessary to effectuate the
purposes hereof.
Q. Maryland Law to Apply
This Agreement shall be construed and the provisions thereof
interpreted under and in accordance with the laws of Maryland.
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R. Merger of Agreement
This Agreement, including the attached Schedule supersede
any prior agreement with respect to the subject hereof, whether
oral or written.
S. Counterparts
This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto on any
number of counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken
together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same
instruments.
T. The Parties
All references herein to "the Fund" are to each of the Funds
listed on Appendix A individually, as if this Agreement were
between such individual Fund and RPS. In the case of a series
Fund or trust, all references to "the Fund" are to the individual
series or portfolio of such fund or trust, or to such Fund or
trust on behalf of the individual series or portfolio, as
appropriate. Any reference in this Agreement to "the parties"
shall mean RPS and such other individual Fund as to which the
matter pertains. The "Fund" also includes any T. Rowe Price Fund
which may be established after the date of this Agreement.
Any reference in this Agreement to "the parties" shall mean
the Funds and RPS.
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U. Directors, Trustees and Shareholders and Massachusetts
Business Trust
It is understood and is expressly stipulated that neither
the holders of shares in the Fund nor any Directors or Trustees
of the Fund shall be personally liable hereunder. With respect
to any Fund which is a party to this Agreement and which is
organized as a Massachusetts business trust, the term "Fund"
means and refers to the trustees from time to time serving under
the applicable trust agreement (Declaration of Trust) of such
Trust as the same may be amended from time to time. It is
expressly agreed that the obligations of any such Trust 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 Trust, as provided in the
Declaration of Trust of the Trust. The execution and delivery of
this Agreement has been authorized by the trustees and signed by
an authorized officer of the Trust, acting as such, and neither
such authorization by such Trustees nor such execution and
delivery by such officer shall be deemed to have been made by any
of them, but shall bind only the trust property of the Trust as
provided in its Declaration of Trust.
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V. Captions
The captions in the Agreement are included for convenience
of reference only and in no way define or limit any of the
provisions hereof or otherwise affect their construction or
effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be executed in their names and on their behalf under
their seals by and through their duly authorized officers.
T. ROWE PRICE RETIREMENT PLAN DATED: _______________________
SERVICES, INC.
ATTEST:
/s/Charles E. Vieth
By: ________________________ ________________________
Charles E. Vieth
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S GOVERNMENT FUND,
INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUNDS, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE PERSONAL STRATEGY FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. ROWE PRICE VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT MUNICIPAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
DATED: ______________________
ATTEST:
/s/Carmen F. Deyesu
______________________________ BY: __________________________
Carmen F. Deyesu
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APPENDIX A
The following Funds are parties to this Agreement, and have so
indicated their intention to be bound by such Agreement by
executing the Agreement on the dates indicated thereon.
T. Rowe Price Adjustable Rate U.S. Government
Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Balanced Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund
T. Rowe Price Capital Opportunity Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund
T. Rowe Price GNMA Fund
T. Rowe Price Growth & Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Index Trust, Inc. on behalf of
the
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
Institutional International Funds, Inc. on
behalf of the
Foreign Equity Fund
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T. Rowe Price International Funds, Inc. on
behalf of the
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund and
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New America Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price New Era Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price New Income Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund, Inc. on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Funds, Inc.
on behalf of the
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Balanced
Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Growth Fund
T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Prime Reserve Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Bond Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Value Fund, Inc.
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T. Rowe Price Spectrum Fund, Inc. on behalf
of the
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
T. Rowe Price Value Fund, Inc.
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc. on
behalf of the
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Funds, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Funds, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Money Market
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Intermediate
Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Municipal Income Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE RETIREMENT PLAN SERVICES, INC.
FEE SCHEDULE
Fees for transfer agent services performed for retirement plan
accounts serviced by T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc.
("RPS").
Effective January 1, 1995 to December 31, 1995.
A. Base Fee
A monthly base fee of $500,000 ($6,000,000 per year)
allocated pro rata by account.
B. Per Participant Fee
A monthly per participant fee of $3.583 for each active
(non-zero balance) participant being serviced at the end of
the month. This fee will be allocated among the Funds based
on the relative percentage of T. Rowe Price assets at the
end of the month.
C. Per Transaction Fee
A fee for each Account transaction will be charged at the
rate of $.15 per transaction, except for dividend
transactions.
D. Institutional Support Group (ISG) Telephone Call
A fee of $5.24 per ISG telephone call will be charged to the
Fund(s) involved in the telephone call.
E. New Participant Fee
A one-time new participant fee of $3.31 will be charged each
time a participant is added to the records.
F. Perks Fee
Fees for PERKS plans will be $10 per account, maximum $40
per participant, capped at 25 basis points.
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G. Billing Procedures
RPS will render a monthly invoice which shall include: the
number of participants in existence at month-end and the
Fund's pro rata share; the assets by Fund at month-end; the
number of transactions recorded during the month for each
Fund; and the number of new participants added during the
month and the Fund's pro rata share. RPS will render a
separate invoice for out-of-pocket expenses for which RPS is
entitled to reimbursement under the Agreement and the Fund's
pro rata share.
H. New Funds
Funds added during the term of this Agreement may have their
Maintenance and Transaction charges waived for a period of
time agreed upon between RPS and the Funds following the
establishment of the Fund. Out-of-pocket expenses will be
billed to the Fund from the Fund's inception.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, T. Rowe Price Funds and T. Rowe Price
Retirement Plan Services, Inc. have agreed upon this fee schedule
to be executed in their names and on their behalf through their
duly authorized officers:
T. ROWE PRICE FUNDS T. ROWE PRICE RETIREMENT PLAN
SERVICES, INC.
Name /s/Carmen F. Deyesu Name /s/Charles E. Vieth
Title Treasurer Title President
Date __________________________ Date _______________________
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AMENDMENT NO. 1
AGREEMENT
between
T. ROWE PRICE RETIREMENT PLAN SERVICES, INC.
and
EACH OF THE PARTIES INDICATED ON APPENDIX A
The Retirement Plan Services Contract of January 1, 1995,
between T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services, Inc. and each of
the Parties listed on Appendix A thereto is hereby amended, as of
January 25, 1995, by adding thereto the T. Rowe Price Emerging
Markets Stock Fund, a separate series of the T. Rowe Price
International Funds, Inc.
T. ROWE PRICE ADJUSTABLE RATE U.S. GOVERNMENT
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BALANCED FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE BLUE CHIP GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME
TRUST
California Tax-Free Bond Fund
California Tax-Free Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL APPRECIATION FUND
T. ROWE PRICE CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE EQUITY INCOME FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GNMA FUND
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH & INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE GROWTH STOCK FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
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T. ROWE PRICE INDEX TRUST, INC.
T. Rowe Price Equity Index Fund
INSTITUTIONAL INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
Foreign Equity Fund
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE INTERNATIONAL FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price International Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price International Discovery Fund
T. Rowe Price International Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price European Stock Fund
T. Rowe Price New Asia Fund
T. Rowe Price Global Government Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Japan Fund
T. Rowe Price Short-Term Global Fund
T. Rowe Price Latin America Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets Stock Fund
T. ROWE PRICE MID-CAP GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE NEW AMERICA GROWTH FUND
T. ROWE PRICE NEW ERA FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW HORIZONS FUNDS, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE NEW INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE OTC FUND, INC.
T. Rowe Price OTC Fund
T. ROWE PRICE PRIME RESERVE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SHORT-TERM BOND FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SMALL-CAP VALUE FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE SPECTRUM FUND, INC.
Spectrum Growth Fund
Spectrum Income Fund
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T. ROWE PRICE STATE TAX-FREE INCOME TRUST
Maryland Tax-Free Bond Fund
Maryland Short-Term Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Bond Fund
New York Tax-Free Money Fund
New Jersey Tax-Free Bond Fund
Virginia Tax-Free Bond Fund
Florida Insured Intermediate Tax-Free Fund
Georgia Tax-Free Bond Fund
T. ROWE PRICE SUMMIT FUNDS, INC.
T. Rowe Price Summit Cash Reserves Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit Limited-Term Bond Fund
T. Rowe Price Summit GNMA Fund
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INSURED INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-EXEMPT MONEY FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE HIGH YIELD FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE TAX-FREE SHORT-INTERMEDIATE
FUND, INC.
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
T. ROWE PRICE VALUE FUND, INC.
Attest:
/s/Patricia S. Butcher /s/Carmen F. Deyesu
_________________________ _________________________
Patricia S. Butcher, By: Carmen F. Deyesu
Assistant Secretary
Attest: T. ROWE PRICE RETIREMENT PLAN
SERVICES, INC.
/s/Barbara A. Van Horn /s/Henry H. Hopkins
_________________________ ____________________________
Barbara A. Van Horn, By: Henry H. Hopkins,
Assistant Secretary Vice President
September 12, 1995
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc. ("Registrant)
U.S. Treasury Money Fund
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
File Nos.: 033-30531/811-5860
Commissioners:
We are counsel to the above-referenced registrant which
proposes to file, pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485 (the
"Rule"), Post-Effective Amendment No. 12 (the "Amendment") to its
registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
Pursuant to paragraph (b)(4) of the Rule, we represent that
the Amendment does not contain disclosures which would render it
ineligible to become effective pursuant to paragraph (b) of the
Rule.
Sincerely,
/s/Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman, LLP
Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman, LLP
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CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in the
Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information constituting
parts of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 12 to the Registration
Statement on Form N-1A (the "Registration Statement") of our
report dated June 19, 1995, relating to the financial statements
and selected per share data and ratios appearing in the May 31,
1995 Annual Report to Shareholders of the U.S. Treasury
Intermediate Fund, U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund, and U.S.
Treasury Money Fund (three of the portfolios comprising the T.
Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc.). We also consent to the
references to us under the heading "Financial Highlights" in the
Prospectus and under the heading "Independent Accountants" in the
Statement of Additional Information.
/s/Price Waterhouse LLP
PRICE WATERHOUSE LLP
Baltimore, Maryland
September 12, 1995
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CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
To the Board of Directors of
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Fund, Inc.
and the Shareholders of T. Rowe Price
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund and
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
We consent to the inclusion in Post-Effective Amendment No.
12 to the Registration Statement of the T. Rowe Price U.S.
Treasury Intermediate Fund and the T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury
Long-Term Fund (two of the portfolios comprising the T. Rowe
Price U.S. Treasury Funds, Inc.) on Form N-1A (File No. 33-30531)
of our report dated June 17, 1994, on our audit of the Fund's
statement of changes in net assets for the three-month period
ended May 31, 1994 and the year ended February 28, 1994, and the
financial highlights for the three-month period ended May 31,
1994 and for each of the four years in the period ended February
28, 1994.
/s/Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.
COOPERS & LYBRAND L.L.P.
Baltimore, Maryland
September 12, 1995
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
To the Board of Directors of
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Fund, Inc.
and the Shareholders of T. Rowe Price
U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund and
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund
We have audited the statement of changes in net assets for
the three-month period ended May 31, 1994 and for the year ended
February 28, 1994, and the financial highlights for the three-
month period ended May 31, 1994 and each of the four years in the
period ended February 28, 1994 of the T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury
Intermediate Fund and the T. Rowe Price Treasury Long-Term Fund
(two of the portfolios comprising the T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury
Funds, Inc.). These financial statements and financial
highlights are the responsibility of the Fund's management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial
statements and financial highlights on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with generally
accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we
plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the financial statements and financial highlights are
free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a
test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in
the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used an significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable
basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial
highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material
respects, the changes in net assets and financial highlights of
T. Rowe Price U.S. Treasury Intermediate Fund and T. Rowe Price
U.S. Treasury Long-Term Fund for each of the respective periods
stated in the first paragraph in conformity with generally
accepted accounting principles.
/s/Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.
COOPERS & LYBRAND L.L.P.
Baltimore, Maryland
June 17, 1994
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T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
RESOLVED, that the Corporation and each of its directors do
hereby constitute and authorize, James S. Riepe, Joel H.
Goldberg, and Henry H. Hopkins, and each of them individually,
their true and lawful attorneys and agents to take any and all
action and execute any and all instruments which said attorneys
and agents may deem necessary or advisable to enable the
Corporation to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and
any rules, regulations, orders or other requirements of the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder, in
connection with the registration under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, of shares of the Corporation, to be offered by
the Corporation, and the registration of the Corporation under
the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, including
specifically, but without limitation of the foregoing, power and
authority to sign the name of the Corporation on its behalf, and
to sign the names of each of such directors and officers on his
behalf as such director or officer to any amendment or supplement
(including Post-Effective Amendments) to the Registration
Statement on Form N-1A of the Corporation filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and the Registration Statement on Form N-1A of
the Corporation under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended, and to any instruments or documents filed or to be filed
as a part of or in connection with such Registration Statement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused these
presents to be signed by its President and the same attested by
its Secretary, each thereunto duly authorized by its Board of
Directors, and each of the undersigned has hereunto set his hand
and seal as of the day set opposite his name.
T. ROWE PRICE U.S. TREASURY FUNDS, INC.
By:/s/George J. Collins
George J. Collins,
President and Director
April 18, 1995
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Attest:
/s/Lenora V. Hornung
Lenora V. Hornung, Secretary
(Signatures Continued)
President and Director
/s/George J. Collins (Principal Executive April 18, 1995
George J. Collins Officer)
Treasurer
/s/Carmen F. Deyesu (Principal Financial April 18, 1995
Carmen F. Deyesu Officer)
/s/Robert P. Black Director April 18, 1995
Robert P. Black
/s/Calvin W. Burnett Director April 18, 1995
Calvin W. Burnett
/s/Anthony W. Deering Director April 18, 1995
Anthony W. Deering
/s/F. Pierce Linaweaver Director April 18, 1995
F. Pierce Linaweaver
/s/James S. Riepe Vice President and April 18, 1995
James S. Riepe Director
/s/John G. Schreiber Director April 18, 1995
John G. Schreiber
/s/Charles P. Smith Executive Vice April 18, 1995
Charles P. Smith President and Director
/s/Peter Van Dyke Executive Vice April 18, 1995
Peter Van Dyke President and Director
/s/Anne Marie Whittemore Director April 18, 1995
Anne Marie Whittemore
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