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MARTIN CURRIE BUSINESS TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 3
TO
AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
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The undersigned, being a majority of the trustees of the Martin Currie
Business Trust, a Massachusetts business trust created and existing under an
Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated May 20, 1994, as amended May 27, 1994
and June 13, 1997, a copy of which is on file in the Office of the Secretary of
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (the "Trust"), having determined that changing
the designation of the MCBT Emerging Asia Fund is desirable and appropriate and
consistent with the fair and equitable treatment of all shareholders, do hereby
direct that this Amendment No. 3 be filed with the Secretary of The Commonwealth
of Massachusetts and do hereby amend the Agreement and Declaration of Trust so
that the first sentence of Section 6 of Article III of the Agreement and
Declaration of Trust is amended and restated as follows:
"Without limiting the authority of the Trustees set forth in Section 5,
INTER ALIA, to establish and designate any further Series or Classes or to
modify the rights and preferences of any Series or Classes, the "MCBT
Global Growth Fund," "MCBT Opportunistic EAFE Fund," "MCBT Japan Small
Companies Fund," "MCBT Africa Fund," "MCBT Global Emerging Markets Fund,"
"MCBT Emerging Europe Fund," "MCBT Asia Pacific ex Japan Fund," "MCBT
Emerging Americas Fund" and "MCBT EMEA Fund" shall be, and hereby are,
established and designated as separate Series of the Trust."
The foregoing amendment shall become effective as of the time it is filed
with the Secretary of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands for ourselves and for
our successors and assigns this 5th day of November, 1998.
/S/ C. JAMES P. DAWNAY
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C. James P. Dawnay
/S/ SIMON D. ECCLES
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Simon D. Eccles
/S/ PATRICK R. WILMERDING
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Patrick R. Wilmerding
