ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES CONTRACT
SHORT TERM INCOME FUND, INC.
(the "Fund")
Money Market Portfolio
U.S. Government Portfolio
(the "Portfolios")
New York, New York
October 30, 2000
Xxxxx & Xxxx Asset Management L.P.
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Gentlemen:
We herewith confirm our agreement with you as follows:
1. We propose to engage in the business of investing and
reinvesting our assets in securities of the type, and in accordance with the
limitations, specified in our Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws and
Registration Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under
the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act") and the Securities Act of
1933, including the Prospectus forming a part thereof (the "Registration
Statement"), all as from time to time in effect, and in such manner and to such
extent as may from time to time be authorized by our Board of Directors. We
enclose copies of the documents listed above and will furnish you such
amendments thereto as may be made from time to time.
2. a. On behalf of the Portfolios, we hereby employ you as our
administrator (the "Administrator") to provide all management and administrative
services reasonably necessary for our operation, other than those services you
provide to us pursuant to the Investment Management Contract. The services to be
provided by you shall include but not be limited to those enumerated on Exhibit
A hereto. The personnel providing these services may be your employees or
employees of your affiliates or of other organizations. You shall make periodic
reports to the Fund's Board of Directors in the performance of your obligations
under this Agreement and the execution of your duties hereunder is subject to
the general control of the Board of Directors.
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b. It is understood that you will from time to time employ, subcontract
with or otherwise associate with yourself, entirely at your expense, such
persons as you believe to be particularly fitted to assist you in the execution
of your duties hereunder. While this agreement is in effect, you or persons
affiliated with you, other than us ("your affiliates"), will provide persons
satisfactory to our Board of Directors to be elected or appointed officers or
employees of our corporation. These shall be a president, a secretary, a
treasurer, and such additional officers and employees as may reasonably be
necessary for the conduct of our business.
c. You or your affiliates will also provide persons, who may be our
officers, to (i) supervise the performance of bookkeeping and related services
and calculation of net asset value and yield by our bookkeeping agent and (ii)
prepare reports to and the filings with regulatory authorities, and (iii)
perform such clerical, other office and shareholder services for us as we may
from time to time request of you. Such personnel may be your employees or
employees of your affiliates or of other organizations. Notwithstanding the
preceding, you shall not be required to perform any accounting services not
expressly provided for herein.
d. You or your affiliates will also furnish us such administrative and
management supervision and assistance and such office facilities as you may
believe appropriate or as we may reasonably request subject to the requirements
of any regulatory authority to which you may be subject. You or your affiliates
will also pay the expenses of promoting the sale of our shares (other than the
costs of preparing, printing and filing our Registration Statement, printing
copies of the prospectus contained therein and complying with other applicable
regulatory requirements), except to the extent that we are permitted to bear
such expenses under a plan adopted pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 1940 Act or
a similar rule.
3. We will expect of you, and you will give us the benefit of,
your best judgment and efforts in rendering these services to us, and we agree
as an inducement to your undertaking these services that you will not be liable
hereunder for any mistake of judgment or for any other cause, provided that
nothing herein shall protect you against any liability to us or to our security
holders by reason of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross negligence in the
performance of your duties hereunder, or by reason of your reckless disregard of
your obligations and duties hereunder.
4. In consideration of the foregoing, each Portfolio will pay
you a fee of .21% of the Portfolio's average daily net assets not in excess of
$1.25 billion, plus .20% of such assets in excess of $1.25 billion but not in
excess of $1.5 billion, plus .19% of such assets in excess of $1.5 billion. Your
fee will be accrued by us daily, and will be payable on the last day of each
calendar month for services performed hereunder during that month or on such
other schedule as we may agree in writing. You may use any portion of this fee
for distribution of our shares, or for making payments to organizations whose
customers or clients are our stockholders. You may
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waive your right to any fee to which you are entitled hereunder, provided such
xxxxxx is delivered to us in writing.
5. This Agreement will become effective on the date hereof and
shall continue in effect until August 31, 2001 and thereafter for successive
twelve-month periods (computed from each September 1 ), provided that such
continuation is specifically approved at least annually by our Board of
Directors and by a majority of those of our directors who are neither party to
this Agreement nor, other than by their service as directors of the corporation,
interested persons, as defined in the 1940 Act, of any such person who is party
to this Agreement. With respect to each Portfolio, this Agreement may be
terminated at any time, without the payment of any penalty, (i) by vote of a
majority of the outstanding voting securities of each respective Portfolio
voting separately, as defined in the 1940 Act, or (ii) by a vote of a majority
of our entire Board of Directors, on sixty days' written notice to you, or by
you on sixty days' written notice to us.
6. This Agreement may not be transferred, assigned, sold or in
any manner hypothecated or pledged by you and this Agreement shall terminate
automatically in the event of any such transfer, assignment, sale, hypothecation
or pledge by you. The terms "transfer", "assignment" and "sale" as used in this
paragraph shall have the meanings ascribed thereto by governing law and in
applicable rules or regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
7. Except to the extent necessary to perform your obligations
hereunder, nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or restrict your right, or
the right of any of your officers, directors or employees who may also be a
director, officer or employee of ours, or of a person affiliated with us, as
defined in the Act, to engage in any other business or to devote time and
attention to the management or other aspects of any other business, whether of a
similar or dissimilar nature, or to render services of any kind to any other
corporation, firm, individual or association.
8. This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York and the applicable provisions of the 1940 Act.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding,
will you kindly so indicate by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy
hereof.
Very truly yours,
SHORT TERM INCOME FUND, INC.
Money Market Portfolio
U.S. Government Portfolio
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Secretary
ACCEPTED: October 30, 2000
XXXXX & XXXX ASSET MANAGEMENT L.P.
By: XXXXX & XXXX ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC.
General Partner
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President
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Exhibit A
Administration Services To Be Performed
By Xxxxx & Xxxx Asset Management L.P.
Administration Services
1. In conjunction with Fund counsel, prepare and file all Post-Effective
Amendments to the Registration Statement, all state and federal tax
returns and all other required regulatory filings.
2. In conjunction with Fund counsel, prepare and file all Blue Sky
filings, reports and renewals.
3. Coordinate, but not pay for, required Fidelity Bond and Directors and
Officers Insurance (if any) and monitor their compliance with
Investment Company Act.
4. Coordinate the preparation and distribution of all materials for
Directors, including the agenda for meetings and all exhibits thereto,
and actual and projected quarterly summaries.
5. Coordinate the activities of the Fund's Manager, Custodian, Legal
Counsel and Independent Accountants.
6. Prepare and file all periodic reports to shareholders and proxies and
provide support for shareholder meetings.
7. Monitor daily and periodic compliance with respect to all requirements
and restrictions of the Investment Company Act, the Internal Revenue
Code and the Prospectus.
8. Monitor daily the Fund's bookkeeping services agent's calculation of
all income and expense accruals, sales and redemptions of capital
shares outstanding.
9. Evaluate expenses, project future expenses, and process payments of
expenses.
10. Monitor and evaluate performance of accounting and accounting related
services by Fund's bookkeeping services agent. Nothing herein shall be
construed to require you to perform any accounting services not
expressly provided for in this Agreement.
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