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Exhibit 1(b)
EUREKA FUNDS
(Formerly, SANWA FUND)
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
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This AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST made as of the
17th day of October, 1997 hereby amends and restates in its entirety the
AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST, made at Boston, Massachusetts on the 7th day
of April, 1997, by the Trustees hereunder, and by the holders of shares of
beneficial interest to be issued hereunder as hereinafter provided, pursuant to
Section 7 of Article IX hereof.
WITNESSETH that
WHEREAS, this Trust has been formed to carry on the business of an
investment company; and
WHEREAS, the Trustees have agreed to manage all property coming into their
hands as trustees of a Massachusetts voluntary association with transferable
shares in accordance with the provisions hereinafter set forth.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Trustees hereby declare that they will hold all cash,
securities and other assets, which they may from time to time acquire in any
manner as Trustees hereunder IN TRUST to manage and dispose of the same upon the
following terms and conditions for the pro rata benefit of the holders from time
to time of Shares in this Trust as hereinafter set forth.
ARTICLE I
Name and Definitions
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Name
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Section 1. This Trust shall be known as "Eureka Funds", and the Trustees
shall conduct the business of the Trust under that name or any other name as
they may from time to time determine.
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Definitions
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Section 2. Whenever used herein, unless otherwise required by the context
or specifically provided:
(a) The "Trust" refers to the Massachusetts business trust established
by this Agreement and Declaration of Trust, as amended from time to time;
(b) "Trustees" refers to the Trustees of the Trust named herein or
elected in accordance with Article IV;
(c) "Shares" means the equal proportionate transferable units of
interest into which the beneficial interest in the Trust shall be divided
from time to time or, if more than one series or classes of Shares is
authorized by the Trustees, the equal proportionate transferable units into
which the beneficial interest of each series or classes of Shares shall be
divided from time to time, and includes fractions of Shares as well as
whole Shares;
(d) "Shareholder" means a record owner of Shares;
(e) The "1940 Act" refers to the Investment Company Act of 1940 and
the Rules and Regulations thereunder, all as amended from time to time;
(f) The terms "Affiliated Person", "Assignment", "Commission",
"Interested Person", "Principal Underwriter" and "Majority Shareholder
Vote" (the 67% or 50% requirement of the third sentence of Section 2(a)(42)
of the 1940 Act, whichever may be applicable) shall have the meanings given
them in the 1940 Act;
(g) "Declaration of Trust" shall mean this Agreement and Declaration
of Trust, as amended or restated from time to time; and
(h) "Bylaws" shall mean the Bylaws of the Trust, as amended from time
to time.
ARTICLE II
Purpose of Trust
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The purpose of the Trust is to provide investors a managed investment
primarily in securities and debt instruments and to carry on such other business
as the Trustees may from time to time determine pursuant to their authority
under this Declaration of Trust.
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ARTICLE III
Shares
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Division of Beneficial Interests
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Section 1. The Shares of the Trust shall be issued in one or more series as
the Trustees may, without Shareholder approval, authorize. Each series shall be
preferred over all other series in respect of the assets allocated to that
series. Each series may be divided into two or more classes, as the Trustees
may, without Shareholder approval, authorize. The beneficial interest in each
series shall be divided into Shares, with a par value of $0.00001. Unless the
Trustees have authorized the issuance of Shares of a series in two or more
classes, each Share of a series shall represent an equal proportionate interest
in the series with each other Share of the same series, none having priority or
preference over another. If the Trustees have authorized the issuance of Shares
of a series in two or more classes, then the classes may have such variations as
to dividend, redemption, and voting rights, net asset values, expenses borne by
the classes, and other matters as the Trustees have authorized. The number of
Shares authorized shall be unlimited. The Trustees may from time to time divide
or combine the Shares of any series or of any class of a series into a greater
or lesser number without thereby changing the proportionate beneficial interests
in the series.
Ownership of Shares
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Section 2. The ownership of Shares shall be recorded on the books of the
Trust or a transfer or similar agent. No certificates certifying the ownership
of Shares shall be issued except as the Trustees may otherwise determine from
time to time. The Trustees may make such rules as they consider appropriate for
the issuance of Share certificates, the transfer of Shares and similar matters.
The record books of the Trust as kept by the Trust or by any transfer or similar
agent, as the case may be, shall be conclusive as to who are the Shareholders of
each series and as to the number of Shares of each series held from time to time
by each Shareholder.
Investment in the Trust
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Section 3. The Trustees shall accept investments in the Trust from such
persons and on such terms and for such consideration, which may consist of cash
or tangible or intangible property or a combination thereof, as they from time
to time authorize.
All consideration received by the Trust for the issue or sale of Shares of
each series, together with all income, earnings, profits, and proceeds thereof,
including any proceeds derived from the sale, exchange or liquidation thereof,
and any funds or payments derived from any reinvestment of such proceeds in
whatever form the same may be, shall irrevocably belong to the series of Shares
with respect to which the same were received by the Trust for all
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purposes, subject only to the rights of creditors, and shall be so handled upon
the books of account of the Trust and are herein referred to as "assets of" such
series.
No Preemptive Rights
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Section 4. Shares shall have no preemptive or other right to subscribe to
any additional Shares or other securities issued by the Trust.
Status of Shares and Limitation of Personal Liability
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Section 5. Shares shall be deemed to be personal property giving only the
rights provided in this instrument. Every Shareholder by virtue of having become
a Shareholder shall be held to have expressly assented and agreed to the terms
hereof and to have become a party hereto. The death of a Shareholder during the
continuance of the Trust shall not operate to terminate the same nor entitle the
representative of any deceased Shareholder to an accounting or to take any
action in court or elsewhere against the Trust or the Trustees, but only to the
rights of said decedent under this Trust. Ownership of Shares shall not entitle
the Shareholder to any title in or to the whole or any part of the Trust
property or right to call for a partition or division of the same or for an
accounting, nor shall the ownership of Shares constitute the Shareholders
partners. Neither the Trust nor the Trustees, nor any officer, employee or agent
of the Trust shall have any power to bind personally any Shareholder, nor except
as specifically provided herein to call upon any Shareholder for the payment of
any sum of money or assessment whatsoever other than such as the Shareholder may
at any time personally agree to pay.
ARTICLE IV
The Trustees
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Election
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Section 1. The number of Trustees shall be as provided in the Bylaws or as
fixed from time to time by the Trustees. The Shareholders may elect Trustees at
any meeting of Shareholders called by the Trustees for that purpose. Each
Trustee shall serve during the continued lifetime of the Trust until he or she
dies, resigns or is removed, or, if sooner, until the next meeting of
Shareholders called for the purpose of electing Trustees and the election and
qualification of his or her successor. Any Trustee may resign at any time by
written instrument signed by him and delivered to any officer of the Trust, to
each other Trustee or to a meeting of the Trustees. Such resignation shall be
effective upon receipt unless specified to be effective at some other time.
Except to the extent expressly provided in a written agreement with the Trust,
no Trustee resigning and no Trustee removed shall have any right to any
compensation for any period following his or her resignation or removal, or any
right to damages on account of such removal.
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Effect of Death, Resignation, etc. of a Trustee
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Section 2. The death, declination, resignation, retirement, removal or
incapacity of the Trustees, or any one of them, shall not operate to annul the
Trust or to revoke any existing agency created pursuant to the terms of this
Declaration of Trust.
Powers
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Section 3. Subject to the provisions of this Declaration of Trust, the
business of the Trust shall be managed by the Trustees, and they shall have all
powers necessary or convenient to carry out that responsibility. Without
limiting the foregoing, the Trustees may adopt Bylaws not inconsistent with this
Declaration of Trust providing for the conduct of the business of the Trust and
may amend and repeal them to the extent that such Bylaws do not reserve that
right to the Shareholders; they may enlarge or reduce their number, may fill
vacancies in their number, including vacancies caused by enlargement of their
number, and may remove Trustees with or without cause; they may elect and
remove, with or without cause, such officers and appoint and terminate such
agents as they consider appropriate; they may appoint from their own number, and
terminate, any one or more committees consisting of two or more Trustees,
including an executive committee which may, when the Trustees are not in
session, exercise some or all of the power and authority of the Trustees as the
Trustees may determine; they may employ one or more custodians of the assets of
the Trust and may authorize such custodians to employ subcustodians and to
deposit all or any part of such assets in a system or systems for the central
handling of securities, retain a transfer agent or a Shareholder servicing
agent, or both, provide for the distribution of Shares by the Trust, through one
or more principal underwriters or otherwise, set record dates for the
determination of Shareholders with respect to various matters, and in general
delegate such authority as they consider desirable to any officer of the Trust,
to any committee of the Trustees and to any agent or employee of the Trust or to
any such custodian or underwriter.
Without limiting the foregoing, the Trustees shall have power and authority:
(a) To invest and reinvest cash, and to hold cash uninvested;
(b) To sell, exchange, lend, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate, write
options on and lease any or all of the assets of the Trust;
(c) To act as a distributor of Shares and as underwriter of, or broker
or dealer in, securities or other property;
(d) To vote or give assent, or exercise any rights of ownership, with
respect to stock or other securities or property; and to execute and
deliver proxies or powers of attorney to such person or persons as the
Trustees shall deem proper, granting to such
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person or persons such power and discretion with relation to securities or
property as the Trustees shall deem proper;
(e) To exercise powers and rights of subscription or otherwise which
in any manner arise out of ownership of securities;
(f) To hold any security or property in a form not indicating any
trust, whether in bearer, unregistered or other negotiable form, or in the
name of the Trustees or of the Trust or in the name of a custodian,
subcustodian or other depository or a nominee or nominees or otherwise;
(g) To allocate assets, liabilities and expenses of the Trust to a
particular series of Shares or to apportion the same among two or more
series, provided that any liabilities or expenses incurred by a particular
series of Shares shall be payable solely out of the assets of that series;
(h) To consent to or participate in any plan for the reorganization,
consolidation or merger of any corporation or issuer, any security of which
is or was held in the Trust; to consent to any contract, lease, mortgage,
purchase or sale of property by such corporation or issuer, and to pay
calls or subscriptions with respect to any security held in the Trust;
(i) To join with other security holders in acting through a committee
depositary, voting trustee or otherwise, and in that connection to deposit
any security with, or transfer any security to, any such committee,
depositary or trustee, and to delegate to them such power and authority
with relation to any security (whether or not so deposited or transferred)
as the Trustees shall deem proper, and to agree to pay, and to pay, such
portion of the expenses and compensation of such committee, depositary or
trustee as the Trustees shall deem proper;
(j) To compromise, arbitrate or otherwise adjust claims in favor of or
against the Trust or any matter in controversy, including but not limited
to claims for taxes;
(k) To enter into joint ventures, general or limited partnerships and
any other combinations or associations;
(l) To borrow funds;
(m) To endorse or guarantee the payment of any notes or other
obligations of any person; to make contracts of guaranty or suretyship, or
otherwise assume liability for payment thereof; and to mortgage and pledge
the Trust property or any part thereof to secure any of or all such
obligations;
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(n) To purchase and pay for entirely out of Trust property such
insurance as they may deem necessary or appropriate for the conduct of the
business, including without limitation, insurance policies insuring the
assets of the Trust and payment of distributions and principal on its
portfolio investments, and insurance policies insuring the Shareholders,
Trustees, officers, employees, agents, investment advisers or managers,
principal underwriters, or independent contractors of the Trust
individually against all claims and liabilities of every nature arising by
reason of holding, being or having held any such office or position, or by
reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted by any such
person as Shareholder, Trustee, officer, employee, agent, investment
adviser or manager, principal underwriter, or independent contractor,
including any action taken or omitted that may be determined to constitute
negligence, whether or not the Trust would have the power to indemnify such
person against such liability;
(o) To pay pensions for faithful service, as deemed appropriate by the
Trustees, and to adopt, establish and carry out pension, profit-sharing,
Share bonus, Share purchase, savings, thrift and other retirement,
incentive and benefit plans, trusts and provisions, including the
purchasing of life insurance and annuity contracts as a means of providing
such retirement and other benefits, for any or all of the Trustees,
officers, employees and agents of the Trust; and
(p) To engage in any other lawful act or activity in which
corporations organized under the Massachusetts Business Corporation Law may
engage. The Trustees shall not in any way be bound or limited by any
present or future law or custom in regard to investments by trustees.
Except as otherwise provided herein or from time to time in the Bylaws, any
action to be taken by the Trustees may be taken by a majority of the Trustees
present at a meeting of Trustees (a quorum being present), within or without
Massachusetts, including any meeting held by means of a conference telephone or
other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in
the meeting can hear each other at the same time and participation by such means
shall constitute presence in person at a meeting, or by written consents of a
majority of the Trustees then in office.
Payment of Expenses by Trust
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Section 4. The Trustees are authorized to pay or to cause to be paid out of
the principal or income of the Trust, or partly out of principal and partly out
of income, as they deem fair, all expenses, fees, charges, taxes and liabilities
incurred or arising in connection with the Trust, in connection with the
management thereof, or in connection with the financing of the sale of Shares,
including, but not limited to, the Trustees' compensation and such expenses and
charges for the services of the Trust's officers, employees, any investment
adviser, sub-adviser, principal underwriter, auditor, counsel, custodian,
sub-custodian, transfer agent,
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administrator, sub-administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, and
such other agents or independent contractors and such other expenses and charges
as the Trustees may deem necessary or proper to incur, provided, however, that
all expenses, fees, charges, taxes and liabilities incurred or arising in
connection with a particular series of Shares as determined by the Trustees,
shall be payable solely out of the assets of that series.
Ownership of Assets of the Trust
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Section 5. Title to all of the assets of each series of Shares and of the
Trust shall at all times be considered as vested in the Trustees.
Advisory, Management and Distribution
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Section 6. The Trustees may, at any time and from time to time, contract
for exclusive or nonexclusive advisory and/or management services with any
corporation, trust, association or other organization (the "Manager"), every
such contract to comply with such requirements and restrictions as may be set
forth in the Bylaws; and any such contract may provide for one or more
Sub-advisers who shall perform all or part of the obligations of the Manager
under such Contract and may contain such other terms interpretive of or in
addition to said require-ments and restrictions as the Trustees may determine,
including, without limitation, authority to determine from time to time what
investments shall be purchased, held, sold or exchanged and what portion, if
any, of the assets of the Trust shall be held uninvested and to make changes in
the Trust's investments. The Trustees may also, at any time and from time to
time, contract with the Manager or any other corporation, trust, association or
other organization, appointing it exclusive or nonexclusive distributor or
principal underwriter for the Shares, every such contract to comply with such
requirements and restrictions as may be set forth in the Bylaws; and any such
contract may contain such other terms interpretive of or in addition to said
requirements and restrictions as the Trustees may determine.
The fact that:
(i) any of the Shareholders, Trustees or officers of the Trust is a
shareholder, director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, manager,
adviser, principal underwriter or distributor or agent of or for any
corporation, trust, association, or other organization, or of or for any
parent or affiliate of any organization, with which an advisory or
management contract, or principal underwriter's or distributor's contract,
or transfer, Shareholder servicing or other agency contract may have been
or may hereafter be made, or that any such organization, or any parent or
affiliate thereof, is a Shareholder or has an interest in the Trust, or
that
(ii) any corporation, trust, association or other organization with
which an advisory or management contract or principal underwriter's or
distributor's contract, or transfer, Shareholder servicing or other agency
contract may
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have been or may hereafter be made also has an advisory or management
contract, or principal underwriter's or distributor's contract, or
transfer, Shareholder servicing or other agency contract with one or more
other corporations, trusts, associations, or other organizations, or has
other business or interests shall not affect the validity of any such
contract or disqualify any Shareholder, Trustee or officer of the Trust
from voting upon or executing the same or create any liability or
accountability to the Trust or its Shareholders.
ARTICLE V
Shareholders' Voting Powers and Meetings
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Shareholders shall have such power to vote as is provided for in, and may
hold meetings and take actions pursuant to the provisions of the Bylaws.
ARTICLE VI
Distributions, Redemptions and Repurchases
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Distributions
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Section 1. The Trustees may each year, or more frequently if they so
determine, distribute to the Shareholders of each series such income and capital
gains, accrued or realized, as the Trustees may determine, after providing for
actual and accrued expenses and liabilities (including such reserves as the
Trustees may establish) determined in accordance with good accounting practices.
The Trustees shall have full discretion to determine which items shall be
treated as income and which items as capital and their determination shall be
binding upon the Shareholders. Distributions of each year's income of each
series shall be distributed pro rata to Shareholders in proportion to the number
of Shares of each series held by each of them. Such distributions shall be made
in cash or Shares or a combination thereof as determined by the Trustees. Any
such distribution paid in Shares will be paid at the net asset value thereof as
determined in accordance with the Bylaws.
Redemptions and Repurchases
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Section 2. The Trust shall purchase such Shares as are offered by any
Shareholder for redemption, upon the presentation of any certificate for the
Shares to be purchased, a proper instrument of transfer and a request directed
to the Trust or a person designated by the Trust that the Trust purchase such
Shares, or in accordance with such other procedures for redemption as the
Trustees may from time to time authorize; and the Trust will pay therefor the
net asset value thereof, as next determined in accordance with the Bylaws, less
such redemption charge or fee as the Trustees may determine from time to time.
Payment for said Shares shall be made by the Trust to the Shareholder within
seven days after the date on which the request is made. The obligation set forth
in this Section 2 is subject to the provision that in the event that any time
the New York Stock Exchange is closed for other than customary
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weekends or holidays, or, if permitted by rules of the Commission, during
periods when trading on the Exchange is restricted or during any emergency which
makes it impractical for the Trust to dispose of its investments or to determine
fairly the value of its net assets, or during any other period permitted by
order of the Commission for the protection of investors, such obligation may be
suspended or postponed by the Trustees. The Trust may also purchase or
repurchase Shares at a price not exceeding the net asset value of such Shares in
effect when the purchase or repurchase or any contract to purchase or repurchase
is made. The Trust may refuse to honor a request by a Shareholder for redemption
of his or her Shares for a specified time after such Shareholder's purchase of
such Shares, such specified time, if any, to be set forth in the Bylaws.
Redemptions at the Option of the Trust
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Section 3. The Trust shall have the right at its option and at any time to
redeem Shares of any Shareholder at the net asset value thereof as determined in
accordance with the Bylaws: (i) if at such time such Shareholder owns fewer
Shares than, or Shares having an aggregate net asset value of less than, an
amount determined from time to time by the Trustees; or (ii) to the extent that
such Shareholder owns Shares of a particular series of Shares equal to or in
excess of a percentage of the outstanding Shares of that series determined from
time to time by the Trustees; or (iii) to the extent that such Shareholder owns
Shares of the Trust representing a percentage equal to or in excess of such
percentage of the aggregate number of outstanding Shares of the Trust or the
aggregate net asset value of the Trust determined from time to time by the
Trustees. In addition, if the Net Income of any series of Shares of the Trust
which uses the amortized cost method of valuation pursuant to the 1940 Act is
determined at any time to be a negative amount, then, with respect to a
Shareholder owning Shares of such series, such Shareholder's pro rata share of
such negative amount shall constitute a liability of such Shareholder to the
Trust which shall be paid at such times and in such manner as the Trustees may
from time to time determine out of such Shareholder's accrued dividend account
in such series or otherwise. As used in this Article VI, Section 3, "Net Income"
shall mean all interest income accrued on portfolio investments of the series
plus or minus realized or unrealized gains and losses on portfolio investments
of the series, less all actual and accrued expenses and liabilities determined
in according with generally accepted accounting practices. Determination of Net
Income of a series made by the Trustees, or as they may authorize, in good
faith, shall be binding on all parties concerned.
Dividends, Distributions, Redemptions and Repurchases
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Section 4. No dividend or distribution (including, without limitation, any
distribution paid upon termination of the Trust or of any series) with respect
to, nor any redemption or repurchase of, the Shares of any series shall be
effected by the Trust other than from the assets of such series.
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ARTICLE VII
Compensation and Limitation of Liability of Trustees
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Compensation
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Section 1. The Trustees as such shall be entitled to reasonable
compensation from the Trust; they may fix the amount of their compensation.
Nothing herein shall in any way prevent the employment of any Trustee for
advisory, management, legal, accounting, investment banking, underwriting,
brokerage, or investment dealer or other services and payment for the same by
the Trust.
Limitation of Liability
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Section 2. The Trustees shall not be responsible or liable in any event for
any neglect or wrongdoing of any officer, agent, employee, manager or principal
underwriter of the Trust, nor shall any Trustee be responsible for the act or
omission of any other Trustee, but nothing herein contained shall protect any
Trustee against any liability to which he or she would otherwise be subject by
reason of wilful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard
of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her office.
Every note, bond, contract, instrument, certificate or undertaking and
every other act or thing whatsoever executed or done by or on behalf of the
Trust or the Trustees or any of them in connection with the Trust shall be
conclusively deemed to have been executed or done only in or with respect to
their or his or her capacity as Trustees or Trustee, and such Trustees or
Trustee shall not be personally liable thereon.
ARTICLE VIII
Indemnification
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Trustees, Officers, etc.
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Section 1. The Trust shall indemnify each of its Trustees and officers
(including persons who serve at the Trust's request as directors, officers or
trustees of another organization in which the Trust has any interest as a
shareholder, creditor or otherwise) (hereinafter referred to as a "Covered
Person") against all liabilities and expenses, including but not limited to
amounts paid in satisfaction of judgments, in compromise or as fines and
penalties, and counsel fees reasonably incurred by any Covered Person in
connection with the defense or disposition of any action, suit or other
proceeding, whether civil or criminal, before any court or administrative or
legislative body, in which such Covered Person may be or may have been involved
as a party or otherwise or with which such Covered Person may be or may have
been threatened, while in office or thereafter, by reason of being or having
been such a Covered Person except with respect to any matter as to which such
Covered Person shall have
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been finally adjudicated in any such action, suit or other proceeding to be
liable to the Trust or its Shareholders by reason of wilful misfeasance, bad
faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the
conduct of such Covered Person's office. Expenses, including counsel fees so
incurred by any such Covered Person (but excluding amounts paid in satisfaction
of judgments, in compromise or as fines or penalties), shall be paid from time
to time by the Trust in advance of the final disposition of any such action,
suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such
Covered Person to repay amounts so paid to the Trust if it is ultimately
determined that indemnification of such expenses is not authorized under this
Article, provided, however, that either (a) such Covered Person shall have
provided appropriate security for such undertaking, (b) the Trust shall be
insured against losses arising from any such advance payments or (c) either a
majority of the disinterested Trustees acting on the matter (provided that a
majority of the disinterested Trustees then in office act on the matter), or
independent legal counsel in a written opinion, shall have determined, based
upon a review of readily available facts (as opposed to a full trial type
inquiry) that there is reason to believe that such Covered Person will be found
entitled to indemnification under this Article.
Compromise Payment
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Section 2. As to any matter disposed of (whether by a compromise payment,
pursuant to a consent decree or otherwise) without an adjudication by a court,
or by any other body before which the proceeding was brought, that such Covered
Person either (a) did not act in good faith in the reasonable belief that his or
her action was in the best interests of the Trust or (b) is liable to the Trust
or its Shareholders by reason of wilful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence
or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of his or her
office, indemnification shall be provided if (a) approved as in the best
interests of the Trust, after notice that it involves such indemnification, by
at least a majority of the disinterested Trustees acting on the matter (provided
that a majority of the disinterested Trustees then in office act on the matter)
upon a determination, based upon a review of readily available facts (as opposed
to a full trial type inquiry) that such Covered Person acted in good faith in
the reasonable belief that his or her action was in the best interests of the
Trust and is not liable to the Trust or its Shareholders by reasons of wilful
misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties
involved in the conduct of his or her office, or (b) there has been obtained an
opinion in writing of independent legal counsel, based upon a review of readily
available facts (as opposed to a full trial type inquiry) to the effect that
such Covered Person appears to have acted in good faith in the reasonable belief
that his or her action was in the best interests of the Trust and that such
indemnification would not protect such Person against any liability to the Trust
to which he or she would otherwise be subject by reason of wilful misfeasance,
bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the
conduct of his or her office. Any approval pursuant to this Section shall not
prevent the recovery from any Covered Person of any amount paid to such Covered
Person in accordance with this Section as indemnification if such Covered Person
is subsequently adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction not to have
acted in good faith in the reasonable belief that such
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Covered Person's action was in the best interests of the Trust or to have been
liable to the Trust or its Shareholders by reason of wilful misfeasance, bad
faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the
conduct of such Covered Person's office.
Indemnification Not Exclusive
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Section 3. The right of indemnification hereby provided shall not be
exclusive of or affect any other rights to which such Covered Person may be
entitled. As used in this Article VIII, the term "Covered Person" shall include
such person's heirs, executors and admini-strators and a "disinterested Trustee"
is a Trustee who is not an "interested person" of the Trust as defined in
Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act (or who has been exempted from being an
"interested person" by any rule, regulation or order of the Commission) and
against whom none of such actions, suits or other proceedings or another action,
suit or other proceeding on the same or similar grounds is then or has been
pending. Nothing contained in this Article shall affect any rights to
indemnification to which personnel of the Trust, other than Trustees or
officers, and other persons may be entitled by contract or otherwise under law,
nor the power of the Trust to purchase and maintain liability insurance on
behalf of any such person; provided, however, that the Trust shall not purchase
or maintain any such liability insurance in contravention of applicable law,
including without limitation the 1940 Act.
Shareholders
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Section 4. In case any Shareholder or former Shareholder shall be held to
be personally liable solely by reason of his or her being or having been a
Shareholder and not because of his or her acts or omissions or for some other
reason, the Shareholder or former Shareholder (or his or her heirs, executors,
administrators or other legal representatives or in the case of a corporation or
other entity, its corporate or other general successor) shall be entitled to be
held harmless from and indemnified against all loss and expense arising from
such liability, but only out of the assets of the particular series of Shares of
which he or she is or was a Shareholder.
ARTICLE IX
Miscellaneous
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Trustees, Shareholders, etc. Not Personally Liable; Notice
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Section 1. All persons extending credit to, contracting with or having any
claim against the Trust or a particular series of Shares shall look only to the
assets of the Trust or the assets of that particular series of Shares for
payment under such credit, contract or claim; and neither the Shareholders nor
the Trustees, nor any of the Trust's officers, employees or agents, whether
past, present or future, shall be personally liable therefor. Nothing in this
Declaration of Trust shall protect any Trustee against any liability to which
such Trustee would otherwise be subject by reason of wilful misfeasance, bad
faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the
conduct of the office of Trustee.
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Every note, bond, contract, instrument, certificate or undertaking made or
issued by the Trustees or by any officer or officers shall give notice that this
Declaration of Trust is on file with the Secretary of The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and shall recite that the same was executed or made by or on
behalf of the Trust or by them as Trustee or Trustees or as officer or officers
and not individually and that the obligations of such instrument are not binding
upon any of them or the Shareholders individually but are binding only upon the
assets and property of the Trust, and may contain such further recital as he or
she or they may deem appropriate, but the omission thereof shall not operate to
bind any Trustee or Trustees or officer or officers or Shareholder or
Shareholders individually.
Trustee's Good Faith Action, Expert Advice, No Bond or Surety
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Section 2. The exercise by the Trustees of their powers and discretion
hereunder shall be binding upon everyone interested. A Trustee shall be liable
for his or her own wilful misfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless
disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of the office of Trustee, and
for nothing else, and shall not be liable for errors of judgment or mistakes of
fact or law. The Trustees may take advice of counsel or other experts with
respect to the meaning and operation of this Declaration of Trust, and shall be
under no liability for any act or omission in accordance with such advice or for
failing to follow such advice. Except as may be required by applicable law,
including, without limitation, the 1940 Act, the Trustees shall not be required
to give any bond as such, nor any surety if a bond is required.
Liability of Third Persons Dealing with Trustees
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Section 3. No person dealing with the Trustees shall be bound to make any
inquiry concerning the validity of any transaction made or to be made by the
Trustees or to see to the application of any payments made or property
transferred to the Trust or upon its order.
Duration and Termination of Trust
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Section 4. Unless terminated as provided herein, the Trust shall continue
without limitation of time. The Trust may be terminated at any time by the vote
of Shareholders holding at least a majority of the Shares of each series
entitled to vote or by the Trustees by written notice to the Shareholders. Any
series of Shares may be terminated at any time by vote of Shareholders holding
at least a majority of the Shares of such series entitled to vote or by the
Trustees by written notice to the Shareholders of such series.
Upon termination of the Trust or of any one or more series of Shares, after
paying or otherwise providing for all charges, taxes, expenses and liabilities,
whether due or accrued or anticipated, of the Trust or of the particular series
as may be determined by the Trustees, the Trust shall, in accordance with such
procedures as the Trustees consider appropriate, reduce the remaining assets to
distributable form in cash or shares or other securities, or any
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combination thereof, and distribute the proceeds to the Shareholders of the
series involved, ratably according to the number of Shares of such series held
by the several Shareholders of such series on the date of termination.
Filing of Copies, References, Headings
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Section 5. The original or a copy of this instrument and of each amendment
hereto shall be kept at the office of the Trust where it may be inspected by any
Shareholder. A copy of this instrument and of each amendment hereto shall be
filed by the Trust with the Secretary of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and
with the Boston City Clerk, as well as any other governmental office where such
filing may from time to time be required. Anyone dealing with the Trust may rely
on a certificate by an officer of the Trust as to whether or not any such
amendments have been made and as to any matters in connection with the Trust
hereunder, and, with the same effect as if it were the original, may rely on a
copy certified by an officer of the Trust to be a copy of this instrument or of
any such amendments. In this instrument and in any such amendment, references to
this instrument, and all expressions like "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder"
shall be deemed to refer to this instrument as amended or affected by any such
amendments. Headings are placed herein for convenience of reference only and
shall not be taken as a part hereof or control or affect the meaning,
construction or effect of this instrument. This instrument may be executed in
any number of counterparts each of which shall be deemed an original.
Applicable Law
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Section 6. This Declaration of Trust is made in The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, and it is created under and is to be governed by and construed
and administered according to the laws of said Commonwealth. The Trust shall be
of the type commonly called a Massachusetts business trust, and without limiting
the provisions hereof, the Trust may exercise all powers which are ordinarily
exercised by such a trust.
Amendments
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Section 7. This Declaration of Trust may be amended at any time by an
instrument in writing signed by a majority of the then Trustees when authorized
to do so by vote of Shareholders holding a majority of the Shares of each series
entitled to vote, except that an amendment which shall affect the holders of one
or more series of Shares but not the holders of all outstanding series shall be
authorized by vote of the Shareholders holding a majority of the Shares entitled
to vote of each series affected and no vote of Shareholders of a series not
affected shall be required. Amendments having the purpose of changing the name
of the Trust, of establishing, changing, or eliminating the par value of the
Shares or of supplying any omission, curing any ambiguity or curing, correcting
or supplementing any defective or inconsistent provision contained herein shall
not require authorization by Shareholder vote.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Amendment and
Restatement of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust as Trustee and not
individually, as of the 17th day of October, 1997.
/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Trustee
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000
Principal Place of Business:
Eureka Funds
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000
Resident Agent's Address:
CT Corporation System
0 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
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