EXHIBIT 9
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES CONTRACT
DAILY TAX FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
the "Fund"
New York, New York
December 1, 1995
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. 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.
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,
(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 we will pay you an annual fee of .21%
of the Fund'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 waive your right to any fee to which you are entitled
hereunder, provided such waiver is delivered to us in writing.
5. This Agreement will become effective on the date hereof and shall
continue in effect until November 30, 1995 and thereafter for successive
twelve-month periods (computed from each December 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. This Agreement may be terminated at any time, without the
payment of any penalty, (i) by vote of a majority of our outstanding voting
securities, 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 (iii) 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.
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,
DAILY TAX FREE INCOME FUND, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxx
ACCEPTED: December 1, 1995
XXXXX & XXXX ASSET MANAGEMENT L.P.
By: XXXXX & XXXX ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC., General Partner
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
