DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
DAILY INCOME FUND
(the "Fund")
Municipal Portfolio
(the "Portfolio")
Xxxxxxxxx Shares
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
July 20, 2006
Xxxxx & Tang Distributors, Inc.
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We hereby confirm our agreement with you as follows:
1. In consideration of the agreements on your part herein
contained and of the payment by us to you of a compensatory asset-based sales
charge in an amount not to exceed 0.65% per annum of the Xxxxxxxxx Shares'
average daily net assets and on the terms and conditions set forth herein, on
behalf of our Portfolio, we have agreed that you shall be, for the period of
this Agreement, a distributor, as our agent, for the unsold portion of the
Xxxxxxxxx Shares, $.001 par value per share, as may be effectively registered
from time to time under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act").
This Agreement is being entered into pursuant to the Distribution and Service
Plan (the "Plan") adopted by us on behalf of the Xxxxxxxxx Shares in accordance
with Rule 12b-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940
Act").
2. You will make payments from time to time from your fees
payable hereunder and your own resources and past profits for the following
purposes:
(a) to compensate Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corporation, with
whom you have a written contract, for providing assistance in distributing the
Xxxxxxxxx Shares;
(b) to pay the costs of printing and distributing the
Portfolio's Xxxxxxxxx Shares' prospectus to prospective investors; and
(c) to defray the cost of the preparation and printing of
brochures and other promotional materials, mailings to prospective shareholders,
advertising, and other
promotional activities, including salaries and/or commissions of sales personnel
in connection with the distribution of the Xxxxxxxxx Shares.
The Distributor will in its sole discretion determine the amount of any
payments made by the Distributor pursuant to this Agreement, provided, however,
that no such payment will increase the amount which the Portfolio, on behalf of
the Xxxxxxxxx Shares, are required to pay either to the Distributor under this
Agreement or the Shareholder Servicing Agreement or to the Manager under the
Investment Management Contract, the Administrative Services Agreement, or
otherwise.
3. We hereby agree that you will act as our agent, and
hereby appoint you our agent, to offer, and to solicit offers to subscribe to,
the unsold balance of the Xxxxxxxxx Shares as shall then be effectively
registered under the 0000 Xxx. All subscriptions for the Xxxxxxxxx Shares
obtained by you shall be directed to us for acceptance and shall not be binding
on us until accepted by us. You shall have no authority to make binding
subscriptions on our behalf. We reserve the right to sell Xxxxxxxxx Shares
through other distributors or directly to investors through subscriptions
received by us at our principal office in New York, New York. The right given to
you under this Agreement shall not apply to Xxxxxxxxx Shares issued in
connection with (a) the merger or consolidation of any other investment company
with us, (b) our acquisition by purchase or otherwise of all or substantially
all of the assets or stock of any other investment company, or (c) the
reinvestment in our common stock by our stockholders of dividends or other
distributions or any other offering by us of securities to our stockholders.
4. You will use your best efforts to obtain subscriptions to
Xxxxxxxxx Shares upon the terms and conditions contained herein and in our
Prospectus, as in effect from time to time. You will send to us promptly all
subscriptions placed with you. We shall furnish you from time to time, for use
in connection with the offering of Xxxxxxxxx Shares, such other information with
respect to us and Xxxxxxxxx Shares as you may reasonably request. We shall
supply you with such copies of our Registration Statement and Prospectus, as in
effect from time to time, as you may request. Except as we may authorize in
writing, you are not authorized to give any information or to make any
representation that is not contained in the Registration Statement or
Prospectus, as then in effect. You may use employees, agents and other persons,
at your cost and expense, to assist you in carrying out your obligations
hereunder, but no such employee, agent or other person shall be deemed to be our
agent or have any rights under this agreement. You may sell Xxxxxxxxx Shares to
or through Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corporation under the Private Class
Sub-Distribution and Service Agreement (the "Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corporation
Agreement") provided that Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corporation shall not be
appointed or authorized to act as our agent without our written consent.
With respect to the Xxxxxxxxx Shares of our Portfolio, you have entered
into the Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corporation Agreement which has been approved by
our Board of Trustees, pursuant to which Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corporation is
authorized to provide distribution assistance to you and to provide certain
shareholder servicing activities for customers of Xxxxxxxxx Securities
Corporation in connection with the Xxxxxxxxx Shares and pursuant to which
Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corporation will be compensated directly by you for
providing such assistance and services. Pursuant to our Shareholder Servicing
Agreement with you with respect to our Xxxxxxxxx Shares, you may make payments
to Xxxxxxxxx Securities
Corporation for performing shareholder servicing and related administrative
functions with respect to Xxxxxxxxx Shares. These payments will be made pursuant
to the Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corporation Agreement. It is recognized that we
shall have no obligation or liability to you or to Xxxxxxxxx Securities
Corporation for any such payments under the Xxxxxxxxx Securities Corporation
Agreement. Our obligation is solely to make payments to you under this
Distribution Agreement and under the Shareholder Servicing Agreement (with
respect to the Xxxxxxxxx Shares) and to the Manager under the Investment
Management Contract and the Administrative Services Contract. All sales of our
shares effected through you will be made in compliance with all applicable
federal securities laws and regulations and the Constitution, rules and
regulations of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD").
5. We reserve the right to suspend the offering of the
Xxxxxxxxx Shares at any time, in the absolute discretion of our Board of
Trustees, and upon notice of such suspension you shall cease to offer shares of
the Xxxxxxxxx Shares hereunder.
6. Both of us will cooperate with each other in taking such
action as may be necessary to qualify the Xxxxxxxxx Shares for sale under the
securities laws of such states as we may designate, provided, that you shall not
be required to register as a broker-dealer or file a consent to service of
process in any such state where you are not now so registered. Pursuant to the
Investment Management Contract in effect between us and the Manager, we will pay
all fees and expenses of registering the Xxxxxxxxx Shares under the 1933 Act and
of qualification of the Xxxxxxxxx Shares, and to the extent necessary, our
qualification under applicable state securities laws. You will pay all expenses
relating to your broker-dealer qualification.
7. We represent to you that our Registration Statement and
Prospectus have been carefully prepared to date in conformity with the
requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act and the rules and regulations of
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") thereunder. We represent and
warrant to you, as of the date hereof, that our Registration Statement and
Prospectus contain all statements required to be stated therein in accordance
with the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act and the SEC's rules and regulations
thereunder; that all statements of fact contained therein are or will be true
and correct at the time indicated or the effective date as the case may be; and
that neither our Registration Statement nor our Prospectus, when they shall
become effective or be authorized for use, will include an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading to a purchaser of the
Xxxxxxxxx Shares. We will from time to time file such amendment or amendments to
our Registration Statement and Prospectus as, in the light of future
development, shall, in the opinion of our counsel, be necessary in order to have
our Registration Statement and Prospectus at all times contain all material
facts required to be stated therein or necessary to make any statements therein
not misleading to a purchaser of the Xxxxxxxxx Shares. If we shall not file such
amendment or amendments within fifteen days after our receipt of a written
request from you to do so, you may, at your option, terminate this agreement
immediately. We will not file any amendment to our Registration Statement or
Prospectus without giving you reasonable notice thereof in advance; provided,
however, that nothing in this agreement shall in any way limit our right to file
such amendments to our Registration Statement or Prospectus, of whatever
character, as we may deem advisable, such right being in all respects absolute
and unconditional. We represent and warrant to you that any amendment to our
Registration Statement or Prospectus hereafter filed by us will be carefully
prepared in conformity within the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act
and the SEC's rules and regulations thereunder and will, when it becomes
effective, contain all statements required to be stated therein in accordance
with the 1933 Act and the 1940 Act and the SEC's rules and regulations
thereunder; that all statements of fact contained therein will, when the same
shall become effective, be true and correct; and that no such amendment, when it
becomes effective, will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading to a purchaser of the Xxxxxxxxx Shares.
8. We agree to indemnify, defend and hold you, and any
person who controls you within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act, free
and harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities and expenses
(including the cost of investigating or defending such claims, demands or
liabilities and any counsel fees incurred in connection therewith) which you or
any such controlling person may incur, under the 1933 Act or the 1940 Act, or
under common law or otherwise, arising out of or based upon any alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in our Registration Statement or
Prospectus in effect from time to time or arising out of or based upon any
alleged omission to state a material fact required to be stated in either of
them or necessary to make the statements in either of them not misleading;
provided, however, that in no event shall anything herein contained be so
construed as to protect you against any liability to us or our security holders
to which you would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance, bad
faith, or gross negligence in the performance of your duties, or by reason of
your reckless disregard of your obligations and duties under this agreement. Our
agreement to indemnify you and any such controlling person is expressly
conditioned upon our being notified of any action brought against you or any
such controlling person, such notification to be given by letter or by telegram
addressed to us at our principal office in New York, New York, and sent to us by
the person against whom such action is brought within ten days after the summons
or other first legal process shall have been served. The failure so to notify us
of any such action shall not relieve us from any liability which we may have to
the person against whom such action is brought other than on account of our
indemnity agreement contained in this paragraph 8. We will be entitled to assume
the defense of any suit brought to enforce any such claim, and to retain counsel
of good standing chosen by us and approved by you. In the event we do elect to
assume the defense of any such suit and retain counsel of good standing approved
by you, the defendant or defendants in such suit shall bear the fees and
expenses of any additional counsel retained by any of them; but in case we do
not elect to assume the defense of any such suit, or in case you, in good faith,
do not approve of counsel chosen by us, we will reimburse you or the controlling
person or persons named as defendant or defendants in such suit, for the fees
and expenses of any counsel retained by you or them. Our indemnification
agreement contained in this paragraph 8 and our representations and warranties
in this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any
investigation made by or on behalf of you or any controlling person and shall
survive the sale of any Xxxxxxxxx Shares made pursuant to subscriptions obtained
by you. This agreement of indemnity will inure exclusively to your benefit, to
the benefit of your successors and assigns, and to the benefit of any of your
controlling persons and their successors and assigns. We agree promptly to
notify you of the commencement of any litigation or proceeding against us in
connection with the issue and sale of any Xxxxxxxxx Shares.
9. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us, our several
officers and directors, and any person who controls us within the meaning of
Section 15 of the 1933 Act, free
and harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, and
expenses (including the cost of investigating or defending such claims, demands
or liabilities and any reasonable counsel fees incurred in connection therewith)
which we, our officers or directors, or any such controlling person may incur
under the 1933 Act or under common law or otherwise, but only to the extent that
such liability or expense incurred by us, our officers or directors or such
controlling person shall arise out of or be based upon any alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in information furnished in writing by
you to us for use in our Registration Statement or Prospectus as in effect from
time to time, or shall arise out of or be based upon any alleged omission to
state a material fact in connection with such information required to be stated
in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or necessary to make such
information not misleading. Your agreement to indemnify us, our officers and
directors, and any such controlling person is expressly conditioned upon your
being notified of any action brought against us, our officers or directors or
any such controlling person, such notification to be given by letter or telegram
addressed to you at your principal office in New York, New York, and sent to you
by the person against whom such action is brought, within ten days after the
summons or other first legal process shall have been served. You shall have a
right to control the defense of such action, with counsel of your own choosing,
satisfactory to us, if such action is based solely upon such alleged
misstatement or omission on your part, and in any other event you and we, our
officers or directors or such controlling person shall each have the right to
participate in the defense or preparation of the defense of any such action. The
failure so to notify you of any such action shall not relieve you from any
liability which you may have to us, to our officers or directors, or to such
controlling person other than on account of your indemnity agreement contained
in this paragraph 9.
10. We agree to advise you immediately:
(a) of any request by the SEC for amendments to our
Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information,
(b) of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending
the effectiveness of our Registration Statement or Prospectus or the initiation
of any proceedings for that purpose,
(c) of the happening of any material event which makes
untrue any statement made in our Registration Statement or Prospectus or which
requires the making of a change in either of them in order to make the
statements therein not misleading, and
(d) of all action of the SEC with respect to any amendments
to our Registration Statement or Prospectus.
11. This Agreement will become effective on the date hereof
and shall continue in effect until July 20, 2007, and thereafter for successive
twelve-month periods, provided that such continuation is specifically approved
at least annually by vote of our Board of Trustees and of a majority of those of
our trustees who are not interested persons (as defined in the 0000 Xxx) and
have no direct or indirect financial interest in the operation of the Plan or in
any agreements related to the Plan, cast in person at a meeting called for the
purpose of voting on this agreement. This agreement may be terminated at any
time, without the payment of any
penalty, (a) on sixty days' written notice to you (i) by vote of a majority of
our entire Board of Trustees, and by a vote of a majority of our Trustees who
are not interested persons (as defined in the 0000 Xxx) and who have no direct
or indirect financial interest in the operation of the Plan or in any agreement
related to the Plan, or (ii) by vote of a majority of the outstanding voting
securities of the Xxxxxxxxx Shares, as defined in the Act, or (b) by you on
sixty days' written notice to us.
12. 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 SEC thereunder.
13. Except to the extent necessary to perform your
obligations hereunder, nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or restrict your
right, the right of any of your employees, officers or directors, who may also
be a director, officer or employee of ours, or of a person affiliated with us,
as defined in the 1940 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 another
corporation, firm, individual or association.
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 INCOME FUND
Xxxxxxxxx Shares
By: ____________________________
Name:
Title:
Accepted: July 20, 2006___
XXXXX & XXXX DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
By: ____________________________
Name:
Title:
