Registration Nos. 2-83538
811-3728
EXHIBIT 1(H)
AMENDMENT NO. 7 TO THE AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
NEW ENGLAND ZENITH FUND
Amendment No. 7 to Agreement and Declaration of Trust
The undersigned, being at least a majority of the Trustees of New
England Zenith Fund (the "Trust"), hereby consent to and adopt the following
amendment to the Trust's Agreement and Declaration of Trust (as amended through
Amendment No. 6 thereto, the "Declaration of Trust"), a copy of which is on file
in the office of the Secretary of State of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
The undersigned Trustees having determined it to be consistent with the
fair and equitable treatment of all shareholders of the Trust, the first
sentence of Section 6 of Article III of the Declaration of Trust is hereby
amended to read in its entirety 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
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to modify the rights and preferences of any Series or class, each of the
following Series shall be, and is hereby, established and designated:
(1) the "Back Bay Advisors Money Market Series," (2) the "Back Bay
Advisors Bond Income Series," (3) the "Capital Growth Series," (4) the
"Westpeak Stock Index Series," (5) the "Back Bay Advisors Managed
Series," (6) the "Westpeak Growth and Income Series" (formerly the
Westpeak Value Growth Series), (7) the "Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Avanti Growth
Series," (8) the "Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Small Cap Series," (9) the "Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Balanced Series," (10) the "Draycott International Equity
Series," (11) the "Salomon Brothers U.S. Government Series," (12) the
"Salomon Brothers Strategic Bond Opportunities Series," (13) the "Xxxxx
Venture Value Series" and (14) the "Xxxxx Equity Growth Series."
The foregoing amendment shall become effective as of the time it is
filed with the Secretary of State of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunder set our hands for ourselves and
for our successors and assigns this 23st day of July, 1996.
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