FREEDOM MUTUAL FUND
AMENDMENT NO. 5 TO AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
Amendment No. 5 to the Agreement and Declaration of Trust dated December
22, 1980, as amended, made at Boston, Massachusetts, as of this 3rd day of
December, 1991.
W I T N E S S E T H:
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WHEREAS, Section 4.1 of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust provides
that the Trustees of the Trust may establish and designate additional series by
an instrument in writing, signed by a majority of the Trustees of the Trust.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Trustees hereby state:
1. that Section 4.2 of the Agreement and all other appropriate references
in the Agreement are amended to designate and establish a new series of shares
(in addition to the "Freedom Cash Management Fund" series and the "Freedom
Government Securities Fund" series heretofore established and designated) to be
known as the "Freedom Short-Intermediate Treasury Fund" effective as of this
date, such new series to have the relative rights and preferences set forth in
Subsections (a) through (m) of Section 4.2 of the Agreement.
2. Furthermore, that the initial paragraph of Section 4.2 of the Agreement
as heretofore in effect is amended to read as follows:
"Section 4.2 Establishment and Designation of
Series. Without limiting the authority of the
Trustees set forth in Section 4.1 to establish and
designate any further series, the Trustees hereby
establish and designate three series: Freedom Cash
Management Fund, Freedom Government Securities
Fund and Freedom Short-Intermediate Treasury Fund.
The Shares of such series and any Shares of any
further series that may from time to
time be established and designated by the Trustees
shall (unless the Trustees otherwise determine
with respect to some further series at the time of
establishing and designating the same) have the
following relative rights and preferences:"
The undersigned, being a majority of the Trustees of the Trust, hereby
certify that the amendment set forth above has been duly adopted in accordance
with the provisions of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust of the Trust.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands and seals
for themselves and their assigns, as of this 3rd day of December, 1991.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS )
) SS.
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK )
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acknowledged this instrument to be his free act and deed as of the 3rd day of
December, 1991.
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Notary Public
My Commission expires: 11/13/98
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My Commission Expires
November 13,1998
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