INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTInvestment Management Agreement • June 27th, 2008 • Franklin Tax Free Trust • California
Contract Type FiledJune 27th, 2008 Company JurisdictionTHIS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT made between FRANKLIN TAX-FREE TRUST, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), on behalf of the series listed on Attachment A (each a “Fund”, and collectively, the “Funds”), and FRANKLIN ADVISERS, INC., a California corporation (the “Adviser”). WHEREAS, the Trust has been organized and intends to operate as an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), for the purpose of investing and reinvesting its assets in securities, as set forth in its Agreement and Declaration of Trust, its By-Laws and its Registration Statement under the 1940 Act and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, all as heretofore and hereafter amended and supplemented; and the Trust desires to avail itself of the services, information, advice, assistance and facilities of an investment manager and to have an investment manager perform various management, statistical, research, investment advisory and other services for
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTInvestment Management Agreement • June 27th, 2008 • Franklin Tax Free Trust • California
Contract Type FiledJune 27th, 2008 Company JurisdictionTHIS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT made between FRANKLIN TAX-FREE TRUST, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), on behalf of the series listed on Attachment A (each a “Fund”, and collectively, the “Funds”), and FRANKLIN ADVISERS, INC., a California corporation (the “Adviser”). WHEREAS, the Trust has been organized and intends to operate as an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), for the purpose of investing and reinvesting its assets in securities, as set forth in its Agreement and Declaration of Trust, its By-Laws and its Registration Statement under the 1940 Act and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, all as heretofore and hereafter amended and supplemented; and the Trust desires to avail itself of the services, information, advice, assistance and facilities of an investment manager and to have an investment manager perform various management, statistical, research, investment advisory and other services for