Common use of Appointment of the Distributor Clause in Contracts

Appointment of the Distributor. The Trust hereby appoints you as the sole General Distributor of the Fund for sale of its Shares, pursuant to the aforesaid continuous public offering of its Shares and the Trust further agrees from and after the date of this Agreement that it will not, without your consent, sell or agree to sell any Shares otherwise than through you, except (a) the Trust may issue Shares in connection with a merger, consolidation or acquisition of assets on such basis as may be authorized or permitted under the 1940 Act; (b) the Trust may issue Shares for the reinvestment of dividends and other distributions of the Fund or of any other fund if permitted by the current Prospectus and/or SAI; and (d) the Trust may issue Shares as underlying securities of a unit investment trust if such unit investment trust has elected to use Shares as an underlying investment; provided that in no event as to any of the foregoing exceptions shall Shares be issued and sold at less than the then-existing net asset value.

Appointment of the Distributor. The Trust Company hereby appoints you as the sole General Distributor of the Fund Portfolio for sale of its Shares, pursuant to the aforesaid continuous public offering of its Shares and the Trust Company further agrees from and after the date of this Agreement that it will not, without your consent, sell or agree to sell any Shares otherwise than through you, except (a) the Trust Company may issue Shares in connection with a merger, consolidation or acquisition of assets on such basis as may be authorized or permitted under the 1940 Act; (b) the Trust Company may issue Shares for the reinvestment of dividends and other distributions of the Fund Portfolio or of any other fund Portfolio if permitted by the current Prospectus and/or SAI; and (d) the Trust Company may issue Shares as underlying securities of a unit investment trust if such unit investment trust has elected to use Shares as an underlying investment; provided that in no event as to any of the foregoing exceptions shall Shares be issued and sold at less than the then-existing net asset value.

Appointment of the Distributor. The Trust hereby ---------------------------------- appoints you as the sole General Distributor of the Fund for sale of its Shares, pursuant to the aforesaid continuous public offering of its Shares and the Trust further agrees from and after the date of this Agreement that it will not, without your consent, sell or agree to sell any Shares otherwise than through you, except (a) the Trust may issue Shares in connection with a merger, consolidation or acquisition of assets on such basis as may be authorized or permitted under the 1940 Act; (b) the Trust may issue Shares for the reinvestment of dividends and other distributions of the Fund or of any other fund if permitted by the current Prospectus and/or SAI; and (d) the Trust may issue Shares as underlying securities of a unit investment trust if such unit investment trust has elected to use Shares as an underlying investment; provided that in no event as to any of the foregoing exceptions shall Shares be issued and sold at less than the then-existing net asset value.