FUND ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN
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AND
FRANKLIN ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ SERVICES, LLC
AGREEMENT dated as of October 17, 2006, between ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Funds (the
"Investment Company"), an investment company registered under the Investment
Company Act of 1940 ("1940 Act"), on behalf of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Foreign Fund and
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ World Fund (each a "Fund"), separate series of the Investment Company,
and Franklin ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Services, LLC ("FTS" or "Administrator").
In consideration of the mutual promises herein made, the parties hereby
agree as follows:
(1) The Administrator agrees, during the life of this Agreement, to
provide the following services to each Fund:
(a) providing office space, telephone, office equipment and
supplies for the Fund;
(b) providing trading desk facilities for the Fund, unless
these facilities are provided by the Fund's investment adviser;
(c) authorizing expenditures and approving bills for payment
on behalf of the Fund;
(d) supervising preparation of periodic reports to
shareholders, notices of dividends, capital gains distributions and tax credits;
and attending to routine correspondence and other communications with individual
shareholders when asked to do so by the Fund's shareholder servicing agent or
other agents of the Fund;
(e) coordinating the daily pricing of the Fund's investment
portfolio, including collecting quotations from pricing services engaged by the
Fund; providing fund accounting services, including preparing and supervising
publication of daily net asset value quotations, periodic earnings reports and
other financial data; and coordinating trade settlements;
(f) monitoring relationships with organizations serving the
Fund, including custodians, transfer agents, public accounting firms, law firms,
printers and other third party service providers;
(g) supervising compliance by the Fund with recordkeeping
requirements under the federal securities laws, including the 1940 Act and the
rules and regulations thereunder, and under other applicable state and federal
laws; and maintaining books and records for the Fund (other than those
maintained by the custodian and transfer agent);
(h) preparing and filing of tax reports including the Fund's
income tax returns, and monitoring the Fund's compliance with subchapter M of
the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, and other applicable tax laws and
regulations;
(i) monitoring the Fund's compliance with: 1940 Act and other
federal securities laws, and rules and regulations thereunder; state and foreign
laws and regulations applicable to the operation of investment companies; the
Fund's investment objectives, policies and restrictions; and the Code of Ethics
and other policies adopted by the Investment Company's Board of Trustees
("Board") or by the Fund's investment adviser and applicable to the Fund;
(j) providing executive, clerical and secretarial personnel
needed to carry out the above responsibilities;
(k) preparing and filing regulatory reports, including without
limitation Forms N-1A and N-SAR, proxy statements, information statements and
U.S. and foreign ownership reports; and
(l) providing support services incidental to carrying out
these duties.
Nothing in this Agreement shall obligate the Investment Company or any Fund to
pay any compensation to the officers of the Investment Company. Nothing in this
Agreement shall obligate FTS to pay for the services of third parties, including
attorneys, auditors, printers, pricing services or others, engaged directly by
the Fund to perform services on behalf of the Fund.
(2) The Investment Company agrees, during the life of this Agreement,
to pay to FTS as compensation for the foregoing a monthly fee equal on an annual
basis to 0.15% of the first $200 million of the average daily net assets of the
Fund during the month preceding each payment, reduced as follows: on such net
assets in excess of $200 million up to $700 million, a monthly fee equal on an
annual basis to 0.135%; on such net assets in excess of $700 million up to $1.2
billion, a monthly fee equal on an annual basis to 0.10%; and on such net assets
in excess of $1.2 billion, a monthly fee equal on an annual basis to 0.075%.
From time to time, FTS may waive all or a portion of its fees provided
for hereunder and such waiver shall be treated as a reduction in the purchase
price of its services. FTS shall be contractually bound hereunder by the terms
of any publicly announced waiver of its fee, or any limitation of each affected
Fund's expenses, as if such waiver or limitation were fully set forth herein.
(3) This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect for one year
after its execution and thereafter from year to year to the extent continuance
is approved annually by the Board of the Investment Company.
(4) This Agreement may be terminated by the Investment Company at any
time on sixty (60) days' written notice without payment of penalty, provided
that such termination by the Investment Company shall be directed or approved by
the vote of a majority of the Board of the Investment Company in office at the
time or by the vote of a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the
Investment Company (as defined by the 1940 Act); and shall automatically and
immediately terminate in the event of its assignment (as defined by the 1940
Act).
(5) In the absence of willful misfeasance, bad faith or gross
negligence on the part of FTS, or of reckless disregard of its duties and
obligations hereunder, FTS shall not be subject to liability for any act or
omission in the course of, or connected with, rendering services hereunder.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by their duly authorized officers.
FRANKLIN ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ SERVICES, LLC
By: /s/▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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President
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ FUNDS
By: /s/▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
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Vice President and Assistant Secretary
