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EXHIBIT 1(e)
FOURTH AMENDMENT
TO
AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
OF
AIM INVESTMENT SECURITIES FUNDS
THIS FOURTH AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST OF
AIM INVESTMENT SECURITIES FUNDS (the "Amendment") is entered into the 28th day
of November, 1997, among Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxx XX,
Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx, Xxx X. Xxxxxxxx and Xxxxx X. Xxxxx, as Trustees, and each person who
became or becomes a Shareholder in accordance with the terms set forth in that
certain Agreement and Declaration of Trust of AIM Investment Securities Funds
entered into as of May 5, 1993, as amended (the "Agreement").
WHEREAS, Section 9.7 of the Agreement authorizes the Trustees
without Shareholder vote to amend or otherwise supplement the Agreement by
making an amendment; and
WHEREAS, in a unanimous written consent of the Board of
Trustees, dated November 28, 1997, the Trustees have approved and consented to
a resolution to amend the Agreement as hereinafter set forth.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Trustees hereby amend the Agreement as
herein set forth below:
1. Capitalized terms not specifically defined in this
Amendment shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Agreement.
2. Section 2.3 of the Agreement shall be deleted in its
entirety and the following new Section 2.3 shall be substituted in lieu
thereof:
"Section 2.3. Establishment of Portfolios and Classes. The
Trust shall contain one Portfolio, the AIM Limited Maturity Treasury Fund. The
AIM Limited Maturity Treasury Fund shall contain two initial Classes, the
Institutional Class and the Class A Shares. The AIM Limited Maturity Treasury
Fund and its Classes as set forth in this Section 2.3 are collectively referred
to as the "Initial Portfolio." The establishment and designation of any other
Portfolio or Class thereof, or, subject to Section 6.1 hereof, any change to
the Initial Portfolio, shall be effective upon the adoption by a majority of
the then Trustees of a resolution which sets forth such establishment,
designation or change."
3. With the exception of the amendment in the preceding
paragraph 2 of this Amendment, the Agreement shall in all other respects remain
in full force and effect.
4. This Amendment may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of
which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken
together shall constitute one and the same Amendment.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being all of the Trustees
of the Trust, have executed this Fourth Amendment to Agreement and Declaration
of Trust of AIM Investment Securities Funds as of the day first above written.
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Trustee Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Trustee
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Xxxx Xxxx XX, Trustee Xxxx Xxxxxx, Trustee
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Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, Trustee Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Trustee
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Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Trustee Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Trustee
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Xxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Trustee Xxxxx X. Xxxxx, Trustee
[THIS IS THE SIGNATURE PAGE FOR
THE FOURTH AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST OF AIM
INVESTMENT SECURITIES FUNDS]
