EX-99.(A)(31) 17 b73715a1exv99wxayx31y.htm EX-99.(A)(31) ESTABLISHMENT AND DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL SERIES OF SHARES DATED MAY 1, 2003 exv99wxayx31y
Manufacturers Investment Trust
Establishment and Designation
of Additional Series of Shares of Beneficial Interest
($0.01 par value per share)
          The undersigned, being a majority of the Trustees of Manufacturers Investment Trust (the “Trust”), acting pursuant to Section 4.1(a) of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust of the Trust dated September 29, 1988 (the “Declaration of Trust”) hereby establish and designate the following new Series of Shares (as defined in the Declaration of Trust), such Series of Shares to have the following special and relative rights:
  1.   The new Series of Shares shall be designated:
 
  1.   American Growth Trust
 
  2.   American International Trust
 
  3.   American Blue Chip Income and Growth Trust
 
  4.   American Growth-Income Trust
2.   The new Series of Shares shall have the relative rights and preferences described in Section 4.2 of the Declaration of Trust, provided that the Trustees, in their absolute discretion, may amend any previously established relative rights and preferences as they may deem necessary or desirable to enable the Trust to comply with the Investment Company Act of 1940 or other applicable law.

 

 

          In witness whereof, the undersigned have executed this instrument in duplicate original counterparts and have caused a duplicate original to be lodged among the records of the Trust this 1st day of May, 2003.
       
/s/Don B. Allen
  /s/John D. Richardson
 
   
Don B. Allen
  John D. Richardson
 
    
/s/Charles L. Bardelis
  /s/F. David Rolwing
 
   
Charles L. Bardelis
  David Rolwing
 
    
/s/Samuel Hoar
  /s/John D. DesPrez III
 
   
Samuel Hoar
  John D. DesPrez III
The Agreement and Declaration of Trust of the Trust, dated September 29, 1988, a copy of which together with all amendments thereto is on file in the office of the Secretary of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, provides that this instrument was executed by the Trustees of the Trust as Trustees and not individually and that the obligations of this instrument are not binding upon any of them or the shareholders of the Trust individually, but are binding only upon the assets belonging to the Trust, or the particular Series of Shares in question, as the case may be.