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                                                                   EX-99-23.a.iv

                   JOHNSON MUTUAL FUNDS TRUST AMENDMENT NO. 3

                       AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST

         1. Pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust of
Johnson Mutual Funds Trust and effective upon execution of this document, the
undersigned, being a majority of the trustees of Johnson Mutual Funds Trust,
hereby establish three new series of shares of the Trust and designate such
series the "JIC Institutional Bond Fund I", "JIC Institutional Bond Fund II",
and "JIC Institutional Bond Fund III." The relative rights and preferences of
each series shall be those rights and preferences set forth in Section 4.2 of
the Agreement and Declaration of Trust of Johnson Mutual Funds Trust.

         2. This document shall have the status of an Amendment to said
Agreement and Declaration of Trust, and may be executed in one or more
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which
together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

            /s/
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                                               Timothy E. Johnson


            /s/
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                                               John W. Craig


            /s/
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                                               Ronald H. McSwain


            /s/
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                                               Kenneth S. Shull


                                               Dated August 23, 2000