EXHIBIT 99.j3

            AMERICAN CENTURY CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE AND MUNICIPAL FUNDS
                    AMERICAN CENTURY GOVERNMENT INCOME TRUST
                    AMERICAN CENTURY INTERNATIONAL BOND FUNDS
                        AMERICAN CENTURY INVESTMENT TRUST
                        AMERICAN CENTURY MUNICIPAL TRUST
                   AMERICAN CENTURY QUANTITATIVE EQUITY FUNDS
                AMERICAN CENTURY QUANTITATIVE EQUITY FUNDS, INC.
                    AMERICAN CENTURY TARGET MATURITIES TRUST
                  AMERICAN CENTURY VARIABLE PORTFOLIOS II, INC.
                           (collectively, the "Funds")

     I, Charles C. S. Park, Secretary of the above-referenced corporations and
trusts, do hereby certify that the following is a true copy of certain
resolutions adopted by unanimous written consent of the Board of Directors or
Trustees, as appropriate, of the above-referenced corporations and trusts on
December 9, 2004, and that such resolutions have not been rescinded or modified
and are not inconsistent with the Certificate of Incorporation, Declaration of
Trust or Bylaws of the corporations or trusts.

     WHEREAS, Pursuant to a duly-executed Power of Attorney, certain officers of
     the Funds have appointed David C. Tucker, Charles A. Etherington, David H.
     Reinmiller, Charles C.S. Park, Janet A. Nash, Brian L. Brogan, Otis H.
     Cowan, Kathleen Gunja Nelson, and Christine J. Crossley, each of them
     singly, their true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of
     substitution, and with full power to each, for the purpose of signing on
     their behalf registration statements and other documents of the Funds for
     the purpose of complying with all laws relating to the sale of securities
     of the Funds and to do all such things in their names and behalf in
     connection therewith.

     Such attorneys-in-fact may, from time to time, sign documents, including
     registration statements and amendments thereto, on behalf of officers who
     have appointed them.

          RESOLVED, that the board hereby authorizes such attorneys-in-fact to
     sign the documents of the Funds, including registration statements and
     amendments thereto, pursuant to the Powers of Attorney so executed by the
     officers of the Funds.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of December,
2004.

                                          /s/ Charles C.S. Park
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                                          Charles C.S. Park
                                          Secretary