Form 485BPOS PUTNAM AMERICAN GOVERNME
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E-mail| As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on | ||
| February 10, 2017 | ||
| Registration No. 2-95127 | ||
| 811-04178 | ||
| SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION | ||
| WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 | ||
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| FORM N-1A | ||
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| REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 | / X / | |
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| Pre-Effective Amendment No. | / / | |
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| Post-Effective Amendment No. 42 | / X / | |
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| REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY | / X / | |
| ACT OF 1940 | ---- | |
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| Amendment No. 45 | / X / | |
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| PUTNAM AMERICAN GOVERNMENT INCOME FUND | ||
| (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter) | ||
| One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109 | ||
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code) | ||
| Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code | ||
| (617) 292-1000 | ||
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| It is proposed that this filing will become effective | |
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| / / | immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) |
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| / X / | on January 30, 2017 pursuant to paragraph (b) |
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| / / | 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) |
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| / / | on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) |
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| / / | 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) |
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| / / | on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485. |
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| If appropriate, check the following box: | |
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| / / | this post-effective amendment designates a new |
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| ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President | |
| Putnam American Government Income Fund | |
| One Post Office Square | |
| Boston, Massachusetts 02109 | |
| (Name and address of agent for service) | |
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| Copy to: | |
| BRYAN CHEGWIDDEN, Esquire | |
| ROPES & GRAY LLP | |
| 1211 Avenue of the Americas | |
| New York, New York 10036 | |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 10th day of February, 2017.
Putnam American Government Income Fund
By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:
| Signature | Title |
| Jameson A. Baxter * | Chair, Board of Trustees |
| Kenneth R. Leibler* | Vice Chair, Board of Trustees |
| Robert L. Reynolds* | President and Trustee |
| Jonathan S. Horwitz* | Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer |
| and Compliance Liaison |
| Janet C. Smith** | Vice President, Principal Financial Officer, Principal |
| Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer |
| Liaquat Ahamed* | Trustee |
| Ravi Akhoury* | Trustee |
| Barbara M. Baumann* | Trustee |
| Robert J. Darretta* | Trustee |
| Katinka Domotorffy* | Trustee |
| John A. Hill* | Trustee |
| Paul L. Joskow* | Trustee |
| Robert E. Patterson* | Trustee |
| George Putnam, III* | Trustee |
| W. Thomas Stephens* | Trustee |
By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, as Attorney-in-Fact
February 10, 2017
| * Signed pursuant to power of attorney | |
| filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 35 to the | |
| Registrant's Registration Statement on January | |
| 25, 2013. | |
| ** Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in | |
| Post-Effective Amendment No. 41 to the Registrant's | |
| Registration Statement on January 27, 2017. |
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