Exhibit 16.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints the Secretary and Assistant Secretaries of FEDERATED INCOME SECURITIES TRUST (the “Trust”) and each of them, their true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for them and in their names, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement(s) on Form N-14 relating to the proposed reorganization of Federated Enhanced Treasury Income Fund into Federated Enhanced Treasury Income Fund (a portfolio of the Trust), and any amendments to the Registration Statement(s), including post-effective amendments; and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission by means of the Securities and Exchange Commission's electronic disclosure system known as EDGAR, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to sign and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as each of them might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.
SIGNATURES TITLE DATE
/s/ John F. Donahue July 30, 2015
John F. Donahue Trustee
/s/ J. Christopher Donahue July 30, 2015
J. Christopher Donahue President and Trustee
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Lori A. Hensler July 30, 2015
Lori A. Hensler Treasurer
(Principal Financial Officer)
/s/ John T. Collins July 30, 2015
John. T. Collins Trustee
/s/ Maureen Lally-Green July 30, 2015
Maureen Lally-Green Trustee
/s/ Peter E. Madden July 30, 2015
Peter E. Madden Trustee
Reorganization of Federated Enhanced Treasury Income Fund into Federated Enhanced Treasury Income Fund.
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/s/ Charles F. Mansfield, Jr. July 30, 2015
Charles F. Mansfield, Jr. Trustee
/s/ Thomas M. O’Neill July 30, 2015
Thomas M. O’Neill Trustee
/s/ P. Jerome Richey July 30, 2015
P. Jerome Richey Trustee
/s/ John S. Walsh July 30, 2015
John S. Walsh Trustee
