EXHIBIT 16

                                 SCUDDER MUNICIPAL TRUST

                                    POWERS OF ATTORNEY

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registration
Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and
on the dates indicated. By so signing, the undersigned in his capacity as
trustee or officer, or both, as the case may be, of the Registrant, does hereby
appoint Sheldon A. Jones, Allison R. Beakley, Caroline Pearson and John Millette
and each of them, severally, his/her true and lawful attorney and agent to
execute in his name, place and stead (in such capacity) any and all amendments
to the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendments thereto and all
instruments necessary or desirable in connection therewith, to attest the seal
of the Registrant thereon and to file the same with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Each of said attorneys and agents shall have power to act with or
without the other and have full power and authority to do and perform in the
name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all capacities, every act
whatsoever necessary or advisable to be done in the premises as fully and to all
intents and the purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and approving the act of said attorneys and agents and each of them.

         SIGNATURE                      TITLE                       DATE
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/s/ Linda C. Coughlin            President & Trustee           February 8, 2000
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Linda C. Coughlin

/s/ Henry P. Becton, Jr.               Trustee                 February 8, 2000
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Henry P. Becton, Jr.

/s/ Dawn-Marie Driscoll                Trustee                 February 8, 2000
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Dawn-Marie Driscoll

/s/ Peter B. Freeman                   Trustee                 February 8, 2000
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Peter B. Freeman

/s/ George M. Lovejoy, Jr.             Trustee                 February 8, 2000
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George M. Lovejoy, Jr.

/s/ Welsey W. Marple, Jr.              Trustee                 February 8, 2000
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Welsey W. Marple, Jr.

/s/ Kathryn L. Quirk          Trustee, Vice President &        February 8, 2000
- ---------------------           Assistant Secretary
Kathryn L. Quirk

/s/ Jean C. Tempel                     Trustee                 February 8, 2000
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Jean C. Tempel

                              Treasurer (Principal Financial   February 8, 2000
- -------------------           and Accounting Officer)
John R. Hebble


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