Company: GDV-PK
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001133228-25-002931
Chunk: 25

Company: GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 25
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 such customers
and clients on how to vote their shares on Proposal 1 before the Meeting. Under the rules of the NYSE, such brokers may, for certain
“routine” matters, grant discretionary authority to the proxies designated by the Board to vote if no instructions
have been received from their customers and clients prior to the date specified in the brokers’ request for voting instructions.
Proposal 1 is a “routine” matter and accordingly beneficial owners who do not provide proxy instructions or
who do not return a proxy card may have their shares voted by broker-dealer firms in favor of Proposal 1. A properly executed proxy card
or other authorization by a beneficial owner of shares that does not specify how the beneficial owner’s shares should be voted
on Proposal 1 may be deemed an instruction to vote such shares in favor of the proposal.

Shareholders of the Fund will be
informed of the voting results of the Meeting in the Fund’s Semiannual Report for the six months ended June 30, 2025.

“Householding”

Please note that only one document
(i.e., an annual or semiannual report or set of proxy soliciting materials) may be delivered to two or more shareholders of the Fund
who share an address, unless the Fund has received instructions to the contrary. To request a separate copy of a document, or for instructions
regarding how to request a separate copy of these documents or regarding how to request a single copy if multiple copies of these documents
are received, shareholders should contact the Fund at the address and phone number set forth above.

Delaware Statutory Trust Act –
Control Share Acquisitions

The Fund is organized as a Delaware
statutory trust and thus is subject to the control share acquisition statute contained in Subchapter III of the Delaware Statutory Trust
Act (the “DSTA Control Share Statute”). The DSTA Control Share Statute applies to any closed-end investment company organized
as a Delaware statutory trust and listed on a national securities exchange, such as the Fund. The DSTA Control Share Statute became automatically
applicable to the Fund on August 1, 2022.

The DSTA Control Share Statute
defines “control beneficial interests” (referred to as “control shares” herein) by reference to a series of voting
power thresholds and provides that a holder of control shares acquired in a control share acquisition has no voting rights under the
Delaware Statutory Trust Act (“DSTA”) or the Fund’s Governing Documents (as used herein,