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           BlackRock California Municipal Income Trust (the "Fund")
                              File No. 811-10331
  Item No. 77Q1(a) (Copies of Material Amendments to Registrant's Charter or
                            By-laws) -- Attachment

Attached please find as an exhibit under Sub-Item 77Q1(a) of Form N-SAR, a copy
of the Amendment to the Statement of Preferences of Variable Rate Muni Term
Preferred Shares filed with the books and records of the Fund on April 13, 2016.

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                                                                Exhibit 77Q1(a)

                  BLACKROCK CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL INCOME TRUST

                                 AMENDMENT TO
                          STATEMENT OF PREFERENCES OF
           VARIABLE RATE MUNI TERM PREFERRED SHARES ("VMTP SHARES")
                             DATED MARCH 21, 2012
                       (THE "STATEMENT OF PREFERENCES")

   The undersigned officer of BlackRock California Municipal Income Trust (the
"Trust"), a Delaware statutory trust, hereby certifies as follows:

   1. The Board of Trustees of the Trust (with the consent of the Holders (as
defined in the Statement of Preferences) of the VMTP Shares required under
Section 5 of the Statement of Preferences) has adopted resolutions to amend the
Statement of Preferences as follows:

   Appendix A to the Statement of Preferences is deleted in its entirety and
replaced with the Appendix A attached hereto.

   2. Except as amended hereby, the Statement of Preferences remains in full
force and effect.

   3. A copy of this amendment shall be lodged with the records of the Trust
and filed in such places as the Trustees deem appropriate.

                           [SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]

                      Signature Page to the BFZ Amendment

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   IN WITNESS WHEREOF, BlackRock California Municipal Income Trust has caused
these presents to be signed as of April 13, 2016 in its name and on its behalf
by its Vice President and attested by its Secretary. Said officers of the Trust
have executed this amendment as officers and not individually, and the
obligations and rights set forth in this amendment are not binding upon any
such officers, or the trustees or shareholders of the Trust, individually, but
are binding only upon the assets and property of the Trust.

                                             BLACKROCK CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL
                                             INCOME TRUST

                                             By:  /s/ Jonathan Diorio
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                                                  Name:  Jonathan Diorio
                                                  Title: Vice President

ATTEST:

/s/ Janey Ahn
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Name:  Janey Ahn
Title: Secretary

                      Signature Page to the BFZ Amendment

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                                                                     APPENDIX A

                                ELIGIBLE ASSETS

   On the Closing Date and at all times thereafter that the VMTP Shares are
Outstanding:

   1. All assets in the Fund consist of "Eligible Assets", defined to consist
only of the following as of the time of investment:

       (a) Debt obligations

          (i) "Municipal securities," defined as obligations of a State, the
   District of Columbia, a U.S. territory, or a political subdivision thereof
   and including general obligations, limited obligation bonds, revenue bonds,
   and obligations that satisfy the requirements of section 142(b)(1) of the
   Internal Revenue Code of 1986 issued by or on behalf of any State, the
   District of Columbia, any U.S. territory or any political subdivision
   thereof, including any municipal corporate instrumentality of 1 or more
   States, or any public agency or authority of any State, the District of
   Columbia, any U.S. territory or any political subdivision thereof, including
   obligations of any of the foregoing types related to financing a 501(c)(3)
   organization. The purchase of any municipal security will be based upon the
   Investment Adviser's assessment of an asset's relative value in terms of
   current yield, price, credit quality, and future prospects; and the
   Investment Adviser will monitor the creditworthiness of the Fund's portfolio
   investments and analyze economic, political and demographic trends affecting
   the markets for such assets. Eligible Assets shall include any municipal
   securities that at the time of purchase are paying scheduled principal and
   interest or if at the time of purchase are in payment default, then in the
   sole judgment of the Investment Adviser are expected to produce payments of
   principal and interest whose present value exceeds the purchase price.

          (ii) Debt obligations of the United States.

          (iii) Debt obligations issued, insured, or guaranteed by a department
   or an agency of the U.S. Government, if the obligation, insurance, or
   guarantee commits the full faith and credit of the United States for the
   repayment of the obligation.

          (iv) Debt obligations of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
   Authority guaranteed by the Secretary of Transportation under Section 9 of
   the National Capital Transportation Act of 1969.

          (v) Debt obligations of the Federal Home Loan Banks.

          (vi) Debt obligations, participations or other instruments of or
   issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association or the Government
   National Mortgage Association.

          (vii) Debt obligations which are or ever have been sold by the
   Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation pursuant to sections 305 or 306 of
   the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act.

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          (viii) Debt obligations of any agency named in 12 U.S.C. (S)
   24(Seventh) as eligible to issue obligations that a national bank may
   underwrite, deal in, purchase and sell for the bank's own account, including
   qualified Canadian government obligations.

          (ix) Debt obligations of issuers other than those specified in
   (i) through (viii) above that are "investment grade" and that are
   "marketable." For these purposes, an obligation is:

       (aa) "marketable" if:

           .  it is registered under the Securities Act;

           .  it is offered and sold pursuant to Securities and Exchange
              Commission Rule 144A; 17 CFR 230.144A; or

           .  it can be sold with reasonable promptness at a price that
              corresponds reasonably to its fair value; and

       (bb) "investment grade" if:

           .  the obligor had adequate capacity, as determined by the
              Investment Adviser in its sole discretion, to meet financial
              commitments under the security for the projected life of the
              asset or exposure, which capacity is presumed if the risk of
              default by the obligor is low and the full and timely repayment
              of principal and interest is expected.

          (x) Certificates or other securities evidencing ownership interests
   in a municipal bond trust structure (generally referred to as a tender
   option bond structure) that invests in (a) debt obligations of the types
   described in (i) above or (b) depository receipts reflecting ownership
   interests in accounts holding debt obligations of the types described in
   (i) above.

          (xi) An asset shall not lose its status as an Eligible Asset solely
   by virtue of the fact that:

           .  it provides for repayment of principal and interest in any form
              including fixed and floating rate, zero interest, capital
              appreciation, discount, leases, and payment in kind; or

           .  it is for long-term or short-term financing purposes.

       (b) Derivatives

          (i) Interest rate derivatives;

          (ii) Swaps, futures, forwards, structured notes, options and
   swaptions related to Eligible Assets or on an index related to Eligible
   Assets; or

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          (iii) Credit default swaps.

       (c) Other Assets

          (i) Shares of other investment companies (open- or closed-end funds
   and ETFs) the assets of which consist entirely of either (a) Eligible
   Assets, or (b) "Eligible securities" permitted for investment by a "Tax
   exempt fund" as defined under SEC Rule 2a-7, based on the Investment
   Adviser's assessment of the assets of each such investment company taking
   into account the investment company's most recent publicly available
   schedule of investments and publicly disclosed investment policies.

          (ii) Cash.

          (iii) Repurchase agreements on assets described in A above.

          (iv) Taxable fixed-income securities, for the purpose of influencing
   control of an issuer whose municipal bonds (a) the Fund already owns and
   (b) have deteriorated or are expected shortly to deteriorate that such
   investment should enable the Fund to better maximize its existing investment
   in such issuer, provided that the Fund may invest no more than 0.5% of its
   total assets in such securities.

       (d) Other assets, upon written agreement of Wells Fargo that such assets
are eligible for purchase by Wells Fargo.

   2. The Fund has instituted policies and procedures that it believes are
sufficient to ensure that the Fund comply with the representations, warranties
and covenants contained in this Exhibit B to the Agreement.

   3. The Fund will, upon request, provide Wells Fargo and its internal and
external auditors and inspectors as Wells Fargo may from time to time
designate, with all reasonable assistance and access to information and records
of the Fund relevant to the Fund's compliance with and performance of the
representations, warranties and covenants contained in this Exhibit B to the
Agreement, but only for the purposes of internal and external audit.
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