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<DESCRIPTION>POWER OF ATTORNEY
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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY



The undersigned on his or her own behalf and on behalf of his or her estate,
heirs and assigns hereby constitutes and appoints Susan S. Newton, Christopher
R. Bohane, Timothy M. Fagan and Susan A. Pereira and each of them singly as true
and lawful attorneys with full power to them and each of them, to execute, on
behalf of the undersigned, in the capacity listed below, any and all statements
or reports under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
with respect to the beneficial ownership of reportable securities issued by MFS
Charter Income Trust, MFS Government Markets Income Trust, MFS Intermediate
Income Trust,  MFS Multimarket  Income Trust, MFS Municipal Income Trust and MFS
Special Value Trust including, without limitation, all initial statements of
beneficial ownership on Form 3, all statements of changes of beneficial
ownership on Form 4 and all annual statements of beneficial ownership on Form 5,
and any and all other documents that may be required, from time to time, to be
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, to execute any and all
amendments or supplements to any such statements or forms, and to file the same,
with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting to said attorney, full power and
authority to do so and perform each and every act and thing requisite and
necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned (or his or her estate, heirs and assigns) might or
could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys or
any of them may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  the undersigned has set his or her hand on this ___ day of
___________, 2006.




RICHARD O. HAWKINS
Richard O. Hawkins

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