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SIGNATURE KATHY HEILIG
TITLE CONTROLLER
The Board of Trustees
CNI Charter Funds:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of the CNI Charter Money Market Fund, CNI
Charter Government Fund, and CNI Charter California Tax
Exempt Fund (three of the funds comprising the CNI Charter
Funds) for the year or period ended October 31, 1999,
we considered the Funds' internal control, including control
activities for safeguarding securities, in order to
determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of
expressing our opinion on the financial statements
and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not
to provide assurance on internal control.
The management of the Funds is responsible for establishing
and maintaining internal control. In fulfilling this
responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are
required to assess the expected benefits and related costs
of controls. Generally, controls that are relevant to an
audit pertain to the entity's objective of preparing
financial statements for external purposes that are fairly
presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles. Those controls include the safeguarding of
assets against unauthorized acquisition, use, or
disposition.
Because of inherent limitations in internal control,
error or fraud may occur and not be detected. Also,
projection of internal control to future periods is subject
to the risk that it may become inadequate because of
changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of the
design and operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of internal control would not necessarily
disclose all matters in internal control that might
be material weaknesses under standards established by
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
A material weakness is a condition in which the design or
operation of one or more of the internal control components
does not reduce to a relatively low level the risk that
misstatements caused by error or fraud in amounts that would
be material in relation to the financial statements being
audited may occur and not be detected within a timely
period by employees in the normal course of performing
their assigned functions. However, we noted no matters
involving internal control and its operation, including
procedures for safeguarding securities that we consider to
be material weaknesses as defined above as of October 31,
1999.
This report is intended solely for the information and
use of management, the Board of Trustees of the Funds and
the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended
to be and should not be used by anyone other than these
specified parties.
December 3, 1999
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