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SIGNATURE DOUGLAS MILLER
TITLE VICE PRESIDENT
WARNING: THE EDGAR SYSTEM ENCOUNTERED ERROR(S) WHILE PROCESSING THIS SCHEDULE.
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The Board of Trustees and Shareholders
Evergreen Equity Trust
We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of
Evergreen America's Utility Fund, formerly America's Utility Fund, Inc.,
including the schedule of investments, as of December31, 1999 and the related
statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in
net assets for each of the years in the two-year period then ended and financial
highlights for each of the years in the five-year period then ended. These
financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the
Fund's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these
financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial
highlights are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a
test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of
December 31, 1999 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers. An audit
also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates
made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement
presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to
above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of
Evergreen America's Utility Fund, as of December 31, 1999, the results of its
operations, changes in its net assets and financial highlights for each of the
years described above in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles.
Boston, Massachusetts
February 4, 2000
