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HILLIARD-LYONS GOVERNMENT FUND, INC.
Form N-1A Registration Statement
File No. 2-68290; 811-3070 Effective December 1, 1999
Supplement dated June 14, 2000
Page 9, paragraph 4 of the Hilliard-Lyons Government Fund, Inc. Registration
Statement Post-Effective Amendment No. 21 filed December 1, 1999 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Distributor. Hilliard-Lyons acts as the principal distributor of the Fund's
shares.
Paragraph 4 of the outside back cover of the Hilliard-Lyons Government Fund,
Inc. Registration Statement Post-Effective Amendment No. 21 filed December 1,
1999 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Distributor
J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, Inc.
Hilliard Lyons Center
Louisville, Kentucky 40202-2517
