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<LEGEND>
This Schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the Scudder
New York Tax Free Fund Semiannual Report for the period ended 9/30/2000 and is
qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME> SCUDDER STATE TAX FREE TRUST
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<NUMBER> 020
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