INSTITUTIONAL FIDUCIARY TRUST
NSAR-B, 1997-08-28
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<ARTICLE> 6
<LEGEND>
THE SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE
INSTITUTIONAL FIDUCIARY TRUST JUNE 30, 1997 ANNUAL REPORT AND IS QUALIFIED
IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
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<LEGEND>
THE SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE
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IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
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<SERIES>
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<LEGEND>
THE SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE
INSTITUTIONAL FIDUCIARY TRUST JUNE 30, 1997 ANNUAL REPORT AND IS QUALIFIED
IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
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<SERIES>
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<ARTICLE> 6
<LEGEND>
THE SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE
INSTITUTIONAL FIDUCIARY TRUST JUNE 30, 1997 ANNUAL REPORT AND IS QUALIFIED IN
ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
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<SERIES>
   <NUMBER> 5
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<ARTICLE> 6
<LEGEND>
THE SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE
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QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
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<SERIES>
   <NUMBER> 6
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<ARTICLE> 6
<LEGEND>
THIS SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE
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<SERIES>
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<ARTICLE> 6
<LEGEND>
THE SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM THE
INSTITUTIONAL FIDUCIARY TRUST JUNE 30, 1997 ANNUAL REPORT AND IS QUALIFIED
IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
</LEGEND>
<SERIES>
   <NUMBER> 9
   <NAME> FRANKLIN CASH RESERVES FUND
       
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                   REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS  

To the Shareholders and Board of Trustees  
of Institutional Fiduciary Trust:  

In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements and
financial highlights of the funds comprising the Institutional 
Fiduciary Trust for the year ended June 30, 1997, we considered their 
internal control structure, including procedures for safeguarding 
securities, in order to determine our auditing procedures for the  
purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and  
financial highlights and to comply with the requirements of Form  
N-SAR, not to provide assurance on the internal control structure.

The management of the Institutional Fiduciary Trust is responsible 
for establishing and maintaining an internal control structure. In 
fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by 
management are required to assess the expected benefits and 
related costs of internal control structure policies and procedures.  
Two of the objectives of an internal control structure are to provide
management with reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that assets
are safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition and 
that transactions are executed in accordance with management's 
authorization and recorded properly to permit preparation of financial 
statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.  

Because of inherent limitations in any internal control structure, 
errors or irregularities may occur and not be detected.  Also, 
projection of any evaluation of the structure 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 the internal control structure would not 
necessarily disclose all matters in the internal control structure 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 the 
specific internal control structure elements does not reduce to a 
relatively low level the risk that errors or irregularities in amounts 
that would be material in relation to the financial statements and 
financial highlights 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 the internal control structure, including 
procedures for safeguarding securities, that
we consider to be material weaknesses,  as defined above, as of 
June 30, 1997. 
 
This report is intended solely for the information and use of 
management of the Institutional Fiduciary Trust and the Securities
and Exchange Commission.

 
S\Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.  
San Francisco, California  
August 4, 1997    



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