Results of June 1, 2000 shareholder meeting
(Unaudited)
An annual meeting of shareholders of the fund
was held on
June, 2000. At the meeting, each of the
nominees for
Trustees was elected, as follows:
Votes
Votes for withheld
Jameson Adkins Baxter 11,691,188
245,110
Hans H. Estin 11,673,748 262,550
John A. Hill 11,698,553 237,745
Ronald J. Jackson 11,694,819 241,478
Paul L. Joskow 11,689,608 246,690
Elizabeth T. Kennan 11,688,535
247,763
Lawrence J. Lasser 11,691,456
244,842
John H. Mullin III 11,694,208
242,842
Robert E. Patterson 11,694,338
241,960
George Putnam, III 11,693,918
242,380
A.J.C. Smith 11,686,238 250,060
W. Thomas Stephens 11,691,816
244,482
W. Nicholas Thorndike 11,683,301
252,997
A proposal to ratify the selection of
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent
auditors of your fund was approved as
follows:
11,764,260 votes for, and 84,724 votes
against, with 87,314
abstentions and broker non-votes.
All tabulations are rounded to nearest whole
number.
