Results of October 5, 2000 shareholder meeting
(Unaudited)
An annual meeting of shareholders of the fund
was held on
October 5, 2000. At the meeting, each of the
nominees for
Trustees was elected, as follows:
Votes Votes
for withheld
Jameson Adkins Baxter 47,843,237
1,283,097
Hans H. Estin 47,772,977 1,353,357
John A. Hill 47,869,473 1,256,861
Ronald J. Jackson 47,861,935
1,264,399
Paul L. Joskow 47,832,262 1,294,072
Elizabeth T. Kennan 47,825,502
1,300,832
Lawrence J. Lasser 47,783,103
1,343,231
John H. Mullin III 47,844,133
1,282,201
Robert E. Patterson 47,803,539
1,322,795
George Putnam, III 47,793,942
1,332,392
A.J.C. Smith 47,795,752 1,330,582
W. Thomas Stephens 47,834,054
1,292,280
W. Nicholas Thorndike 47,829,227
1,297,107
A proposal to ratify the selection of KPMG
LLP as the independent auditors of your fund
was approved as follows:
48,176,827 votes for, and 270,419 votes
against, with 679,088
abstentions.
A proposal to convert your fund from closed-
end to open-end status and authorize certain
related amendments to the Agreement and
Declaration of Trust. The results were as
follows:
6,129,578 votes for, and 18,488,559 votes
against, with 2,172,871 abstentions and
22,335,326 broker non-votes.
All tabulations are rounded to nearest whole
number.
