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SIGNATURE HENRY GABBAY
TITLE TREASURER
WARNING: THE EDGAR SYSTEM ENCOUNTERED ERROR(S) WHILE PROCESSING THIS SCHEDULE.
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To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of
The BlackRock Municipal Target Term Trust Inc.:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of The BlackRock Municipal Target Term Trust Inc.
for the year ended December 31, 1996 (on which we have
issued our report dated February 3, 1997), we considered its
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 to comply with the requirements of
Form N-SAR, not to provide assurance on the internal control
structure.
The management of The BlackRock Municipal Target Term Trust
Inc. 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 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 December 31, 1996.
This report is intended solely for the information and use
of management and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
February 3, 1997
