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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
To the Board of Trustees
of Franklin Municipal Securities Trust:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements and financial highlights of the Franklin
Municipal Securities Trust for the year ended May 31, 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
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 Franklin Municipal Securities Trust is
responsible for establishing and maintaining an internal
control structure. In fulfilling this responsibility,
estimates and judgements 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
May 31, 1997.
This report is intended solely for the information and use
of management of Franklin Municipal Securities Trust and the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
S\COOPERS & LYBRAND L.L.P.
Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.
San Francisco, California
July 2, 1997
