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[DESCRIPTION] INTERNAL CONTROL LETTER
To the Board of Directors of
New USA Growth Fund:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of New
USA Growth Fund (a portfolio constituting New USA Mutual Funds, Inc.)
for the year ended January 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 to comply with the requirements
of Form N-SAR, not to provide assurance on the internal control
structure.
The management of New USA Growth Fund 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 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 January 31, 1997.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management
and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
ARTHUR ANDERSEN LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
March 4, 1997
