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For period ending 04-30-97
File Number 811-7470
Series 1
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<CAPTION>
Item 77.O Transactions effected pursuant to Rule 10f-3
HERITAGE SERIES TRUST - SMALL CAP STOCK FUND:
- ---------------------------------------------
DATE SECURITIES
DATE OF OFFERING PURCHASE ACQUIRED AMOUNT
SECURITY: PURCHASE: COMMENCED: PRICE: COMMISSION: FROM: PURCHASED:
-------- -------- ---------- -------- ----------- ----------- ----------
<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
1. Delta Financial 11/01/96 11/01/96 16.50 $ 0.65 Natwest $ 165,000
International
2. International Speedway 11/05/96 11/05/96 20.00 $ 0.72 Speedway $ 10,000
3. Information Management
Resources 11/08/96 11/08/96 14.00 $ 0.55 Montgomery $ 5,000
4. Furniture Brands
International 11/20/96 11/20/96 12.25 $ 0.29 Smith Barney $ 10,000
5. Meridian Industrial
Trust, Inc. REIT 11/20/96 11/20/96 18.25 $ 0.56 Prudential $ 25,000
Montgomery
6. Firearms Training Systems 11/27/96 11/27/96 14.00 $ 0.56 Securities & Lazar $ 20,000
7. Swisher International 12/18/96 12/18/96 17.00 $ 0.69 Forum Capital $ 15,000
8. Sunstone Hotel Investors, Montgomery
REIT 01/10/97 01/10/97 13.00 $ 0.39 Securities $ 50,000
9. Photoelectron 01/29/97 01/29/97 8.50 $ 0.20 Needham $ 85,000
10. Circuit City Stores 02/05/97 02/05/97 20.00 $ 0.66 Legg Mason $ 10,000
11. Judge Group 02/14/97 02/14/97 7.50 $ 0.59 Unterberg Harris $ 37,500
12. Edge Petroleum 02/26/97 02/26/97 16.50 $ 0.67 Jeffries $ 33,000
13. Edge Petroleum 02/26/97 02/26/97 16.50 $ 0.67 Jeffries $ 7,000
14. Ameritrade Holding
Company 03/04/97 03/04/97 15.00 $ 0.63 First Boston $ 17,000
15. Pioneer Standard
Electrics 03/07/97 03/07/97 13.00 $ 0.43 Lazard Freres $ 70,000
16. Protein Design Labs 03/19/97 03/19/97 32.00 $ 0.95 Oppenheimer $ 5,000
17. Gulf Island Fabrication 04/04/97 04/04/97 15.00 $ 0.63 Jeffries $ 2,000
18. Strayer Education 04/17/97 04/17/97 21.00 $ 0.68 Smith Barney $ 15,000
19. Simula, Inc. 04/24/97 04/24/97 100.00 $40.00 Brean Murray $1,000,000
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