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Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
RULE 24F-2 NOTICE FOR
DEAN WITTER SELECT EQUITY TRUST
SELECTED OPPORTUNITIES SERIES 17
Registration Number 33-49613
July 13, 1994
Pursuant to Regulation 270.24f-2 ("Rule 24f-2") promulgated
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, Dean Witter Reynolds
Inc., as Sponsor of Dean Witter Select Equity Trust, Selected Opportunities
Series 17 (the "Trust"), a unit investment trust which elected to register
an indefinite number of units in accordance with Rule 24f-2, hereby submits
the notice and information required by Rule 24f-2:
(i) The fiscal year for which this notice is filed is the
period beginning on and including July 1, 1993 and ending on and including
June 30, 1994 (the "Period"). The election to register an indefinite
number of securities pursuant to Rule 24f-2 was terminated, effective June
30, 1994, by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement
filed on July 13, 1994.
(ii) The number or amount of securities of the same class or
series which have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, other than pursuant to Rule 24f-2 but which remain unsold at the
beginning of the Period was none.
(iii) The number or amount of securities registered during the
Period other than pursuant to Rule 24f-2 was none.
(iv) The number of securities sold during the Period was
3,609,687.1
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1 Actual aggregate sale price for which securities were sold was
$35,403,130.00, less actual aggregate price of securities redeemed or
repurchased, $4,474,841.00, equals the net aggregate sale price of
$30,928,289.00.
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(v) Based on the number of securities referred to in
paragraph (iv) above, net of redemptions or repurchases referred to in the
footnote, the number of securities sold during the Period in reliance upon
registration pursuant to Rule 24f-2 was 3,132,461.
Very truly yours,
DEAN WITTER REYNOLDS INC.
By John T. Pavick
John T. Pavick
Vice President
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A filing fee in the amount of $10,165.00 (the total fee of $10,665.00,
in respect of $30,928,289.00 amount of securities of the Sponsor, net
of the $500.00 initial filing fee for the Trust as the 24f-2 election
was terminated, effective June 30, 1994, by Post-Effective Amendment
No. 1 to the Registration Statement filed July 13, 1994), has been
included in this filing via wire transfer to the designated lock-box.
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(Letterhead of Cahill Gordon & Reindel)
July 13, 1994
(212) 701-3000
Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.
Two World Trade Center
New York, New York 10048
Re: DEAN WITTER SELECT EQUITY TRUST,
SELECTED OPPORTUNITIES SERIES 17
Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel for you, as Sponsor of the
above-referenced trust, (a unit investment trust, herein called the
"Trust"), in connection with the issuance under a Trust Indenture and
Agreement and related Reference Trust Agreement (collectively, the
"Indenture"), among you and United States Trust Company of New York,
as Trustee, of units of fractional undivided interest in the Trust (in
the aggregate, the "Units").
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1994, certain Units
were sold by you upon their initial issuance and/or in connection with
your maintenance of a secondary market for Units. United States Trust
Company of New York, as Trustee, has confirmed that certificates
evidencing the Units have been executed and delivered by the depositor
and the Trustee or the ownership of Units has been recorded on
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the books of the Trustee, in either case in accordance with the
Indenture.
We have examined copies of such documents delivered by the
United States Trust Company of New York, the Indenture, the form of
certificate evidencing the Units, the Rule 24f-2 Notice being filed
today with the Securities and Exchange Commission and such other
documents as we have deemed necessary or advisable for purposes of
this opinion. We have assumed that the copies of the documents we
have reviewed and the signatures thereon are genuine.
Based upon the foregoing, and in reliance upon such
documents delivered by the United States Trust Company of New York, we
are of the opinion that the Units, registration of which such Rule
24f-2 Notice makes definite in number, were legally issued, fully paid
and nonassessable.
Very truly yours,
CAHILL GORDON & REINDEL
