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SIGNATURE PAUL BUCAVALAS
TITLE MANAGING DIRECTOR
WARNING: THE EDGAR SYSTEM ENCOUNTERED ERROR(S) WHILE PROCESSING THIS SCHEDULE.
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April 10, 2000
To the Board of Trustees of Putnam Convertible Opportunities
and Income Trust:
In planning and performing our audit of the financial
statements of Putnam Convertible Opportunities and Income Trust
for the year ended February 29, 2000, we considered its
internal control, including control activities 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 internal control.
The management of Putnam Convertible Opportunities and Income
Trust is responsible for establishing and maintaining internal
control. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and
judgments by management are required to assess the expected
benefits and related costs of controls. Generally, controls
that are relevant to an audit pertain to the entity's objective
of preparing financial statements for external purposes that
are fairly presented in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles. Those controls include the safeguarding
of assets against unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition.
Because of inherent limitations in internal controls, errors or
fraud may occur and may not be detected. Also, projection of
any evaluation of internal control 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 internal control would not necessarily
disclose all matters in internal control 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 one or more
of the internal control components does not reduce to a
relatively low level the risk that misstatements caused by
errors or fraud 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 internal control and its operation,
including controls for safeguarding securities, that we
consider to be material weaknesses as defined above as of
February 29, 2000.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management and the Board of Trustees and the Securities and
Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be
used by anyone other than these specified parties.
Results of October 7, 1999 shareholder meeting
(Unaudited)
An annual meeting of shareholders of the fund was held on
October 7, 1999. At the meeting, each of the nominees for
Trustees was elected, as follows:
Votes
Votes for withheld
Jameson Adkins Baxter 3,485,988
49,100
Hans H. Estin 3,481,965
53,123
Paul L. Joskow 3,481,557
53,531
Lawrence J. Lasser 3,480,568
54,520
William F. Pounds 3,481,431
53,657
A proposal to ratify the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as the independent auditors of your fund was approved as
follows: 3,495,020 votes for, and 13,184 votes against, with
26,884 abstentions and broker non-votes.
All tabulations are rounded to nearest whole number.
