EXHIBIT 77Q1
NVEST FUNDS TRUST III
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I, Coleen Downs Dinneen, Assistant Secretary of Nvest Funds Trust III (the
"Trust"), hereby certify that the following is a true copy of the resolution
duly adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Trust, at a regular meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the Trust held on November 10, 2000:
VOTED, that the amendment to the Declaration of Trust of Nvest Funds Trust
III to change the name of Nvest Equity Income Fund and to eliminate
Nvest Core Equity Fund, Nvest Stock and Bond Fund, Nvest Select Fund,
Nvest Small Cap Value Fund, Nvest Small Cap Growth Fund and Nvest
Total Return Bond Fund be, and hereby is, adopted in the form
presented to this meeting.
November 27, 2000
/s/ Coleens Downs Dinneen
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Coleen Downs Dinneen
Subscribed and Sworn to before me
this 27th day of November, 2000
/s/ Anthony Louriero
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Notary Public
