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EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT A:
Attachment to item 77B: Accountants report on internal control
EXHIBIT B:
Attachment to item 77I: Terms of New or Amended Securities
EXHIBIT C:
Attachment to item 77M: Mergers
EXHIBIT D:
Attachment to item 77Q1: Exhibits
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EXHIBIT A:
To the Board of Trustees of
Provident Institutional Funds
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements
and financial highlights of New York Money Fund, a Portfolio of
Provident Institutional Funds (the "Fund") for the year ended
July 31, 1999, we considered its internal control, including
control activities for safeguarding securities, in order to
determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing
an opinion on the financial statements and financial highlights
and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide
assurance on internal control.
The management of the Fund 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 and financial
highlights 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 control, error or
fraud may occur and 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 error or fraud in
amounts that would be material in relation to the financial
statements and financial highlights 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 over safeguarding securities, that we consider
to be material weaknesses as defined above as of July 31, 1999.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management, the Board of Trustees, and the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
August 27, 1999
EXHIBIT B:
SUB-ITEM 77I Terms of New or Amended Securities
Registrant has issued the following new classes of
shares: Administration Shares, Cash Reserve Shares and Cash
Management Shares of TempFund, T-Fund, MuniFund and California
Money Fund and Plus Shares of TempFund and MuniFund, which are
described in Registrants PEA 61, filed with the SEC on
February 2, 1999, incorporated by reference herein.
EXHIBIT C:
SUB-ITEM 77M: MERGERS
a) Provident Institutional Funds ("PIF" or the "Trust")
was organized as a Delaware business trust on October 21, 1998.
It is the successor to the following five investment companies:
(1) Temporary Investment Fund, Inc. ("Temp"), (2) Trust for
Federal Securities ("Fed"), (3) Municipal Fund for Temporary
Investment ("Muni"); (4) Municipal Fund for California Investors,
Inc. ("Cal Muni") and (5) Municipal Fund for New York Investors,
Inc. ("NY Muni") (each a "Predecessor Company", collectively the
"Predecessor Companies"). The Predecessor Companies were
comprised of the following portfolios (each, a "Fund" or
"Predecessor Fund", collectively, the "Funds" or "Predecessor
Funds"): Temp - TempFund and TempCash; Fed - FedFund, T-Fund,
Federal Trust Fund and Treasury Trust Fund; Muni - MuniFund and
MuniCash; Cal Muni - California Money Fund; and NY Muni - New
York Money Fund. PIF has succeeded to Temp's File Nos 2-
47015/811-2354.
b) Special Shareholder Meetings for each of the
Predecessor Companies were held on February 9, 1999.
Shareholders of each Portfolio of each Predecessor Company voted
to approve Agreements and Plans of Reorganization pursuant to
which each Portfolio was reorganized as a separate series of PIF.
On February 10, 1999, each of the Predecessor Funds was
reorganized into a separate series of PIF. The circumstances and
details of the reorganization are included in the definitive
proxy statements for Temporary Investment Fund, Inc., Nos 2-
47015/811-2354, Trust for Federal Securities, Nos 2-53808/811-
2573, Municipal Fund of Temporary Investment, Nos 2-64358/811-
2919, Municipal Fund for California Investors, Inc. Nos 2-
79510/811-3574 and Municipal Fund for New York Investors, Inc.,
Nos 2-82278/811-3678, each filed with the SEC on December 11,
1999 and incorporated by reference herein.
EXHIBIT D:
SUB-ITEM 77Q1: Exhibits
a) Registrant's Agreement and Declaration of Trust and
By-Laws are included in Registrants PEA 61, filed with the SEC on
February 2, 1999, incorporated by reference herein.
e) Registrants new investment advisory contract is
included in Registrants PEA 61, filed with the SEC on February 2,
1999, incorporated by reference herein.
g) The Agreement and Plan of Reorganization are
included in the definitive proxy statement for Temporary
Investment Fund, Inc., Nos 2-47015/811-2354, Trust for Federal
Securities, Nos 2-53808/811-2573, Municipal Fund of Temporary
Investment, Nos 2-64358/811-2919, Municipal Fund for California
Investors, Inc. Nos 2-79510/811-3574 and Municipal Fund for New
York Investors, Inc., Nos 2-82278/811-3678, each, filed with the
SEC on December 11, 1999, incorporated by reference herein.
