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                                                        Exhibit a.6







                  DUFF & PHELPS SELECTED UTILITIES INC.


                           Articles of Amendment
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      Duff & Phelps Selected Utilities Inc., a Maryland corporation having
its principal office in Chicago, Illinois (hereinafter called the
corporation), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and
Taxation of Maryland, that:

      FIRST:  The charter of the corporation, as heretofore amended, is
hereby further amended as follows:

      The Articles Supplementary creating five series of Remarketed
Preferred Stock of the corporation are amended as follows:

      1. Part I, paragraph 1, Definitions, is amended by deleting the
definition of "Eligible Portfolio Property" and replacing it with the
following:

      "Eligible Portfolio Property" shall include Utility Bonds, Utility
Stocks, cash, U.S. Government Obligations, Short Term Money Market
Instruments, FNMA Certificates, FHLMC Certificates, FHLMC Multifamily
Securities, GNMA Certificates, GNMA Multifamily Securities, GNMA Graduated
Payment Securities, Conventional Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Other
Permitted Securities and any other asset held by the Corporation that has
been assigned a Discount Factor by the Rating Agencies and is included
within the definition of Eligible Portfolio Property set forth herein or
pursuant to an amendment or supplement hereto.

      2. Part I, paragraph 1, Definitions, is further amended by the
addition thereto of the following definition of "Other Permitted
Securities":

      ""Other Permitted Securities" shall include any asset held or
proposed to be acquired by the Corporation (i) not coming within the
definition of Utility Bonds, Utility Stocks, cash, U.S. Government
Obligations, Short Term Money Market Instruments, FNMA Certificates, FHLMC
Certificates, FHLMC Multifamily Securities, GNMA Certificates, GNMA
Multifamily Securities, GNMA Graduated Payment Securities or Conventional


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Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates and (ii) that has been assigned a
Discount Factor by the Rating Agencies, provided that the Board of
Directors determines and the Rating Agencies advise the Corporation in
writing that the acquisition or holding of the asset will not adversely
affect their then-current ratings of the RP.

      3.   Part I, paragraph 6, Voting, is amended by the addition thereto
of the following sub-paragraph (e):

           (e) Voting by Series. In addition to any vote of the requisite
percentage of shares of Common Stock and shares of Preferred Stock,
including RP, otherwise necessary to authorize any proposed action under
the Charter or the 1940 Act, on any matter therein the Preferred Stock has
the right to vote as a class, the approval of the holders of a majority of
the outstanding shares of any series of Preferred Stock, including any
series of RP, voting separately as a series, shall be necessary to approve
such proposed action if such series would be affected by the proposed
action in a manner materially different from any other series.

      SECOND: The board of directors of the corporation on October 11, 1989
duly adopted a resolution in which was set forth the foregoing amendment to
the charter, declaring that the said amendment to the charter as proposed
was advisable and directing that it be submitted for consideration at the
1989 annual meeting of stockholders of the corporation.

      THIRD: Notice setting forth said amendment to the charter and a
summary of the changes to be effected by said amendment and stating that a
purpose of the meeting of the stockholders called to be held on December
13, 1989 would be to take action thereon, was given, as required by law, to
all stockholders entitled to vote thereon. The amendment to the charter of
the corporation as hereinabove set forth was approved by the stockholders
of the corporation at said meeting by the affirmative vote of a majority of
all the votes entitled to be cast thereon.

      FOURTH:  The amendment to the charter of the corporation as
hereinabove set forth has been duly advised by the board of directors and
duly approved by the stockholders of the corporation.





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      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Duff & Phelps Selected Utilities Inc., has caused
these articles to be signed in its name and on its behalf by its chairman
and attested by its secretary, on December 13, 1989.

                                 DUFF & PHELPS SELECTED UTILITIES INC.


                                 By /s/ Claire V. Hansen
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                                          Claire V. Hansen, Chairman

Attest:

/s/ Calvin J. Pedersen
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Calvin J. Pedersen, Secretary


      THE UNDERSIGNED, chairman of Duff & Phelps Selected Utilities Inc.,
who executed on behalf of said corporation the foregoing articles of
amendment, of which this certificate is made a part, hereby acknowledges,
in the name and on behalf of said corporation, the foregoing articles of
amendment to be the corporate act of said corporation and further certifies
that to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, the matters and
facts set forth therein with respect to the approval thereof are true in
all material respects, under the penalties of perjury.


                                 /s/ Claire V. Hansen
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                                 Claire V. Hansen





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