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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:3.15pt; margin-bottom:3.15pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:10pt; font-size:10pt; color:#000000">REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:10pt; font-size:10pt; color:#000000">To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of <BR>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:10.5pt; font-size:10pt; color:#000000">In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of BlackRock Enhanced Capital and Income Fund, Inc. (the &#147;Fund&#148;), as of and for the year ended October 31, 2009, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), we considered the Fund&#146;s internal control over financial reporting, including control activities for safeguarding securities, as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund&#146;s internal control over financial reporting. &nbsp;Accordingly, we express no such opinion.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:3.15pt; margin-bottom:3.15pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:10pt; font-size:10pt; color:#000000" align=justify>The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting.&nbsp; In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of controls.&nbsp; A company&#146;s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.&nbsp; A company's internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reas
onable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of a company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:3.15pt; margin-bottom:3.15pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:10pt; font-size:10pt; color:#000000" align=justify>Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.&nbsp; Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:3.15pt; margin-bottom:3.15pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:10pt; font-size:10pt; color:#000000" align=justify>A deficiency in internal control over financial reporting exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis.&nbsp; A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the company's annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:3.15pt; margin-bottom:3.15pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:10pt; font-size:10pt; color:#000000" align=justify>Our consideration of the Fund's internal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all deficiencies in internal control that might be material weaknesses under standards established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).&nbsp; However, we noted no deficiencies in the Fund's internal control over financial reporting and its operation, including controls for safeguarding securities, that we consider to be a material weakness, as defined above, as of October 31, 2009.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:3.15pt; margin-bottom:3.15pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:10pt; font-size:10pt; color:#000000" align=justify>This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and the Board of Directors of BlackRock Enhanced Capital and Income Fund, Inc. and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:3.15pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:10pt; font-size:10pt; color:#000000">/s/ Deloitte &amp; Touche LLP</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-18pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">1.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Issuer: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bank of America Corporation</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">3.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Date of Purchase: &nbsp;10/07/08</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">4.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Underwriter from whom purchased: &nbsp;Banc of America Securities LLC</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">5.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Name of Affiliated Underwriter (as defined in the Trust&#146;s procedures) managing or participating in syndicate: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &amp; Smith Incorporated</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-18pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">List Members of Underwriting Syndicate: </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Banc of America Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &amp; Smith Incorporated</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">6.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Aggregate principal amount purchased (out of total offering) (if an equity offering, list aggregate number of shares purchased (out of total number of shares offered)): (BR_FVAL) 173,500 shares out of 455,000,000; (BVA_BV) 255,900 shares out of 455,000,000, (CII_EQ) 82,800 shares out of 455,000,000; (E_AXA-OMC) 2,700 shares out of 455,000,000; (E_AXA-OMM) 31,500 shares out of 455,000,000; (E_AXA-OMV) 3,700 shares out of 455,000,000; (E_AXA-V) 1,591,500 shares out of 455,000,000; (E_VALICBV) 35,100 shares out of 455,000,000; (MF_BV) 2,123,200 shares out of 455,000,000</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">7.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Aggregate principal amount purchased by funds advised by BlackRock and any purchases by other accounts with respect to which BlackRock has investment discretion (out of the total offering) (if an equity offering, list aggregate number of shares purchased (out of total number of shares offered)): 6,349,500 shares out of 455,000,000</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">8.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Purchase price (net of fees and expenses): &nbsp;$22.00</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">9.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Date offering commenced (if different from Date of Purchase): &nbsp;10/07/08</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">10.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering price at end of first day on which any sales were made: &nbsp;</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">11.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Have the following conditions been satisfied:</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B><U>Yes</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B><U>No</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The securities are part of an issue registered under </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">is being offered to the public, <U>or</U> are Eligible Municipal</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Securities, <U>or</U> are securities sold in an</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:252pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">&nbsp;Eligible Foreign </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering <U>or</U> are securities sold in an Eligible Rule 144A</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering <U>or</U> part of an issue of government </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:288pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">__X_</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">b.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The securities were purchased prior to the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">end of the first day on which any sales</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">were made, at a price that was not more</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">than the price paid by each other</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">purchaser of securities in that offering</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">or in any concurrent offering of the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities (except, in the case of an</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Eligible Foreign Offering, for any rights</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">to purchase required by laws to be granted</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">to existing security holders of the</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Issuer) <U>or</U>, if a rights offering, the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities were purchased on or before the</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">fourth day preceding the day on which the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">rights offering terminated.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">__X_</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">c.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The underwriting was a firm commitment</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">underwriting.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_X__</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">d.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The commission, spread or profit was</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">reasonable and fair in relation to that</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">being received by others for underwriting</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">similar securities during the same period.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">__X_</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">e.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">In respect of any securities other than</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Eligible Municipal Securities, the issuer</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">of such securities has been in continuous</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">operation for not less than three years</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">(including the operations of predecessors).</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Has the affiliated underwriter confirmed </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">that it will not receive any direct or indirect </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">benefit as a result of BlackRock's participation </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">in the offering?</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Received From: <U>_ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Robert Martorelli______ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>&nbsp;&nbsp;</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:288pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Date: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>10/09/08</U> </P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>FORM 10f-3</B></P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>THE BLACKROCK FUNDS</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>&nbsp;</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>Record of Securities Purchased</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>Under the Trust&#146;s Rule 10f-3 Procedures</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">1.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Name of Purchasing Portfolio: &nbsp;BlackRock Basic Value Principal Protected Fund (BR_BVP), BlackRock Focus Value Fund, Inc. (BR_FVAL), BlackRock Basic Value V.I. Fund (Ins - Var Ser) (BVA_BV), BlackRock Enhanced Capital and Income Fund, Inc. (CII_EQ), AXA Conservative Multimanager Fund ( E_AXA-OMC), AXA Moderate Multimanager Fund (E_AXA-OMM), AXA Aggressive Multimanager Fund (E_AXA-OMV), EQ/Mercury Basic Value Equity Portfolio (E_AXA-V), AIG VALIC Basic Value (E_VALICBV), Master Basic Value Trust (MF_BV)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">2.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Issuer: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;MetLife, Inc.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">3.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Date of Purchase: &nbsp;10/08/08</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">4.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Underwriter from whom purchased: &nbsp;Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">5.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Name of Affiliated Underwriter (as defined in the Trust&#146;s procedures) managing or participating in syndicate: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &amp; Smith Incorporated</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-18pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">List Members of Underwriting Syndicate: </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &amp; Smith Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">6.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Aggregate principal amount purchased (out of total offering) (if an equity offering, list aggregate number of shares purchased (out of total number of shares offered)): (BR_BVP) 5,100 shares out of 75,000,000 total shares; (BR_FVAL) 19,200 shares out of 75,000,000 total shares; (BVA_BV) 65,900 shares out of 75,000,000 total shares; (CII_EQ) 22,600 shares out of 75,000,000 total shares; (E_AXA-OMC) 800 shares out of 75,000,000 total shares; (E_AXA-OMM) 8,400 shares out of 75,000,000 total shares; (E_AXA-OMV) 1,000 shares out of 75,000,000 total shares; (E_AXA-V) 402,000 shares out of 75,000,000 total shares; (E_VALICBV) 9,400 shares out of 75,000,000 total shares; (MF_BV) 566,000 shares out of 75,000,000 total shares.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">7.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Aggregate principal amount purchased by funds advised by BlackRock and any purchases by other accounts with respect to which BlackRock has investment discretion (out of the total offering) (if an equity offering, list aggregate number of shares purchased (out of total number of shares offered)): 1,750,000 shares out of 75,000,000 shares.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">8.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Purchase price (net of fees and expenses): &nbsp;<A NAME="OLE_LINK1"></A><A NAME="OLE_LINK2"></A>$26.50</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">9.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Date offering commenced (if different from Date of Purchase): &nbsp;10/07/08</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">10.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering price at end of first day on which any sales were made: &nbsp;$28.00</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">11.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Have the following conditions been satisfied:</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B><U>Yes</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B><U>No</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The securities are part of an issue registered under </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">is being offered to the public, <U>or</U> are Eligible Municipal</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Securities, <U>or</U> are securities sold in an</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:252pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">&nbsp;Eligible Foreign </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering <U>or</U> are securities sold in an Eligible Rule 144A</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering <U>or</U> part of an issue of government </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:288pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">__X_</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">b.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The securities were purchased prior to the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">end of the first day on which any sales</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">were made, at a price that was not more</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">than the price paid by each other</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">purchaser of securities in that offering</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">or in any concurrent offering of the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities (except, in the case of an</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Eligible Foreign Offering, for any rights</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">to purchase required by laws to be granted</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">to existing security holders of the</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Issuer) <U>or</U>, if a rights offering, the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities were purchased on or before the</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">fourth day preceding the day on which the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">rights offering terminated.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_ X_</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">c.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The underwriting was a firm commitment</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">underwriting.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_ X__</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">d.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The commission, spread or profit was</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">reasonable and fair in relation to that</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">being received by others for underwriting</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">similar securities during the same period.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">e.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">In respect of any securities other than</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Eligible Municipal Securities, the issuer</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">of such securities has been in continuous</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">operation for not less than three years</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">(including the operations of predecessors).</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Has the affiliated underwriter confirmed </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">that it will not receive any direct or indirect </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">benefit as a result of BlackRock's participation </P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Approved by: <U>_ &nbsp;&nbsp;Robert Martorelli &nbsp;&nbsp;______</U></P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>THE BLACKROCK FUNDS</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>&nbsp;</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>Record of Securities Purchased</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>Under the Trust&#146;s Rule 10f-3 Procedures</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">1.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Name of Purchasing Portfolio: &nbsp;BlackRock Basic Value Principal Protected Fund (BR_BVP), BlackRock Focus Value Fund, Inc. (BR_FVAL), BlackRock Basic Value V.I. Fund (Ins - Var Ser) (BVA_BV), BlackRock Enhanced Capital and Income Fund, Inc. (CII_EQ), AXA Conservative Multimanager Fund (E_AXA-OMC), AXA Moderate Multimanager Fund (E_AXA-OMM), AXA Aggressive Multimanager Fund (E_AXA-OMV), EQ/Mercury Basic Value Equity Portfolio (E_AXA-V), AIG VALIC Basic Value (E_VALICBV), Master Basic Value Trust (MF_BV)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-18pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">1.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Issuer: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;United States Steel Corp.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">3.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Date of Purchase: &nbsp;4/28/09</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">4.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Underwriter from whom purchased: &nbsp;Morgan Stanley &amp; Co Inc.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">5.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Name of Affiliated Underwriter (as defined in the Trust&#146;s procedures) managing or participating in syndicate: PNC Capital Markets, Inc.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-18pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">List Members of Underwriting Syndicate: </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0.75pt; padding-left:12pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley &amp; Co. Incorporated, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner&nbsp;&amp; Smith Incorporated, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., ABN AMRO Incorporated, Goldman, Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co., &nbsp;PNC Capital Markets, Inc., Barclays Capital Inc., BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, Commerzbank Capital Markets Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, UBS Securities LLC, Daiwa Securities America Inc., Fortis Securities LLC, ING Financial Markets LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., Mizuho Securities USA Inc., Natixis Bleichroeder Inc., The Williams Capital Group, L.P.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">6.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Aggregate principal amount purchased (out of total offering) (if an equity offering, list aggregate number of shares purchased (out of total number of shares offered)): (BR_BVP) 700 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered; (BR_FVAL) 33,900 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered; (BVA_BV) 94,300 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered; (CII_EQ) 136,500 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered; (E_AXA-OMC) 2,300 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered; (E_AXA-OMM) 21,900 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered; (E_AXA-OMV) 2,400 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered; (E_AXA-V) 487,800 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered; (E_VALICBV) 15,100 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered; &nbsp;(MF_BV) 873,000 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">7.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Aggregate principal amount purchased by funds advised by BlackRock and any purchases by other accounts with respect to which BlackRock has investment discretion (out of the total offering) (if an equity offering, list aggregate number of shares purchased (out of total number of shares offered)): 2,000,000 shares out of 23,600,000 total shares offered</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">8.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Purchase price (net of fees and expenses): &nbsp;$25.50</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">9.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Date offering commenced (if different from Date of Purchase): &nbsp;</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">10.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering price at end of first day on which any sales were made: &nbsp;</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">11.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Have the following conditions been satisfied:</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B><U>Yes</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B><U>No</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The securities are part of an issue registered under </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">is being offered to the public, <U>or</U> are Eligible Municipal</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Securities, <U>or</U> are securities sold in an</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:252pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">&nbsp;Eligible Foreign </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering <U>or</U> are securities sold in an Eligible Rule 144A</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering <U>or</U> part of an issue of government </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:288pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_X__</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">b.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The securities were purchased prior to the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">end of the first day on which any sales</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">were made, at a price that was not more</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">than the price paid by each other</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">purchaser of securities in that offering</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">or in any concurrent offering of the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities (except, in the case of an</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Eligible Foreign Offering, for any rights</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">to purchase required by laws to be granted</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">to existing security holders of the</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Issuer) <U>or</U>, if a rights offering, the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities were purchased on or before the</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">fourth day preceding the day on which the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">rights offering terminated.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_X__</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">c.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The underwriting was a firm commitment</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">underwriting.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_X__</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">d.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The commission, spread or profit was</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">reasonable and fair in relation to that</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">being received by others for underwriting</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">similar securities during the same period.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_X__</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">e.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">In respect of any securities other than</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Eligible Municipal Securities, the issuer</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">of such securities has been in continuous</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">operation for not less than three years</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">(including the operations of predecessors).</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_X__</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Has the affiliated underwriter confirmed </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">that it will not receive any direct or indirect </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">benefit as a result of BlackRock's participation </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">in the offering?</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:288pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_X__</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Approved By: <U>_ &nbsp;Carrie King &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>&nbsp;&nbsp;</P>
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