<DOCUMENT>
<TYPE>EX-99.77C VOTES
<SEQUENCE>2
<FILENAME>meeting.txt
<DESCRIPTION>SHAREHOLDER MEETING
<TEXT>

Shareholder meeting

On April  23,  2007,  the  Annual  Meeting  of the Fund was held to elect  three
Trustees and approve the issuance of additional  shares in  connection  with the
reorganization of four Patriot closed-end funds into the Fund.

Proxies  covering shares of beneficial  interest were voted at the meeting.  The
common and preferred  shareholders  elected their  respective  Trustees to serve
until  successors  are duly elected and  qualified.  The votes were tabulated as
follows:

                                                   WITHHELD
                                FOR                AUTHORITY
James R. Boyle                  14,408,589         174,013    (common shares)
Patti McGill Peterson           522                123        (preferred shares)
Steven R. Pruchansky            14,402,185         180,417    (common shares)

The common  shareholders then approved the issuance of additional common shares,
with the votes tabulated as follows:  9,841,181 FOR, 222,593 AGAINST and 123,980
ABSTAINING.

Meeting  was  then  adjourned  to  May 2,  2007  at  which  time  the  preferred
shareholders approved the issuance of additional preferred share, with the votes
tabulated as follows: 631 FOR, 0 AGAINST and 5 ABSTAINING.
</TEXT>
</DOCUMENT>
