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                                                                Exhibit (a)(8)

                              MUNIVEST FUND, INC.

                           CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION


         MuniVest Fund, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the "Corporation"),
hereby sets forth the following information to correct an error of
transcription in the Corporation's Articles Supplementary creating five series
of Auction Market Preferred Stock:

         1. The title of the document being corrected is Articles
Supplementary.

         2. The name of each party to the document being corrected is MuniVest
Fund, Inc.

         3. The date that the document being corrected was filed is December
1, 1994.

         4a. The provision in the document, as previously filed, reads as
follows:

         FIRST: Pursuant to authority expressly vested in the Board of
Directors of the Corporation by Article FIFTH of its Charter, the Board of
Directors has reclassified 8,250 authorized and unissued shares of common
stock of the Corporation as additional preferred stock of the Corporation and
has authorized the issuance of preferred stock, par value $.10 per share,
liquidation preference $100,000 per share plus an amount equal to accumulated
but unpaid dividends (whether or not earned or declared) thereon, to be
designated Auction Market Preferred Stock.

4b.      The provision in the document, as corrected, is:

         FIRST: Pursuant to authority expressly vested in the Board of
Directors of the Corporation by Article FIFTH of its Charter, the Board of
Directors has classified the preferred stock of the Corporation and has
authorized the issuance of 8,250 shares of authorized preferred stock of the
Corporation, par value $.10 per share, liquidation preference $100,000 per
share plus an amount equal to accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not
earned or declared) thereon, to be designated Auction Market Preferred Stock.

5.       The execution of the Articles Supplementary was not defective.


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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, MUNIVEST FUND, INC. has caused this Certificate
of Correction to be signed in its name and on its behalf by its Vice
President, and attested by its Secretary, on the 8th day of July, 2004.

                                   MUNIVEST FUND, INC.



                                   By:  /s/ Donald C. Burke
                                       ------------------------------
                                        Name:   Donald C. Burke
                                        Title:  Vice President

Attest:


 /s/ Phillip S. Gillespie
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Name:  Phillip S. Gillespie
Title: Secretary


         THE UNDERSIGNED, Vice President of MUNIVEST FUND, INC. (the
"Corporation"), who executed on behalf of the Corporation the foregoing
Certificate of Correction, of which this certificate is made a part, hereby
acknowledges, in the name and on behalf of the Corporation, the foregoing
Certificate of Correction to be the corporate act of the Corporation and, as
to all matters and facts required to be verified under oath, further certifies
that, to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, these matters and
facts contained herein are true in all material respects and that this
statement is made under the penalties for perjury.


                                   By:  /s/ Donald C. Burke
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                                        Name:   Donald C. Burke
                                        Title:  Vice President

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