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Shareholder Meeting Results
 (Unaudited)

May 15, 2007 Meeting

A proposal to approve a new management contract between the fund
and Putnam Investment Management, LLC was approved as follows:

Votes for        Votes against                     Abstentions

13,384,245       591,497                           496,626


All tabulations are rounded to the nearest whole number.

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