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Shareholder Meeting Results
 (Unaudited)
February 27, 2014 special meeting

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

Votes		Votes 	   Abstentions   Broker
for		against			 non-votes
7,400,519 	573,306	   317,543        0

All tabulations are rounded to the nearest whole number.
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