Exhibit 8(b)
The Premium Portfolios
Elizabethan Square, 2nd Floor
Xxxxxx Town, Grand Cayman, BWI
November 1, 1998
State Street Bank and Trust Company
000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Re: The Premium Portfolios - Custodian Contract
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Section 17 of the Custodian Contract dated as of September 1,
1997 (the "Contract"), between The Premium Portfolios (the "Trust") and State
Street Bank and Trust Company (the "Custodian"), we hereby request that High
Yield Portfolio, U.S. Fixed Income Portfolio, Foreign Fixed Income Portfolio
and S&P 500 Index Portfolio (collectively, the "Portfolios") be added to the
list of series of the Trust to which the Custodian renders services as
custodian under the terms of the Contract.
Please sign below to evidence your agreement to provide such services to
the Portfolios and to add the Portfolios as beneficiaries under the Contract.
THE PREMIUM PORTFOLIOS
By: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: President
Agreed:
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
By: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President
