Exhibit 13(m)
PURCHASE AGREEMENT
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The RBB Fund, Inc. (the "Fund"), a Maryland corporation, and Provident
Distributors, Inc. ("PDI") intending to be legally bound, hereby agree with each
other as follows:
1. The Fund hereby offers PDI and PDI hereby purchases $1,000 worth of shares
of each of Classes DDD and EEE Common Stock of the Fund (par value $.001 per
share) (such shares hereinafter sometimes collectively known as "Shares") at a
price per Share equivalent to the net asset value per share of the Shares of the
Fund as determined on July 1, 1998.
2. The Fund hereby acknowledges receipt from PDI of funds in the amount of
$2,000 in full payment for the Shares.
3. PDI represents and warrants to the Fund that the Shares are being acquired
for investment purposes and not with a view to the distribution thereof.
4. This agreement may be executed in counterparts, and all such counterparts
taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the
1st day of July, 1998.
THE RBB FUND, INC.
By:/s/Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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President and Treasurer
PROVIDENT DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
By:/s/Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Chief Executive Officer