Exhibit 8(b)
The Premium Portfolios
Elizabethan Square, 2nd Floor
Xxxxxx Town, Grand Cayman, BWI
November 14, 1997
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 Growth
& Income Portfolio (the "Fund") 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 Fund and to add the Fund as beneficiary under the Contract.
THE PREMIUM PORTFOLIOS
By: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title: President
Agreed:
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
By: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President
