Exhibit 13(v)
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 Class MMM 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 ____________, 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 __ day of ____________, 1998.
THE RBB FUND, INC.
By:____________________
President and Treasurer
PROVIDENT DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
By:____________________
President