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KEEN TITLE GENERAL COUNSEL EX-99.77B ACCT LTTR 2 acct.txt Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of Federated Municipal Securities Fund Inc In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements of Federated Municipal Securities Fund Inc the Fund as of and for the year ended March 31 2007 in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board United States we considered its internal control over financial reporting including control activities for safeguarding securities as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Funds internal control over financial reporting Accordingly we express no such opinion The management of the Fund is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting In fulfilling this responsibility estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of controls A companys internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles Such internal control includes policies and procedures that provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition use or disposition of a companys assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements Because of its inherent limitations internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements Also projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the degree of compliance with the polices or procedures may deteriorate A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees in the normal course of performing their assigned functions to prevent or detect misstatements on a timely basis A significant deficiency is a control deficiency or combination of control deficiencies that adversely affects the companys ability to initiate authorize record process or report external financial data reliably in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles such that there is more than a remote likelihood that a misstatement of the companys annual or interim financial statements that is more than inconsequential will not be prevented or detected A material weakness is a significant deficiency or combination of significant deficiencies that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements will be not prevented or detected Our consideration of the Funds internal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph and would not necessarily disclose all deficiencies in internal control that might be significant deficiencies or material weaknesses under standards established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board United States However we noted no deficiencies in the Funds internal control over financial reporting and its operation including controls for safeguarding securities that we consider to be a material weakness as defined above as of March 31 2007 This report is intended solely for the information and use of management and the Board of Directors of the Fund and the Securities and Exchange Commission and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than these specified parties sERNST YOUNG LLP Boston Massachusetts May 17 2007 EX-99.77E LEGAL 3 leg.txt SUBITEM 77E LEGAL PROCEEDINGS Since October 2003 Federated and related entities collectively Federated and various Federated funds Funds have been named as defendants in several class action lawsuits now pending in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland The lawsuits were purportedly filed on behalf of people who purchased owned and/or redeemed shares of Federatedsponsored mutual funds during specified periods beginning November 1 1998 The suits are generally similar in alleging that Federated engaged in illegal and improper trading practices including market timing and late trading in concert with certain institutional traders which allegedly caused financial injury to the mutual fund shareholders These lawsuits began to be filed shortly after Federateds first public announcement that it had received requests for information on shareholder trading activities in the Funds from the SEC the Office of the New York State Attorney General NYAG and other authorities In that regard on November 28 2005 Federated announced that it had reached final settlements with the SEC and the NYAG with respect to those matters Specifically the SEC and NYAG settled proceedings against three Federated subsidiaries involving undisclosed market timing arrangements and late trading The SEC made findings that Federated Investment Management Company FIMC an SECregistered investment adviser to various Funds and Federated Securities Corp an SECregistered brokerdealer and distributor for the Funds violated provisions of the Investment Advisers Act and Investment Company Act by approving but not disclosing three market timing arrangements or the associated conflict of interest between FIMC and the funds involved in the arrangements either to other fund shareholders or to the funds board and that Federated Shareholder Services Company formerly an SECregistered transfer agent failed to prevent a customer and a Federated employee from late trading in violation of provisions of the Investment Company Act The NYAG found that such conduct violated provisions of New York State law Federated entered into the settlements without admitting or denying the regulators findings As Federated previously reported in 2004 it has already paid approximately 80 million to certain funds as determined by an independent consultant As part of these settlements Federated agreed to pay disgorgement and a civil money penalty in the aggregate amount of an additional 72 million and among other things agreed that it would not serve as investment adviser to any registered investment company unless i at least 75 of the funds directors are independent of Federated ii the chairman of each such fund is independent of Federated iii no action may be taken by the funds board or any committee thereof unless approved by a majority of the independent trustees of the fund or committee respectively and iv the fund appoints a senior officer who reports to the independent trustees and is responsible for monitoring compliance by the fund with applicable laws and fiduciary duties and for managing the process by which management fees charged to a fund are approved The settlements are described in Federateds announcement which along with previous press releases and related communications on those matters is available in the About Us section of Federateds website at FederatedInvestorscom Federated and various Funds have also been named as defendants in several additional lawsuits the majority of which are now pending in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania alleging among other things excessive advisory and Rule 12b1 fees The board of the Funds has retained the law firm of Dickstein Shapiro LLP to represent the Funds in these lawsuits Federated and the Funds and their respective counsel are reviewing the allegations and intend to defend this litigation Additional lawsuits based upon similar allegations may be filed in the future The potential impact of these lawsuits all of which seek unquantified damages attorneys fees and expenses and future potential similar suits is uncertain Although we do not believe that these lawsuits will have a material adverse effect on the Funds there can be no assurance that these suits ongoing adverse publicity and/or other developments resulting from the regulatory investigations will not result in increased Fund redemptions reduced sales of Fund shares or other adverse consequences for the Funds Current as of 81894 -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----