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    <cef:SecurityVotingRightsTextBlock contextRef="c0" id="ixv-324">&lt;p style="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt"&gt;The Board of Trustees of the Fund (the &#x201c;Board&#x201d; or the
&#x201c;Board of Trustees&#x201d;) has fixed the close of business on May 7, 2026 as the record date for the determination of the shareholders
entitled to notice of and to vote at the Annual Meeting and any adjournments or postponements thereof. As of May 7, 2026, there were 41,001,748
common shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value per share (&#x201c;Common Shares&#x201d;), of the Fund outstanding. See &#x201c;Proxy
Solicitation, Tabulation and Voting Requirements&#x201d; below for additional information. To the knowledge of the Fund, as of May 7, 2026:
(i) no shareholder owned 5% or more of the Fund&#x2019;s outstanding Common Shares, and (ii) the Trustees and executive officers of the
Fund, individually and as a group, owned beneficially less than 1% of the outstanding Common Shares of the Fund.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt"&gt;Shareholders as of the close of business on the record date of May
7, 2026 are entitled to attend and vote at the Annual Meeting. All properly executed proxies received prior to the Annual Meeting will
be voted at the Annual Meeting. Each proxy will be voted in accordance with its instructions; if no instruction is given, an executed
proxy will authorize the persons named on the proxy card enclosed as proxies, or any of them, to vote FOR the election of each Trustee.
An executed proxy delivered to the Fund is revocable by the person giving it, prior to its exercise, by a signed writing filed with the
Fund&#x2019;s Secretary, by executing and delivering a later dated proxy, or by attending the Annual Meeting and voting the shares at the
Annual Meeting. Merely attending the Annual Meeting will not revoke a previously executed proxy. If you hold Fund shares through an intermediary
(such as a broker, bank, adviser or custodian), please consult with the intermediary regarding your ability to revoke voting instructions
after they have been provided.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt"&gt;If you are a record holder of Fund shares and plan to attend the
Annual Meeting, you must show a valid photo identification (such as a driver&#x2019;s license) to gain admission to the Annual Meeting.
Please call 1-800-262-1122 for information on how to obtain directions to be able to attend and vote at the Annual Meeting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt"&gt;If you hold Fund shares through an intermediary and plan to attend
and vote at the Annual Meeting, you will be required to show a valid photo identification and your authority to vote your shares (referred
to as a &#x201c;legal proxy&#x201d;) to gain admission to the Annual Meeting. As described above, you must contact your intermediary to
obtain a legal proxy for your shares.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt; text-align: center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PROPOSAL 1. ELECTION OF TRUSTEES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt"&gt;The Fund&#x2019;s Agreement and Declaration of Trust provides that
a majority of the Trustees shall fix the number of the entire Board and that such number shall be at least two and no greater than fifteen.
The Board has fixed the number of Trustees at nine. Under the terms of the Fund&#x2019;s Agreement and Declaration of Trust, the Board
is divided into three classes, each class having a term of three years to expire on the date of the third Annual Meeting following its
election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" style="width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
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    &lt;td colspan="3" style="font: 10pt NewsGoth Lt BT; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif"&gt;Proxies will be voted for the election of the following nominees:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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    &lt;td style="font: 10pt NewsGoth Lt BT; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif"&gt;three Class I Trustees, Alan C. Bowser, Cynthia E. Frost and Scott E. Wennerholm, each to be elected by the shareholders of the Fund.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  &lt;/table&gt;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt"&gt;The Board of Trustees recommends that shareholders vote FOR the election
of the Trustee nominees of the Fund.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt"&gt;Each nominee is currently serving as a Trustee of the Fund and has
consented to continue to so serve. In the event that a nominee is unable to serve for any reason (which is not now expected) when the
election occurs, the accompanying proxy will be voted for such other person or persons as the Board of Trustees may recommend. Election
of Trustees is non-cumulative. Shareholders do not have appraisal rights in connection with the proposal in this proxy statement.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; margin: 0 0 10pt"&gt;Each nominee shall be elected by the affirmative vote of a plurality
of the shares of the Fund entitled to vote. Proxies cannot be voted for a greater number of persons than the number of nominees named.
No nominee is a party adverse to the Fund or any of its affiliates in any material pending legal proceeding, nor does any nominee have
an interest materially adverse to such Fund.&lt;/p&gt;</cef:SecurityVotingRightsTextBlock>
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