Company: EMD
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form Type: 40-17G
Source: 0001655589-25-000267
Chunk: 30

Company: WESTERN ASSET EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND INC.
Filing Date: 2025-12-19
Form: 40-17G
Chunk 30
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Third Party Check” means a check made payable to one or more parties and offered as payment
to one or more other parties.

It is further understood and agreed that notwithstanding anything
to the contrary above or elsewhere in the Bond, this Bond does not cover any loss resulting from or in
connection with the acceptance of a Third Party Check where:

(1)any payee on such Third Party Check reasonably appears to be a corporation or other entity; or

(2)such Third Party Check is made payable in an amount greater than $100,000 and does not include the purported endorsements of all payees on such Third Party Check.

It is further understood and agreed that this Rider shall not apply with respect
to any coverage that may be available under Insuring Agreement A, “Fidelity.”

Except
as above stated, nothing herein shall be held to alter, waive or extend any of the terms of this Bond.

#### ICI MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY,

#### a Risk Retention Group

### INVESTMENT
COMPANY BLANKET BOND

#### RIDER NO. 5

#### INSUREDBOND
NUMBER

#### Franklin Alternative Strategies Funds87170125B
**EFFECTIVE DATEBOND PERIODAUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE**

#### June 30, 2025

#### June 30, 2025 to June 30, 2026

#### /S/ Swenitha Nalli

#### AMENDED
DEFINITION OF “EMPLOYEE” RIDER

In consideration of the premium charged for this Bond, it is hereby understood and agreed that the definition of “Employee” in Section 1.O(6) of this Bond shall be amended to include any individual assigned, on a contingent or part-time basis, to perform the usual duties of an employee in any office of the Insured,providedthat in the case of an individual assigned other than by an agency furnishing temporary personnel, such individual has passed a Successful Background Check conducted by or on behalf of the Insured.

It
is further understood and agreed that for purposes of this rider, a “Successful Background Check”
shall mean a background check (including contact with the individual’s previous employers and personal
references and utilization of a private investigation agency), which results in a determination by the
Insured that the individual has satisfied the security criteria established by the Insured for hiring
employees on a permanent basis.

It is further understood and agreed that
the title in this rider is included solely for convenience and shall not itself be deemed