Company: TXEMF
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form Type: 40-17F2
Source: 0000909112-25-000003
Chunk: 7

Company: TEMPLETON EMERGING MARKETS INCOME FUND
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form: 40-17F2
Chunk 7
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FundDecember1,2024-April30,2025a

TempletonInternationalBondFundDecember1,2024-April30,2025a

TempletonSustainableEmergingMarketsBondFundDecember1,2024-April30,2025a

TempletonInstitutionalFunds:

InternationalEquitySeriesDecember1,2024-April30,2025a

TempletonDragonFund,Inc.December1,2024-April30,2025a

Legend:

a:November30,2024representsthedateofourlastexamination.
b:FundwasnotinscopefortheNovember30,2024examination.**

Franklin Templeton Services, LLC

3355 Data Drive

Rancho Cordova, CA 95670

tel(800) 632.2350

franklintempleton.com

<div align='center'>Management Statement Regarding Compliance with Certain</div>

#### Provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940
We, as members of management
of the Funds listed in Attachment A (the “Funds”), are responsible for complying with the requirements
of subsections (b) and (c) of Rule 17f-2, Custody of Investments by Registered Management Investment
Companies, of the Investment Company Act of 1940. We are also responsible for establishing and maintaining
effective internal controls over compliance with those requirements. We have performed an evaluation
of the Funds' compliance with the requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of Rule 17f-2 as of April 30,
2025, and for the periods indicated in Attachment A.

Based on this evaluation, we assert that
the Funds were in compliance with the requirements of subsections (b) and (c) of Rule 17f-2 of the Investment
Company Act of 1940 as of April 30, 2025, and for the periods indicated in Attachment A, with respect
to securities reflected in the investment account of the Funds.

By:

/s/CHRISTOPHER KINGS
Christopher Kings

Chief Executive Officer - Finance and Administration

Franklin Templeton Group of Funds

DateAugust 5, 2025

/s/JEFFREY W. WHITE
Jeffrey W. White

Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer

Franklin & Templeton Funds Boards

DateAugust 5, 2025

/s/VIVEK PAI
Vivek Pai