Exhibit-10.03k

                                            Date: September 29, 2000





Douglas H. Yaeger (as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Laclede Gas Company), and Gerald T. McNeive, Jr. (as Senior Vice
President - Finance and General Counsel of Laclede Gas Company), pursuant to
resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors on August 28, 1986, which
resolutions, among other things, granted to any two executive officers who
hold one of the following offices:  Chairman of the Board; President;
Executive Vice President; or Senior Vice President; the authority to amend
any or all of the benefit plans and/or related trust agreements of the
Company (collectively the "Plans") to the extent such amendments deal with
changes necessary or appropriate:  (1) to comply with, or obtain the benefit
of, applicable laws and/or regulations, as amended from time to time; (2) to
reflect minor or routine administrative factors; (3) to clarify the meaning
of any of the provisions of the Plans; and/or (4) to evidence changes in
then existing Plans to reflect the interrelationship thereof with newly
adopted Plans or amendments to Plans, which newly adopted Plans or
amendments affect the terms of such other then existing Plans; do hereby
amend the Employees' Retirement Plan of Laclede Gas Company - Management
Employees, Employees' Retirement Plan of Laclede Gas Company - Contract
Employees, Missouri Natural Gas Division of Laclede Gas Company Retirement
Income Plan, Laclede Gas Company Salary Deferral Savings Plan, Laclede Gas
Company Wage Deferral Savings Plan, Missouri Natural Gas Division of Laclede
Gas Company Savings Plan, and the Missouri Natural Gas Division of Laclede
Gas Company Dual Savings Plan as set forth in the attached exhibits, such
amendments to be effectuated and evidenced by our signatures on said
exhibits.
































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              AMENDMENTS TO THE EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT PLAN OF
                 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY - MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES
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1.    Effective October 1, 2000, subsection I of Section 3.7 is hereby
      amended in its entirety, to read as follows:

      "I.   The provisions contained in this subparagraph I. and
            subparagraphs J. and K. below shall not apply to an Employee who
            has at least one (1) Hour of Service on or after October 1,
            2000.  In the case of an Employee who is participating in a
            defined contribution plan sponsored by the Company or a Related
            Company and who does not have at least one (1) Hour of Service
            on or after October 1, 2000, the sum of the defined benefit plan
            fraction and the defined contribution plan fraction for any
            limitation year may not exceed 1.0.  For this purpose, the
            limitation year shall be the period October 1 through September
            30."

2.    Effective October 1, 2000, subsection C. of Section 1.15 is hereby
      amended in its entirety, to read as follows:

      "C.   Interest Discount Factor - The Pension Benefit Guaranty
            Corporation rate for valuing private-sector immediate annuities
            as in effect on the determination date."

3.    Effective October 1, 2000, subparagraph (II) of paragraph (B) of
      subsection (a) of Section 15.5 is hereby amended in its entirety, to
      read as follows:

      "(II) at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's rate for valuing
            private-sector immediate annuities as in effect for each month
            during which such interest accrues."

4.    Effective October 1, 2000, paragraph (i) of subsection (b) of Section
      15.6 is hereby amended in its entirety, to read as follows:

      "(i)  the sum of all minimum required distributions paid pursuant to
            Section 15.5 of this Plan, plus imputed interest, determined
            monthly using the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's
            interest discount factor for valuing private-sector immediate
            annuities as in effect for each month and

























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            computed from the first day of the month of payment of each
            minimum required distribution until the applicable Retirement
            Date;"




                                           DOUGLAS H. YAEGER
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                               Title:     Chairman, President and
                                          Chief Executive Officer




                                         GERALD T. MCNEIVE, JR.
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                               Title:     Senior Vice President - Finance
                                          and General Counsel














































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