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                                                              Exhibit 10.05m

                                                 Date: September 18, 2001






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 Missouri Natural Gas Division of Laclede Gas Company Retirement
Income Plan, Laclede Gas Company Salary Deferral 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 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY SALARY DEFERRAL SAVINGS PLAN
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1.       Effective October 1, 2001, a new paragraph is inserted at the
beginning of Section 4.4 to read as follows:

"4.4     REQUIRED ADJUSTMENT OF SALARY DEFERRALS
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Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, beginning October 1,
2001 the Plan is intended to meet the design-based safe harbors under Code
Sections 401(k)(12) and 401(m)(11). For each Plan Year in which the Plan
meets the enhanced matching formula, the tests specified in this Section 4.4
and in Section 5.1 need not be calculated. Prior to each Plan Year,
Employees will receive the required notification that the Plan will utilize
the designed-based safe harbors. If the Plan will not utilize the above
design-based safe harbors, then Employees will be notified as such prior to
the beginning of the applicable Plan Year."

2.       Effective October 1, 2001, a new paragraph is inserted at the
beginning of subsection (b) of Section 5.1 to read as follows:

"(b)     Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, beginning
         October 1, 2001 the Plan is intended to meet the design-based safe
         harbors under Code Sections 401(k)(12) and 401(m)(11). For each
         Plan Year in which the Plan meets the enhanced matching formula,
         the tests specified in this Section 5.1 and in Section 4.4 need not
         be calculated. Prior to each Plan Year, Employees will receive the
         required notification that the Plan will utilize the designed-based
         safe harbors. If the Plan will not utilize the above design-based
         safe harbors, then Employees will be notified as such prior to the
         beginning of the applicable Plan Year."





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




                                   /s/ D. H. YAEGER
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                                   Title:  Chairman, President and
                                           Chief Executive Officer