Exhibit-4.13k

                                            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 MISSOURI NATURAL GAS DIVISION
                  OF LACLEDE GAS COMPANY DUAL SAVINGS PLAN
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1.    Effective November 1, 2000, the first paragraph of Section IV(d)(3) is
      hereby amended in its entirety, to read as follows:

      "(3)   The provisions contained in this subparagraph (3) shall not
             apply to an Employee who has at least one (1) Hour of Service
             on or after November 1, 2000.  In the case of an Employee who
             is participating in a defined benefit plan sponsored by the
             Company and who does not have at least one (1) Hour of Service
             on or after November 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.  If the sum of the defined contribution fraction and the
             defined benefit fraction exceeds 1.0, the sum shall be made
             equal to 1.0 by first reducing benefits provided by the defined
             benefit plans sponsored by the Company or a Related Company."







                                            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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