Exhibit 10.05l

                                            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 LACLEDE GAS COMPANY
                       SALARY DEFERRAL SAVINGS PLAN
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1.    Effective October 1, 2000, the first paragraph of  subsection (c) of
      Section 7.3 is hereby amended in its entirety, to read as follows:

      "(c) The provisions contained in this subsection (c) 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 benefit plan sponsored by the 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."






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




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































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                   AMENDMENTS FOR THE LACLEDE GAS COMPANY
                        SALARY DEFERRAL SAVINGS PLAN

1.    Effective November 1, 2000, Section 2.21 is amended in its entirety to
      read as follows:

      "2.21  "Investment Fund"
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             The separate portion of the Fund which is to be invested in
             accordance with Sections 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7 or 6.8 of this
             Plan."

2.    Effective November 1, 2000, a new Section 2.37 is hereby added to read
      as follows:

      "2.37  "Balanced Fund or Funds"
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             The separate portion or portions of the Fund or Funds which is
             to be invested in accordance with Section 6.8 of this Plan."

3.    Effective February 3, 1997, the last sentence of Section 4.3 is
      amended in its entirety to read as follows:


      "Amounts so deducted shall be periodically transmitted to the Trustee
      as deemed administratively feasible, but in no event shall the amounts
      so deducted be transmitted later than the 15th business day of the
      month following the month in which the amounts would otherwise have
      been payable to the Participant."

4.    Effective August 1, 2000, paragraph (ii) of subsection (a) of Section
      5.1 is amended its entirety to read as follows:

      "(ii)     four percent (4%) of the Compensation of such Participant
                for such month."

5.    Effective November 1, 2000, Sections 6.8, 6.9, 6.10 and 6.11 shall be
      renumbered as Sections 6.9, 6.10, 6.11 and 6.12, respectively, and a
      new Section 6.8 is hereby added to read as follows:

      "6.8  Balanced Fund
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            A Balanced Fund shall consist of a single asset or group of
            assets, which is purchased or held for investment by the Trustee
            as a single fund or a group of funds, and which is managed and
            maintained (either by the Trustee or otherwise) according to a
            pre-established asset allocation target chosen by the Balanced
            Fund to enable it to achieve its stated investment goal. A
            Balanced Fund will be routinely rebalanced according to a
            regular schedule in order to maintain its targeted asset
            allocation.  The Trustee is specifically authorized from time to
            time upon consent by the Company to invest in either a single
            fund or multiple funds (including, without limitation, any
            common, collective or commingled trust fund established and
            maintained by the Trustee for the assets of plans











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            qualified and exempt under Sections 401 and 501 of the Code,
            mutual funds or any combination thereof) which, taken as a
            whole, satisfy the stated investment goal of a particular
            Balanced Fund.  There shall be a minimum of four Balanced Funds
            established, which funds will be chosen and maintained with the
            intent to satisfy three stated investment goals, which shall be
            investment time horizons that are determined to be short-term,
            intermediate-term and long-term.  All assets in a Balanced Fund
            shall be held in the name of the Trustee, a nominee or in bearer
            form."

6.    Effective November 1, 2000, the last sentence of paragraph (b) of
      Section 10.2 is amended in its entirety to read as follows:

      "Interests in the Equity Fund or Funds, the Fixed Income Fund, the
      Money Market Fund and the Balanced Fund or Funds shall always be
      distributed in cash."





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




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































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