Dear Mr. Maness:

I am writing on behalf of the Texas State Auditor's Office and the State Classification Office to request that you remove from http://www.preciousheart.net/Equity_Documents/Watson-Wyatt_Survey.htm all material that appears to be part of information furnished to you with a covering letter dated March 22, 2002 pursuant to a Texas Public Information Act request.

This agency released the information to you because state law, namely the Texas Public Information Law, Texas Government Code ch. 552, requires it to do so. The license agreement between this agency and Watson Wyatt, the owner of the copyright for this material, prohibits the redistribution of this material. Posting proprietary data on a website appears, without question, to violate the prohibition on redistribution. This was not a foreseeable use. I attach as Exhibit A a copy of my March 22, 2002 letter. Portions of the letter addressing the copyright issue are highlighted in red.

Although the term used in the first paragraph of this email is "request," this message constitutes a legal demand that you remove from the website, and refrain from publishing it again by any means, whether electronic or otherwise, any and all material you obtained from the State Auditor's Office and State Classification Office that came from copyrighted sources published by Watson Wyatt.

If you have any questions about the contents of this letter, please call me at 512-936-9370. If the copyright-protected material is still available by 2 p.m. Central Standard Time tomorrow, Wednesday, January 8th, 2003, on the preciousHeart.net or anything appearing to be a related site, we will notify Watson Wyatt that we have detected an unauthorized use of its data, so that the copyright holder can protect its interests.

Sincerely,

Martha McCabe

Assistant General Counsel

Texas State Auditor's Office

P. O. Box 12067

Austin, TX 78711-2067