LMP CAPITAL AND INCOME FUND INC. ("SCD")

                WESTERN ASSET EMERGING MARKETS DEBT FUND INC. ("ESD")

               WESTERN ASSET EMERGING MARKETS INCOME FUND INC. ("EMD")

         WESTERN ASSET GLOBAL CORPORATE DEFINED OPPORTUNITY FUND INC. ("GDO")

                  WESTERN ASSET GLOBAL HIGH INCOME FUND INC. ("EHI")

               WESTERN ASSET GLOBAL PARTNERS INCOME FUND INC. ("GDF")

                    WESTERN ASSET HIGH INCOME FUND II INC. ("HIX")

               WESTERN ASSET HIGH INCOME OPPORTUNITY FUND INC. ("HIO")

             WESTERN ASSET HIGH YIELD DEFINED OPPORTUNITY FUND INC. ("HYI")

                    WESTERN ASSET INTERMEDIATE MUNI FUND INC. ("SBI")

         WESTERN ASSET INVESTMENT GRADE DEFINED OPPORTUNITY TRUST INC ("IGI")

                    WESTERN ASSET MANAGED HIGH INCOME FUND INC. ("MHY")

                     WESTERN ASSET MANAGED MUNICIPALS FUND INC. ("MMU")

                   WESTERN ASSET MIDDLE MARKET DEBT FUND INC. ("XWAMX")

                  WESTERN ASSET MIDDLE MARKET INCOME FUND INC. ("XWMFX")

               WESTERN ASSET MORTGAGE DEFINED OPPORTUNITY FUND INC. ("DMO")

             WESTERN ASSET MUNICIPAL DEFINED OPPORTUNITY TRUST INC. ("MTT")

                WESTERN ASSET MUNICIPAL HIGH INCOME FUND INC. ("MHF")

                   WESTERN ASSET MUNICIPAL PARTNERS FUND INC. ("MNP")

                  WESTERN ASSET VARIABLE RATE STRATEGIC FUND INC. ("GFY")

                    WESTERN ASSET WORLDWIDE INCOME FUND INC. ("SBW")







                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PEOPLE BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below hereby makes, constitutes and appoints each of Kenneth D. Fuller, Robert
Frenkel, Thomas Mandia, John Redding, Mitchell O'Brien and George Hoyt, as a
true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent of the undersigned with full power
of substitution and resubstitution, for and in the name, place and stead of the
undersigned (both in the undersigned's individual capacity, as a member of any
limited liability company, as a partner of any partnership or as an officer of
any corporation for which the undersigned are otherwise authorized to sign), to
execute, deliver and file such forms, with all exhibits thereto, (i) as may be
required to be filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange
Commission with respect to: Sections 13(d) and 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Act"), and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder, as applicable, including without limitation, Schedule 13D, Schedule
13G, statements on Form 3, Form 4 and Form 5 relating to SCD, ESD, EMD, GDO,
EHI, GDF, HIX, HIO, HYI, SBI, IGI, MHY, MMU, DMO, MTT, MHF, MNP, GFY, SBW,
XWAMX, XWFMX and any additional closed-end fund management company advised by
Western Asset Management Company or an affiliate (each a "Fund", collectively
the "Funds") and (ii) in connection with any application for EDGAR access
codes, including without limitation the Form ID, related thereto, granting unto
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, acting separately, full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite
and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and
purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or
their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof. Each of the lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents named herein may
act separately.


Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, this Power of Attorney shall
not in any manner revoke, in whole or in part, any Power of Attorney previously
executed. This Power of Attorney shall not be revoked by any subsequent Power of
Attorney executed in the future, unless such subsequent Power of Attorney
specifically refers to this Power of Attorney, or specifically states that the
instrument is intended to revoke this Power of Attorney, all prior general
Powers of Attorney or all prior Powers of Attorney.

This Power of Attorney may be revoked by written instrument executed the
principal and duly acknowledged. Whenever two or more Powers of Attorney are
valid at the same time, the agents appointed on each shall act separately,
unless otherwise specified in the documents. Any provision of this Power of
Attorney held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or
unenforceable shall not impair or invalidate the remainder of the Power of
Attorney and the effect thereof shall be confined to the provisions so held to
the invalid or unenforceable.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have executed this instrument as of the 15th day of
August, 2014.



/s/ F. Barry Bilson
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F. Barry Bilson