ACCOUNTING AND LEGAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
                          AMENDMENT DATED MARCH 8, 2005


The Accounting and Legal  Services  Agreement  dated January 1, 1996, as amended
July 1, 2004,  between the John Hancock Funds listed on Schedule A ("Funds") and
John Hancock Advisers,  LLC  ("Administrator") is amended as follows,  effective
April 1, 2005:

     1.   (B)  Services.  Legal  services  shall  include  services  of the John
          Hancock Life  Insurance  Company's JH Funds legal group and  responses
          prepared by the John Hancock  Life  Insurance  Company  legal staff on
          behalf of the Funds to subpoenas and appropriate  information requests
          for shareholder records.


JOHN HANCOCK FUNDS (See Schedule A)



By:  James A. Shepherdson
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     Chief Executive Officer


JOHN HANCOCK ADVISERS, LLC



By:  Susan S. Newton
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     Senior Vice President, Secretary
     and Chief Legal Officer