The Motion to Dispose of the Reading of the Minutes of the Last Meeting of the Shareholders

There were 1,343,041 shares of class A, Berkshire Hathaway Common Stock Outstanding. With each share and title to one vote, emotions considered at the meeting. Of that number, 1,116,384 class A shares and 4,507,896 class B shares a representative of this meeting by proxies returned through Thursday evening, April 26. That number represents a quorum and we will therefore directly proceed with the meeting. The next item of business was scheduled to be a proposal put forth by Berkshire shareholder Bartlett Naylor. On April 20, 2001, Mr. Naylor advised us he was withdrawing his proposal. Accordingly, we will not have the proposal presented at this meeting.