AMENDMENT OF RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
                               OF
                  LEGGETT & PLATT, INCORPORATED

TO:  Honorable Rebecca McDowell Cook
     Secretary of State
     State of Missouri
     Corporation Division
     PO Box 778
     Jefferson City, MO  65102

      Pursuant  to  the  provisions of The General  and  Business
Corporation   Law   of  Missouri,  the  undersigned   Corporation
certifies the following:

                               I.
      The  present  name of the Corporation is Leggett  &  Platt,
Incorporated.   The name under which it was originally  organized
was Leggett & Platt Spring Bed and Manufacturing Company.

                               II.
      An  amendment  to  the Corporation's Restated  Articles  of
Incorporation was adopted by the shareholders on May 12, 1999.

                              III.
     The amendment is as follows:
     The introductory paragraph of Article III is amended to read
in its entirety as follows:

          "The  aggregate  number of shares  which  the
          corporation shall have the authority to issue
          is  Six  Hundred Million (600,000,000) shares
          of  Common Stock of One Cent ($.01) par value
          and  One Hundred Million (100,000,000) shares
          of Preferred Stock without par value."

                               IV.
      The only class of the Corporation's securities entitled  to
vote  on this amendment was the Corporation's Common Stock,  $.01
par  value.  Of the 197,803,977 shares of Common Stock, $.01  par
value,  issued and outstanding, 173,772,729 shares were  entitled
to  vote on the amendment.  No outstanding shares an any class of
securities were entitled to vote as a class on the amendment.
      The number of shares of Common Stock, $.01 par value, voted
for and against the amendment was as follows:

  No. of Shares Voted For  No. of Shares Voted Against No.of Shares Abstained
  -----------------------  --------------------------- ----------------------
        145,869,529               27,449,683                   453,517


      IN  WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, Ernest C. Jett,  Vice
President  of  Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, has  executed  this
instruments and Shonna L. Koch, Assistant Secretary of Leggett  &
Platt,  Incorporated, has affixed its corporate seal  hereto  and
attested said seal on the 20th day of May, 1999.

(CORPORATE SEAL)                        LEGGETT & PLATT,
INCORPORATED
ATTEST:


/s/ Shonna L. Koch                          /s/ Ernest C. Jett
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Shonna L. Koch, Assistant Secretary         Ernest C. Jett, Vice President


State of MISSOURI   )
                    )    ss.
County of JASPER    )

 I,  Valerie L. Day, a Notary Public, do hereby certify that
on  this  20th day of May, 1999, personally appeared  before  me
Ernest  C. Jett who, being by me first duly sworn, declared  that
he  is the Vice President of Leggett & Platt, Incorporated,  that
he  signed  the  foregoing documents as  Vice  President  of  the
Corporation, and that the statements therein contained are true.

(Notarial Seal)

                                             /s/ Valerie L. Day
                                             ----------------------
                                             Notary Public

                                   My Commission Expires: 6/27/2000