ITEM 24.(b)
OTHER EXHIBIT (b)
GENERAL MUNICIPAL BOND FUND, INC.
Certificate of Assistant Secretary
The undersigned, Janette E. Farragher, Assistant Secretary of General
Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (the "Fund"), hereby certifies that set forth below is
a copy of the resolution adopted by the Fund's Board authorizing the signing by
Mark N. Jacobs, Steven F. Newman, Michael A. Rosenberg, John B. Hammalian, Jeff
Prusnofsky, Robert R. Mullery, Janette E. Farragher, and Mark Kornfeld on behalf
of the proper officers of the Fund pursuant to a power of attorney:
RESOLVED, that the Registration Statement and any and all
amendments and supplements thereto, may be signed by any one of
Mark N. Jacobs, Steven F. Newman, Michael A. Rosenberg, John B.
Hammalian, Jeff Prusnofsky, Robert R. Mullery, Janette E.
Farragher, and Mark Kornfeld as the attorney-in-fact for the proper
officers of the Fund, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution; and that the appointment of each of such persons as
such attorney-in-fact, hereby is authorized and approved; and that
such attorneys-in-fact; and each of them, shall have full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite
and necessary to be done in connection with such Registration
Statement and any and all amendments and supplements thereto, as
fully to all intents and purposes as the officer, for whom he or
she is acting as attorney-in-fact, might or could do in person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of
the Fund on June 27, 2000.
/s/ Janette E. Farragher
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Janette E. Farragher,
Assistant Secretary
(SEAL)
