DREYFUS MASSACHUSETTS TAX EXEMPT BOND FUND
Certificate of Secretary
The undersigned, John B. Hammalian, Secretary of Dreyfus Massachusetts Tax
Exempt Bond Fund (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 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 Newman, Michael Rosenberg, John Hammalian, Jeff Prusnofsky,
Robert R. Mullery, Janette 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 Statements and any and all amendments and supplements
thereto, as whom he or she is acting as attorney-in-fact, might or
could do in person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Certificate as of
the 28th day of March, 2000.
/s/ John B. Hammalian
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John B. Hammalian
Secretary
(SEAL)
DREYFUS MASSACHUSETTS TAX EXEMPT BOND FUND
