DREYFUS DEBT AND EQUITY FUNDS
Certificate of Secretary
The undersigned, John B. Hammalian, Secretary of Dreyfus Debt and Equity
Funds (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 Consent as of the
11th day of October, 2000.
/s/ John B. Hammalian
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John B. Hammalian
Secretary
(SEAL)
DREYFUS DEBT AND EQUITY FUNDS
