DREYFUS BASIC MUNICIPAL FUND, INC.
Certificate of Secretary
The undersigned, John B. Hammalian, Secretary of Dreyfus BASIC Municipal
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 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
John B. Hammalian
Secretary
(SEAL)
DREYFUS BASIC MUNICIPAL FUND, INC.
