ASSISTANT SECRETARY'S CERTIFICATE
I, Robert R. Mullery, Assistant Secretary of Dreyfus Investment Grade
Bond Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") hereby certify the following resolution was
adopted by written consent dated March 22, 2000 as to the Fund, and remains
in full force and effect on the date hereof, with the exceptions that: Mark
Kornfeld, Assistant General Counsel, resigned his position as of April 10,
2000; and Robert R. Glauber, Director, resigned his position as of October
2, 2000:
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 re-substitution; and
that the appointment of each of such persons as such
attorney-in-fact is hereby 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 whom he
or she is acting as attorney-in-fact, might or could do
in person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand as Assistant Secretary
of the Funds and affixed the seal this 30th day of November, 2000.
/s/ Robert R. Mullery
Robert R. Mullery
Assistant Secretary