DREYFUS BALANCED FUND, INC.
Certificate of Assistant Secretary
The undersigned, Robert R. Mullery, Assistant Secretary of
Dreyfus Balanced 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, and
Janette Farragher, 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 and Janette Farragher, 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
29th day of December 2000.
/s/ Robert R. Mullery
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Robert R. Mullery
Assistant Secretary
(SEAL)
DREYFUS BALANCED FUND, INC.
