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August 2, 1996
Securities and Exchange Commission
Public Filing Desk
450 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20549
RE: The Stratton Funds, Inc.
File Number 811-7434
Gentlemen:
In accordance with the provisions of Rule 497(j) of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, The Stratton Funds, Inc. (the "Fund") certifies that:
- The form of prospectus and Statement of Additional Information
that would have been filed under Paragraph of Section 497 of the
Act would not have differed from that contained in the
Post-Effective Amendment No. 5; and
- the text of the Post-Effective No. 5 was filed on July 29, 1996
via edgar as part of submission 485BPOS for the Fund.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ William J. Baltrus
William J. Baltrus
Attorney-in-Fact
cc: Carol Royce (SSCY)
Robert Juelke, Esq. (DBR)
John Woodcock (TWB)<PAGE>
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned constitutes and appoints
Joseph M. O'Donnell, Gerald J. Holland, and William J. Baltrus and each of
them, with full power to act without the other, as true and lawful attorney-
in-fact and agent, with full and several power of substitution, to sign any
Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement of The Stratton Funds,
Inc. (the "Fund") to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission; granting to
such attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority
to do and perform each and every act requisite and necessary to be done in
connection therewith, as fully as Carol L. Royce might or could do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents or
any of them, or their or his/her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Power of Attorney on the
27th day of March, 1995.
/s/ Carol Royce
______________________________
Carol L. Royce
Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
State of Pennsylvania )
) ss:
County of Montgomery )
The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on this 27th day of March,
1995 by Carol L. Royce, Asssitant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer of The
Stratton Funds, Inc.
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NOTARY PUBLIC
In and for the County of Montgomery
State of Pennsylvania
My Commission Expires: Sept 8, 1998
(NOTARIAL SEAL)<PAGE>
