THE DREYFUS PREMIER THIRD CENTURY FUND, INC.


                       Assistant Secretary's Certificate


     The undersigned, Jeff Prusnofsky, Assistant Secretary of The Dreyfus
Premier Third Century 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, Robert
Mullery, Jeff Prusnofsky and James Windels 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, James Windels, Michael A. Rosenberg,
             Steven F. Newman, Robert Mullery and Jeff Prusnofsky, 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 Statement and any and all
             amendments and supplements thereto, as fully to all intents
             and purposes as the officer, for whom he is acting as
             attorney-in-fact, might or could do in person.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of
the Fund on September 25, 2003.




/S/JEFF PRUSNOFSKY
Jeff Prusnofsky
Assistant Secretary