EXHIBIT 99.(a) (6)

                       DRYDEN GOVERNMENT INCOME FUND, INC.

                             ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY

                   INCREASING AND CLASSIFYING AUTHORIZED STOCK

        DRYDEN GOVERNMENT INCOME FUND, INC., a Maryland corporation, having its
principal office in Baltimore City, Maryland (hereinafter called the
"Corporation"), hereby certifies to the State Department of Assessments and
Taxation of Maryland that:

        FIRST: The Corporation is registered as an open-end company under the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act").

        SECOND: The Board of Directors has duly increased the total number of
shares of capital stock that the Corporation has authority to issue from
2,000,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, to 2,500,000,000
shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share. The Board of Directors has
further classified all of the newly authorized 500,000,000 shares of Common
Stock, as shares of Common Stock of a new class of the Corporation designated as
the Class R Common Stock.

        THIRD: As of immediately before the increase and classification, the
total number of shares of all classes and series of stock which the Corporation
has authority to issue is 2,000,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01
per share, having an aggregate par value of $20,000,000, classified and
designated as follows:



                                       
        Class A Common Stock              500,000,000 shares
        Class B Common Stock              500,000,000 shares
        Class C Common Stock              500,000,000 shares
        Class Z Common Stock              500,000,000 shares


        FOURTH: As of immediately after the increase and classification, the
total number of shares of all classes and series of stock which the Corporation
has authority to issue is 2,500,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01
per share, having an aggregate par value of $25,000,000, classified and
designated as follows:



                                       
        Class A Common Stock              500,000,000 shares
        Class B Common Stock              500,000,000 shares
        Class C Common Stock              500,000,000 shares
        Class R Common Stock              500,000,000 shares
        Class Z Common Stock              500,000,000 shares


        FIFTH: (a)  The foregoing does not change the preferences, conversion or
other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends,
qualifications, or terms or conditions of redemption, as set forth in the
Charter, of the classes and series of the capital stock of the Corporation
existing before the increase and classification.

     (b)  The terms of each newly authorized and classified shares of the
Class R Common Stock (including the preferences, conversion or other rights,
voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends and other
distributions, qualifications, or terms or conditions of redemption) shall be as
set forth in the Charter for the various classes of Common Stock of the
Corporation existing before the increase. Pursuant to the Charter, the Board of
Directors may establish such fees and sales charges in accordance with the 1940
Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc.

        SIXTH: The foregoing increase and classification has been approved by a
majority of the entire Board of Directors pursuant to authority expressly
granted to the Board of Directors by Section 2-105(c) of the Maryland General
Corporation Law, and in Article IV of the Charter of the Corporation.

        SEVENTH: The foregoing articles shall become effective upon filing with
the State Department of Assessments and Taxation of Maryland.



        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, DRYDEN GOVERNMENT INCOME FUND, INC., has caused
these presents to be signed in its name and on its behalf by its President and
witnessed by its Assistant Secretary on April 23, 2004.

WITNESS:                                   DRYDEN GOVERNMENT INCOME FUND,
                                           INC.


/s/Marguerite E.H. Morrison            By: /s/Judy A. Rice
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Marguerite E. H. Morrison                           Judy A. Rice, President
Assistant Secretary

        THE UNDERSIGNED, President of DRYDEN GOVERNMENT INCOME FUND, INC., who
executed on behalf of the Corporation the foregoing Articles Supplementary of
which this certificate is made a part, hereby acknowledges in the name and on
behalf of said Corporation the foregoing Articles Supplementary to be the
corporate act of said Corporation and hereby certifies that to the best of her
knowledge, information, and belief the matters and facts set forth therein with
respect to the authorization and approval thereof are true in all material
respects under the penalties of perjury.

                                               /s/Judy A. Rice
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                                                    Judy A. Rice, President