DREYFUS PREMIER MUNICIPAL BOND FUND

                             Certificate of Assistant Secretary

      The undersigned, Janette E. Farragher, Assistant Secretary of Dreyfus
Premier Municipal Bond Fund (the "Fund"), hereby certifies that set forth below
is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Fund's Board on March
16, 2000, on behalf of each Board member, and that such resolution remains in
full force and effect on the date hereof, with the exception that Mark Kornfeld,
Assistant General Counsel of The Dreyfus Corporation, resigned his position as
of April 10, 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
            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
            fully to all intents and purposes as the officer, for whom he or
            she 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 March 22, 2001.

                                                     /s/ Janette Farragher

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                                                     Janette Farragher
                                                     Assistant Secretary