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Each Fund typically pays itsNominee and Continuing Board members its allocated portionMember, with the exception of an annual retainerMses. Bovich, France and Gulley and Mr. DiLecce, has been a fee per meeting attended for the Fund and other funds in The DreyfusBNY Mellon Family of Funds board member for over twenty years. Ms. Bovich has been in the asset management business for 40 years, Ms. France has more than 35 years of strategy, investment banking and reimbursescorporate finance experience and Ms. Gulley was in the asset management business for more than 30 years prior to her retirement in 2014. Mr. DiLecce has over 30 years of experience as an accountant with independent registered public accounting firms. Additional information about each Nominee follows (supplementing the information provided in the table above) that describes some of the specific experiences, qualifications, attributes or skills that each Nominee possesses which the respective Board believes has prepared them to be effective Board Members (this information for the Continuing Board Members is set forth on Exhibit A). Each Board believes that the significance of each Board Member's experience, qualifications, attributes or skills is an individual matter (meaning that experience that is important for one Board Member may not have the same value for another) and that these factors are best evaluated at the Board level, with no single Board Member, or particular factor, being indicative of Board effectiveness. However, each Board believes that Board Members need to have the ability to critically review, evaluate, question and discuss information provided to them, and to interact effectively with Fund management, service providers and counsel, in order to exercise effective business judgment in the performance of their expenses. Withduties; each Board believes that its members satisfy this standard. Experience relevant to having this ability may be achieved through a Board Member's educational background; business or professional training or practice (e.g., medicine, accounting or law); public service or academic positions; experience from service as a board member (including the Board of the Fund) or as an executive of investment funds, public companies or significant private or not-for-profit entities or other organizations; and/or other life experiences. The charter for each Board's nominating committee contains certain other factors considered by the committee in identifying and evaluating potential Independent Board

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Member nominees. To assist them in evaluating matters under federal and state law, the Board Members are counseled by their independent legal counsel, who participates in Board meetings and interacts with the Investment Adviser and also may benefit from information provided by the Investment Adviser's counsel; counsel to the Funds and to the Boards has significant experience advising funds and fund board members. Each Board and its committees have the ability to engage other experts as appropriate. Each Board evaluates its performance on an annual basis.

Francine J. Bovich – Ms. Bovich currently serves as a Trustee for The Bradley Trusts, private trust funds, and as a Director of Annaly Capital Management, Inc. She is an Emeritus Trustee of Connecticut College, and served as a Trustee from 1986 to 1997. She currently serves as a member of the Investment Committee (formerly, the Investment Sub Committee) for Connecticut College's endowment fund and served as Chair of the Investment Sub Committee until June 2020. From April 1993 until September 2010, Ms. Bovich was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, holding various positions including Co-Head of Global Tactical Asset Allocation Group, Operations Officer, and Head of the U.S. Institutional Equity Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Ms. Bovich was Principal, Executive Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager at Westwood Management Corporation, where she worked from 1986 until 1993. From 1980 to 1986, she worked at CitiCorp Investment Management, Inc. as Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager. From 1973 to 1980, Ms. Bovich was an Assistant Vice President and Equity Portfolio Manager at Bankers Trust Company. From 1991 to 2005, she served as U.S. Representative to the United Nations Investments Committee, advising a global portfolio of approximately $30 billion.

Michael D. DiLecce – Mr. DiLecce retired as a Partner at the accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP in June 2022. Mr. DiLecce has substantial accounting, investment management, and executive experience serving firms within the investment management industry. From August 1983 to June 2022, Mr. DiLecce was an auditor at Ernst & Young LLP where he served as Global Assurance Leader of Asset Management and as the audit partner for various investment company complexes. In addition, from July 2017 to June 2021, Mr. DiLecce was the Americas Regional Talent Managing Partner for Ernst & Young's Financial Service practice. He was an Assurance Partner at Ernst & Young LLP from 1997 to 2022. Mr. DiLecce currently serves as an Advisory Board Member of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity firm focusing on investments in technology and healthcare companies.

Gina D. France – Ms. France serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of France Strategic Partners. Before founding France Strategic Partners in 2003, Ms. France was a managing director of Ernst & Young LLP where she led a national client-facing strategy group. She has served as a strategic advisor to over 250 companies throughout the course of her career. Ms. France has more than 35 years of strategy, investment banking and corporate finance experience. Previously, Ms. France was an investment banker with Lehman Brothers in New York and San Francisco. Prior to Lehman Brothers, she served as the international cash manager of Marathon Oil Company. Ms. France has served on several corporate boards including: Huntington Bancshares (investment company oversight committee chair); Cedar Fair, L.P. (audit committee chair); CBIZ, Inc.; Baldwin Wallace University; FirstMerit Corporation (nominating and governance committee chair); Dawn Food Products, Inc.; and Mack Industries. Ms. France served as Director of Cedar Fair, L.P. from 2011 to May 2023 and served as a Trustee of Dance Cleveland, a non-profit, from 2001 to June 2023.

Joan L. Gulley – Ms. Gulley served in various senior roles at PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. ("PNC") from 1993 until her retirement in 2014, including Chief Executive Officer of PNC Advisors, the wealth management and institutional services business of PNC, from 2002 to 2005, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of PNC from 2002 to 2007, and Executive Vice President ("EVP") and Chief Human Resources Officer ("CHRO") of PNC from 2008 until 2014. In her role as EVP and CHRO of PNC, Ms. Gulley was responsible for the oversight of $8 billion in combined pension and 401(k) assets.

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Ms. Gulley also served as a member of PNC's Executive Committee from 2008 to 2014, where she participated in all key strategic and operational decisions affecting PNC, and was responsible for all staff support to the PNC Board's Personnel and Compensation Committee with respect to AF, DIF, DMIF, DFMFI, DPMFIIexecutive compensation, succession planning, talent management, human resource regulatory matters and DSIF only,diversity. Prior to joining PNC, Ms. Gulley held positions with The Massachusetts Company, a chartered bank and subsidiary of The Travelers Insurance Company, which was acquired by PNC in 1993, and with branches of the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington D.C. Ms. Gulley currently serves as a Governor and President of the Orchard Island Club and from 2015 to 2021 served on the Board of Trustees of the Nantucket Atheneum.

Nathan Leventhal – Mr. Leventhal was previously a Commissioner of the New York City Planning Commission. Previously, Mr. Leventhal served in a number of senior positions in New York City Government, including Fiscal Director of the Human Resources Administration and Chief of Staff to Mayor John V. Lindsay, Deputy Mayor to Mayor Ed Koch, and Transition Chairman for both Mayors David Dinkins and Michael Bloomberg. Mr. Leventhal is a former partner in the law firm Poletti Freidin Prashker Feldman & Gartner. Mr. Leventhal is a member of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Town of Southampton in Suffolk County New York. In the not-for-profit sector, Mr. Leventhal serves as President of the Palm Beach Opera and served as President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Chairman of the Board receives an additional 25%Avery Fisher Artist Program; he is now President Emeritus of such compensation. Emeritus Board members of a Fund are entitled to receive an annual retainer and a per meeting attended fee of one-half the amount paid to them as Board members. For information on the amount of compensation paid to each current Board member by a FundLincoln Center for the Fund’s last fiscal year,Performing Arts.

Robin A. Melvin – From 2014 to 2020, Ms. Melvin served as Co-Chair of Mentor Illinois, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the quantity and paid by all fundsquality of mentoring services in The Dreyfus Family of Funds for which such person wasIllinois, and served as a Board member forfrom 2013 to 2020. Ms. Melvin served as Director of the year ended December 31, 2005, see Exhibit ABoisi Family Foundation, a private family foundation that supports organizations serving the needs of youth from disadvantaged circumstances, from 1995 to this Proxy Statement.2012. In that role she also managed the Boisi Family Office, providing the primary interface with all investment managers, legal advisors and other service providers to the family. She has also served in various roles with MENTOR, a national non-profit youth mentoring advocacy organization, including Executive Director of the New York City affiliate, Vice President of the national affiliate network, Vice President of Development, and, immediately prior to her departure, Senior Vice President in charge of strategy. Prior to that, Ms. Melvin was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Ms. Melvin served as a Board member of JDRF, a non-profit juvenile diabetes research foundation from June 2021 to June 2022. She also serves as a Trustee of HPS Corporate Lending Fund, a closed-end management investment company regulated as a business development company (August 2021 to present), and served as a Trustee of Westover School, a private girls boarding school in Middlebury, Connecticut from 2019 to June 2023.

Fund Board Committees. Each Fund has a standing audit, nominating, compensation and compensation committee,litigation committees, each of which is comprised of the Fund’sits Independent Board members. For informationMembers, except that Joseph S. DiMartino does not serve on the number of committee meetings held during a Fund’s last fiscal year, see Exhibit A to this Proxy Statement.compensation committees.

The function of each Fund’sthe audit committee (the “Audit Committee”)of each Fund is (1) to (i) oversee the Fund’sFund's accounting and financial reporting processes and the audits of the Fund’sFund's financial statements and (ii)(2) to assist in the Board’sBoard's oversight of the integrity of the Fund’sFund's financial statements, the Fund’sFund's compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and the qualifications, independence and performance of the Fund's independent registered public accounting firm’s qualifications, independencefirm. A copy of each Fund's Audit Committee Charter, which describes the audit committee's purposes, duties and performance.responsibilities, is available at www.im.bnymellon.com. Each Fund's audit committee has determined that at least one Board Member qualifies as an audit committee financial expert under the securities laws and Gina D. France has been designated as the audit committee financial expert for each of BNYMAD, BNYMIF, BNYMIF V, BNYMIF VI, BNYMMIF, BNYMNJMBF, BNYMRGF, BNYMSIF and BNYMVIF and Joseph S. DiMartino has been designated as the audit

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committee financial expert for each of BNYMAF, BNYMNYAFMBF, BNYMOMSF, BNYMWGF, GMMF, GMMMF and GNYMMMF.

Each Fund’sFund's nominating committee is composed entirely of the Fund’s Independent Board members and is responsible for selecting and nominating persons as members of the Board for election or appointment by the Board and for election by stockholders.shareholders. In evaluating potential nominees, including any nominees recommended by stockholders,shareholders, the committee takes into consideration variousthe factors listed in the nominating committee charter,each Fund's Nominating Committee Charter and Procedures (the "Nominating Committee Charter"), including character and integrity, and business and professional experience, and whether the committee believes the person has the ability to apply sound and independent business judgment and would act in the interest of the Fund and its shareholders.experience. The nominating committee may consider whether a potential nominee's professional experience, education, skills and other individual qualities and attributes, including gender, race or national origin, would provide beneficial diversity of skills, experience or perspective to the Board's membership and collective attributes. Such considerations will vary based on the Board's existing membership and other factors, such as the strength of a potential nominee's overall qualifications relative to diversity considerations. The committee will consider recommendations for nominees from shareholders submitted to the Secretary of the Fund, c/o The Dreyfus CorporationBNY Mellon Investment Adviser Legal Department, 200 Park Avenue, 8th240 Greenwich Street, 18th Floor, East, New York, New York 10166, which includes10286, and including information regarding the recommended nominee as specified in the nominating committee charter. A copy of the Funds’ nominating committee charterNominating Committee Charter. The Nominating Committee Charter is set forth inattached as Exhibit B to this Proxy Statement.combined proxy statement.

The function of the compensation committee is to establish the appropriate compensation for serving on the Board.

The litigation committee seeks to address any potential conflicts of interest between the Funds and the Investment Adviser in connection with any potential or existing litigation or other legal proceeding relating to securities held by a Fund and held or otherwise deemed to have a beneficial interest held by the Investment Adviser or its affiliate.

Compensation. Each Nominee, except Mr. DiLecce, currently serves as a Board Member of multiple funds in the BNY Mellon Family of Funds. Annual retainer fees and meeting attendance fees are allocated on the basis of net assets, with the Chairman of each Board, Mr. DiMartino, receiving an additional 25% of such compensation. Each Fund reimburses Board Members for travel and out-of-pocket expenses in connection with attending Board or committee meetings. The Funds do not have a bonus, pension, profit-sharing or retirement plan.

The amount of compensation paid to each Nominee by each Fund for its most recent fiscal year and the aggregate amount of compensation paid to each such Nominee by all funds in the BNY Mellon Family of Funds for which the Nominee was a Board Member during 2022, was as follows:

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* Amounts shown do not include expenses reimbursed to Nominees for attending Board meetings. Amounts shown also hasdo not include the costs of office space and related parking, office supplies and secretarial services, which are paid by the Funds (allocated among the funds in the BNY Mellon Family of Funds based on net assets), which, in 2022, for the Funds ranged from $28 to $2,526 ($19,383 for all Funds).

** Represents the number of separate portfolios comprising the investment companies in the fund complex, including the Funds, for which the Nominee served as a standing pricing/evaluation committee comprisedboard member in 2022.

*** Mr. DiLecce became an advisory board member of any one Board member. The function ofBNYMAD, BNYMIF, BNYMIF V, BNYMIF VI, BNYMMIF, BNYMNJMBF, BNYMRGF, BNYMSIF and BNYMVIF in October 2022 and receives compensation from the pricing/evaluation committee is to assistfunds for attending board meetings in valuing the Fund’s investments.an advisory role.

Required Vote

For each Fund's most recent fiscal year, the number of Board and committee meetings held and the amount of compensation paid by each Fund to the Continuing Board Members and the aggregate amount of compensation paid by all funds in the BNY Mellon Family of Funds for which each such person was a Board Member in 2022 are set forth on Exhibit A. Certain other information concerning each Fund's Board Members and officers also is set forth on Exhibit A.

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Required Vote

The election of a Nominee for each Fund requires the affirmative vote of a plurality of votes cast at the MeetingFund's meeting for the election of Board members of the Fund.Members, if a quorum is present.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The 1940 Act requires that each Fund’sFund's independent registered public accounting firm (the “independent auditors”"independent auditors" or "auditors") be selected by a majority of the Independent Board membersMembers. The audit committee has direct responsibility for the appointment, compensation, retention and oversight of the Fund. One of the purposes of each Fund’s Audit Committee is to recommend to the Fund’s Board the selection, retention or termination ofFund's independent auditors for the Fund. The Audit Committee of each of DIF, DSIF and DPMFII recommended,auditors. Each Fund's audit committee approved and each such Fund’sFund's Board, including a majority of itsthe Independent Board members, approved, the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PWC”),Members, ratified and each other Fund’s Audit Committee recommended, and each such Fund’s Board, including a majority of its Independent Board members, approved the selection of Ernst & Young LLP (“Ernst & Young”("EY"), as such Fund’sthe independent auditors for the Fund’s currentrespective Fund's fiscal year. Representativesyear ended in 2023 or 2024, as applicable, at a meeting held on the date set forth for each Fund on Schedule 3 to this combined proxy statement. EY, a major international accounting firm, has acted as independent auditors of Ernst & Youngeach Fund since the Fund's organization.

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm Fees and PWCServices

The following chart reflects fees billed by EY in each Fund's last two fiscal years. For Service Affiliates (i.e., the Investment Adviser and any entity controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Investment Adviser that provides ongoing services to the relevant Fund), such fees represent only those fees that required pre-approval by the audit committee, except the Aggregate Non-Audit Fees amounts, which include all non-audit fees billed by EY to the Fund and Service Affiliates. All services provided by EY were pre-approved as required.

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Audit Committee Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures. Each Fund's audit committee has established policies and procedures (the "Policy") for pre-approval (within specified fee limits) of EY's engagement for audit and non-audit services to the Fund and non-audit services to Service Affiliates without specific case-by-case consideration. The pre-approved services in the Policy can include pre-approved audit services, pre-approved audit-related services, pre-approved tax services and pre-approved all other services. Pre-approval considerations include whether the proposed services are expectedcompatible with maintaining EY's independence. Pre-approvals pursuant to the Policy are considered annually. In addition, proposed services requiring pre-approval but not covered by the Policy are considered from time to time as necessary.

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Auditor Independence. Each Fund's audit committee has considered whether the provision of non-audit services that were rendered to Service Affiliates that did not require pre-approval is compatible with maintaining EY's independence.

A representative of EY will be present atavailable to join the Meeting, and will have anthe opportunity to make a statement (if the representatives so desire) and will be available to respond to appropriate questions. After reviewing the relevant Fund’s audited financial statements for the Fund’s most recently completed fiscal year, each Fund’s Audit Committee recommended to the Fund’s Board that such statements be included in the Fund’s Annual Report to Stockholders.

           Information regarding the audit and related fees that the independent auditors charged the Funds is set forth in Exhibit A.Service Providers

          The Audit Committee for each Fund considered the compatibility of any non-audit services with the independence of PWC or Ernst & Young LLP, as the case may be.

BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Distributor and Transfer Agent

           Dreyfus,Inc., located at 200 Park Avenue,240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10166,10286, serves as each Fund’sFund's investment adviser.

           Dreyfus ServiceBNY Mellon Securities Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dreyfus with principal officesthe Investment Adviser, located at 200 Park Avenue,240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10166,10286, serves as the distributor (i.e., principal underwriter) of each Fund’s distributor.Fund's shares.

           Dreyfus Transfer, Inc.The Bank of New York Mellon ("BNY Mellon"), a wholly-owned subsidiaryan affiliate of Dreyfus, 200 Park Avenue,the Investment Adviser, located at 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10166, serves10286, acts as custodian for the assets of each Fund’s transferFund.

BNY Mellon Transfer, Inc., an affiliate of the Investment Adviser, located at 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10286, acts as Transfer Agent, Dividend-Paying Agent and dividend disbursing agent.Registrar for each Fund.

Voting Information

          EachTo vote, you may use any of the following methods:

For each Fund, the shareholders of all series and classes of shares of the Fund will bear its pro rata sharevote together as a single class to elect Nominees and the voting power of the costshares of soliciting proxies based oneach series and class of shares will be counted together in determining the net assetsresults of the Fund. In addition tovoting. Total voting power of a Fund taken as a whole is determined by the usenumber of shares outstanding (including fractional shares) of the mails, proxies may be solicited personally or by telephone, and each Fund may pay persons holding Fund shares in their names or thoseas of their nominees for their expenses in sending soliciting materials to their principals. Certain Funds may retain a proxy solicitor to assist in the solicitation of proxies primarily by contacting stockholders by telephone, which is expected to cost approximately $80,000 plus any out of pocket expenses, such cost to be borne pro rata among such Funds based on their net assets. Authorizations to execute proxies may be obtained by telephonic instructions in accordance with procedures designed to authenticate the stockholder’s identity. In all cases where a telephonic proxy is solicited (as opposed to where the stockholder calls the toll-free number directly to vote), the stockholder will be asked to provide his or her address and social security number (in the case of an individual) or taxpayer identification number (in the case of a non-individual) and to confirm that the stockholder has received the Fund’s proxy statement and proxy card in the mail. Within 72 hours of receiving a stockholder’s telephonic voting instructions, a confirmation will be sent to the stockholder to ensure that the vote has been taken in accordance with the stockholder’s instructions and to provide a telephone number to call immediately if the stockholder’s instructions are not correctly reflected in the confirmation. Record Date.

Shares represented by executed and unrevoked proxies will be voted in accordance with the specifications made thereon, and, if no voting instructions are given, shares will be voted “FOR” the"for" a proposal. Any stockholder giving a proxy may revoke it at any time before it is exercised by submitting to the Fund a written notice of revocation or a subsequently executed proxy, by calling the toll-free telephone number or through the Internet, or by attending the Meeting and voting in person.

If a proxy is properly executed and returned accompanied by instructions to withhold authority to vote or represents a broker “non-vote”"non-vote" (that is, a proxy from a broker or nominee indicating that such person has not received instructions from the beneficial owner or other person entitled to vote shares of a Fund shares on a particular matter with respect to which the broker or nominee does not have a discretionary power) or is marked with an abstention (collectively, “abstentions”), the Fund

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Fund's shares represented thereby will be considered to be present at the Meeting for purposes of determining the existence of a quorum for the transaction of business. Abstentionsbusiness, but will not constitute a vote "for" a proposal and will have no effect on the result of the vote. However, because the Funds understand that a broker or nominee may exercise discretionary voting power with respect to the proposal to elect Board members, and there are no other proposals expected to come before the Meeting for which a broker or nominee would not have discretionary voting authority, the Funds do not anticipate that there will be any "broker non-votes" at the Meeting.

If you hold shares of a Fund through a broker-dealer or other intermediary that has entered into a service agreement with the Fund or the Fund's distributor, such intermediary may be the record holder of your shares. At the Meeting, an intermediary will vote shares for which it receives instructions from its customers in accordance with those instructions. A signed proxy card or other authorization by a shareholder that does not specify how the shareholder's shares should be voted on the proposal may be deemed to authorize the intermediary to vote such shares in favor of the proposal.proposal to elect Board members. Depending on its policies, applicable law or contractual or other restrictions, an intermediary may be permitted to vote shares with respect to which it has not received voting instructions from its customers. In those cases, the intermediary may, but may not be required to, vote such shares in the same proportion as those shares for which the intermediary has received voting instructions. Because of this practice, a small number of shareholders could determine how a Fund votes, if other shareholders fail to vote.

          If a quorum is not present at the Meeting, the persons named as proxies may propose one or more adjournments of the Meeting to permit further solicitation of proxies.

Shares of Dreyfus Variable Investment FundBNYMSIF and Dreyfus Stock Index Fund, Inc.BNYMVIF have been offered only to separate accounts established by insurance companies (“("Participating Insurance Companies”Companies") to fund variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies (collectively referred to as the “Policies”"Policies"). As the owner of all of the assets held in such separate accounts, the Participating Insurance Companies are the record owners of such Fund’sFund's shares. However, pursuant to applicable laws, Fund shares held in a separate account which are attributable to Policies will be voted by the relevant Participating Insurance Company in accordance with instructions received from the holders of the Policies (“Policyowners”("Policyowners"). Participating Insurance Companies have agreed to solicit instructions from Policyowners holding Fund shares in the relevant separate account as of the record date of the Meeting and to vote by proxy the shares at the Meeting according to such instructions. To be effective, voting instructions must be received by Participating Insurance Companies prior to the close of business on June 28, 2006.Tuesday October 10, 2023. Such instructions may be revoked at any time prior to the Meeting either by written notice of revocation or another voting instructions form delivered to the relevant Participating Insurance Company. Participating Insurance Companies will vote by proxy (i) Fund shares as to which no timely instructions are received, (ii) Fund shares owned exclusively by the relevant Participating Insurance Company or its affiliates and (iii) Fund shares held in the separate account representing charges imposed by the relevant Participating Insurance Company against the separate account for or against the relevant proposal in the same proportionproportions as the voting instructions received from Policyowners. Because of this practice, a small number of Policyowners could determine how each such Fund votes, if other Policyowners fail to provide voting instructions. Additional information regarding voting instruction rights is provided in the prospectus or statement of additional information for the Policies.

With respect to BNY Mellon Adviser-sponsored IRAs, the Individual Retirement Custodial Account Agreement governing the IRAs requires BNY Mellon, as the custodian of the IRAs, to vote Fund shares held in such IRAs in accordance with the IRA shareholder's instructions. BNY Mellon will solicit instructions from such IRA shareholders. To be effective, voting instructions must be received prior to the close of business on Tuesday October 10, 2023. However, if no voting instructions are received, BNY Mellon will vote the IRA shares in the same proportions as it votes the shares for which properly conveyed instructions are timely received from other BNY Mellon Adviser-sponsored IRA shareholders. Because of this practice, a small number of shareholders could determine how the Fund votes, if other shareholders fail to vote.

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The cost of preparing, printing and mailing this combined proxy statement and the attached Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders and the accompanying proxy card(s), as well as the costs associated with the proxy solicitation, which is estimated to total approximately $1,205,960, will be borne by the Funds. These costs are estimated to range from $6,400 to $213,530 for the Funds and are set forth for each Fund on Schedule 4. Solicitation may be made by officers or employees of BNY Mellon Adviser, or by dealers and their representatives. In addition to the use of the mail, proxies may be solicited personally or by telephone, and the Funds or BNY Mellon Adviser may pay persons holding Fund shares in their names or those of their nominees for their expenses in sending soliciting materials to their principals. The Funds will retain Equiniti Fund Solutions, LLC (the "Proxy Solicitor") to assist in the solicitation of proxies, primarily by contacting shareholders by telephone. The cost of the Proxy Solicitor is estimated to be approximately $31,400, which amount is included in the estimated total expenses listed above.

Authorizations to execute proxies may be obtained by telephonic or electronically transmitted instructions in accordance with procedures designed to authenticate the shareholder's identity. In all cases where a telephonic proxy is solicited (as opposed to where the shareholder calls the toll-free telephone number directly to vote), the shareholder will be asked to provide or confirm certain identifiable information and to confirm that the shareholder has received the Funds' combined proxy statement and proxy card(s). Within 72 hours of receiving such telephonic or electronically transmitted voting instructions from a shareholder, a confirmation will be sent to the shareholder to ensure that the vote has been taken in accordance with the shareholder's instructions and to provide a telephone number to call immediately if the shareholder's instructions are not correctly reflected in the confirmation. Any Fund shareholder giving a proxy by telephone or electronically may revoke it at any time before it is exercised by sending a written notice of revocation to the proxy tabulator at the address listed on the proxy card, by submitting a new proxy to the Fund or by attending the Meeting and voting virtually.

With respect to BNYMAD, BNYMAF, BNYMIF, BNYMIF V, BNYMMIF, BNYMNJMBF, BNYMRGF, BNYMSIF, BNYMWGF, GMMF and GMMMF, 33-1/3% of the Fund's shares entitled to vote constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business at the Meeting. With respect to BNYMIF VI, BNYMVIF, BNYMNYAFMBF, BNYMOMSF and GNYMMMF, 30% of the Fund's shares entitled to vote constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business at the Meeting. Virtual attendance at the Meeting shall constitute in person attendance for purposes of calculating a quorum. If a quorum is not present at the Meeting for a Fund, the persons named as proxies may propose one or more adjournments of the Meeting with respect to that Fund to permit further solicitation of proxies. Any adjournment will require the affirmative vote of a majority of those shares represented at the Meeting virtually or by proxy.

OTHER MATTERS

          No Fund’sEach Fund's Board is not aware of any other mattersmatter which may come before the Meeting. However, should any such mattersmatter with respect to one or more Funds properly come before the Meeting, it is the intention of the persons named in the accompanying formforms of proxy to vote the proxy in accordance with their judgment on such matters.matter.

NOTICE TO BANKS, BROKER/DEALERS AND VOTING TRUSTEES
AND THEIR NOMINEESNone of the Funds hold annual meetings of shareholders. Any shareholder proposal for inclusion in a proxy statement for a Fund's next shareholder meeting subsequent to this Meeting, if any, must be received by the Fund's Secretary at the offices of the Fund, 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10286, in a reasonable period of time before the Fund begins to print and mail the proxy materials for such meeting. Under the proxy rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, shareholder proposals meeting requirements contained in those rules may, under certain conditions, be included in a Fund's proxy materials for a particular meeting of shareholders. One of these conditions relates to the timely receipt by the Fund of any such proposal. The fact that a Fund receives a shareholder proposal in a timely manner does not,

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however, ensure its inclusion in the appropriate Fund,Fund's proxy materials since there are other requirements in care of Dreyfus Transfer, Inc., P.O. Box 9263, Boston, Massachusetts 02205-8501, whether other persons are the beneficial owners of Fund shares for which proxies are being solicited from you, and, if so, the number of copies of this Proxy Statement and other soliciting material youproxy rules relating to such inclusion.

Shareholders who wish to receive in order to supply copiescommunicate with Board Members should send communications to the beneficial ownersattention of shares.the Secretary of the Fund, c/o BNY Mellon Investment Adviser Legal Department, 240 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10286, and communications will be directed to the Board Member or Board Members indicated in the communication or, if no Board Member or Board Members are indicated, to the Chairman of the Board.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT PROXIES BE RETURNED PROMPTLY. THEREFORE, STOCKHOLDERSSHAREHOLDERS WHO DO NOT EXPECT TO ATTEND THE MEETING(S) IN PERSONMEETING VIRTUALLY ARE URGED TO COMPLETE, SIGN, DATE AND RETURNEACH ENCLOSED PROXY CARDCARD(S) IN THE ENCLOSED STAMPED ENVELOPE.ENVELOPE OR OTHERWISE VOTE PROMPTLY.

Dated: May 12, 2006August 14, 2023

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SCHEDULE 1

The following is a list of times at which each Fund’sFund's meeting will be held. With respect to those Funds that are series funds, the list also identifies each such Fund’s series.

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PERTAINING TO SHARE OWNERSHIP

Set forth below for each Fund is information as to the number of shares of the Fund outstanding and those stockholdersshareholders, if any, known by the Fund if any, to own of record or beneficially 5% or more of a class of the Fund’sFund's outstanding voting securities (including series thereof) as of AprilJuly 14, 2006. As2023.

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