CERTIFICATE DECREASING SHARES CONSTITUTING
                             EQUITY STOCK, SERIES A
                                       OF
                              PUBLIC STORAGE, INC.

            [As Filed in the Office of the Secretary of State of the
                      State of California November 5, 1999]


                  The  undersigned,  David Goldberg and Sarah Hass,  Senior Vice
President and Secretary,  respectively,  of PUBLIC  STORAGE,  INC., a California
corporation (the "Corporation"), do hereby certify:

                  FIRST:  Pursuant to and in accordance  with the  provisions of
Section 401 of the  California  Corporations  Code and the Restated  Articles of
Incorporation of the Corporation,  the Board of Directors of the Corporation has
duly adopted the resolution attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein
by reference  decreasing  the authorized  number of shares of the  Corporation's
Equity  Stock,  Series  A  to  zero.  The  decrease  in  the  number  of  shares
constituting Equity Stock, Series A is 225,000 shares.

                  SECOND: None of the shares of the Corporation's  Equity Stock,
Series A is outstanding.

                  We further  declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of
the State of California that the matters set forth in the foregoing  certificate
are true and correct of our own knowledge.

                  IN  WITNESS  WHEREOF,   the  undersigned  have  executed  this
certificate this 5th day of November, 1999.


                                          /S/ DAVID GOLDBERG
                                          -------------------------------------
                                          David Goldberg, Senior Vice President


                                          /S/ SARAH HASS
                                          -------------------------------------
                                          Sarah Hass, Secretary




                                                                       EXHIBIT A

                      RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
                             OF PUBLIC STORAGE, INC.

                       DECREASING THE AUTHORIZED NUMBER OF
                        SHARES OF EQUITY STOCK, SERIES A


                  RESOLVED:  That pursuant to the authority  conferred  upon the
Board of Directors by Article III of the Restated  Articles of  Incorporation of
this corporation,  the number of shares  constituting the  corporation's  Equity
Stock, Series A is decreased to zero.