CNIG Corning Natural Gas Holding Corporation (QX)

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Investment Company Act, the Fund certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Newark, and State of New Jersey, on the 12th day of March, 2014.

Prudential Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund, Inc.

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Stuart S. Parker, President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

Signature		Title		Date
* Ellen S. Alberding		Director
* Kevin J. Bannon		Director
* Scott E. Benjamin		Director
* Linda W. Bynoe		Director
* Keith F. Hartstein		Director
* Michael S. Hyland		Director
* Douglas H. McCorkindale		Director
* Stephen P. Munn		Director
* Stuart S. Parker		Director and President, Principal Executive Officer
* James E. Quinn		Director
* Richard A. Redeker		Director
* Robin B. Smith		Director
* Stephen Stoneburn		Director
* Grace C. Torres		Treasurer, Principal Financial and Accounting Officer
*By: /s/ Jonathan D. Shain Jonathan D. Shain		Attorney-in-Fact		March 12, 2014

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned Directors, Trustees and Officers of the Prudential Investments Mutual Funds, the Target Funds and The Prudential Variable Contract Accounts 2, 10 and 11 (collectively, the “Funds”), hereby constitute, appoint and authorize each of, Andrew French, Claudia DiGiacomo, Deborah A. Docs, Raymond A. O’Hara, Amanda S. Ryan, and Jonathan D. Shain, as true and lawful agents and attorneys-in-fact, to sign, execute and deliver on his or her behalf in the appropriate capacities indicated, any Registration Statements of the Funds on the appropriate forms, any and all amendments thereto (including pre- and post-effective amendments), and any and all supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, including Form N-PX, Forms 3, 4 and 5, as appropriate, to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and the securities regulators of appropriate states and territories, and generally to do all such things in his or her name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorney-in-fact deems necessary or appropriate to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, all related requirements of the SEC and all requirements of appropriate states and territories.  The undersigned do hereby give to said agents and attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to act in these premises, including, but not limited to, the power to appoint a substitute or substitutes to act hereunder with the same power and authority as said agents and attorneys-in-fact would have if personally acting.  The undersigned do hereby approve, ratify and confirm all that said agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any substitute or substitutes, may do by virtue hereof.

/s/ Ellen S. Alberding Ellen S. Alberding		/s/ Stephen P. Munn Stephen P. Munn
/s/ Kevin J. Bannon Kevin J. Bannon		/s/ Stuart S. Parker Stuart S. Parker
/s/ Scott E. Benjamin Scott E. Benjamin		/s/ James E. Quinn James E. Quinn
/s/ Linda W. Bynoe Linda W. Bynoe		/s/ Richard A. Redeker Richard A. Redeker
/s/ Keith F. Hartstein Keith F. Hartstein		/s/Robin B. Smith Robin B. Smith
/s/ Michael S. Hyland Michael S. Hyland		/s/ Stephen Stoneburn Stephen Stoneburn
/s/ Douglas H. McCorkindale Douglas H. McCorkindale		/s/ Grace C. Torres Grace C. Torres
Dated: September 18, 2013