Exhibit D

SPECIMEN

CERTIFICATE NUMBER NUMBER OF SHARES

TORTOISE MLP FUND, INC.

Organized Under the Laws of the State of Maryland
Common Stock
$.001 Par Value Per Share

This certifies that                       is the owner of                                            fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock, $.001 par value per share, of Tortoise MLP Fund, Inc. (the “Company”) transferable only on the books of the Company by the holder thereof in person or by duly authorized Attorney upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate is not valid unless countersigned by the transfer agent and registrar.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate to be signed by its duly authorized officers and its Seal to be hereunto affixed this             day of                      A.D. 201.

	TORTOISE MLP FUND, INC.
As Transfer Agent and Registrar [Seal]
By:	By:
	[Seal]
Authorized Signature	President
	Secretary

FOR VALUE RECEIVED,                       hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto                       shares of Common Stock, represented by this Certificate, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint                       Attorney to transfer said shares on the books of the within named Company with full power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:                     

In presence of

The Company will furnish to any stockholder on request and without charge a full statement of the designation and any preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption of the stock of each class which the Company is authorized to issue and, if the Company is authorized to issue any preferred or special class in series, of the differences in the relative rights and preferences between the shares of each series to the extent they have been set and the authority of the Board of Directors to set the relative rights and preferences of subsequent series. Any such request should be addressed to the Secretary of the Company.