[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 92 (Wednesday, May 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26606-26607]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12621]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM


Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding 
Companies

    The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for 
approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company

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Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR 
Part 225), and all other applicable statutes and regulations to become 
a bank holding company and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership 
of, control of, or the power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding 
company and all of the banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank 
holding company, including the companies listed below.
    The applications listed below, as well as other related filings 
required by the Board, are available for immediate inspection at the 
Federal Reserve Bank indicated. The application also will be available 
for inspection at the offices of the Board of Governors. Interested 
persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated 
in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)). If the proposal also involves the 
acquisition of a nonbanking company, the review also includes whether 
the acquisition of the nonbanking company complies with the standards 
in section 4 of the BHC Act. Unless otherwise noted, nonbanking 
activities will be conducted throughout the United States.
    Unless otherwise noted, comments regarding each of these 
applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the 
offices of the Board of Governors not later than June 8, 1998.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. Farmers Bancshares, Inc., Hardinsburg, Kentucky; to acquire up 
to 30 percent of the voting shares of Leitchfield Deposit Bancshares, 
Inc., Leitchfield, Kentucky, and thereby indirectly acquire Leitchfield 
Deposit Bank & Trust Company, Leitchfield, Kentucky.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. Farmers Bancshares, Lincoln, Kansas; to merge with Beverly 
Bankshares, Inc., Beverly, Kansas, and thereby indirectly acquire 
Beverly State Bank, Beverly, Kansas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 7, 1998.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-12621 Filed 5-12-98; 8:45 am]
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