[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 32881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15999]


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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 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 July 10, 1998.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Lois Berthaume, Vice President) 
104 Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2713:
    1. Hancock Holding Company, Gulfport, Mississippi; to merge with 
American Security Bancshares, Inc., Ville Platte, Louisiana, and 
thereby indirectly acquire American Security Bank, Ville Platte, 
Louisiana.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Philip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1413:
    1. Fort Madison Financial Company, Fort Madison, Iowa; to acquire 
at least 51 percent of the voting shares of Bank of Dallas City, Dallas 
City, Illinois.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102-2034:
    1. Carlinville National Bank Shares, Inc., Carlinville, Illinois; 
to acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Shipman Bancorp, Inc., 
Shipman, Illinois, and thereby indirectly acquire Citizens State Bank 
of Shipman, Shipman, Illinois.
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Karen L. Grandstrand, Vice 
President) 90 Hennepin Avenue, P.O. Box 291, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
55480-0291:
    1. Marquette Bancshares, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; to merge 
with Dakota Company, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, and thereby 
indirectly acquire Marquette Bank Nebraska, N.A., O'Neill, Nebraska, 
and Marquette Bank South Dakota, N.A., Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 11, 1998.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-15999 Filed 6-15-98; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-F