[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 127 (Friday, July 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36016-36017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16859]


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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

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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 (12 U.S.C. 1843). 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 26, 1999.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Betsy Buttrill White, Senior 
Vice President) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001:
    1. Rome, MHC, Rome, New York; to become a bank holding company by 
acquiring 51 percent of the voting shares of Rome Bancorp, Inc., Rome, 
New York, and thereby indirectly acquire The Rome Savings Bank, Rome, 
New York.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies, 
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 
64198-0001:
    1. First Flo Corporation, Florence, Colorado; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of FAM Financial Services, Macksville, 
Kansas, and thereby indirectly acquire The Farmers and Merchants State 
Bank, Macksville, Kansas.
    2. Rae Valley Financials, Inc., Petersburg, Nebraska; to become a 
bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Petersburg State Bank, Petersburg, Nebraska.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Texas Regional Bancshares, Inc., McAllen, Texas, and Texas 
Regional Delaware, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; to merge with Harlingen 
Bancshares, Inc., Harlingen, Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire H N 
Bancshares of Delaware, Inc., Harlingen, Texas, and Harlingen National 
Bank, Harlingen, Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 28, 1999.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 99-16859 Filed 7-1-99; 8:45 am]
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