[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 23 (Thursday, February 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5350-5351]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2360]


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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 (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

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Governors not later than February 28, 2000.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. First Charter Corporation, Concord, North Carolina; to merge 
with Carolina First BancShares, Inc., Lincolnton, North Carolina, and 
thereby indirectly acquire Community Bank and Trust Company, 
Rutherfordton, North Carolina; Cabarrus Bank of North Carolina, 
Concord, North Carolina; Lincoln Bank of North Carolina, Lincolnton, 
North Carolina. Applicant also will acquire shares of First Gaston Bank 
of North Carolina, Gastonia, North Carolina.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Randall C. Sumner, Vice 
President) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. Branson Bancshares, Inc., Branson, Missouri; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Branson Bank, Branson, Missouri (in organization).
    2. Maries County Bancorp, Inc., Vienna, Missouri; to acquire 9.3 
percent of the voting shares of Branson Bancshares, Inc., Branson, 
Missouri, and thereby indirectly acquire Branson Bank, Branson, 
Missouri a de novo bank).

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, January 28, 
2000.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 00-2360 Filed 2-2-00; 8:45 am]
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