[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 102 (Friday, May 25, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28911-28912]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-13280]


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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. 
Additional information on all bank holding companies may be obtained 
from the National Information Center website at www.ffiec.gov/nic/.
    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 22, 2001.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Cynthia C. Goodwin, Vice 
President) 104 Marietta Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2713:
    1. Madison Bancshares, Inc., Palm Harbor, Florida; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
Madison Bank, Palm Harbor, Florida.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Phillip Jackson, Applications 
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Commerce Investments I, Commerce Investments II and Commerce 
Investments III, all located in Oak Brook Terrace, Illinois; to become 
bank holding companies by acquiring 27.9 percent of the voting shares 
of Bancshares Holding Corp., Downers Grove, Illinois, and thereby 
acquire The Bank of Commerce, Downers Grove, Illinois. In connection 
with these applications, Bancshares Holding Corp. has applied to become 
a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of 
The Bank of Commerce, Downers Grove, Illinois.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Mason National Bank Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Mason, Texas; 
to become a bank holding company by acquiring 31.1 percent of the 
voting shares of Mason National Bancshares, Inc., Mason, Texas, and 
thereby indirectly acquiring Mason National Bancshares of Nevada, 
Carson City,

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Nevada and Mason National Bank, Mason, Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 22. 2001.
Robert deV. Frierson
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 01-13280 Filed 5-24-01; 8:45 am]
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