[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 82 (Friday, April 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 22314]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-8571]


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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 May 24, 2005.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Jay Bernstein, Bank 
Supervision Officer) 33 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10045-0001:
    1. Hudson Valley Holding Corp., Yonkers, New York; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of New York National Bank, Bronx, New 
York.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Abigail Adams National Bancorp, Inc., Washington, D.C.; to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Consolidated Bank & Trust 
Company, Richmond, Virginia.
    C. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Glenda Wilson, Community 
Affairs Officer) 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-2034:
    1. ESB Bancorp, Inc., Elberfeld, Indiana; to become a bank holding 
company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of The Elberfeld 
State Bank, Elberfeld, Indiana.
    2. German American Bancorp, Jasper, Indiana; to acquire 9.8 percent 
of the voting shares of Eclipse Bank, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky (in 
organization).
    D. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Donna J. Ward, Assistant 
Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. Second Capital Investments, LLC, Lee's Summit, Missouri; to 
become a bank holding company by acquiring 33.90 percent of the voting 
shares of 1st Financial Bancshares, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas, and 
1st Financial Bank, Overland Park, Kansas.
    E. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (W. Arthur Tribble, Vice 
President) 2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Olney Bancshares of Texas, Inc., Olney, Texas, and Olney Bancorp 
of Delaware, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; to acquire 100 percent of the 
voting shares of Rose Rock Bank, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, April 25, 
2005.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 05-8571 Filed 4-28-05; 8:45 am]
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