[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 74 (Wednesday, April 16, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20674-20675]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-8112]


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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 applications 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 Web site 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 12, 2008.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Burl Thornton, Assistant Vice 
President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Dart Financial Corporation, Mason, Michigan; to become a bank 
holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting shares of The 
Dart Bank, Mason, Michigan.
    2. Black River BancVenture, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee; Spence 
Limited, L.P., Nashville, Tennessee; and Financial Junk, L.L.C., 
Nashville, Tennessee; to each acquire 22 percent of the voting shares 
of Alliant Bank, Sedgwick, Kansas; 9 percent of the voting shares of 
Farmers Savings Bank, Keota, Iowa; 20 percent of the voting shares of 
Gorham State Bank, Gorham, Kansas; 10 percent of the voting shares of 
Greensburg State Bank, Greensburg, Kansas; 8 percent of the voting 
shares of Kansas State Bank, Overbrook, Kansas; 15 percent of the 
voting shares of Leonardville State Bank, Leonardville, Kansas; 8 
percent of the voting shares of Marquette Farmers State Bank, 
Marquette, Kansas; and 19 percent of the voting shares of Community 
Shores Bank Corporation, Muskegon, Michigan, and thereby indirectly 
acquire voting

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shares of Community Shores Bank, Muskegon, Michigan; 15 percent of the 
voting shares of Allegiance Bank of North America, Bala Cynwyd, 
Pennsylvania; 15 percent of the voting shares of Bay Commercial Bank, 
Walnut Creek, California; 9.90 percent of the voting shares of 
Cornerstone Bank, Moorestown, New Jersey.
    Applicants also have applied to acquire 6 percent of the voting 
shares of SFB Bancorp, Inc., Elizabethon, Tennessee, and indirectly 
acquire Security Federal Bank, Elizabethon, Tennessee, and thereby 
engage in operating a savings association, pursuant to section 
225.28(b)(4)(ii), and 9.9 percent of the voting shares of Quaint Oak 
Bancorp, Southampton, Pennsylvania, and indirectly acquire Quaint Oak 
Bank, Southampton, Pennsylvania, and thereby engage in operating a 
savings association, pursuant to section 225.28(b)(4)(ii) of Regulation 
Y.
    3. Spence Limited, L.P., Nashville, Tennessee, and Financial Junk, 
L.L.C., Nashville, Tennesse, to become bank holding companies by 
acquiring 48 percent of the voting shares of Michigan Community 
Bancorp, Ltd., and thereby indirectly acquire Lakeside Community Bank, 
both of Sterling Heights, Michigan.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Todd Offenbacker, Assistant 
Vice President) 1 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri 64198-0001:
    1. First Financial Bancshares, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas; to acquire 
100 percent of the voting shares of Great American Bank, De Soto, 
Kansas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, April 11, 
2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E8-8112 Filed 4-15-08; 8:45 am]
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