[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 95 (Thursday, May 15, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28118-28119]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-10859]


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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

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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 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 9, 2008.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Burl Thornton, Assistant Vice 
President) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1414:
    1. Premier Bancorp of Illinois, Inc., Farmer City, Illinois, to 
retain 20.8 percent of the voting shares of F M Bancorp, Inc., and 
thereby indirectly retain voting shares of Farmers-Merchants National 
Bank of Paxton, both of Paxton, Illinois.
    B. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Kenneth Binning, 
Director, Regional and Community Bank Group) 101 Market Street, San 
Francisco, California 94105-1579:
    1. Bank of Whitman Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Colfax 
Washington, to acquire 56 percent of the voting shares of Whitman 
Bancorporation Incorporated, Colfax, Washington, and thereby indirectly 
acquire voting shares of Bank of Whitman, Colfax, Washington.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 12, 2008.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc.E8-10859 Filed 5-14-08; 8:45 am]
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