[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 47 (Thursday, March 12, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10742-10743]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-5366]


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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

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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 April 6, 2009.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill, III, Vice 
President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
    1. Premier Financial Bancorp, Inc., Huntington, West Virginia, to 
acquire 100 percent of the voting shares of Abigail Adams National 
Bancorp, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire The Adams National Bank, 
both of Washington, D.C., and Consolidated Bank and Trust Company, 
Richmond, Virginia.
    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 9, 2009.

Robert deV. Frierson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. E9-5366 Filed 3-11-09; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-S