[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 236 (Monday, December 9, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73862-73863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-29271]


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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 will also 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.
    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 January 3, 2014.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (E. Ann Worthy, Vice President) 
2200 North Pearl Street, Dallas, Texas 75201-2272:
    1. Mesa Financial Corporation, Sweetwater, Texas; to acquire 100 
percent of the voting shares of South Taylor County Bancshares, Inc., 
and thereby indirectly acquire voting shares of First State Bank in 
Tuscola, both in Tuscola, Texas.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, December 4, 
2013.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Associate Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2013-29271 Filed 12-6-13; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P