[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 84 (Friday, May 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24184-24185]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-11671]
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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
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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. 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 May 26, 1998.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (A. Linwood Gill III, Assistant
Vice President) 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, Virginia 23261-4528:
1. FirstBancorporation, Inc., Beaufort, South Carolina; to acquire
100 percent of the voting shares of FirstBank of the Midlands, N.A.,
Columbia, South Carolina (in organization).
B. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (Philip Jackson, Applications
Officer) 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60690-1413:
1. Rigler Investment Company, New Hampton, Iowa; to acquire 100
percent of the voting shares of Figge Bancshares, Inc., Ossian, Iowa,
and thereby indirectly acquire The Ossian State Bank, Ossian, Iowa, and
Iowa State Bank, Calmar, Iowa.
C. Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (D. Michael Manies,
Assistant Vice President) 925 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri
64198-0001:
1. Central Trust Company, Lander, Wyoming; to acquire 64.44 percent
of the voting shares of VH Bancorporation Inc., Edina, Minnesota, and
thereby indirectly acquire Grand Marais State Bank, Grand Marais,
Minnesota.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, April 28,
1998.
Jennifer J. Johnson,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 98-11671 Filed 4-30-98; 8:45 am]
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