Company: FMFG
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: PREC14A
Source: 0001437749-25-007538
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Company: Farmers & Merchants Bancshares, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: PREC14A
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 promptly returning the enclosed WHITE Proxy Card in the postage-paid envelope provided. A completed WHITE Proxy Card returned by mail must be received at the address stated on the WHITE Proxy Card before [●], 2025.

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Execution and delivery of a proxy by a record holder of shares will be presumed to be a proxy with respect to all shares held by such record holder unless the proxy specifies otherwise. All properly executed WHITE Proxy Cards received pursuant to this solicitation will be voted in accordance with the directions indicated thereon. If you sign the WHITE Proxy Card, but no direction is given thereon, then your shares will be voted:

| ● | “FOR” the election of Messrs. Eline and Schindler as Class III directors to serve on the Company Board; and |

| ● | “FOR” the ratification of the appointment of YHB as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2025. |

Beneficial Owner: Shares Registered in the Name of Broker, Bank or Other Nominee

If, as of the Record Date, you are the beneficial owner of shares and you held your shares in “street name” with a broker, bank or other nominee, then only that entity can vote your shares and only upon its receipt of your specific instructions. Accordingly, please contact the person responsible for your account at such entity and instruct that person to vote on your behalf “FOR” the election of Messrs. Eline and Schindler as Class III directors to serve on the Company Board and “FOR” Proposal 2. You should also complete, sign, date and promptly return the voting instruction form that your broker, bank or other nominee sends you (or, if applicable, vote by following the instructions supplied to you by your broker, bank or other nominee, including voting via the Internet or by telephone). Please do this for each account you maintain to ensure that all of your shares are voted.

What are“broker non-votes?”

If, on the Record Date, your shares were held by a broker, bank or other nominee, then you are the beneficial owner of shares held in “street name.” The organization holding your account is considered the stockholder of record for purposes of voting at the Annual Meeting. As a beneficial owner, you have the right to direct your broker, bank or other nominee on how to vote the shares in your account. You are also invited to attend the Annual Meeting. However, because you are not the stockholder of record, you may not vote your