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# Actions under delegated authority

## Actions taken during the week ending August 17, 2013

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Bank Branches, DomesticKansas City          ANB Bank, Denver, Colorado -- to establish a mobile branch to operate in and around Johnson County, Kansas.            -Approved, August 16, 2013            Kansas City          CoBiz Bank, Denver, Colorado -- to establish a branch at 1099 18th Street, Denver.            -Approved, August 13, 2013            Chicago          G.W. Jones Exchange Bank, Marcellus, Michigan -- to establish a branch at 332 North Main Street, Watervliet.            -Approved, August 12, 2013            Chicago          Libertyville Bank & Trust Company, Libertyville, Illinois -- to establish a branch at 169 North Lake Street, Mundelein.            -Withdrawn, August 15, 2013            Bank Holding CompaniesDallas          Athens, Tx Bancshares, Inc., Athens, Texas -- to become a bank holding company by acquiring First State Bank, Athens; and for the Jane Austin Chapman Limited Partnership, L.P., Frankston, and JSA Family Limited Partnership, Jacksonville, to acquire shares of Athens, Tx Bancshares, Inc., Athens.            -Approved, August 13, 2013            Kansas City          B.O.E. Bancshares, Inc., Lawton, Oklahoma -- to acquire, through its subsidiary, B.O.E. Chickasha Corp., Lawton, Chickasha Bancshares, Inc., Chickasha, and Chickasha Bank & Trust Company.            -Approved, August 15, 2013            Kansas City          BancFirst Corporation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- request to bid to acquire shares of preferred stock of Spirit Bankcorp, Inc., Bristow, at an auction sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.            -Approved, August 15, 2013            Minneapolis          Dacotah Banks, Inc., Aberdeen, South Dakota -- to merge with Donnelly Bancshares, Inc., Morris, Minnesota, and thereby acquire United Farmers and Merchants State Bank; and for Dacotah Bank, Aberdeen, to merge with United Farmers and Merchants State Bank, Morris, and thereby establish branches in Morris and Chokio.            -Approved, August 14, 2013            St. Louis          The McGehee Bank Employee Stock Ownership Plan, McGehee, Arkansas -- to acquire additional shares of Southeast Financial Bankstock Corp., McGehee, and thereby increase its indirect control of McGehee Bank.            -Approved, August 16, 2013            Philadelphia          Prudential Mutual Holding Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Prudential Bancorp, Inc. -- to merge with and into Prudential Bancorp, Inc. (a new bank holding company), Philadelphia; and for the new Prudential to acquire Prudential Saving Bank, in connection with the reorganization of Prudential Mutual Holding Company from mutual to stock form.            -Approved, August 13, 2013            St. Louis          Renasant Corporation, Tupelo, Mississippi -- to merge with First M & F Corporation, Kosciusko, and thereby acquire Merchants & Farmers Bank.            -Approved, August 14, 2013            Atlanta          Savannah River Financial Corporation, Augusta, Georgia -- commitment relief request.            -Granted, August 15, 2013            St. Louis          Sigma Holdings, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas -- to become a bank holding company by acquiring The Bank of Rison, Rison.            -Approved, August 12, 2013            St. Louis          Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc., Poplar Bluff, Missouri -- waiver of application to acquire Ozarks Legacy Community Financial, Inc., Thayer, in connection with the merger of their respective subsidiary banks, Southern Bank, Poplar Bluff, and Bank of Thayer, Thayer.            -Granted, August 15, 2013            Chicago          Town Center Bancorp, Inc., New Lenox, Illinois -- to become a bank holding company by acquiring control of Town Center Bank, Frankfort.            -Withdrawn, August 15, 2013            Bank MergersSt. Louis          Cross County Bank, Wynne, Arkansas -- to purchase certain assets and assume certain liabilities of the Brinkley branch of Evolve Bank & Trust, West Memphis, and to retain the acquired facility as a branch.            -Approved, August 15, 2013            Banks, State MemberDirector, BS&R          Goldman Sachs Bank USA, New York, New York -- to make a public welfare investment.            -Approved, August 16, 2013            Change in Bank ControlMinneapolis          Dubois Bankshares, Inc., Sauk Centre, Minnesota -- to retain control of DuBois Bankshares, and its subsidiary, First State Bank of Sauk Centre, Sauk Centre.            -Permitted, August 15, 2013            Atlanta          Georgia Community Bancorp, Incorporated, Dawson, Georgia -- to retain control of Georgia Community Bancorp and its subsidiary, The Citizens State Bank of Taylor County, Reynolds.            -Withdrawn, August 14, 2013            Chicago          LWCBancorp, Inc., New Lenox, Illinois -- to retain control of LWCBancorp and its subsidiary, LincolnWay Community Bank, New Lenox.            -Permitted, August 16, 2013            Minneapolis          Maple Banc Shares, Inc., Maple Plain, Minnesota -- to retain control of Maple Banc Shares and its subsidiary, Bank of Maple Plain, Maple Plain.            -Permitted, August 15, 2013            Extensions of TimeSecretary          Ameris Bancorp, Moultrie, Georgia -- commenter's request to extend the comment period on the application to merge with The Prosperity Banking Company, St. Augustine, Florida, and thereby acquire Prosperity Bank.            -Denied, August 16, 2013            Secretary          United Bankshares, Inc., Charleston, West Virginia; George Mason Bankshares, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia; and United Bank -- commenter's request to extend the comment periods on the applications by United Bankshares and George Mason Bankshares to acquire Virginia Commerce Bancorp, Inc., Arlington, Virginia, and by United Bank, Fairfax, to merge with Virginia Commerce Bank, Arlington.            -Denied, August 16, 2013            Savings and Loan Holding CompaniesChicago          AJS Bancorp, MHC, Midlothian, Illinois -- to convert to stock form and to merge with AJS Bancorp, Inc., Midlothian; for AJS Bancorp, Inc. to merge into a new Maryland corporation named AJS Bancorp, Inc.; and for that company to become a savings and loan holding company by acquiring A.J. Smith Federal Savings Bank, Midlothian.            -Approved, August 12, 2013            Boston          SI Financial Group Inc., Willimantic, Connecticut -- waiver of application to acquire Newport Bancorp, Inc., Newport, Rhode Island, in connection with the merger of their respective subsidiaries, Savings Institute Bank and Trust Company, Willimantic, and Newport Federal Savings Bank, Newport.            -Granted, August 16, 2013            
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