# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001698022
**File Stem:** 0001437749-25-019366
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
**Character Count:** 2920
**Document Hash:** bdef571c7e68fe4187415123d35c9854
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001437749-25-019366.hdr.sgml**: 20250708

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001437749-25-019366

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 2

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250604

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Farmers & Merchants Bancshares, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001698022
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS, NOT FEDERALLY CHARTERED [6036]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 813605835
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MD
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** CORRESP

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 4510 LOWER BECKLEYSVILLE ROAD
- **STREET 2:** SUITE H
- **CITY:** HAMPSTEAD
- **STATE:** MD
- **ZIP:** 21074
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 4103741510

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 4510 LOWER BECKLEYSVILLE ROAD
- **STREET 2:** SUITE H
- **CITY:** HAMPSTEAD
- **STATE:** MD
- **ZIP:** 21074

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June 4, 2025

**<u>VIA EDGAR</u>**

Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

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| **Attn:** | **Mr. Robert Arzonetti** |

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Re: Farmers and Merchants Bancshares, Inc. <br> Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File 333-287550) <br> <u>Request for Acceleration of Effective Date</u><u> </u><u> </u>

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Farmers and Merchants Bancshares, Inc. (the "Company") hereby requests acceleration of the effectiveness of the above-referenced Registration Statement on Form S-1 to 10:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on Friday, June 6, 2025, or as soon thereafter as is practicable. Any changes to the schedule for the effectiveness may be communicated through the Company's counsel, Andrew Bulgin, Esquire, of Gordon Feinblatt LLC, 1001 Fleet Street, Suite 700, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, at (410) 576-4280 (voice), (443) 857-1133 (mobile), or <u>abulgin@gfrlaw.com</u> (e-mail).

The Company hereby acknowledges that:

● should the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the filing effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing;

● the action of the Commission or the staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in declaring the filing effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosures in the filing; and

● the Company may not assert staff comments and the declaration of effectiveness as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.

Sincerely yours,<br>Farmers and Merchants Bancshares, Inc.<br>By: <u>/s/ Gary A. Harris</u><u> </u><u> </u><br> Gary A. Harris<br> President and Chief Executive Officer<br>

*CORPORATE OFFICE*

*4510 Lower Beckleysville Road, Suite H Hampstead, MD 21074*

*Phone: 410-374-1510, Fax: 410-374-3052*