[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 223 (Monday, November 19, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69454-69455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-28072]


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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 December 14, 2012.
    A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (Richard Walker, Community 
Affairs Officer) 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210-2204:
    1. New Hampshire Mutual Bancorp, Manchester, New Hampshire; to 
become a bank holding company by acquiring 100 percent of the voting 
shares of Meredith Village Savings Bank, Meredith, New Hampshire.
    2. New Hampshire Mutual Bancorp, Manchester, New Hampshire, to 
become a bank holding company by acquiring and merging with Merrimack 
Bancorp, MHC, and thereby indirectly acquiring voting shares of 
Merrimack County Savings Bank, both in Concord, New Hampshire.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, November 14, 
2012.
Michael J. Lewandowski,
Assistant Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2012-28072 Filed 11-16-12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6210-01-P