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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:326.5pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Registration No. ____________</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>Washington, D.C. &nbsp;20549</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>FORM S-8</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>REGISTRATION STATEMENT</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>UNDER</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><B><U>WAYNE BANCORP, INC.</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000" align=center>(Exact name of issuer as specified in its Charter)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ohio</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">34-1516142</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000">(State of Incorporation)</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=justify>112 West Liberty Street, Wooster, Ohio</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:180pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=justify>&nbsp;</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=justify>&nbsp;&nbsp;44691</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000" align=justify>(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000" align=justify>(Zip Code)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><B><U>WAYNE BANCORP, INC.</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><B><U>DEFERRED SHARE PLAN</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000" align=center>(Full Title of the Plan)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>David P. Boyle, President &amp; CEO</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>Wayne Bancorp, Inc.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>112 West Liberty Street</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>Wooster, Ohio &nbsp;44691</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>330-264-1222</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000" align=center>(Name, address, zip code, telephone number,</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:9pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000" align=center>and area code of agent for service)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>Copy To:</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>Susan B. Zaunbrecher, Esq.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>Dinsmore &amp; Shohl LLP</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>1900 Chemed Center</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>255 East Fifth Street</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>Cincinnati, Ohio &nbsp;45202</P>
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<TABLE style="margin-left:0pt"><TR><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=624 colspan=5><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:3.05pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B></P>
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<TR><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=150><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:2.5pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000">Title of Securities to be Registered</P>
</TD><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=90><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:2.5pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000">Amount to be Registered</P>
</TD><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=144><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:2.5pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000">Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share*</P>
</TD><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=114><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:2.5pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000">Proposed Maximum Offering Price</P>
</TD><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=126><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:2.5pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000">Amount of Registration Fee</P>
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<TR><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=150><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:2.5pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000">Common Stock, without par value</P>
</TD><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=90><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:2.5pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000">150,000</P>
</TD><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=144><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:2.5pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000" align=center>$30.74</P>
</TD><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=114><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:2.5pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000" align=center>$4,611,000</P>
</TD><TD style="padding-left:7.2pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:7.2pt; padding-bottom:0pt; border:0.5pt solid #000000" align=left valign=top width=126><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-bottom:2.5pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000" align=center>$373.03</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Approximate date of proposed commencement of sales hereunder:</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-11pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000">*</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:11pt; font-size:9pt; color:#000000">Based pursuant to Rule 457(c), on the average of the high and low prices of the common stock of Wayne Bancorp, Inc. on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market on July 29, 2003, a date within 5 days of the date on which this Registration Statement is filed.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><B><U>PART I</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">The information specified in Part I of Form S-8 is set forth in the &#147;Prospectus.&#148; &nbsp;The Prospectus is a part of the Section 10(a) Prospectus to which this Registration Statement relates but it is not filed with this Registration Statement.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><B><U>PART II</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=justify><B>Item 3.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=justify><B>Incorporation of Documents by Reference.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Wayne Bancorp, Inc. (the &#147;Registrant&#148;) states that the documents listed below are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement. &nbsp;Registrant further states that all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">&#149;</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">The Registrant&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">&#149;</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 since December 31, 2002.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">&#149;</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">The description of the common stock contained on the Registrant&#146;s Form 8-A Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1934, effective May 8, 1986.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Item 4.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Description of Securities.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Not Applicable.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Item 5.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Not Applicable. &nbsp;<B>&nbsp;</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Item 6.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Indemnification of Directors and Officers.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">The Registrant&#146;s articles of incorporation provide that the Registrant shall indemnify each director, officer, employee or agent of the Registrant to the fullest extent permitted by law.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Ohio corporate law provides, with limited exceptions, that a director may be held liable in damages for acts or omissions as a director only if it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that the director undertook the act or omission with deliberate intent to cause injury to the corporation or with reckless disregard for its best interests.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">The indemnification provisions of Ohio corporate law require indemnification of a director who has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action that he or she was a party to because he or she is or was a director of the corporation. &nbsp;The indemnification authorized by Ohio corporate law is not exclusive and is in addition to any other rights granted to directors.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Item 7.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Exemption From Registration Claimed.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Not Applicable.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Item 8.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Exhibits.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Exhibit No.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:288pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Description</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:180pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-144pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">4</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:180pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Wayne Bancorp, Inc. Deferred Share Plan</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:180pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-144pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">5, 23 (a)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:180pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Opinion of Dinsmore &amp; Shohl LLP as to the legality of the securities being registered</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:180pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-144pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">23(b)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:180pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Consent of Crowe Chizek and Company LLC, independent accountants</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:180pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-144pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">24</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:180pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Power of Attorney**</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">**</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Contained herein on the signature page</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Item 9.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Undertakings.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">A.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:144pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-72pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">i.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:144pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:144pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-72pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">ii.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:144pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:144pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-72pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">iii.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:144pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">B.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan&#146;s annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">C.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. &nbsp;In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:468pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=justify><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><B><U>SIGNATURES</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Wooster, State of Ohio on July 16, 2003.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding-left:12pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=justify><B>Wayne Bancorp, Inc.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:228pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=justify>By: &nbsp;/s/ DAVID P. BOYLE</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:192pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=justify>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;David P. Boyle, President &amp; CEO</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000" align=center><B><U>POWER OF ATTORNEY</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints David P. Boyle and John A. Lende, and each of them, jointly and severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each with full power of substitution, to sign and execute on behalf of the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to perform any acts necessary to be done in order to file such amendment with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:11pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><B>Signature</B></P>
<B><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Title</B></P>
<B><P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Date</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ DAVID P. BOYLE</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">President, CEO &amp; Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">David P. Boyle</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">(Principal Executive</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Officer)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ JOHN A. LENDE</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Chief Financial Officer </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-14pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:14pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">John A. Lende</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">(Principal Financial</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">and Accounting Officer)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ JAMES O. BASFORD</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">James O. Basford</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ GWENN E. BULL</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Gwenn E. Bull, CPA</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ DAVID L. CHRISTOPHER</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Chairman of the Board &amp;</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">David L. Christopher</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:33pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ DENNIS B. DONAHUE</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Dennis B. Donahue</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ B. DIANE GORDON</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">B. Diane Gordon</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ JOHN C. JOHNSTON, III</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">John C. Johnston, III</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ STEPHEN L. SHAPIRO</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Stephen L. Shapiro</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ JEFFREY E. SMITH</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Jeffrey E. Smith</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ PHILIP S. SWOPE</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Philip S. Swope</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ DAVID E. TAYLOR</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:22pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">David E. Taylor</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">/s/ RICHARD S. WAGNER</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-13pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:216pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Director</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">July 16, 2003</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:13pt; font-size:11pt; color:#000000">Richard S. Wagner</P>
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Registration No. ____________
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
WAYNE BANCORP, INC.
(Exact name of issuer as specified in its Charter)
Ohio
34-1516142
(State of Incorporation)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
112 West Liberty Street, Wooster, Ohio
44691
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
WAYNE BANCORP, INC.
DEFERRED SHARE PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan)
David P. Boyle, President & CEO
Wayne Bancorp, Inc.
112 West Liberty Street
Wooster, Ohio  44691
330-264-1222
(Name, address, zip code, telephone number,
and area code of agent for service)
Copy To:
Susan B. Zaunbrecher, Esq.
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
1900 Chemed Center
255 East Fifth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio  45202
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities to be Registered
Amount to be Registered
Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share*
Proposed Maximum Offering Price
Amount of Registration Fee
Common Stock, without par value
150,000
$30.74
$4,611,000
$373.03
Approximate date of proposed commencement of sales hereunder:
As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement
*
Based pursuant to Rule 457(c), on the average of the high and low prices of the common stock of Wayne Bancorp, Inc. on the Nasdaq SmallCap Market on July 29, 2003, a date within 5 days of the date on which this Registration Statement is filed.
PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The information specified in Part I of Form S-8 is set forth in the "Prospectus."  The Prospectus is a part of the Section 10(a) Prospectus to which this Registration Statement relates but it is not filed with this Registration Statement.
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
Wayne Bancorp, Inc. (the "Registrant") states that the documents listed below are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.  Registrant further states that all documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.
•
The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002.
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All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 since December 31, 2002.
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The description of the common stock contained on the Registrant's Form 8-A Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1934, effective May 8, 1986.
Item 4.
Description of Securities.
Not Applicable.
Item 5.
Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not Applicable.
Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
The Registrant's articles of incorporation provide that the Registrant shall indemnify each director, officer, employee or agent of the Registrant to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Ohio corporate law provides, with limited exceptions, that a director may be held liable in damages for acts or omissions as a director only if it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that the director undertook the act or omission with deliberate intent to cause injury to the corporation or with reckless disregard for its best interests.
The indemnification provisions of Ohio corporate law require indemnification of a director who has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action that he or she was a party to because he or she is or was a director of the corporation.  The indemnification authorized by Ohio corporate law is not exclusive and is in addition to any other rights granted to directors.
Item 7.
Exemption From Registration Claimed.
Not Applicable.
Item 8.
Exhibits.
Exhibit No.
Description
4
Wayne Bancorp, Inc. Deferred Share Plan
5, 23 (a)
Opinion of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP as to the legality of the securities being registered
23(b)
Consent of Crowe Chizek and Company LLC, independent accountants
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Item 9.
Undertakings.
A.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
i.
To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement.
ii.
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
iii.
To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
B.
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
C.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Wooster, State of Ohio on July 16, 2003.
Wayne Bancorp, Inc.
By:  /s/ DAVID P. BOYLE
David P. Boyle, President & CEO
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints David P. Boyle and John A. Lende, and each of them, jointly and severally, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each with full power of substitution, to sign and execute on behalf of the undersigned any amendment or amendments to this Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to perform any acts necessary to be done in order to file such amendment with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and each of the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ DAVID P. BOYLE
President, CEO & Director
July 16, 2003
David P. Boyle
(Principal Executive
Officer)
/s/ JOHN A. LENDE
Chief Financial Officer
July 16, 2003
John A. Lende
(Principal Financial
and Accounting Officer)
/s/ JAMES O. BASFORD
Director
July 16, 2003
James O. Basford
/s/ GWENN E. BULL
Director
July 16, 2003
Gwenn E. Bull, CPA
/s/ DAVID L. CHRISTOPHER
Chairman of the Board &
July 16, 2003
David L. Christopher
Director
/s/ DENNIS B. DONAHUE
Director
July 16, 2003
Dennis B. Donahue
/s/ B. DIANE GORDON
Director
July 16, 2003
B. Diane Gordon
/s/ JOHN C. JOHNSTON, III
Director
July 16, 2003
John C. Johnston, III
/s/ STEPHEN L. SHAPIRO
Director
July 16, 2003
Stephen L. Shapiro
/s/ JEFFREY E. SMITH
Director
July 16, 2003
Jeffrey E. Smith
/s/ PHILIP S. SWOPE
Director
July 16, 2003
Philip S. Swope
/s/ DAVID E. TAYLOR
Director
July 16, 2003
David E. Taylor
/s/ RICHARD S. WAGNER
Director
July 16, 2003
Richard S. Wagner
/s/ VICTOR B. SCHANTZ
Director
July 16, 2003
Victor B. Schantz
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit No.
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Opinion and consent of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP as to the legality of securities being registered.
23(b)
Consent of Crowe Chizek and Company LLC, independent accountants
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