JAXB (MM)

Jacksonville Bancorp, Inc. Stock Option Plan

Jacksonville Bancorp, Inc. Directors’ Stock Purchase Plan

2008 Amendment and Restatement of the Jacksonville Bancorp, Inc. 2006 Stock Incentive Plan

(Full Title of the Plans)

Edwin W. Hortman, Jr.

Chief Executive Officer

Ameris Bancorp

310 First St., S.E.

Moultrie, Georgia 31768

(229) 890-1111

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

This post-effective amendment (the “Post-Effective Amendment”) relates to the following registration statements on Form S-8 (collectively, the “Registration Statements”) of Jacksonville Bancorp, Inc., a Florida corporation (the “Company”), which were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”):

On September 30, 2015, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Ameris Bancorp, a Georgia corporation (“Ameris”). On March 11, 2016, pursuant to the Merger Agreement, the Company was merged with and into Ameris, with Ameris being the surviving entity (the “Merger”).

In connection with the Merger, the Company has terminated all offerings of the Company’s securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offerings, the Company removes from registration any and all shares of the Company common stock that were registered for issuance and that have not been sold by the holders of such securities through the Registration Statements as of the effective time of the Merger. The Company is filing the Post-Effective Amendment to reflect the deregistration of such securities.

The foregoing description of the Merger, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the Merger Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 1, 2015.