...Company, under the provisions of St. 1897* c. 500, § 10. The section in question provides that the corporation shall " be annually assessed and shall...leased and operated by it, pay to the Commonwealth, ou or before the last day of November in each year, during said period of twenty-five years, an annual...

...were a street railway company; and shall in addition, as compensation for the privileges Compensation herein granted and for the use and occupation of the...of which shall, in each year ending the last day of Septem- graduation of. ber, be determined by the amount of the annual dividend paid in that year by...

...passage of this act, and further provides for a payment as compensation for the privileges therein granted and for the use and occupation of the public...and surface railroad owned, leased and operated by the corporation of an annual sum, the amount of which is to be determined by the amount of the annual...

...corporation actually paid in in cash. The report of the board shall be final and conclusive for one year. During said period of twenty-five years no taxes or...operated by it, pay to the commonwealth, on or before the tenth day of November in each year, during said period of twenty-five years, an annual sum, the amount...

...corporation actually paid in in cash. The report of the board shall be final and conclusive for one year. During said period of twenty-five years no taxes or...operated by it, pay to the commonwealth, on or before the tenth day of November in each year, during said period of twenty-five years, an annual sum, the amount...

...years the corporation was to pay a fixed tax or compensation for the privileges granted by the act, "and for the use and occupation of the public streets,...surface railroad, owned, leased and operated by it," and for such period was not to be made subject to any burden, duty or other obligation which was not...

...provided, When to take effect. in cash. The report of the board shall be final and conclusive for one year. During said period of twenty-five years no taxes or...operated by it, pay to the commonwealth, on or before the tenth day of November in each year, during said period of twenty-five years, an annual sum, the amount...

...provided in this act. The so-called Rapid Transit Act, ch. 500 of the Acts of 1897, sec. 10, provides: That said corporation shall be annually assessed and...during said period of twenty-five years, an annual sum. Sec. 21 also provides: Except as otherwise expressly provided in said chapter five hundred and forty-eight...

...actually paid in in cash. The report of the commission shall be final and conclusive for one year. During said period of twenty-five years no taxes or...operated by it, pay to the commonwealth, on or before the tenth day of November in each year, during said period of twenty-five years, an annual sum, the amount...

...by general law on all street railway companies: provided, however, that said cor- Proviso. poration shall be annually assessed and shall pay taxes now...operated by it, pay to the commonwealth, on or before the tenth day of November in each year, during said period of twenty-five years, an annual sum, the amount...