Bonus Charge on Street Railway Companies

Reno, Attorney General,

You inquire whether street railway companies which were in*76corporated under the Act of May 14, 1889, P. L. 211, while the Bonus Act of May 1, 1868, P. L. 108, was in effect, were required to pay bonus by that act.

You state that the filing in your department of an agreement of consolidation and merger between the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, the present operating corporation, and its 64 underliers, has revealed that 19 of the underliers were incorporated as above stated and paid no bonus to the Commonwealth.

The Act of 1868, supra, with which we are concerned here,…