Section 17
SEC. 17. At any time after twenty years from the date of this Act, the Government of the Philippine Islands or me' any political subdivision thereof to which the right may be assigned, may purchase, and the grantee shall sell all of his plant, poles, wires, buildings, real estate, and all other property used in the enjoyment of this franchise, at a valuation based upon the net earnings of the grantee, the valuation to be determined, after hearing evidence, by the Supreme Court of the Islands, sitting as a board of arbitrators, whose decision, by a majority of the members thereof, shall be final.