It is the intent and purpose of this act¹ to allow the owner of any paving, drainage or street improvement warrants or bonds heretofore or hereafter issued, as described in Sections 1 and 2 of this act,² to use the same to the extent of their face value in the payment and satisfaction of all paving, drainage and street improvement assessments which have been levied upon his property located in the paving, drainage, or street improvement district in and for which such paving, drainage or improvement warrants or bonds were issued in payment, whether such assessments or installments are due or to become due, and to the extent of the face value of such warrants or bonds tendered in payment thereof, and to cause all penalties hereafter collected, and all such penalties heretofore collected, which may be identified, by the county treasurer on such drainage assessments to be credited to and placed in the funds of such district from which only the warrants and bonds of such district and the interest thereon, issued for the construction of said improvements, may be paid and discharged.