Section 3
SEC. 3. To facilitate the exercise by the President of the powers granted him under this Act, all cases pending in court, for the collection of unpaid irrigation charges and penalties thereon, which have been filed in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen of Act Numbered Twenty-one hundred and fifty-two, shall be suspended, until otherwise ordered by the President, and the owners of those parcels of lands for which the irrigation charges were not paid shall be allowed to make payments as may be provided for by the President: Provided, however, That the owners of those lands which have been levied and sold on execution for failure to pay the irrigation charges shall be granted the privilege to repurchase their lands from the Government in the manner and under such conditions as the President may provide, respecting in all cases the rights acquired by third persons over said lands: Provided, further, That the repurchase price of said lands shall not be less than the total of all the unpaid irrigation charges and penalties due on the land on the date of repurchase and the costs of judicial proceedings, with interest at the rate of four per centum per annum.