All papers, documents and instruments in writing authorized or required by law to be recorded in the office of the clerk, registers of deeds and mortgages or surrogate of any county of this state, as well as the record of such papers, documents or instruments in writing, which may be recopied, rerecorded or transcribed pursuant to any law of this state, may be copied, recorded, recopied, rerecorded or transcribed in such offices in typewriting, and such record, rerecord or transcribing made in typewriting shall have the same legal force, meaning and effect as if made in handwriting; and the record of any such papers, documents and instruments in writing, or the recopying, rerecording or transcribing thereof made prior to March eighth, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, in any of such offices in typewriting shall have the same legal force, meaning and effect as if such record, rerecord or transcribing had been made in handwriting.