All such deeds, conveyances or contracts, made or to be made and proved or acknowledged, as provided in the first section of this act,¹ may be recorded in the office for recording of deeds in the county where such land is located in the same manner and subject to the same rights and restrictions as to the time and manner of recording and indexing the same as is now provided by the laws of this commonwealth for the recording of deeds, and when so recorded shall be notice to subsequent purchasers, mortgagees or other lien creditors notwithstanding the time for the cutting and removal of said timber or bark may be limited by the terms of said deeds, conveyances or contracts, and the records of such deeds, conveyances or contracts, or duly certified copies of such records, shall be evidence in all cases where the original deeds, conveyances or contracts would be evidence.