Upon request of any person and the payment of lawful fees, the clerk shall issue a certified copy of any certificate of title or of any entry thereon in like manner as he may issue certified copies of any other public record in his office; but, whenever he does so, he shall plainly mark in large legible letters across the face of the certificate the word "copy." If a certified copy of a canceled certificate or entry is made, in addition to transcribing a copy of the entry of cancellation, the clerk shall also plainly mark the words "canceled certificate" or "canceled entry," as the case may be, across the face of the copy.
(Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 101; Code 1933, § 60-617.)