If any security in any recognizance shall request to deliver up the principal, said court, or the judge thereof in the recess, may accept such surrender, and may require and take other recognizance, or commit the principal to jail until he gives such security as the law requires. P.L.L., 1888, §200 1915, §344 1927, §344 1930, §344 1938, §442 1949, §272 1969, §22-51 1898, ch. 123, §344