This application must be addressed to the official or to one of the officials required to approve such bond and must be sworn to.
(Code 1852, §145; Code 1867, §184; Code 1876, §198; Code 1886, §293; Code 1896, §3125; Code 1907, §1541; Code 1923, §2675; Code 1940, T. 41, §124.)