An Act Regulating the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, ch. 46, §§ 1–2, 1870 Tex. Gen. Laws 63, 63 (Tracy, Siemering, & Co.).

“CHAPTER XLVI.
AN ACT REGULATING THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That if any person shall go into any church or religious assembly, any school room or other place where persons are assembled for educational, literary or scientific purposes, or into a ball room, social party or other social gathering composed of ladies and gentlemen, or to any election precinct on the day or days of any election, where any portion of the people of this State are collected to vote at any election, or to any other place where people may be assembled to muster or to perform any other public duty, or any other public assembly, and shall have about his person a bowie-knife, dirk or butcher-knife, or fire-arms, whether known as a six shooter, gun or pistol of any kind, such person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty or more than five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court or jury trying the same; provided, that nothing contained in this section shall apply to locations subject to Indian depredations; and provided further, that this act shall not apply to any person or persons whose duty it is to bear arms on such occasions in discharge of duties imposed by law.
    Sec. 2. That this act take effect and be in force in sixty days from the passage thereof.
    Approved August 12, 1870.”