1909 Tex. Gen. Laws 105, Spec. Laws, An Act to Incorporate the City of Marshall, and to Grant It a New Charter, and to Repeal All Pre-Existing Charters, and to Declare an Emergency, ch. 6, § 136, pt. w.

(w) Riots. – Power to prevent and suppress riots, affrays, noise, breach of the peace, assaults, disturbances or disorderly assembly in any public or private place within the limits of said city, and to provide punishment therefor; to prohibit and restrain the firing of guns, and pistols in the city limits, and to prohibit and restrain the carrying of pistols.