“carlos Salazar to His Excellency, January 28, 1871

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Sir: The penalty that the “fire regulations” impose upon the firemen for failure of service is only limited to fines and arrests. As this corps is reputed to be in the condition of national guard, destined solely for fire service, by the necessity that there is for them in the city, I inquired of the supreme government, through your respectable intervention, if the punishment of fines and arrests is to be extended only until four consecutive absences, of which the national guard law speaks, or must the same punishment be continued indefinitely, even when they exceed that number. If such is the case, the national guard will be in a worse condition than the fire corps.