Excerpt from Specifications for Rebuilding the Custom-House at Portland, Maine: Including Accommodations for a Post Office and United States Court Room Specifications for rebuilding the custom-house, at Portland, Maine, including accommodations for a post office, and United States court room, which is to be done (under the direction of a superintendent appointed by the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury for that purpose) according to the following enumerated drawings, consisting of plans, elevations, sections, and working drawings, designed and prepared at the Office of the Construction of Buildings, Treasury Department, and agreeably to such further drawings, and directions, in explanation thereof, as may hereafter from time to time be furnished therefrom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.