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 Rh future unless the company exceed the number of fifteen, no man be allowed more than one bottle to his share, and a peremptory.

"27. Resolved, That each member (unless out of the Kingdom) entertains in his turn, or substitutes a member in his room, otherwise the Secretary is to provide a dinner, the cost of which is to be paid by the member whose turn it shall be to attend, on pain of expulsion."

In the year 1738 the famous marine artist Monamy painted two pictures, one representing "Two Gentlemen's Boats, Members of the Water Club of Cork, 1738," the other "The Fleet Manœuvering Under Orders of the Admiral." These paintings were presented to the Club by the Marquis of Thormond, and are still in existence. They are owned by the Royal Cork Yacht Club, Queenstown.

An interesting account of the Water Club of Cork was published in Bell's Life in London, January 30, 1853, which reads as follows:

"The first authentic document we have in proof of the great antiquity of this club is now before us, in the shape of a copy of a small work published in the year 1765, and bearing the title of the 'Rules and Orders of the Water Club of the Harbour of Cork,' the original of which is in the possession of the club, and is, we are informed, the only copy of its date extant. This little volume consists of two parts, namely, 'General Orders' and 'Sailing Orders,' of the former of which there are