The piece of land measuring roughly 28450 square feet in the property of 150 Old N and W Railroad Bed Rd in Lenore, West Virginia delineated by Joseph Kennedy, MAO in a map made for this purpose on 13 August 2013 is hereby annexed to the Empire of Austenasia and named New Richmond.
We decree New Richmond to be a Crown Dependency, in accordance with Paragraph 3 of the Empire of Austenasia Act 2013.
We order that a copy of the aforementioned map is to be stored in the Imperial Residence and used for reference when and if necessary.
Our Imperial Majesty shall appoint a Governing Commissioner of New Richmond to administer the Crown Dependency in our name. Joseph Kennedy, MAO is hereby appointed the first Governing Commissioner of New Richmond, with any successors to be appointed by Imperial Edict.
Our Imperial Majesty holds absolute and unlimited authority over New Richmond, exercised by the Governing Commissioner with our consent. Although it is under Austenasian sovereignty, Acts of Parliament, Imperial Decrees and Imperial Edicts shall not apply to New Richmond unless it is made explicit in said legislation that they do so. The domestic governance of New Richmond is the responsibility of its Governing Commissioner.
Decreed at Wrythe this sixteenth day of August during the first year of our reign, in the year of the consulship of Carolina Kingsnorthus and Pater Imperatoris Terentius.