With the consent of its owner, the garden of the property of 11 Library Street in Bernardston, Massachusetts is hereby annexed to the Empire of Austenasia and named Terentia.
We decree Terentia to be a Crown Dependency, in accordance with Paragraph 3 of the Empire of Austenasia Act 2013.
Our Imperial Majesty shall appoint a Governing Commissioner of Terentia to administer the Crown Dependency in our name. Jacob Lewis is hereby appointed the first Governing Commissioner of Terentia, with any successors to be appointed by Imperial Edict.
Our Imperial Majesty holds absolute and unlimited authority over Terentia, 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 Terentia unless it is made explicit in said legislation that they do so. The domestic governance of Terentia is the responsibility of its Governing Commissioner.
Decreed at Roehampton this sixteenth day of November during the first year of our reign, in the year of the consulship of Carolina Kingsnorthus and Pater Imperatoris Terentius.