(a) The articles of incorporation shall be made in duplicate originals, each signed by each of the incorporators and acknowledged by at least three of them before any officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds.
(b) One such original shall be filed in the St. Thomas or St. Croix office of the Lieutenant Governor, and the second shall be retained in the possession of the corporation.
(c) The original filed in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, and all papers subsequently filed with respect to such corporation, shall be entered and indexed, by the officer with whom filed, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose.