There shall be filed, with such officer or agent as is mentioned in the preceding section, the affidavit of some credible person that notice of the proposed transfer has been published as a Class II legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the county in which are kept the books upon which the transfer is proposed to be made. But if, before such transfer be actually made, a notice in writing forbidding the same be served on such officer or agent, such transfer only shall be made as would have been lawful if this and the preceding section had not been enacted.