The town shall, on and after the Wednesday following the first Monday of January 1947, constitute a probate district by the name of the probate district of Hamden. In 1946, and qua drennially thereafter, a judge of probate for the district shall be elected, at the time and in the manner provided by law for the election of judges of probate. From and after the Wednesday following the first Monday of January 1947, the probate court for the district of Hamden shall have jurisdiction of all probate business arising in the town, but all business previously entered or begun in the probate court for the district of New Haven shall be completed in the same manner as if this section had not been passed.
('66 Code, § 85-1)