<P> The Rand Water Board Supplementary Water Supply (Private) Act was passed by the Union Parliament in June 1914 . The measure gave the Board the right to impound annually sufficient of the Vaal River's surplus water to supply the Witwatersrand with 20 million gallons a day . A loan of £ 1,250,000 was raised for the construction of the barrage below Vereeniging . It was only completed in 1923 . </P> <P> In 1926 the Transvaal Provincial Council repealed the Local Government Ordinance of 1912 and passed the new Local Government Ordinance, No. 11 of 1926 . </P> <P> The Transvaal Provincial Council adopted a Private Ordinance (No. 15 of 1928) in terms of which the Town of Johannesburg acquired the designation of the City of Johannesburg . The Town Council became known as the City Council of Johannesburg . </P> <P> In 1923 the Parliament of the Union of South Africa passed the Natives (Urban Areas) Act . This Act required local authorities to provide accommodation for Natives (then the polite term for Africans or Blacks) lawfully employed and resident within the area of their jurisdiction . Pursuant to this Act the Johannesburg town council formed a Municipal Native Affairs Department in 1927.It bought a large tract on the farm Klipspruit No. 8 and the first houses in what was to become Orlando Location were built there in the latter half of 1930 . </P>

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