LAREAU, 1A'r.Y. EDMOND ( 1848-90 1. A French Canadian politician and author, born at I r Quebec. After eompl et ing his education ..t saidte Marie de Mannoir, Victoria College. and McGill University, Mon treal. lie was admitted to the bar (1870). and six years afterwards was appointed law professor at McGill. In 1S6 he was elected to the Legis lature of Quebec Province as Liberal member for Rouville County. and retained his seat until his death. Besides editorial work. he wrote: Histoire du droit canadien (1872): L'histoire de hi lit tvial tire ea nad ;rime (1874 ; Melon his toriq ues ct litWraires (1877).
LAREDO, 1:1-rTi'des. A city and the county seat of Web), County. Texas, 153 miles southwest of San Antonio; on the Rio Grande, opposite Nuevo Laredo. with which it is connected by bridges, and on the International and Great Northern. the Mexican National, and other rail roads (Slap: Texas. E 1). Among the features
of the city are the market, a convent. Mercy Hos pital. a fine court-house and jail. Laredo Semi nary (Methodist Episcopal. South), established in and a city park of about 65 acres. Laredo is in a fertile agrieultitral and stock raising district which has also valuable mineral deposits, especially of coal; is an important commercial centre with a large international and local trade, exporting bricks, wool, live stock, coal, etc.; and has extensive concentrating and sampling works, car and machine shops, brick work., a tannery. foundry, furniture factory, etc. Settled by Spaniards and laid out in 1767, Laredo was long a frontier town of Mexico, and bore the reputation of a herder town. It was first incorporated about 1s4S by special charter. Population, in IS90, 11.319; in 1900, 13,429.