All such asylums or houses at the option of its board may receive or take charge of any destitute orphan or indigent child of either sex, or children of indigent parents, under eighteen (18) years of age, from any part of the state.
Admission of children
Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-3-603, under Orphan Asylums.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-3-603