The county commissioners, in co-operation with the municipal authorities of the municipality wherein the court-house lies, may provide, and equip and maintain in the court-house rest or waiting-rooms for females, and provide female attendants therefor. One-half of the cost of providing such rooms and of maintaining the same, including salaries and all incidental expenses, shall be paid by the county, and the other half by the municipality; for all which purposes the county commissioners and said authorities may, respectively, appropriate moneys.
53 P.S. § 1346