§ Miss. Code § 23-15-873(untitled)

Prohibitions against promises of public positions or employment, public
contracts, or public expenditures; exceptions.
No person, whether an officer or not, shall, in order to promote his own candidacy, or that of
any other person, to be a candidate for public office in this state, directly or indirectly, himself or
through another person, promise to appoint, or promise to secure or assist in securing the
appointment, nomination or election of another person to any public position or employment, or
to secure or assist in securing any public contract or the employment of any person under any
public contractor, or to secure or assist in securing the expenditure of any public funds in the
personal behalf of any particular person or group of persons, except that the candidate may
publicly announce what is his choice or purpose in relation to an election in which he may be
called on to take part if elected. It shall be unlawful for any person to directly or indirectly solicit
or receive any promise by this section prohibited. But this does not apply to a sheriff, chancery
clerk, circuit clerk, or any other person, of the state or county when it comes to their office force.