''Whoever commits any of the following offences, namely :— (a) theft, as defined in section 378 of the Penal Code other than theft by a clerk or servant of property in possession of his master ; (b) theft in a building, tent or vessel, as defined in section 380 of the said Code ; (c) theft after preparation for causing death or hurt, as defined in section 382 ofthe said Code ; (d) lurking house-trespass, or house-breaking, as defined in sections 443 and 445 of the said Code, in order...''