 The act specified that approximately one third of the land districts to be distributed by lottery under the act of December 21, 1830 (the sixth land lottery), be designated as gold districts of each and to be distributed in a separate lottery.The drawings for the Gold Lottery of 1832 occurred between October 22, 1832 and May 1, 1833 and applied to land that had been owned by the Cherokee Indians.Those successful in the lottery had to pay a grant fee of $10.00 per lot.