SeverenceCrook

I am removing a non load bearing wall. Got a couple of courses down and found embedded in the wall a long wall tie of some sort. It appears to run from the interior leaf of the exterior wall. What I wanted to do was try and understand the immediate ramifications for removing it. The house is 1938 ish. Where the wall being removed meets the exterior wall has been toothed in. So is this tie actually to help keep the single skin interior wall from moving laterally? Rather than to stop the house exterior wall from going outward? My worry is in some way it forms a function for the exterior wall. Does it? Anybody have any thoughts. Thank you.